Ted Cruz just announced he’s running…
At first glance, he seems to be close to an ideal candidate for many M4C members and the larger gun owning public.
How does he hold up under close scrutiny? Thoughts?
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Rush had some interesting thoughts on the GOP candidate. People always find a reason to not totally back the conservative candidate. A personality quirk, a position not totally kosher, a statement that might put in doubt the second coming of Ronald Reagan. We snipe off as ‘un-pure’ all the conservative candidates and end up with McCain…
Treat conservative candidates like you would your kids. Love them all equally, admit that they aren’t perfect and hope that they all succeed. Let the MSM go after them with stupid stuff.
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Ted_Cruz.htm
We could do worse. He’s better than the last two retards we ran.
I’d vote for him
I find it interesting that we all thought that being a junior senator with no/limited executive experience made Obama unqualified. And we were right - to speak nothing about the whole “Birther” controversy. No we have roughly the same level of experience, and a foreign born national, and yet not a peep… Sorry, I’m not voting for Hilary or Ted. I want a governor or someone with a track record and a resume that is up to the rigors of the job.
As my old man once said “the only thing that being governor of Arkansas qualified you to be is governor of Georgia”. One Clinton was enough.
Wow, Really? Never seen someone want a Career politician before!
I don’t care what kind of experience a person has. In my opinion, having as little connection to Washington or government is best.
IMO, he will better serve the conservative cause as a Senator.
I’m not saying that he is the best choice, I’m just saying that he is a metric-ass-load better than what we have.
If Ol’ Ted is as good advancing a true conservative agenda as BHO has been pushing his looney progressive agenda- I’m all in.
All I’m saying is let’s not tear down our own real conservatives. The left is great about getting candidates, no matter how flawed personally or intellectually, and moving incrementally. Look at gay marriage- which is now leading to transgender issue. Sure the right has been good at CCW, but if we weren’t so strict on purity, we could have had SBRs and suppressors and not be worried about ammo.
And yet…we could still easily do much, much worse.
Lack of political experience isn’t what makes Obama one of the worst Presidents in history. Didn’t realize he was born in Canada, I should know this stuff but doesn’t that make him ineligible? Isn’t that why Arnold can’t run?
Who needs John Lennon, when you can have Ted Cruz?
The Ted Cruz/John Lennon Mashup You Never Knew You Wanted - PRI
I believe you have to be born an American citizen, not born inside the United States.
Arnie can’t run because he wasn’t born a US citizen.
He won’t mobilize any more people than Romney did. If the GOP does not put forth someone more people feel is in line with their beliefs, GOP will lose yet again. His overt religiosity and speaking style (being the son of a minister) will turn off enough people to keep him from winning. I’d vote for him over Hillary, but that’s not saying much. Maybe enough people would feel that way (anything but Hillary) but it not enough people had a “anyone but Obama” attitude last time, so I wouldn’t bet on that one.
That is moronic.
You are saying his positions are no different than Romney? He isn’t more conservative than Romney?
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http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_citi.html
He qualifies just like the current douche canoe…
He talked on Hannity’s show today and they brought up an interesting point: evangelical Christians have not really showed up to vote in the last two presidential elections, more so with Romney. If that is the GOP’s presumed base (not all of it), they are not catering to it. Cruz might be that key to get them back.
I like Cruz. He has been the boulder in the raging river that is the run away progressive agenda. He is just in the wrong spot to make a difference. With that, I’m not really enthused he put his hat in the ring. I do want a conservative governor to rake the POTUS spot, and I have more confidence with Walker than Cruz. Cruz would make an excellent VP to keep congress in line via the Speaker and the Majority leader. What I fear Cruz will do is divide the base conservative field that Bush could get the nomination.
In my opinion, we will be screwed in the primary if Rand puts in his hat. All three will divide the vote so much it will be like the last two elections, or even like the Wiemar Republic that got the Nazi Party a big seat ar the table, dividing the vote were tge conservatives split and the “moderate” got the most of the majority. If you were to add the conservative candidates votes togethet, they would have beat Romney in the primary if they all went to one candidate. What we honestly should be doing amongst ourselves is choosing the best canidate and writing to the others to NOT run. Right now, we need to beat the RHINOS.
His mother is an American citizen. So that qualifies him at least according to what I have read in regards to the constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790
And;
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
Interestingly, the issue has never been decided by SCOTUS and two different Solicitor Generals have stated he is eligible.
Ok, I’m up to speed. Basically the “birth” issue brought up by KTR03 was nonsense because Cruz was born to parents who were US citizens at the time.
Right. The question that was posed about Obama was when he was born, did his mother renounce her citizenship.
Cruz’s father is not a U.S citizen, he was born in Cuba. He later became a U.S. resident, which is curious because it’s not the same as becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen.