Ted Cruz Announces 2016 Presidential Bid

[Webster]

....this should be interesting:

(MSN News) en. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced just after midnight on Monday he'll mount a bid for president of the United States. Cruz shared the news on Twitter: I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support! (Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), 23 March 2015)

Cruz will make a formal announcement Monday at Liberty University in Virginia. Cruz is the first high profile candidate to officially declare that he is running for president and will forego an exploratory committee. Cruz, a favorite among conservatives and a frequent agitator of the GOP leadership in Congress, had been expected to declare his presidential bid for more than a year. He scoped out office space for a campaign headquarters in Houston, Texas, and terminated his Canadian citizenship in preparation.

The first-term senator has made multiple trips to the early presidential primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire and traveled across the country to campaign for conservative candidates in the midterm elections. Someone also created a super PAC, the Stand for Principles PAC, with the goal of helping Cruz win the nomination.

Democrats have wasted no time in attacking Cruz. After reports emerged on Sunday that Cruz would announce, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) said that the Texas senator was "absolutely unfit" to run for office because of his denial of climate change.

Cruz is known for his leadership in the effort to shut down the government in 2013, as Republicans attempted to defund the Affordable Care Act. The former champion college debater made a symbolic 21-hour speech against the law on the Senate floor.

The senator has worked to cultivate a hawkish profile on national security and foreign policy issues, both to appeal to top Republican donors and to provide a contrast with one of his primary rivals, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). He has also curried the favor of social conservatives by highlighting his opposition to marriage equality and abortion, and attempted to elevate his own candidacy by arguing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would win the general election in 2016 if his party nominated a more moderate candidate in the vein of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
HuffPost Pollster has Cruz in the middle of the pack of those seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

Cruz previously served as Texas' solicitor general and with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. He also was a policy adviser for former President George W. Bush's campaign in 2000. When he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, he became Texas' first Cuban-American or Latino senator.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Technically he announced it on The Glenn Beck show last week. But either way this is great. One of the few people I have seen who believe in a strict following of the Constitution.

 

[Webster]

Technically he announced it on The Glenn Beck show last week. But either way this is great. One of the few people I have seen who believe in a strict following of the Constitution.

I'm of two minds on this, Liberty...on the one hand, by getting out front now, this could motivate social conservatives to the polls in greater numbers than in either 2008 or 2012. OTOH, the age-old question of electibility could bite him: he's won what, one election, in a deep red state. Compare that to Wisconsin's Scott Walker: three victories in four years, one of those the infamous attempted recall of him, in a relatively-speaking blue state.... *shrugs* ...its' a legit concern, even if electibility isn't a major concern at present.

 

[Dee]

I'll tell you who in not voting for in the next presidential election. His name is Ted Cruz.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Technically he announced it on The Glenn Beck show last week. But either way this is great. One of the few people I have seen who believe in a strict following of the Constitution.

I'm of two minds on this, Liberty...on the one hand, by getting out front now, this could motivate social conservatives to the polls in greater numbers than in either 2008 or 2012. OTOH, the age-old question of electibility could bite him: he's won what, one election, in a deep red state. Compare that to Wisconsin's Scott Walker: three victories in four years, one of those the infamous attempted recall of him, in a relatively-speaking blue state.... *shrugs* ...its' a legit concern, even if electibility isn't a major concern at present.

You could be right. But right now I am enjoying his speech with no compromises or apologies for a Constitutional conservative. Me I think people are so desperate for real honesty of this kind. Close the borders with no apologies or asterisks whenever he talks about it. No lets try and fix obama care. But instead get rid of every single word of it. No apologies or excuses abortion is wrong! Period! Just clear conservative ideas after ideas. I liked Reagan a lot but Ted Cruz is notch above Reagan. Look up his career it is quite impressive from school all the way to today. Later tonight I might find it and post it. No teleprompter like our murdering piece of shit dear leader. He can do it without stuttering and lying because he believes in what he says and says what he believes.

Much to like about Scott Walker and I would vote for him over any liberal or democrat without even blinking first just for how he has turned around Wisconsin but there are a few things I am just not sure about him on other topics.
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