Ted Cruz Just Disqualified Himself for President (Colossal Barf Alert!!!)

Huff and Puffinton Compost ^ | March 24, 2015 | Daniel R. DePetris

[Kaslin]

Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas the entire Democratic conference loves to hate, officially kicked off the 2016 Republican presidential primary season with his March 23 announcement on the campus of Liberty University. The Houston Chronicle broke the story two days prior to Cruz's formal declaration of a White House bid, but anyone who was remotely following U.S. politics over the past year could have safely assumed that he would make good on his presidential ambitions. As the Chronicle pointed out its in scoop, "Monday's... announcement will culminate two years of open musing about running for president that began nearly the moment voters elected him to the Senate in 2012."

Cruz, in other words, has wanted this job badly ever since he made his first trip to Washington as the new senator from Texas. Moderate Republicans, Independents, and Democrats may scoff at his presidential campaign as an effort by a young and inexperienced political opportunist, but Cruz clearly believes he has at least a decent shot at the Republican nomination. And why wouldn't he? Establishment Republicans, after all, eye-rolled his 2012 primary contest in Texas, only to wake up the next morning shocked that he defeated a Republican incumbent who had tens of millions of dollars in his war chest and who seemed unbeatable.

[JimRed]

Anyone who really WANTS that job must be nuts, and therefore unacceptable!

[JimRed]

He didn’t mention that he had worked for Justice Rhenquist and all of his accomplishments at Harvard Law; nor the fact that he had a law firm.

That's detrimental in some peoples' opinions. Another damned lawyer!

[kingattax]

thanks Slyfox

great post. excellent points

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I think it was the part where he dared to reintroduced a bill called the Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act. Which demanded “releasing all Americans imprisoned in Iran, dismantling all centrifuges, and discontinuing any ballistic missile research programs are just a few of these conditions.” This of course undermines the Dear Readers attempts to give the Iranians everything they want, and no one is allowed to question obummer.

Quote from the article: “But is this black-and-white, my-way-or-the-highway approach a quality that Americans want in their president?”

Well I guess not, if you live in a world where people who call you the great satan have a right to nuke you off the planet.

[iowacornman]

I LOL . Good fun.

[iowacornman]

She won’t decline because I don’t think she will be the candidate. She is badly flawed.