Excellent news. For the record, I’m not a “Cruz or lose” guy. I’m a “solid conservative or lose even if we win” guy. Ted will work fine. There are a very few others I could also vote for as well. I’m not ready to put all of my eggs in one basket just yet. But I wish him well.
Good!
He will galvanize the evil into action. The “coasties”, (commies on the East and “Left” Coasts) will rise up in horror.
Awesome~!
After he is elected and if he really does the things that need to be done i will get excited.
Otherwise, he has my vote.
I have already said that I prefer he remain in the Senate. But, if I am polled, I will surely name him as my choice.
If his announcement does happen, kudos to him for not keeping some Conservatives on the hook like Palin did.
The same degree of grassroots enthusiasm propelled Cruz to defeat moderate (RINO) David Dewhurst, former Lt. Gov. of Texas, in the 2012 primary race for U.S. Senate. Small donations really added up in that race, eventually fueling a win for Cruz when the entire Texas GOP Establishment initially believed Dewhurst had the nomination all locked up (that sounds familiar today). Fund raising got substantially easier when Sarah Palin endorsed Cruz in that primary race. I won’t be surprised if Sarah Palin endorses Cruz in his bid for the presidency, and it may come sooner than anyone thinks.
Cruz has my full support and my wallet is open to the limit permitted by campaign contribution law. I sincerely hope fellow Freepers will give Cruz serious consideration and support. This good man is a consistent and dependable conservative. He tells the truth and does what he promises.
“They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate.”
LOVE IT!!! Makes fun of “the process” while leapfrogging the rest of the field!
I also like his timing. Probably kept the Democrats up all night trying to get their dirt over to the media in time for the Sunday shows. With that timing, he likely gets talked about, but the media doesn’t have enough time to really start blasting him - about the best a Republican can do these days.
We need a constitutional conservative in the White House to turn back decades of socialist/liberal republican policy/regulation.
I see this election as truly our last hope for America. I thought this way about the last congressional elections...but we've been betrayed y'all.
Put Ted Cruz in the White House, he will utterly shame the republicans that ride to the left.
$end Ca$h...don't just post...yea, go Ted 2016! He will need grassroots cash-flow because the republican establishment as well as the democrats will put all they have into defeating Ted Cruz.
Time is running out for the country. Prez O has 22 more months to finish our beloved country up and there is no plan from the leadership in Congress to counteract this destruction with full force. Ted Cruz may see his early announcement as the way to save the country. The mainstream media love 'divisiveness.' They will cover him more as a presidential candidate than as a junior senator.
After observing Ted Cruz for a few years, I see him as someone with principles and intellect. He can handle the press just fine.
This is it people. This is the closest thing to run for America’s highest office since Reagan ran 30+ years ago.
This is the final stand of conservatives within the Republican Party. If Ted Cruz fails, this could be the end of conservative support for the GOP and the beginning of a new party.
Ted Cruz is smart and so I’m sure the staff have everything at http://thegreenpapers.com down pat. There needs to be some serious changes with some of the primaries. I have no doubt Cruz will dominate the establishment candidate in many Caucus states.
But 2 suggestions:
(1) The Reddest Red States in the South and Midwest need to go to WTA. Texas needs to be WTA and move its primary to the end of January.
(2) The Blue States and Island Territories need to be reduced to proportional.
Otherwise, we’ll get the same result as 2012. In all of the early primaries up until the Arizona Primary, Romney won exactly (2) Counties between 10 states that were actually Republican counties in the General Election...the rest were counties won by Democrats.
In the last 2 Election cycles, the path to the Establishment candidate has followed the simple formula:
(1) Win the Blue States that are WTA
and
(2) Split the vote proportionally in the Southern/Midwest Red States where it makes it impossible for a conservative challenger to emerge with more than 1 person in the race.
This means the Establishment will pour boatloads of money into Mike Huckabee’s campaign since he would be the most likely to continue on with no hope. Rand Paul would probably drop out and endorse the establishment at some point, as would Marco Rubio.
Cruz needs IA. 30% would be nice. Interestingly, he actually polls double digits in NH where other conservatives have struggled. I think he would dominate SC.
What isn’t there to like about the guy?
He debates like Newt, but is even better.
He’s thorough in his policy explanations like Paul Ryan, but not boring.
Personally, I think he’s more tactful at delivering those catch-lines than even Palin, and more closely associated with the Reagan method of delivery.
He’s not a “single-issue” guy but gives weight to the various issues as deemed appropriate for the time. For example, Ted Cruz is strong on illegal immigration, but not pigeon-holed into just that issue like Tom Tancredo was. Same with Obamacare and the social issues that Bachmann and Santorum were looked strong on, but weak on other subjects.
Unlike Fred Thompson, I have no doubt that once Cruz enters this race, he will be in it to win it and doing whatever he can to get his message across as hard as he can.
Cruz is dangerous to liberals because his method of conservative delivery will actually bring in more votes among Democrats because he will not let the media define him like other candidates have.
If you threw Cruz into a room with 30 hard-core leftists and gave him a podium and time to speak (30 minutes), by the end of the speech, there would be at least 2 listeners that would question their liberal beliefs and perhaps think differently, and while that may not seem like a whole lot, that’s the beginning to recovery and I see no other candidate that would have even that success.
In the General Election, he can win FL. We’ve seen in VA that if you actually run a conservative candidate those people can still win. He would could win CO. He would have better chances in IA/NV than previous candidates. That’s all it would take.
It’s time to put the country on CRUZ Control.
Cruz is the ONLY Republican I will fund and vote for.
Heck, I’ll even change my registration to (R) from (I) just to ensure I can vote in the primaries for him.
Excellent!
Now go after the left with a friggin vengeance!
CRUZ TO VICTORY......
Woo-hoo!
Ted has my vote..will crawl over broken glass to vote for this man..LOVE TED CRUZ!!!
Let’s Roll.
From the linked article....
Experience questions
Cruz made his fame in Texas as solicitor general under then-Attorney General Greg Abbott. Cruz defended the installation of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol, which brought headlines and fueled his political ambition. In 2009, he briefly considered running for attorney general, but quickly abandoned his bid.
Three years later, a U.S. Senate seat opened up, with Dewhurst’s name practically carved into it. Cruz, making his first run for political office, seized on the same anti-establishment fervor that had ousted Republicans perceived as too moderate in primaries two years prior. He defeated Dewhurst, who invested $25 million of his own money into the race.
A junior senator with less than two years in office is running for president? What gall!
He is NOT experienced enough. Now, Hillary, a junior senator from New York, that’s different. Anyone from New York, and anyone from Kenya, is more qualified, than some Canadian from Texas.
Surely you see the /s