Posted on 03/23/2015 6:47:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz, the Republican Texas senator and unofficial leader of the tea party faction, surprised exactly no one when he announced Monday that he would seek his party's 2016 presidential nomination. He may be a first-term lawmaker and he may have been born in the Canadian city of Calgary — an unusual birthplace for a wannabe American president, even if his eligibility is not seriously in question — but his ambitions have long been clear..
Normally, campaigns for presidential nominations follow a familiar ritual. Candidates say that they're forming an exploratory committee and then delay an official announcement as long as possible. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is scaring most potential challengers out of the field without having even created an exploratory committee, serves as an extreme example of the typically protracted process.
Cruz cut to the chase. Rather than hemming and hawing as if he were working up the courage to ask out a high school crush, he announced that he was running, not just exploring, on Twitter at midnight....
The way in which he made the announcement, however, was unorthodox, and hints at the role Cruz is likely to play in the Republican primaries.
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And the “born in Canada, while not disqualifying, is unusual” quote. As if spending your elementary years in Indonesia wasn’t unusual.
Looking forward to this dweeb eating his words.
You could see this in that fundraising email they sent out. First they say Cruz gives them a cold chill, then they say their eyes are rolling at his announcement. So it's like, which is it. Is Cruz an evil dark lord like Dick Cheney or is he a laughingstock like Palin? Their problem is that if they try one of these characterizations and it doesn't stick -- as it probably won't -- they're going to look like idiots with egg on their face. So they are dithering.
If he’s born in Canada, how is he eligible?
But we thought we would mention it anyway.
His mother was an American citizen, so he was born a citizen.
[ And the “born in Canada, while not disqualifying, is unusual” quote. As if spending your elementary years in Indonesia wasn’t unusual. ]
Barry’s formative years were not spent on US soil but in a muslim country, then later in the USA, Hawaii surrounded by communists.
this is why he Hates Israel and anyone who is a Capitalist.
LMAO...
It's only setting them up to go down harder...
Happy thoughts! Lol...
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