Let me respectfully add a caveat to that.
Sen. Cruz will never be the Republican nominee. The Republican Establishment has anointed Jeb Bush, and he will be the nominee in 2016. That's already been decided. The GOP-E is preparing pseudo-conservatives to jump into the race with proper financial backing to assume the role of offensive linemen in football. Their role will be to block and tackle an unapproved candidate attempting to stop Jeb Bush from crossing the goal line; they will do this by splitting the conservative vote. They will never allow an outsider like Reagan or Cruz to seize their party again.
If Sen. Cruz is elected president, it will be because he founded a new political party which drew enough support and money to leave the Republican Party an empty husk with a lot of crony corporate backing but no voters. It will be much like what happened to the Whigs in the late 1850's.
It won't be a third party, but a viable second party replacing the Republicans.
I agree. So let’s get a plan to raise USD $100 million and organize a TEA PARTY CONVENTION.
I’m serious.
A Tea Party as a new political party can win. It will carry the republican base. It will carry 2/3’s of independents. It will carry swing voters.
I believe if the money’s there for organizing, that a Tea Party could take the Presidency by a landslide.
I have never seen in my more than 50 years the American people as fed up with BOTH parties as I have seen now.