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Richard Viguerie: Cruz Candidacy Has Conservatives 'On Fire With Excitement'
Newsmax ^ | 26 Mar 2015 | Courtney Coren

Posted on 03/26/2015 11:20:07 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Conservative activist Richard Viguerie tells Newsmax TV that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stands out as a conservative candidate for president in 2016 because he's "the whole package."

"He's running as the first top tier principled constitutional conservative since Ronald Reagan," Viguerie, the chairman of ConservativeHQ, told J.D. Hayworth and Miranda Khan on "America's Forum" on Thursday.
Compared to other potential Republican candidates for president in 2016, such as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Viguerie contends that "Ted Cruz is more of the whole package."

"Mike Huckabee has never, to the best of my knowledge, gone outside of the social issue arena," he explained. "He's very strong in that area, but he's made very little attempt that I can see to become a traditional Ronald Reagan conservative that unites what used to be three legs of the conservative movement."

He says that Huckabee is "kind of a one base candidate. Ted Cruz has got all four bases out there covered."

According to the chairman of ConservativeHQ, "we've had some good conservatives running for president, but quite frankly they weren't going to be nominated, they weren't going to be elected president, and the conservative movement is on fire with excitement because we finally got a top tier conservative candidate."

"Maybe there'll be others that will join, but right now, Ted Cruz has a base — the conservative movement — and nobody has united Ronald Reagan's three legs of the stool: social issues, economic issues, and foreign policy in the way that Ted Cruz has," he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; tedcruz; texas
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1 posted on 03/26/2015 11:20:07 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


CRUZ or LOSE!


2 posted on 03/26/2015 11:20:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Very excited indeed.


3 posted on 03/26/2015 11:24:01 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: SoConPubbie

And the liberals and the MSM know it!


4 posted on 03/26/2015 11:24:27 AM PDT by depenzz ("it isn't a chance you take, its a choice you make")
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To: SoConPubbie

I think Cruz will be able to garner a significant number of Hispanic voters, of all I know about Cruz I don’t know if he speaks Spanish, I’ve always just assumed he does.


5 posted on 03/26/2015 11:26:07 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Cruzing the wave to victory in 2016.


6 posted on 03/26/2015 11:26:33 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: SoConPubbie

Jeb will be planning a private lunch with John McCain, Peter King and Pay Buchanan. “What can we do to sabotage this Cruz guy? This is getting out of control, and I haven’t even declared yet!”


7 posted on 03/26/2015 11:28:21 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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8 posted on 03/26/2015 11:28:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: PoloSec

I’ve always just assumed he does.

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I’ve read that Cruz does not speak Spanish. (Unfortunate; it would be helpful if he did.)


9 posted on 03/26/2015 11:28:42 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Cruz is Ronald Reagan-LIKE.. maybe better...
Obama is Jimmy Carter-like Only worse..

BUT the american people.. seems to be “HIGH” on something..
i.e. some drug.. a givernment check.. givernment job.. gross apathy.. or just disillusioned..


10 posted on 03/26/2015 11:30:00 AM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: SoConPubbie

Ted has more than just the GOP base in his column.

He also has a substantial majority of Independents who now make up an astonishing 42% of the electorate.

He also has the Reagan Democrats, the Perot Demographic and near half of US Citizen Latinos.

By every careful, restrained and realistic calculation that errs to the negative, Ted Cruz will receive at least 53% to 54% of the popular vote, as long as millions of illegal aliens are not amnestied and registered to vote.

The Electoral College Map is different. There the democrats have a built-in advantage but it can be and must be overcome. The political war rooms will be fighting tooth and nail for every last critical district in battleground states.


11 posted on 03/26/2015 11:30:23 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: SoConPubbie

In a Droopy kind of way


12 posted on 03/26/2015 11:31:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: PoloSec

He does not speak it fluently.

But he got 40% of the Latino vote when he ran for office in Texas.

He should get near 50% of the US Citizen Latino vote in 2016 as long as illegals are not given amnesty and then registered to vote.


13 posted on 03/26/2015 11:33:04 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: depenzz
And the liberals and the MSM know it!

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I agree. In an earlier post I suggested that the Libs:

1. Think Ted Cruz can win.

2. Are afraid things will get better when he does.

So they are running very scared right now. Ted Cruz outshining Obama is their worst nightmare.

14 posted on 03/26/2015 11:36:01 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (>http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Very excited indeed.

Me toooo!!!


15 posted on 03/26/2015 11:37:15 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: SoConPubbie

Yep, I’m ‘On Fire With Excitement’ over Ted Cruz. He has my vote and I hope he can win this thing. We need a leader like this man.


16 posted on 03/26/2015 11:40:34 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: Hostage

An unapologetic conservative will get far more votes than someone who tries to be all things to all people.

It’s the opposite of leftism. There will never be an unapologetic leftist as a viable presidential candidate.
The closest that anyone in my lifetime got to that was Mondale, and look what happened to him.


17 posted on 03/26/2015 11:40:56 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Or as a say, why vote for Democratic-Lite when you can vote for the real thing.


18 posted on 03/26/2015 11:42:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hostage

I would guess that about 50% of the independents were former repubs who just got fed up with their cave-ins to the dems.


19 posted on 03/26/2015 11:43:30 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: SoConPubbie

I’ve never been so excited about an election in my short little life. The last few have been quite disappointing.


20 posted on 03/26/2015 11:46:51 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Proud Millennial for Cruz!)
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