The Texas Reagan announces for president

American Spectator ^ | 3.23.15 | Jeffrey Lord

[SoConPubbie]

You could call him the Texas Reagan.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is announcing today that he is a candidate for president.

The announcement will come in a speech at Liberty University, the famous Virginia school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. There will be no “exploratory committee,” with Cruz moving straight to an announcement of candidacy. This will make the Texas son of a Cuban immigrant and one-time star of Harvard Law School the first officially declared candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

In a conversation with The American Spectator, Cruz made it plain that he intends to pursue a 21st-century version of the insurgency strategy pioneered by the late Ronald Reagan. Bringing together the Reagan wing of the GOP that is composed of national security, social, pro-growth, and libertarian conservatives. The Reagan coalition broadened the base of the party to bring in everyone from evangelicals to women to union workers to Latinos. Reagan’s nomination battles in both 1976 (when he almost defeated GOP Establishment favorite and sitting president Gerald Ford) and 1980 (when he defeated Establishment favorite George H.W. Bush) summoned a virtual army of supporters who had previously never spent a day in politics.

This would be well in keeping with Cruz’s record in the Senate, where Cruz has stood in decidedly Reagan-style against the Republican Washington Establishment, notably with his bold plan to defund Obamacare in 2013. That line-in-the-sand tactic, something Reagan used repeatedly as candidate and president to draw a bright red line between Republicans and Democrats, was furiously assaulted by many of Cruz’s Republican Senate colleagues and most of the Establishment GOP, with some GOP senators going out of their way to deliberately sabotage the Cruz effort to defund the highly unpopular mandatory health program.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[BenLurkin]

Reagan was NOT a lawyer.

[dsrtsage]

Anybody who doesn’t like him is a full on racist

[dsrtsage]

Anybody who doesn’t like him is a full on racist

[A CA Guy]

Not a Texas Reagan because Cruz IMO would never have fell for Amnest or raising taxes in exchange for reductions in spending that never came.
This guy is like Reagan with a much higher CPU but equals Reagan in ethics, heart and love of country.
God Bless America.

[SoConPubbie]

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CRUZ or LOSE!

[SoConPubbie]

So?

Of the fifty-five delegates who attended the convention 34 were lawyers, 8 had signed the Declaration of Independence, and almost half were Revolutionary War veterans. The remaining members were planters, educators, ministers, physicians, financiers, judges and merchants. About a quarter of them were large land owners and all of them held some type of public office (39 were former Congressmen and 8 were present or past governors).

Reagan didn't argue 9 conservative cases successfully before the Supreme Court either.

What's your point?

[SoConPubbie]

Reagan was NOT a lawyer.

So?

Of the fifty-five delegates who attended the convention 34 were lawyers, 8 had signed the Declaration of Independence, and almost half were Revolutionary War veterans. The remaining members were planters, educators, ministers, physicians, financiers, judges and merchants. About a quarter of them were large land owners and all of them held some type of public office (39 were former Congressmen and 8 were present or past governors).

Reagan didn't argue 9 conservative cases successfully before the Supreme Court either.

What's your point?

[Kartographer]

[Artcore]

I’ll wager some here on FR will begin attacking Cruz because of some point or issue that he isn’t 100% perfect on. Rush is talking about this very thing right now.

I have a bad feeling “conservatives” are going to begin turning on Cruz very soon. I believe for some, there will be NO candidate perfect enough, conservative enough to be president.

We’re going to end up handing this election to Hillary or Warren...I just know it.

[deport]

Question. Why don’t you put your url link in a clickable format so that anyone
wishing to go to the link won’t have to copy and paste the link?

[wardaddy]

From American Spectator.....surprises me

[laplata]

Anybody who doesn’t like him is a full on racist

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Whenever I hear a liberal say something about Ted Cruz, I’m going to accuse them of racism. Time to throw their own crap right back at them.

[CA Conservative]

Reagan was NOT a lawyer.

And your point is??? I'm not sure what your comment is meant to imply. I didn't read the whole article, but did the author say Reagan was a lawyer? Or are you saying Cruz is not another Reagan because Cruz is a lawyer and Reagan wasn't?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[fatnotlazy]

My bad feeling is that, while a significant number of conservatives seem enthusiastic about Cruz's candidacy, they won't put out the potentially superhuman effort needed to install Cruz in the White House. It's not enough to talk about Cruz. It's not enough to just vote for Cruz. Jeb will have the full party machine behind him. To get Cruz elected, we need to create and implement our own machine.

[Artcore]

My bad feeling is that, while a significant number of conservatives seem enthusiastic about Cruz’s candidacy, they won’t put out the potentially superhuman effort needed to install Cruz in the White House. It’s not enough to talk about Cruz. It’s not enough to just vote for Cruz. Jeb will have the full party machine behind him. To get Cruz elected, we need to create and implement our own machine.

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Agreed.

I sent him a small donation yesterday, and will continue to do so.

We demand 100% perfection from our candidates, that we could never live up to ourselves. I just don’t get it.

[nascarnation]

Agree, Romney got 10m of the 19m votes in the 2012 primaries mostly because he had the most dough.

[GeronL]

lol

[erod]

Excellent, excellent article.