Posted on 04/13/2015 6:52:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz remains a conservative favorite in 2016. In 2012, the establishment backed his Senate opponent in Texas, then Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. The conservative grassroots backed Cruz and pushed him over the finish line. Cruz has since remained a favorite of the grassroots with a continually antagonist relationship with the Republican establishment.
In 2010, Rand Paul, before Cruz, was a grassroots favorite. The Republican Establishment backed his rival, Trey Grayson. Paul rallied a coalition of conservative grassroots and Ron Paul acolytes to trounce Grayson and win the Kentucky Senate seat. Since then, Paul has wobbled between maintaining grassroots support and developing establishment support. In 2014, for example, he backed Mitch McConnell for re-election and has taken an occasional aggressive position to contrast himself from Cruz.
Marco Rubio is the original Tea Party candidate. His candidacy united the grassroots against the leadership and he won. The Washington crowd convinced themselves he could not win, but the grassroots proved they could pick a winner. Rubio was the first.
In the same year Rand Paul won, the man who started the major revolt between grassroots activists and party leaders ran. It was the Rubio race that really exposed the divide between the base and the leadership. The leadership backed then Florida Governor Charlie Crist. The grassroots, led by former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, allied with Marco Rubio. Activists began urging a boycott of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Washington group that helps the GOP take the Senate....
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Senator Cruz was the youngest and longest-serving Solicitor General in Texas history, supervising a department with about 4,000 workers. Before that, he was a US Justice Department official, an advisor to a presidential candidate/President-elect/President, and later a high-level Federal Trade Commission official, as well as a partner in several large law firms and a law professor.
Yes.
He's a good speaker without a teleprompter, he's Cuban and he's charming.
My now voting age granddaughter, (19) loves Ted Cruz, likes Rand Paul, particularly for his shushing that reporterette, and after watching him on Hannity tonight, she also likes Marco Rubio.
She hates Hillary and she raised a ruckus on FaceBook earlier this evening.
Cruz voted against and has been a vocal critic of a Senate-passed immigration bill, S. 744, which has stalled in the House. After a series of border security measures are met, the bill would have allowed a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since at least Dec. 31, 2011. The earned path to citizenship included paying fines and back taxes, proving gainful employment, completing background checks, learning English and civics, and going to the back of the line of prospective immigrants. Cruz has called any path to citizenship “amnesty.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/03/factchecking-ted-cruz/
>>>”He’s a good speaker without a teleprompter, he’s Cuban and he’s charming.”<<<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkW4CZXaGto
Mainly the 17th Amendment.
I would never vote for that amnesty whore. He goes whichever the political winds blow.
He was an early supporter of Romney. I think that says it all, even if his actions didn’t.
By the way, you might check Rubio’s record at the state level. He was amnesty whore back then as well.
I never use fact check as a resource.
But I do know where Cruz stands on Amnesty and am comfortable with that regardless of how that may need to be tweeted once he’s in office.....he’s got Americans on his mind first and foremost.
Visit the other Rubio threads, I’m far from alone.
“Marco Rubio is the original Tea Party candidate”
Well Erick the Tea Party thought so as they pushed him over the top in a tight senate race. Then less than 2 weeks later in an interview he said in answer to a question about it that he didn’t know if he was really a tea partier. He was already distancing himself.
Then Marco thought well he would glom onto a huge issue, immigration and he would push through “immigration reform” as part of the Gang of Eight and ride it into the Whitehouse. Of course he stumbled badly and I now question his maturity and judgement. I am also a little concerned that Rubio has a lethal case of ambition.
So color me unconvinced. Ted Cruz who is almost the same age shows maturity and good judgement. I am pretty much committed to him at this point.
However my only line in the sand is Jeb Bush and Chris Christie.
Totally agree. Anyone who followed state politics in FL when he was in office knows he is the definition of an empty suit.
He has a lot going for him, but I wouldn't cite him as the odds on favorite.
His ability to fund raise has yet to be seen.
He’s an effin PARASITE!!!!!!
FUMR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s going to take a visionary to turn this nation around.
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
“I am also a little concerned that Rubio has a lethal case of ambition.”
I suspect the ‘establishment’ has been whispering in his ear. “Stick with us and you’ll go far:” One of those lower level ‘establishment’ sorts told me in no uncertain terms yesterday that Cruz is unelectable and that Rubio is their guy. My blood pressure spiked, but I bit my tongue, opting instead to allow this aquaintance to continue to boast about his ‘insider wealth of knowledge’.
[I don’t get all this Rubio chatter. Am I missing something?]
It’s just the MSM campaigning for anyone but TED CRUZ.
[Ted Cruz who is almost the same age shows maturity and good judgement.]
TED CRUZ is Reaganesque. A President CRUZ would have a calming effect on a nation in turmoil. He has a vision for America and the wherewithal to see it through.
That description sounds like a Ken doll that speaks Spanish.
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