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Texas Senator Ted Cruz to announce presidential run: report
Reuters ^ | 3/22 | Reuters

Posted on 03/22/2015 5:49:47 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Republican Senator Ted Cruz plans to announce on Monday that he will run for president in 2016, the Houston Chronicle reported on its website.

The newspaper, citing senior advisers to the Texas senator who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported that Cruz would launch a presidential bid outright rather than the traditional path of forming an exploratory committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; cruz2016; election2016; tedcruz; texas
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Let's go!!! This is a wave I'm willing to ride. No closet surprises, gather momentum, pick a sound Veep candidate and go go go!
1 posted on 03/22/2015 5:49:47 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Texas Senator Ted Cruz to announce presidential run

And here comes the sharp knives of the MSM close behind.

2 posted on 03/22/2015 5:53:07 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Cruuuuuuuz!


3 posted on 03/22/2015 5:55:07 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Excellent


4 posted on 03/22/2015 5:56:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The guy can speak, lets hope he gets lots of direct face time so people can make up their own minds rather than having them made up by others. I don’t think he’s got the stuff as a strategist but he clearly represents something which should be given a fair shake.


5 posted on 03/22/2015 5:57:38 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: BlackAdderess

You can hire political strategy. As long as you get the right people, it’s an asset.


6 posted on 03/22/2015 5:58:49 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Vaquero

Cruz may not be an “old guy” but, rhetorically, he’s just as likely to go for the kill. I don’t fear for him.


7 posted on 03/22/2015 6:03:08 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Good for Cruz, he is the best candidate I see right now willing to fight the tough issues like Obamacare and Amnesty and not duck them.


8 posted on 03/22/2015 6:03:20 AM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Just like him. No namby-pamby exploratory committee. Get out there and declare, and be the first. I like everything about this guy.


9 posted on 03/22/2015 6:06:21 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: TangledUpInBlue

True, Obama did in Plouffe, but it is the job of the president to be a strategist, otherwise you get the situation where the world ends up crashing around your ears.

I just read something about the IMF being “delighted” to work with a gigantic Chinese bank (which was set up LAST YEAR!) which apparently is viewed as a rival to the World Bank and which we are apparently warning of having questionable standards!

He’d have to be up to the challange of that kind of happy horsecrap and I am not so sure he is.


10 posted on 03/22/2015 6:08:36 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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Go Ted, Go! I will work my area for Ted Cruz. May God bless him and carry him to the White House!
11 posted on 03/22/2015 6:10:23 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Vaquero

The knives have been out for Cruz since he walked into the Senate Chamber. This is especially true since the filibuster. In that way, he’s battle tested. He simply does not care. That’s one of his big advantages over, say, Newt.


12 posted on 03/22/2015 6:10:58 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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“And here comes the sharp knives of the MSM close behind.”

For sure, and you can bet Karl and the girls are gearing up to sabotage him as well.

No matter, for this time around the true patriots are locked and loaded. We want our country back and we aim to get it back.


13 posted on 03/22/2015 6:12:01 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

But what about his being born in Canada? I am just asking so as to be prepared for the fallout of just asking the question! His service to the country, willingness to stand up to worthless Obama. But whom to choose as a running mate? Lets face it some of the guys out there are flip flops. Need a strong conservative candidate, not these regurgitated puke Rhinos or GOPestablished suck ups that are just Obamaites


14 posted on 03/22/2015 6:12:13 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: BlackAdderess

Other that repeating talking points from the Chamber of Commerce and Faux News, do you have any original thought as to why you don’t think Cruz has strategic ability?

(Spoiler alert: I know what you’re going to say - and I’m ready for it.)


15 posted on 03/22/2015 6:12:39 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: hondact200

Good Lord......going from worrying about Canada (been answered by about 25 articles this week) and then on to worrying about who he might pick as VP?


16 posted on 03/22/2015 6:13:34 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

He has managed to keep trucking along, and fortitude counts (believe me!) but he has not been able to draw in and publicly humiliate his detractors, they always seem a step or two ahead.


17 posted on 03/22/2015 6:16:38 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Excellence

When the only messages the average brainless voter gets is MSM pap, it is impossible for me to feel your level of confidence for any good candidate. The media and the Dhimmicrat party so vilified Sarah Palin, that people that had never listened to her message thought she was that SNL character so trecherously portrayed by Tina Fey.
I hope that Cruz does better.


18 posted on 03/22/2015 6:18:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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For sure, and you can bet Karl and the girls are gearing up to sabotage him as well

I hate the pillsbury d’oh boy. Rove...rhymes with Loathe.

19 posted on 03/22/2015 6:23:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

It would be interesting to see hear what Cronyn says.


20 posted on 03/22/2015 6:23:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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