Ted Cruz

[THE KOD]

Much of the rest of the country (including Republican leaders in Congress) viewed Cruz as a vaguely scary renegade, and the GOP establishment?s official grumpy grandpa, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), dismissed him as a ?wacko bird.?:scared

Uncorked anger doesn?t usually win presidential nominations, let alone presidencies. People want hope and uplift in the White House and not just expressions of outrage. The president is the person who is supposed to make things work.

To some, the 44-year-old Cruz gives off a vaguely scary aura of cheerful menace. For now, as Cruz officially announces his 2016 bid, he is nearly an asterisk in the early GOP polls, well behind somewhat less apocalyptic personalities, such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Cruz beat the establishment in Texas like a drum. They hate him for it, but he is also going to raise a lot of cash in, yes, Texas.

He is as pure an across-the-board conservative as it is possible to find in what has to be regarded as the big leagues of politics: culturally, fiscally, in monetary policy, in foreign policy.

Cruz is triple 7s on the slot machine of issues: anti-abortion, a global-warming mega-skeptic, to the right of Likud on Israel, anti-immigration to the max, big on defense spending, etc.:scared

He is a libertarian, traditional conservative, war hawk and evangelical Baptist son of a preacher who fled Fidel Castro?s Cuba. There are plenty of philosophical and tactical contradictions in Cruz?s construct, but he ignores them all.

Cruz is an anti-intellectual intellectual, if there is such as thing. And that could be just perfect for the Republican Party of today.

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When McCain calls him a wacko nut job , America should listen.

 

[HankWilliamsJr]

 

[hedgehog]

The more shit that's talked about this man, the better I feel about him winning :00hour. The more the liberal pussies are crying the more chance he has to win

Fuck that slime ball piece of shit McCain, he should retire

Running a clear Conservative against a Rino like Jeb he will destroy him, fuck the middle we lost last two elections playing the middle, way right is the only way to go to win

 

[THE KOD]

He recalled saying to his wife in the weeks before his Senate primary, when he was still behind in the polls, ?Sweetheart, I?d like us to liquidate our entire net worth, liquid net worth, and put it into the campaign.?

?What astonished me, then and now, was Heidi within 60 seconds said, ?Absolutely,? with no hesitation,? said Mr. Cruz, who invested about $1.2 million??which is all we had saved,? he added?into his campaign.

Heidi Cruz herself recalls the conversation differently. There was no movie-friendly smash cut ?absolutely,? or even assent. Rather, she told Politico, she ?wanted him to raise money from elsewhere first, to show that the support was out there.? And even then, ?She proposed that they not put their own cash into the campaign unless it made the difference between winning and losing.? That?s sort of the opposite of an instantaneous absolutely: a hesitant and conditional maybe.

Maybe Ted?s version is just the kind of face-saving white lie we tell ourselves to preserve harmony in a relationship. After all, it?s easier and healthier than nursing a grudge. Or, in Cruz?s mind, a hesitant and conditional maybe, if it relates to something he wants bad enough, is enthusiastic agreement.

This is delusion would explain almost everything Ted Cruz does.

That would explain Cruz?s misguided belief that a wide swath of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. It would explain his quixotic crusade against the country?s growing support for marriage equality. It would make sense, even, of his run for the presidency.

Cruz, after all, is a ?top-tier? candidate mostly in terms of name recognition. While he?s an extremely popular speaker at base-flaming events such as CPAC (where he finished third in the easily gamed Straw Poll), wider swaths of GOP voters are not as kind. Even among the notoriously conservative Republican Iowa caucus-goers he?s in single digits. In the even narrower category of self-identified Iowa Tea Partiers, he has only 10 percent of the vote, trailing Ben Carson (11 percent), Rand Paul (15 percent) and flavor of the month Scott Walker (33 percent).

To be fair, most politicians who run for president have some strain of the megalomania that seems to infect Cruz. Almost every politician who runs for president needs to have that curious mental twist, an ego like a funhouse mirror. Otherwise, no one except those already likely to win would run. Ask some liberal Democrats how they feel about that scenario.

But the most successful politicians seem to leaven self-importance with data. Obama?s 2008 victory over the inevitable Hillary Clinton is often painted in terms of pure marketing, but it was number-crunching that made the difference in the nitty-gritty days of the final states. Bill Clinton often looks like an example of sentiment prevailing over smarts, but his career?s lows reflect the times when he didn?t turn off the charm.

