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Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday
Houston Chronicle ^ | March 21, 2015 11:34pm | Theodore Schleifer

Posted on 03/21/2015 9:46:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington.

Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate. …

(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; gotedgo; tedcruz; tedcruz2016
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To: Olog-hai

Here’s a guy who doesn’t BS around or waste time! I Like that.


161 posted on 03/22/2015 5:32:22 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Darren McCarty

I know Ted Curz would have my back in WA DC!!!!


162 posted on 03/22/2015 5:33:37 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: EvilCapitalist

I got the text too...I may not b up that late but I will watch Twitter.


163 posted on 03/22/2015 5:40:35 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan! (Mrs. Yellowdoghunter))
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To: EvilCapitalist

I would suggest that, when donating, we make sure “FreeRepublic.com” is displayed on the form.

Senator Cruz needs to know he has friends here.

...even if some Freepers are opposed to his candidacy.


164 posted on 03/22/2015 5:43:48 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler
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To: Darren McCarty

Yes

Local media except in hip locales tends to be less partisan


165 posted on 03/22/2015 5:44:56 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Kewl. The convocation speech is tomorrow. Unless they’re mixing up,the schedule for this, it should be at 10 am ET.


166 posted on 03/22/2015 5:45:54 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: haircutter

Exactly

Surprising many here don’t get it

Still don’t get it


167 posted on 03/22/2015 5:45:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: Olog-hai

Per Ted Cruz at twitter:

“Tonight around midnight there will be some news you won’t want to miss. Stay tuned…”

Announcement via twitter ahead of tomorrow’s speech.


168 posted on 03/22/2015 5:49:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

Money bomb? Great time to send a message. Hoping to find the correct place to send money.


169 posted on 03/22/2015 5:55:21 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: RKBA Democrat

Everyone can get texts about him by texting ‘Constitution’ to 33733.


170 posted on 03/22/2015 6:01:21 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Cruz appeared on ‘local media’ here in soviet Red Hampshire this morning...only ten minutes long, but VERY good.


171 posted on 03/22/2015 6:01:51 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


CRUZ or LOSE!


172 posted on 03/22/2015 7:31:32 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Agamemnon; eddie willers
... And, as such, thinking Freepers will take whatever it is you say about anything with a healthy level of suspicion.

Boy did you just sum up the feelings of many of us Freepers with that one post!
173 posted on 03/22/2015 7:43:25 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: eddie willers

Well, you can have Jeb if you want, but 99% of us are voting for TED.


174 posted on 03/22/2015 9:07:33 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: SoConPubbie
Boy did you just sum up the feelings of many of us Freepers with that one post!

Well....I was just going to ignore the comment from the earlier misinformed poster, but you chimed in in as well, so let's make my view clear.

I am from Georgia and voted for Herman Cain against the RINO Johnny Isakson when he ran for the Senate and I have been supporting Newt Gingrich since 1994 (I knew him when he was a professor at my alma mater, West Georgia College) and hoped he would one day run for President.

I was so excited to see the nomination within his grasp after SC last time, only to see him (as well as every other conservative) kill themselves with the circular firing squad until the loser, Romney was the last man standing. It also happened in 2008 and 2000.

I love Ted but do not think he has a chance. All the talk (OUR talk, to be frank) about how Obama was a mistake because he was too young and an inexperienced one-time Senator will come back to haunt us and be thrown back into our faces.

The Rovian idea of dividing conservatives and thus electing RINOs holds merit because he has succeeded threes time running.

I don't want it to be four.

So quit trying to taint concerned conservatives as myself (whose bona fides goes back to 1999 here at FR) and point your guns at the enemy...the Democrats.

OK?

175 posted on 03/22/2015 9:33:22 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: The Final Harvest

See the above post.


176 posted on 03/22/2015 9:33:55 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers
So quit trying to taint concerned conservatives as myself (whose bona fides goes back to 1999 here at FR) and point your guns at the enemy...the Democrats.

Anytime ANYONE tries to use seniority as a premise as to why I should listen to them, I automatically turn them off.

Use logic, use facts, heck, I'll even take emotion, but fallacious premises like you've been here longer than me just don't cut it.
177 posted on 03/22/2015 9:36:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Olog-hai

We were “shut out” because of the circular firing squad and good guys destroying each other. Candidates dropped out and i had a choice of Mitt, Paul, and Santorum. Voted Santorum.

We can’t repeat the circular firing squad. Target is Jeb.


178 posted on 03/22/2015 9:53:00 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Mike Pence in 2016)
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To: Darren McCarty

What “good guys”? I recall a plethora of RINOs vying for the candidacy in 2012. Not a strong conservative with moral backbone was in sight.


179 posted on 03/22/2015 9:56:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SoConPubbie
You and I have actually had many nice conversations and/or been commenting on the same threads over the years (maybe you forgot, I didn't) that I was surprised to see it was you echoing the silly and ludicrous charge that Agamemnon made earlier.

If it hadn't been you posting, I wouldn't have bothered given any explanation at all.

180 posted on 03/22/2015 9:56:38 PM PDT by eddie willers
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