[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

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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[RIghtwardHo]

You can’t look at 1964 and extrapolate ANYTHING from it for 2016. You can’t even go back to the 90s.

Any analysis that does so is seriously flawed.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I love Ted Cruz and he is my favorite US Senator and would make an outstanding POTUS.

However he has two issues in common with the current POTUS which could come back to haunt him:

1) He wasn’t born in this country.
2) He is only a freshman senator.

[drypowder]

To restore liberty and the rule of law the US needs a staunch constitutionalist like Ted Cruz in the WH. Unfortunately the oligarchs will never allow it.

[Responsibility2nd]

Christie established a national profile early in his gubernatorial tenure on the strength of his attractively brash personality, and was well-positioned to marshal that into an extremely credible bid for 2016. Now, however, it appears he may not even end up running. (Though I don’t discount his chances completely.)

Tracey must have missed the fact that Christie was in Wisconsin last week stumping with Walker.

Christie will definitely run.

[kevkrom]

The author hangs a lot of weight on actual or potential criminal indictments of Christie, Walker, and Perry. The Walker and Perry cases are blatant politically-motivated jokes that will be tossed and leave both men stronger for having put the “cloud of suspicion” behind them. The Christie case might be potentially stronger, but nothing to dat indicates any direct link to Christie, so he’s either clean or good enough at covering himself that it doesn’t matter.

He does, however, raise good points about Cruz seeming to build a coalition of Republican-related interests without necessarily having GOP-E support.

[Don Corleone]

CRUZ = CROSS? Will America return to the CROSS?

[arthurus]

Also, his wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.

And that is a problem.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Give him the nomination and he will be destroyed by the MSM, if they don’t succeed before hand. You can bet that the Hillary forces do not want a debate to be held between him and their candidate. They will find an excuse to avoid it, or just agree to some light questions, i.e. what newspapers do you read, why do you oppose same sex marriages, why are you against abortion, but don’t go near anything that smells of Hillary, our economy or our national security. As far as the RNC is concerned, who is next in seniority to loose?

[Lake Living]

I love Cruz and hope that he runs and gets the nomination. I don’t think he’s all that great a speaker. I personally think he does better when he’s just talking vs “speaking” and he has a few mannerisms that Sat. Night Live could really run with but all that is nothing. He’s a smart, well educated and bold individual that has core values in tune with the Founders and God fearing Americans - exactly why he will be hated by the left. I don’t know what appeal he will have with the population at large. Perhaps if enough Americans are hurting badly enough by 2016, he might be given a chance to try and make a change for the better. I know we need more of a spiritual solution than a political one but Cruz looks more and more like a man for “such a time as this.” Go Ted and God speed!

[DoughtyOne]

My concern for Ted is this. He's not a pretty boy. I know, I know..., sounds rather lame doesn't it.

Then you look at Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, whose personal lives and histories should have eliminated them from any thinking person's mind, and then it dawns on you.

Men voted them down handsomely. The female vote rescued them.

Good luck Ted. I sure hope the Left has run out of pretty boys.

OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 2012
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 2008
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 1996
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 1992

[Uncle Miltie]

Cruz to Victory!

[txhurl]

This leftist is worried, and worried that his fellow leftists aren’t worried. Evidently Cruz is still off the RAT political chattering-class’ radar, and he’s trying to warn them.

[Jim Noble]

Ted Cruz will not be nominated by the actually-existing Republican Party. That is a fact.

I like his speeches. But I would point out that the three sitting US Senators who have been elected to the Presidency (Harding, Kennedy, Obama) are not exactly an advertisement for the Senate as a qualification for high executive office. The recent US Senators who have LOST the Presidential election (McGovern, Mondale, Dole, Kerry, McCain) also suggest that the Senate is poor preparation for the Presidency.

If a first-term US Senator is the best we’ve got, well, OK. But at first glance, I don’t like it.

[Manic_Episode]

Ted has my FULL support!!!!!!

I will send him money, guns and lawyers.