Posted on 03/26/2015 7:50:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz officially announced his White House bid in a tweet at 12:09 am EDT Monday morning, becoming the first candidate to formally enter the 2016 presidential campaign.
"I'm running for president and I hope to earn your support!" Cruz tweeted with an embedded 30-second video.
"It's a time for truth, a time to rise to the challenge, just as Americans have always done," Cruz says in the video. "I believe in America and her people, and I believe we can stand up and restore our promise. It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. And I'm ready to stand with you to lead the fight."
His decision to run for president should come as no surprise. Cruz was never interested in being a serious U.S. Senator. He had no desire to develop strong relationships with Senate colleagues, and diligently work to turn conflict into consensus, all with an eye towards getting things done as a lawmaker.
No, Cruz wants to be president. He used his Senate platform to garner media attention, raise money, and boost his national profile. His service in the Senate was just another bullet point to add to his resume, a quick stop en route to the Oval Office....
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Anyone here ever heard of this guy before today?
Afraid of him, aren’t you HuffPo?
The fact that he outdid Dorkbama in virtually EVERY aspect whilst he was at Harvard pretty much shows what a loser “your” president was - and is.
Liberal Denial....
How far along are we in the five stages at this point?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Coming from HuffPo. Mesmerized supports of Obama.
That's RICH!
He wrote the same screed about Obama......riiiight?
Methinks thou dost protest too much
_ Shakespeare
Somebody needs to tell YoBammie! that we have a so-called "first black president" who did the exact thing YoBammie! is accusing Cruz of doing here. Marxist are loons.
So....that’s like a picture of Bama and Mooch behind him, right?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
a typical libtard who was trained in libtard schools.
is he a foreigner? I vote Somali import
He keeps sending me e-mails asking for my bank account information. Something about an inheritance from his long lost uncle Motombo
What award did he get? Biggest liberal dumb bass?
Bet he hates Walker too. I bet he predicted defeat for Walker at every step. (he’s from Wisconsin).
I bet I like everyone he doesn’t.....
awesome button
he is award winning, of course i have
It’s not “liberal denial” for the American people who have for decades embraced liberalism. Even when they vote “conservative” a time or two, they are soon back in the liberal camp looking for “free things”.
I stand corrected. This dude is a big Walker fan.....and yet, doing the liberals’ dirty work in the Huff Po. What a sell out.
“His service in the Senate was just another bullet point to add to his resume, a quick stop en route to the Oval Office’
Remove “his” and replace with “her” and guess who ya got!
“Why Ted Cruz Is Not a Serious Contender for President in 2016”
Then why wont you idiots stop talking about him?
It seems like these guys are trying to convince themselves more than anyone else.
Except Obamacare funding was exempt from shutdowns so it remained funded the entire two week shutdown. Its funding didn't depend on a new budget being passed.
In fact a number of posts here explicitly warned about this.
So it was clearly untrue, shutting down the government would not defund Obamacare.
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