Posted on 08/15/2013 4:37:51 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The senator steals a march on potential 2016 rivals.
The early dynamics of the 2016 Republican presidential-primary contest were jolted on the morning of Friday, July 19, in a ballroom on the third floor of the Marriott hotel in downtown Des Moines. It was there, in front of coffee-sipping pastors, that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas wowed the kingmakers of the Iowa caucuses for the first time. Without notes and ignoring the podium, he roamed the carpeted dais for nearly an hour, quoting Scripture and musing about the Democrats and their occasional affinity for Satan. The reception was rapturous. Many ministers eagerly asked Cruz’s advisers where they could sign up for a campaign that doesn’t exist, while others encircled Cruz and laid their hands on him to pray.
Veteran operative Chuck Laudner, who managed former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s victorious Iowa campaign last year, was in the room and remembers the scene vividly — and he knew immediately that all the post-2012 conventional wisdom about the 2016 field was, with one speech, obsolete. To him and others who make their living as consultants within the Republican universe, the visceral response by Iowa preachers confirmed Cruz’s ascent as a new, potentially disruptive force in the GOP’s presidential-primary calculus. Instead of the looming battle for tea-party support in Iowa and South Carolina featuring a group of middleweight contenders — vanilla governors, House members, and little-known senators — it appeared that a Cruz phenomenon could overwhelm them all. (snip)
He channels the anger and frustration that conservatives have not only with President Obama, but also with the Republican establishment. His ability to seize that undercurrent and connect with those voters has elevated him.
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Amendment to do what?
Well, then, Jimmah Carter is your man, then. Fits the birther description of an NBC to a T. Who cares if he bashes on the rest of the Constitution?
Seriously, Ted Cruz has no divided loyalties. His views are much closer to those of the Founders than just about any other major elected figure. THAT is what matters, not the nitpicking.
And would likely raise taxes on half the people in the country who pay little or no income tax currently. You expect all of them to line up and vote for that?
So we do have a "living Constitution" as the progressives have advocated since the time of Woodrow Wilson? It means whatever is convenient to our current passions?
Good day.
a year or so ago many of us were high on marco rubio. He drank from the amnesty koolaide pitcher so to hell with ya marco.
Here’s hoping Cruz is a real deal conservative not just another piece of crap.
Fine. If that is Cruz' argument then let him put it to the public forthrightly. If he has some other argument then let that be aired honestly. What I don't want to see is a bunch of evasive sophistry. Cruz is no legal slouch nor is he politically naive. He knows both that this is a legal issue of more that moot interest as well as a fire hot political issue. To carry on with a pre-presidential campaign and not make a public, direct and unequivocal statement of how he sees this Constitutional Article as it applies to him is disingenuous. I expect more of him.
What I don’t want to see is a bunch of evasive sophistry.
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Me neither. That is what Obama has done for years. He very well may have a legit original birth certificate. He very well may have a valid explanation for his duplicate SS number; a passport showing he was a US citizen when he went to Pakistan; college records proving he didn’t accept scholarships as a foreign national; and more.
But he finds it clever to tell a lie when the truth would be so much easier. He finds it clever to hide and obfuscate the truth; to decieve and trick his enemies; to play silly word games and smirk at “silly birthers”.
How can anyone respect such a fraud and con-artist? Obama is a master manipulator and egotist. Look up the word narcissist and you see a picture of Obama for reference.
Just wait an be patient... if Cruz is NOT eligible he will not run... if he is... he will. If he is then your worries will be explained away... if not... he will not run. Stop the strawman argument crap. I no longer have any desire to even consider such tactics.
LLS
He has had plenty of opportunity to do so already... but he has remained steadfast. We shall see but he and Lee seem to be right on the RIGHT!
I want to believe that this is so. I can wait but as Cruz spends time in Iowa walking and quacking like a presidential candidate duck and I hear nothing on this topic I start to get uneasy.
Stop the strawman argument crap. I no longer have any desire to even consider such tactics.
Strawman? Where?
Boy, we sure caught a bunch of them on this haul!
It must kill them Cruz’s IQ is 168 (I didn’t know that).
The spectacle of some here trying to take out one of the finest conservatives and prevent him from running for president is genuinely disturbing.
I think C. Ed refers to this general disease of extreme political 'self-righteousness' to the point of absurdity as "Pharisaical".
I'm slowly coming to the realization that a part of the "conservative" movement is every bit as stupid as the GOPE. Watching this spectacle of the circular firing squad trying to take out another one of our best is unnerving to say the least
No thanks.
Read the last sentence of your post 44. Cruz loves America and believes in the Constitution. I do not think that he would violate that Constitution any more than you or I would. I trust him to answer whatever questions about his eligibility that arise... and since this is in the news... it will not be long. I have no idea if he will run or not... I do not know if he is eligible or not... I trust him however.
Almost looks and sounds to me as if TED CRUZ is a REINCARNATION of the SPIRIT of the FOUNDING FATHERS.
Wouldn't you LOVE to see Ted Cruz debate Hillary Clinton.
I believe as Cruz grows in popularity and his candidacy strengthens the attacks by the left will become almost maniacal.
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