Posted on 05/07/2013 6:51:03 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
The buzz these days is that Senator Ted Cruz from Texas will run for president in 2016. Does that sound too bold?
It is much less important to have two or three presidential terms under men like Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney -- the presidential nominees since Reagan left office -- than one or two presidential terms under a transformative conservative leader who intends to reclaim the nobility and virtue or America and create in our nation a model which the rest of the world can see.
Reagan and Cruz both grasp the deadly moral and mental toxin of Marxism. The sins of the left, from ObamaCare to a destructively high progressive income tax to the myriad categories of notionally aggrieved classes requiring preferred treatment by government, are all rooted in Marxism.
Ted Cruz correctly and courageously talks about the Marxist domination of Harvard Law School. Go back a few decades in American political history.
Gerald Ford in his 1976 foreign policy debate with Carter was so eager to pussyfoot around the issue of Marxist evil that he famously stated that the Soviet Union had not dominated Poland. Compare that craven surrender to political correctness with Ronald Reagan as president calling the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire."
Ted Cruz knows all about the horrors of Marxism and understands as most of us could not why ending Marxism in Grenada was noble. Cruz's father, who had been tortured by Fidel Castro's predecessor, Batista, and who supported Castro's revolution, left Cuba before Castro came to power, thoroughly disillusioned with that dissembling Marxist thug.
Cruz also is a fabulous communicator and articulator of conservative principles. Professor Alan Dershowitz, not noted for his historic sympathy for conservatism, said of his days at Harvard Law School, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."
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Right now he’s the only one in congress worth a crap.
Palin.
Matters not which way to me, but that is what we need, desperately.
Then why did he stay there and graduate rather than find a non-Marxist dominated school?
Hell yeah!
Forget Ron Paul. He’ll be 81 on Election Day, 2016.
No. The GOP has never elected a senator president. The “hispanic” vote is based only on welfare checks and can not be obtained by the GOP. Gov Walker or Jindal would be better.
Cruz is our best and probably only hope. Everyone else, so far, will give in to anything Obama wants.
Cruz is ineligible. I stand with Rand.
To early to tell... I like what I’m hearing but have been fooled before so I’ll watch, listen and learn.
The GOP and its followers seem more hung up on which turd world country candidate’s ancestors came from than policy.
Geezz, it is like listening to Saul Alinsky inspired democrats.
FIRST: Make sure, unlike Ovomit, that there are no birth issues. We NEED a real American this time.
I want a candidate who can articulate the EXACT meaning of the brilliance of the founders and promise a self imposed resignation should he/she stray from that most basic of foundation. No if and or buts! Stray from the Constitution and your toast.
I want a candidate who can disarm the left like Chris Christie without all the accompanied squishy RINO tactics that Christie has been known to exhibit.
If we must prove that color is important, after decades of being told it is meaningless, then Alan West, Herman Cain (and back him up this time), Alan Keyes... otherwise forget the taco test, forget the pigment test, forget the religion test, and run someone who loves the country (along with their spouse), who will follow in the footsteps of the founders and limited government and reinstate state’s rights.
Cruz has no appeal outside of the conservative core and is far from well known. Rand, like Reagan, is a coalition builder who can pull the conservative, evangelical and libertarian vote all while siphoning a bit of DEM vote too.
I think its a bit odd that the GOP establishment is throwing out Cruz’s name on the heels of new polling which puts Rand on top of the 2016 field.
When James Carville gushes over Cruz, you can bet the Democrats are propping Cruz up early to go for the kill later. It is because of his issue of ineligibility as President that will become his downfall.
Its best to keep Cruz in the Senate. He would make a great majority leader!
I'm not a big fan of moderate Republicans, but four years later Lech Walesa proved Ford correct.
The writer cites a poor example. Political control does not always equal 'domination', where the spirits of free men and women yearn to express themselves.
That said: if I had to choose someone right now and could choose anyone I wanted to run for President, it would be Ted Cruz. It would also return my national vote for President to the Republican Party.
Rand Paul? No, thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3010596/posts
Ted Cruz: Rubio ‘in good faith’ on immigration reform
All of the field is going to be pro-immigration reform to a certain extent. Rand isn’t for granting illegals citizenship but knows that it is logistically impossible to round up and deport all the illegals. Rand stands for e-verify, securing the border and getting those here illegally to pay some form of taxes. Once e-verify is the national norm,illegal immigration ought to be curbed. Those who havent filed for citizenship by that time will be forced to self deport.. I don’t think its splitting hairs to say this is not amnesty.
Scratch the e-verify part actually...
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