Reports: Cruz Angering GOP Establishment on Way to '16 Run

NewsMax ^ | Friday, 01 Aug 2014 06:02 PM | John Blosser

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. Ted Cruz has his eye fixed on the White House, and he plans to undercut the established Republican House leadership to help get him there, reports say.

Cruz's latest political target, according to Breitbart, is New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who he says "has voted lock-step with President Obama to prevent any efforts to finally secure our border." 

But while Shaheen's most likely opponent in the upcoming elections will be Republican Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts, Cruz's choice of key state New Hampshire to make an impression says more about the lofty aspirations of the junior Republican senator from Texas that it does his opposition to Shaheen.

Cruz, an avowed tea party supporter, currently is receiving a lot of the credit, or the blame, for the failure of the GOP border bill in the House, which would have provided $659 million in funding, less than the $1.5 billion of the bill's original price tag, cut back to placate conservatives, and a lot less than the $3.7 billion President Obama was seeking to deal with the crisis of over 50,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have flooded the Southwest border, according to the Christian Science Monitor. 

With last-minute wheedling, Cruz, who wants to cancel out Obama's 2012 executive action to defer deportation, which he has termed "amnesty," helped to persuade enough conservative legislators to defeat the House bill.

Combined with Cruz's elbowing his way in to the New Hampshire race, and planned visits to another key state, Iowa, his actions have caused the Washington Post to declare, "Ted Cruz is running for President." 

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[Iscool]

Good...He’s got my vote...I’ll vote for Cruz regardless of which party he ends up in...

[lee martell]

I wish I could see that made up photo showing CruZ with TattooZ. Now that was Fine Art.

[DoodleDawg]

"Ted Cruz is running for President."

I hope he runs and if he does I plan on voting for him. But I have to wonder, if he is elected then what does he plan on accomplishing? The GOPe will not be willing to work with him and the Democrats will filibuster and block everything he wants to do. I imagine it'll be very frustrating for him.

[Travis McGee]

And even better, it will put every living congress critter on the record as for or against an actual, all the way, effective border fence. Yea, or Nay, forever.

I’d love to see us separate the GOPe sellout RINOs from the GOP patriots.

An up or down fence bill would do the trick nicely.

[1010RD]

Cruz for Senate. 2018!

[yoe]

Ted Cruz is doing just fine....anything angers the GOP establishment especially a group of people (Tea Party) who want the United States Constitution to be obeyed however, it seems the establishment finds it too heavy to carry...Vote for those who want to carry that remarkable and weighty document! "Reports" can be mendacious...source them whenever they are posted.

Go Cruz!!

[Signalman]

If Cruz runs on no amnesty and a serious border fence, he'll win in a landslide.

Cruz is the first candidate since Reagan who comes across as a man with solid convictions and beliefs who knows what he stands for. He is the Reagan of the 21st century.

[Travis McGee]

Cruz could, like Reagan go directly to the American people and ignore the bashing by the Rats and their allied MSM.

And the issue to make a stand on would be:

“Build the Fence. Then we’ll talk.”

[grania]

If Ted Cruz is elected and undoes everything by executive order that Obama did by executive order, that would be huge. Who could complain?

[Travis McGee]

I agree.

[yoe]

Hey, didn’t ‘private contractors’ answer the call to bring these illegals north?

[RichInOC]

The establishment has done very little lately but eat money and poop losses. What I’m trying to say is...too bad, so sad.

[tennmountainman]

Bravo for Cruz! Where is McConnell, senate Minority leader?
He has been AWOL on this amnesty debate.

[Resettozero]

Cruz is the first candidate since Reagan who comes across as a man with solid convictions and beliefs who knows what he stands for. He is the Reagan of the 21st century.

Sexist, you.

[upsdriver]

I’m all for the fence as long as it includes a warning that intruders will be shot.

Agreed. And then put a bounty on the head of anyone successful in coming over the fence. Solves the foreign invasion problem and puts extra cash in the pockets of American citizens. A double good hit for the economy. A Win-Win.

[Travis McGee]

Your point?

[Resettozero]

I’m all for the fence as long as it includes a warning that intruders will be shot. Agreed. And then put a bounty on the head of anyone successful in coming over the fence. Solves the foreign invasion problem and puts extra cash in the pockets of American citizens. A double good hit for the economy. A Win-Win.

Won't work. Might hit a Palestinian child trying to cross the border. Think something more efficient and less politically charged.

Think...using something surprising from Area 51, Warehouse 13...like a rumbledy low-frequency pin-point earthquake maker and a quantum cyclone machine stationed permanently all along the other side of the Large River.

Then, let 'em blame the weather.

[TomGuy]

The GOP-elites will quietly dispatch a half-dozen pseudo-conservatives to challenge in the primaries by splitting the conservative elements.

It worked in 2008. It worked again in 2012.

Several of the contenders in the 2008 and 2012 election cycles are already making noises about running again.

Even Romney — who lost to the guy who lost to Obama and who also lost to Obama — has been putting out trial balloons, too.

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[Pox]

I agree. No matter how hard the left and their media enablers try, they will not be able to beat such a simple and straightforward message that resonates with most Americans, regardless of their political affiliations.

The only problem is, our current crop of politicians defending this country from Obama and his marxist cohorts need to keep Amnesty from becoming a reality before the 2016 election.