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.
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That would require the media to grow up, and that ain't happening. But he has humiliated his detractors to those paying attention. He was widely ridiculed for his filibuster, with the Wall Street Journal and Faux News and many estab Senators insisting he was costing them the 2014 mid terms. The WSJ even called him "the minority maker" at the time.
So, how did that strategy work out again? That was brilliant strategy - plant a flag, take a stand, don't worry about the first few weeks....just win in the long run.
I only have two objections to Ted Crus. Neither of which would prevent me from voting for him should he get the nomination. 1) Experience. First term Senator with two years in elected office. Kinda like another candidate, I remember. 2) Ivy League educated. In my opinion, the Ivy League has done more damage to this nation than any of the “isms” we have faced, Including Radical Islamism.
That said, he is my number two choice.
The msm will try but he can deflect. Hillary voters are ever going to vote for him?
It’s the GOP and their bundlers who are going to be threatened by a by the book constitutionalist
He knows that
A couple of other threads from yesterday if anyone is interested in reading the comments;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270661/posts
Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3270447/posts
Is Ted Cruz about to announce for president(Monday)? ^
I believe Hillary is going to get shunted aside AGAIN for O’Malley. So the question will be..who can beat O’Malley.
Also, are the CLintons really that powerful anymore. What are the repercussions for the Hatchet Job President Jarret is doing on Hillary?
It is rather hilarious when a politician announces that he/she is going to make a BIG announcement later.
Sort of Beck-ian/Trump-ian/Geraldo-at-Capone’s-Vault-ian.
Due to speculation, by the time the BIG announcement is announced, it will be old news.
That nasty sniping is what we are going to see from his sorry detractors who have nothing. It’s recognizable as an off the wall nasty comment tgat is unprovable. Defended by ‘oh it’s not I, it’s all those I hear from’ or ‘ it’s not a bad thing he might improve’
The purpose is to keep doubt in the mind of the audience
I think it’s best to not engage
First place, black address wil not be able to state briefly what the heck she’s blathering about
Then there that little annoyance they’ll have about Cruz’s success history, in this case, that he was prince tons champion debater ( perhaps they even gave it begrudgingly due to his views but had to for his standing way out among the others)
Black address will not be able to convince in one sentence how a champion debater, whose skills have proved, can possibly lack strategic sense or undervalue it’s importance
Engaging in a talk about who is a better strategist is fruitless Tgere is no one better. Bush walker Paul Christie. Any one of them is a better strategist? In what realm? Rubio? Right
But the question that first comes to mind when reading these ugly little remarks is the main question here, what does THAT matter?
Or, simply, wha?
When that happens, I disengage
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Go home Ted.
Canada needs you.
C’mon Walker
All in. Cruz Control!
Go home, Scott. Mexico needs you.
Cruz or lose.
$$$$ $end Ca$h $$$$
Republican establishment as well as democrats and foreign interest will attempt to defeat Ted Cruz.
They do not want a CONSTITUTIONAL Conservative sitting in that Oval Office.
What gives me hope? Ronald Reagan won the nation in a landslide after the policies of Jimmy Carter. Pray!
Cornyn?
I wonder how ANYthing interesting could ever come from him
He’ll bow, as usual. He’s been cruzed. No one comes out of that unscathed
He got in the way of Cruz working for the American people and texans once
Look at it this way...
Cruz got through his Ivy League days without being corrupted or pulled over to the dark side. That means he is stronger in his beliefs and convictions than most of the others. That's a plus, in my opinion.
See 28
If he were nominated, I would vote for him. I wouldn’t stay home...this is a stupid thing to do. I would rather have someone with executive experience, still.
Ha...that's good!
>>But what about his being born in Canada? <<
The supreme court has never ruled on the natural born citizen clause. It is understood that if a candidate was born and one of their parents are a U.S. citizen, they are a U.S. citizen unless that U.S. citizen renounces their citizenship.
He won nine cases at the Supreme Court as atty general of Texas. Including against the bush machine
Man. There is not going to be a break in this.
Comparing him to Obama? How about really comparing them? What did Obama do as senator? And what did Cruz do as senator?
Perhaps the reason senators don’t win the wh is because they don’t do anything is the senate. Not in this case
We’re going to be drowning in hooey for a long time. No matter original intent or supposed past precedent, should the SC rule definitively, it will find that there are only two types of citizens, those who are citizens by the circumstances of their birth, and those who require naturalization.
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