Tell the truth, Ted Cruz says. Just don?t try to get him to be honest with himself.

 

[shawn555]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered his first official 2016 presidential campaign speech Monday during a convocation ceremony at Liberty University, a religious institution in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The room was packed for Cruz's speech, but the crowd wasn't all there just to applaud the senator's big announcement, which was first shared on Twitter. Some of the students who witnessed the launch of Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign were, in the words of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, only in attendance so they wouldn?t get fined.

Convocation is a mandatory Monday, Wednesday and Friday event for Liberty students -- and they are penalized with fines if they skip an assembly.

This could explain the supporters of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) who trolled Cruz from the audience.
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they would have been fined :142smilie

GO TEDDY :142smilie

He could not even fill a room to announce he was running.

:facepalm:

Cruz forcing young people to attend his rally, that sounds like Hitler to me.

:142smilie

 

[REFLOG]

Guy had to announce in front of a crowd that were forced to attend. :facepalm:

Probably had the crowds chairs wired too, zapped them to make them cheer opcorn2

 

[fatdaddycool]

If the room were full of liberals when Cruz made his announcement, I can understand the cheers. He has no chance of being president.

 

[ChrryBlstr]

Ted Cruz?s Biggest Liability Is Probably His Constant Lying

Ted Cruz?s Biggest Liability Is Probably His Constant Lying

Politicians lie. It?s almost non-controversial; elected officials are advocates who want to show themselves and their causes in the best possible light. Nobody tells the whole truth.

Senator Ted Cruz wants you to think he is different: the video he released Monday morning ahead of his presidential campaign announcement was titled ?Time for truth.? Those were also the first words he spoke at Liberty University after making his official announcement.

If Cruz is different, however, it?s because of how boldly he claims things that aren?t even remotely true. His vacations from reality take on a gleeful exuberance, like a college freshman on his first trip to Daytona.

Cruz told a CPAC crowd, for example, that Democrats issued an ominous threat to the Catholic Church: ?Change your religious beliefs or we?ll use our power in the federal government to shut down your charities and your hospitals.? Politifact naturally deemed this ?both incorrect and ridiculous.?

A quick survey of some other Cruz gems:

Cruz said ISIS is ?right now crucifying Christians in Iraq, literally nailing Christians to trees.? It wasn?t, and Cruz wasn?t able to offer any evidence.

Cruz described a ?strong bipartisan majority? in the House that voted to repeal Obamacare. Two Democrats joined the Republicans.

He bluntly claimed that ?the jurisdictions with the strictest gun control laws, almost without exception ? have the highest crime rates and the highest murder rates.? This is not true.

In recent weeks, Cruz has been using some variation of this line: ?There are 110,000 agents at the IRS. We need to put a padlock on that building and take every one of those 110,000 agents and put them on our southern border.? The IRS doesn?t have 110,000 employees, let alone agents. (There are 14,000).

This may read as an oppo-dump of misstatements from a guy who?s now running for president. But anyone who has followed Cruz?s career knows it?s the tip of the iceberg?he frequently just seems to be free-associating conservative grievances with ?facts? pulled from nowhere.

In some ways this is a huge asset for Cruz: he is clearly trying to establish himself as not only the most right-wing presidential candidate, but the truth-teller who isn?t afraid to say what conservatives know to be right. (They got that e-mail forward about it, after all!)

Combined with his aggressive play for evangelical voters, in this way Cruz is not unlike the Michele Bachmann of years past?except with a much better political resume and a bigger bankroll.

Of course, the last image many people have of Bachmann is being chased down a hallway by CNN?s Dana Bash in the final days of her congressional career; Bash wanted to confront Bachmann over the thoroughly ludicrous claim that Obama was spending $1.4 billion on personal expenses each year. It wasn?t the first time the mainstream media made hay with Bachmann. Even normally credulous reporters just couldn?t resist the easy layup.

One wonders if Cruz, too, might eventually see his truthiness turn into a liability. Speaking at CPAC is one thing, but standing on the national stage seeking to be president is another.

