Ted Cruz

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This old baldHeaded Cajun, is one smart cookie and as the lead strategist for former BJ president is a worthy opponent.

JAMES CARVILLE: I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years. I further think that he’s going to run for president and he is going to create something. I’m not sitting here saying he’s going to win, and I think Senator DeMint is right. I’ve listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina. He touches every button, and this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead. And he is going to be something to watch.

And a lot of Republicans feel this way, George, and you hear this a lot: "If we only got someone who was articulate and was for what we were for, we would win elections. And we get these John McCains and these Mitt Romneys and these squishy guys that can’t do anything." Well, there’s one thing this guy is not - he ain’t squishy, not in the least.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/05/05/carville-ted-cruz-most-talented-and-fearless-republican-politician#ixzz2SRCOL2ng

EDIT, thought I would add this:
[b][i]cum laude from Princeton

magna cum laude from Harvard Law School

authored more than 80 supreme court briefs

presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court

Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America[/i][/b]

2

I would definitely vote for him or Rand Paul. I certainly hope Republicans don’t try to field another milk toast RINO. If they do, they are handing 2016 elections to the left.

3

Don’t kid yourself. Democratic strategists like Carville are salivating over the possibility of Cruz and Santorum running amuck through the Republican primaries in 2016, virtually assuring another circular firing squad amongst the GOP candidates.

A GOP candidate who plays to the base of a shrinking demographic is a losing strategy.

4

Hmm, heard this about Ronald Reagan and the rest is history.

Dole, McCain & Romey the darlings of the state-run-media until the big show and what happened.

Was looking for a recent poll (will locate) but the following is from 2011, certainly doesn’t look like its shrinking

Gallup Poll: Conservatives 42%, Liberals 21%
November 7, 2011
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-poll-conservatives-42-liberals-21

5

The last two presidential elections, both of the republican candidates were trying to appeal to the independents and moderates. Look how they ended up, they got beat by a socialist, twice!

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If the base would actually turn out and vote on election day we wouldn’t be in the present situation that we find ourselves. They don’t because of that whole squishy thing…

7

I am extremely optimistic about the 2014 mid terms with how bad obama care is shaping up to be.

I think the dems will lose the senate in 2014.

Ted Cruz is my hero.

8

Well the dems have no one else to blame for that train wreck than themselves but I don’t forsee them not blaming the GOP for it.

You wait and see, the saving grace will be single payer in their eyes and this is exactly what they wanted all along.

9

No offense, but I would love to hear the alternative…another “centerist” candidate that doesn’t appeal to the base?