Posted on 03/22/2015 6:22:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He’s going to skip the exploratory committee and go straight for the jugular.
Ted Cruz plans to run for president.
The Houston Chronicle broke the news just before midnight Saturday evening, citing senior advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity who said that Cruz, the Texas Tea Party Republican elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, would pursue the presidency.
The announcement would make Cruz the first Republican to officially declare his candidacy.
Cruz will announced his candidacy at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, the Chronicle reported.
The senior advisers cited by the Chronicle said Cruz aims to raise some $40 to $50 million, and he will run as an unabashedly conservative candidate, in contrast to the “mushy middle” Republicans he’s criticized in the past.
Cruz has strong support among the conservative base, as several high-profile polls have shown.
In a Drudge Report poll released at the beginning of February, Cruz took the No. 2 spot among likely presidential contenders, behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll at the end of February, Cruz came in third behind Walker and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Exactly.
Someone with BALLS.
Bibi showed the way. Unapologetic conservatism. It’s all about turn out. If people are excited, they go vote. Dems used race to motivate their base. Republicans keep going with RINOs and the base doesn’t show up.
But we’ll hear the same lies: Conservatives can’t win, we need a moderate, etc.
Bought time for some new blood in DC. The old blood is stale and no good.
.....and now it begins.
I helped to elect him for the Senate so he would get up people's nose.
It's working. He's doing what I want. I like that.
/johnny
There’s a formula, but typically it increases $100 each election cycle. It’s $2700.00 from each adult in the family for the primary, and the same for the General. That’s to his FEC account.
No limits to the SuperPAC
TedCruz.org
“$2,600 + $2,600 from a spouse, IIRC.”
$2,700 now. And you get to donate that amount for both the Primary and the General election. So one person can give $5,400 to a candidate. A couple: $10,800.
May God bless Ted Cruz , I hope he makes it.
He’s got Brains and Courage and that’s more than the Whole Republican old timers have.
Great. Thanks!
If it was supposed to be ‘secret’, it is one of the worst kept secrets ever.
Word has been out since Friday that his BIG announcement was coming Monday.
He was advising a president at 28 years old, is the longest serving Texas Solicitor General and has won more Supreme Court cases than almost anyone.
Let the leftist attacks begin...they will do anything to keep Ted from running even if it means writing complete works of fiction about things he never said...
From the contribution page at TedCruz.org:
“1. The first $2,600 from any single individual’s contribution shall go to the Ted Cruz for Senate primary election account. The next $2,500 shall go to the Jobs, Growth and Freedom Fund for that individual’s 2014 contribution. The next $2,600 will go to the Ted Cruz for Senate general election account. The next $2,500 shall go to the Jobs, Growth and Freedom Fund for that individual’s 2014 contribution.”
I didn’t see a Presidential FEC account at FEC.gov yet. However, candidates are allowed to move money between their own FEC election accounts. A donation at TedCruz.org would find its way into Presidential Campaign accounts.
I'll be sending the guy money for his presidential run if he decides to run.
/johnny
America's founding generations understood the history of nations, and framed a government by a written "People's" Constitution to protect and allow freedom for individuals and "chain" (Jefferson) elected and appointed government officials.
Unlike today's crop of so-called "conservative" leaders, those generations could articulate the ideas underlying that Constitution's limits on Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary power. More importantly perhaps, they could explain it to "the People."
See the following for a few examples:
"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. - Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." Samuel Adams - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771Why should freedom-loving Americans be cowered into refraining from using the word "slavery" to describe the condition which results as a consequence of coercive government power over the lives, rights, liberties, and pursuit of happiness of individual citizens in the society?"When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery." - Article signed "Candidus," in Boston Gazette, December 9, 1771
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." Samuel Adams- As Candidus in the Boston Gazette, January 20, 1772
"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave... These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Samuel Adams - Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Perhaps a Candidate Cruz can and will be willing to articulate the ideas of liberty versus tyranny (slavery) in a manner which, as in previous centuries, ordinary citizen voters could understand and support with their "lives, property and sacred honor."
I’m with you 1000% Johnny. He’s the smartest guy in the room, no matter what room he walks in to.
You’d better stick around to get him over the top my FRiend.
Hope you’re doing OK. Praying and thinking of you every day.
Good question because the RNC/Pacs and what not won’t give him a dime.
Yes, it’d be good to see all FReepers get behind Cruz.
I don’t see the same in Walker.
Finally, the TedCruz.org is obviously the vehicle for 2014 Senate contributions.
I would guess that there’ll be an updated donation site up tomorrow. That’s where I will make a donation because I want there to be a “pop” with his announcement.
I’m donating $1000.00 tomorrow and I intend to hit both mine and my wife’s FEC limits before the Texas Primary on Mar 3, 2016.
I challenge any FReeper financially able to match my $1000,00 contribution tomorrow...
I don’t think there is a better candidate out there for the following reasons - he has courage, knowledge, common sense, honesty and can speak articulately. Yes Scott Walker has more governing experience and I like him too. He seems a little too laid back for me - Cruz is more of a fighter.
Plus Cruz is a good friend of Mark Levin. I am a huge Mark Levin fan. Cruz has been on his show many times and I’ve liked everything I’ve heard. No sound bites or mainstream media filters. I wish Ted Cruz was my senator, instead I am stuck with 2 Dems. I can’t remember the last time Michigan had a republican senator.
Sure thing. Also, if Cruz does have any money left after the Primary he can roll that into the general election.
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