Peace!

http://www.thenation.com/blog/202313/ted-cruzs-trouble-truth-his-biggest-liability

 

[hedgehog]

Probably had the crowds chairs wired too, zapped them to make them cheer opcorn2

The more the liberals whine the better I like his chances. He is Ronald Reagan all over again :00hour I haven't been this fired up in 20 years about a Presidential election, the last 8 years have been a complete disaster

 

[shawn555]

Probably had the crowds chairs wired too, zapped them to make them cheer opcorn2

See the problem here is I am actually telling the truth. I know its hard for you guys to realize the difference between truth and complete bullshit.

The announcement was made at the school's Convocation, a thrice-weekly mandatory assembly with a stated purpose to "develop campus unity, disseminate information, and challenge students spiritually, socially, morally and intellectually," according to a Liberty University's Student Honor Code.

"All students are required to attend Convocation," the code states, warning students that they face disciplinary action should they miss it. Its required attendance is also mentioned in the 10 Liberty University Distinctives (sic), which are inspired by the late Jerry Falwell, who founded the university.

 

[shawn555]

The more the liberals whine the better I like his chances. He is Ronald Reagan all over again :00hour I haven't been this fired up in 20 years about a Presidential election, the last 8 years have been a complete disaster

when does the first person to announce ever win?

Cruz is angling for a show on faux like Huckabee.

 

[Duff Miver]

You'll notice Cruz isn't even on this list

General Election: Bush vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 55, Bush 40 Clinton +15
General Election: Walker vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 55, Walker 40 Clinton +15
General Election: Paul vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 54, Paul 43 Clinton +11
General Election: Christie vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 55, Christie 40 Clinton +15
General Election: Rubio vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 55, Rubio 42 Clinton +13
General Election: Huckabee vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 55, Huckabee 41 Clinton +14
General Election: Carson vs. Clinton CNN/Opinion Research Clinton 56, Carson 40 Clinton +16


That's how little anyone thinks of Cruz. Even Republicans can't stand him



By Kendall Breitman

3/23/15 6:14 PM EDT

So far, the polls aren?t looking great for Ted Cruz.

On Monday, the Texas Republican senator became the first major candidate to announce a 2016 presidential run, speaking before a friendly crowd at Virginia?s Liberty University, a bastion of evangelical Christian political power.

Actual voting is, of course a long way off.

But as of now, most Republicans in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina don?t seem ready for Cruz?s brand of ?courageous conservatism? ? and have said they would not chose him as a first or even second pick for the GOP nomination.

Here?s a quick rundown of how Cruz fares:

Iowa

In a Quinnipiac University poll released Feb. 25, only 5 percent of likely Republican caucus voters said Cruz would be their first choice for president. Seven percent said he would be their second choice.

 

[Duff Miver]

Run, Ted, ruuuuuuuun.

Please :142smilie

 

[shawn555]

Run, Ted, ruuuuuuuun.

Please :142smilie

With people like hedge behind him how can he lose?

:142smilie

 

[hedgehog]

Run, Ted, ruuuuuuuun.

Please :142smilie

He will win the nomination and The Presidency :00hour Ronald Reagan II

I will definitely vote against Jeb for sure, Rand as Vice would be awesome

Cruz/Paul ticket wins in a landslide

 

[shawn555]

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[fatdaddycool]

He will win the nomination and The Presidency :00hour Ronald Reagan II

I will definitely vote against Jeb for sure, Rand as Vice would be awesome

Cruz/Paul ticket wins in a landslide

Thousand dollars says that won't happen. You ready?

 

[Lumi]

He will win the nomination and The Presidency :00hour Ronald Reagan II

I will definitely vote against Jeb for sure, Rand as Vice would be awesome

Cruz/Paul ticket wins in a landslide

And you say you don't smoke weed?
You've got to be on something to make a bold statement like this

 

[fatdaddycool]

And you say you don't smoke weed?
You've got to be on something to make a bold statement like this

He isn't on anything, he's really that delusional all the time. He still thinks president Obama isn't a citizen. He has no barometer for truth or lies.

 

[THE KOD]

He isn't on anything, he's really that delusional all the time. He still thinks president Obama isn't a citizen. He has no barometer for truth or lies.

guess that's why Teddie Cruz and hedge relate.


Oh I forgot . Hillary is going to get all the gay votes also.


none of them 30 million or so will go to Teddie.