Posted on 05/22/2015 4:42:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Ted Cruz was the first Republican to officially announce his campaign to run for the presidency in 2016. Since coming onto the national stage he has been a very high profile and outspoken member of the Senate and has very strong name recognition and support among conservatives in the country. Hailing from Texas, the largest Republican-leaning state in the union and the only large population state that is all but guaranteed to vote GOP, his campaign is enticing for the promise of how many electoral votes he can deliver. He is also the first major Hispanic candidate to run for president, which may help attract the key voting block. On the surface, he seems to be the most electable Republican in the current field.
However, Cruz does have several major drawbacks. He is extremely conservative compared to most of the country, which could do him some major harm in the general election. Still, he seems to be the current frontrunner with other candidates like Mike Huckabee being a liability from both the right and the left, Rand Paul lacking widespread appeal, and Marco Rubio being woefully out of touch with both the electorate and reality. Add to that Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, who are more or less joke candidates who have little to no chance of even carrying a single state, and you have Cruz appearing to be the strongest candidate currently. Having said that, if he gets the GOP nod he will have to contend with either Hillary Clinton, who has so much baggage she could start a luggage company (which would probably be used to launder money anyway), or Bernie Sanders who is so far to the left that he’s coming back up around on the right.
Political realities aside, Cruz won’t be the next president....
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The left is crapping their pants at the thought of a Ted Cruz presidency. I wonder why?
I’d say himself.
Bob Knudsen
Politics Examiner
Bob is a political junky and has interviewed hundreds of candidates for office. He believes in third party politics, is a federalist with libertarian and environmental streaks that guide his views. Basically, his views boil down to: If you’re bad at science and don’t like people who are different from you, vote Republican. If you are bad at math and economics and don’t like individualism and guns, vote Democrat. If you are bad at civics and don’t like the environment, vote Libertarian. If you are bad at everything, vote Socialist.
Gee some leftist abortion-loving pro-amnesty anti-America climate-change whoreshipping POS does not like Cruz. Shock, that... /SARC
Cruz does have several major drawbacks. He is extremely conservative compared to most of the country, which could do him some major harm in the general election. Still, he seems to be the current frontrunner with other candidates like Mike Huckabee being a liability from both the right and the left, Rand Paul lacking widespread appeal, and Marco Rubio being woefully out of touch with both the electorate and reality. Add to that Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, who are more or less joke candidates who have little to no chance of even carrying a single state, and you have Cruz appearing to be the strongest candidate currently. Having said that, if he gets the GOP nod he will have to contend with either Hillary Clinton, who has so much baggage she could start a luggage company (which would probably be used to launder money anyway), or Bernie Sanders who is so far to the left that he's coming back up around on the right.
He claims Cruz is too conservative, like that's a bad thing. For him, maybe, maybe not for Ted.
We will be blessed if we survive the current antichrist whazziz name!
It’s kinda fun watching them Sweat!
Ted make liberal heads explode.
Going to be a fun election!
As opposed to the spectacular success of Prez McCain and Prez Romney.
Why would the GOP listen to anyone in the media about choosing a candidate???
When they talk about any canadate being to conservative is that they don’t want to go back to the America that we once loved, the way it was in the 40s 50s.
It’s code talk among the liberals that they want to brand is by saying that conservatives want to take America back when there is no talk about gay marriage, no NOW, or feminist movement, when America was prospering, jobs, when America was not a debter nation, when Christianity was the main say among religions here, when men were men and women were women, were our war vets were respected, the police were respected.
You betcha!! :):):)
That is a drawback. I had hoped he would be ridiculously absurdly ludicrously extremely extreme conservative.
I an come up with 10 million reasons not to vote for Slick Willie’s wife.
Wow, that was awesome. Now I support him even more!
“He is extremely conservative compared to most of the country.”
Totally WRONG. The country is more conservative than the left or the GOPe are willing to admit.
And .. the LEFT is beyond hysterical over Cruz. LOL! Their reactions to him remind me so much of how they treated Reagan.
firstly..himself!!
Must Drive Demons out Of Head,,,,Must Drive Demons out Of Head,,,,
Ted Cruz Cant WIn,,,Ted Cruz Cant WIn,,,Ted Cruz Cant WIn,,,
Ping.
Several of his 10 Reasons are LIES!
Frontrunner of what?
Averaging the major polls over at realclearpolitics.com, Cruz is currently polling 6th nationwide, 6th in Iowa, 5th in New Hampshire and 8th in South Carolina making him a solid "2nd tier" candidate. And his numbers are going the wrong way.
Political realities aside, Cruz won’t be the next president....
Not if he doesn't make something happen.
Maybe he’s seen the same internal polling that other elites and media types get to see, but you and I don’t. My contact at HQ alluded to them the other day but could not go into detail. The only other candidate in either party who is even close to Ted Cruz in fundraising is Jeb Bush, son and brother of two former US presidents, whereas Cruz was relatively unknown 4 years ago at this time. Hardly anyone has as many staffers, volunteers, endorsements, organizers and fundraisers/bundlers as Cruz and in as many states. States like Iowa, New Hampshire, the Carolinas, Texas, Michigan, New York, Florida, Nevada and Missouri.
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