Posted on 01/19/2015 1:22:52 PM PST by gwgn02
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells Breitbart News that he’s “very, very seriously” considering launching a presidential candidacy for 2016. Cruz adds that he thinks a bold conservative needs to win the GOP nomination next time around, or else he fears Democrats are likely to win the White House as they did in 2008 and 2012. “God bless South Carolina. South Carolina has historically played a critical role in helping select Republican presidential nominees,” Cruz said in an interview here at the state’s Tea Party Coalition Convention: South Carolina’s central role has been ensuring that we nominate a strong conservative. And when Republicans nominate a strong conservative with a positive, optimistic vision, we win. It’s the pathway to victory. So I’m thrilled to be here in South Carolina. You asked about 2016? It’s something I’m looking at very, very seriously. I got to tell you, the encouragement, the expressions of support that we’ve been receiving have been breathtaking. I’ve spent the day just meeting with grassroots activists, sitting here at roundtables with Republican women, with Tea Party leaders, with small business owners, with young people—answering their questions, listening to their concerns. The support we’re seeing at the grassroots but also at the financial level, the support we’re seeing from donors who recognize what we’re doing isn’t working and we’ve got to change paths. Really it’s been humbling and it’s been overwhelming. When asked if politicians Washington—both the Republican establishment and the Democrats, including Obama—missed the point of the midterm elections, Cruz replied simply “yes.”
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I would vote for Cruz in the Primary, AND the general election, but he can’t possibly be elected president.
I’ll just put this on the shallow level of the typical American voter: He isn’t attractive, doesn’t have a good voice(he sounds like Dana Carvy’s imitation of Bush 41), and the media will tear him to shreds 24/7.
Maybe a great VP pick, DEFINITELY a great Attorney General.
In a perfect world, I’d wave a magic wand and make him president TODAY. He isn’t electable. Simple as that.
If the GOP wants to win, they need to choose someone else, and I don’t mean any of the ‘big name’ RINOs either!(jeb/christie/romney/huckabee/grahamnesty)
.....God help us!
Sen. Ted Cruz wants to block funds for Obama’s immigration plan
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-ted-cruz-immigration-20141203-story.html
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) aims to block any illegal immigrant from ever receiving any state, local, or federal welfare or public benefits with a series of amendments to the immigration reform bill currently under review in the U.S. Senate.
Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio on immigration
The Texas freshman is sharply critical of the pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, a central part of the bipartisan bill that Rubio helped write.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-immigration-90395.html#ixzz3PJ2iuXZz
He isn’t electable. Simple as that.
They just kept telling themselves that...
“I’ve got deep concerns about is any path to citizenship for those who are here illegally,” he said on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program on Monday night. “I think that is profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who have followed the rules, who have waited in line.”
There are two that come to mind, Scott Walker and Mike Pence. Both know what it takes to get moving in a good direction, and both know how the free market can run the engine of the country.
I believe people have seen when you put someone without any executive experience in place where management is key.
and Walker is not TEA Party either, he doesn’t like running candidates against sitting members in primaries, especially against GOPE leaders.
Scott Walker clarifies his stance in illegal immigration debate
Washington, D.C. - Did Gov. Scott Walker last week endorse the hotly debated idea of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship?
It sounded that way to some. A Politico story Feb. 22 reported that Wisconsin’s Republican governor said he “supports a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants.”
That prompted the group America’s Voice, which supports such a policy, to trumpet Walker’s stance this week, saying “the fact that a very conservative Midwestern governor is joining the ranks of Republican presidential hopefuls who support immigration reform with a path to citizenship shows just how dramatically the politics of this issue have changed.”
But Walker’s actual comments - made in a webcast with Politico in D.C. - were ambiguous on what has been the most contentious question in the broad immigration debate: the status of millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. Walker never mentioned citizenship in his comments.
And he told the Journal Sentinel in an interview Sunday he hasn’t taken a position on citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Gov. Walker backs citizenship pathway for illegal immigrants
Seems like Scott Walker is the pro-amnesty guy between he and Cruz, based on available news reports.
“He (Cruz) isn’t electable. Simple as that.”
That mantra sounds strangely familiar:
“. .While President Carter confronted Ted Kennedy at the White House, a much more amiable encounter reunited the two most eminent figures in the G.O.P. They had never been friends, and as recently as last March, Gerald Ford had described Ronald Reagan as ‘unelectable.’
http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/285893/flashback-gerald-ford-calls-reagan-unelectable
I’ll have to write him in but I will do so.
I think ‘unelectable’ really means ‘ghastly unthinkable’ to the big-gov types.
Everybody the gope-STAB has nominated has been unelectable and UNELECTED. W barely won his first term, and only had finish-the-war as his mandate by the time his second election rolled around.
Reagan LANDSLIDED. RINOs can hand-wring about ‘unelectable’ to their RAT friends across the aisle all day from here on out.
Me too! He's gone from "very serious" to "very very serious." Maybe his next step will be "very very very serious."
I'm sure he's running, but I wish he'd make a formal declaration sooner rather than later. I'm ready to throw all my money to Ted Cruz!
Get behind him now. Before the Mitt/Jeb RINO Express leaves the station.
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