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10 Reactions to Ted Cruz Announcing He's Running for President
The Christian Post's Politics ^ | March 23, 2015 | Napp Nazworth

Posted on 03/23/2015 7:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Here are 10 reactions to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's, R-Texas, Monday announcement at Liberty University that he is running for president.

These comments are from journalists and pundits from across the partisan and ideological spectrum and are in no particular order.

1. Jerry Brown, governor of California

Cruz's position on climate change make him unfit, not just to be president, but to run for office.

"That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data. It's shocking and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office."

2. David McCabe, The Hill

Cruz spoke without a teleprompter.

"But Cruz does have a background in speaking off the cuff. As a lawyer, he has argued before the Supreme Court, where justices frequently push litigators away from their prepared text with questions and critiques. Cruz was also on the debate team while at Princeton University."

3. Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post

Cruz channeled Barack Obama.

"Ted Cruz doesn't get compared to President Obama all that often. But the senator's speech carried heavy echoes of the rhetoric and positioning that the current occupant of the White House used in the early days of his own national ambitions."

4. Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner

Cruz is running against corporate welfare.

"Cruz building a campaign partly around this reminds us that he's aiming squarely at the Tea Party. More broadly, it reminds us that these days being the "conservative" candidate means doing battle, at times with the Chamber of Commerce and the business lobby. As other candidates jump officially into the race, they're going to need to show some bona fides on battling corporate welfare too."

5. The Economist

Cruz was the first to announce his candidacy for president in 2016. Declaring early usually does not go well.

"Ominously for Mr Cruz, the first Republican to declare has not gone on to win the nomination since at least 1952."

6. Ben Domenech, The Federalist

Cruz can win the nomination.

"The Acela corridor mindset about Ted Cruz is basically: 'he has no path,' 'why is he doing this,' or 'he's a disruptive pain in the butt and should shut up and go away.' Allow me to quote one of the emails I received last night on this topic: 'he's a disruptive pain in the butt and should shut up and go away.' Yes, I understand that Cruz's approach to politics and speechmaking rubs some people the wrong way, but there is actually a counterintuitive case to be made that he has a clearer path to the nomination than his critics might like."

7. Domenico Montanaro, National Public Radio

Is Canadian-born Cruz eligible for the presidency?

"The U.S. Constitution says presidential candidates have to be 'natural-born citizens.' But the Supreme Court has never weighed in with a definition, leaving it open to interpretation."

8. Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight.com

Cruz is too disliked and too extreme to win the nomination.

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's newly minted presidential campaign is the media equivalent of a juicy rib-eye that robbers use to distract a guard dog during a heist. He'll get a ton of media attention, and he'll get to spread his message — which may be all that Cruz is after — but Cruz almost certainly has no shot of winning the nomination, according to every indicator that predicts success in presidential primaries."

9. Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Cruz has a weird obsession with abolishing the IRS.

"In any event, the conservative id now has an official candidate, which means some of his pet policy ideas will get a little more attention. My personal favorite, which he mentioned during his speech today, is Cruz's oft-repeated conviction that we should eliminate the Internal Revenue Service — or, as he now likes to half-jokingly put it these days, "abolish the IRS, take all 125,000 IRS agents and put them on our southern border." Cruz says this would be his second priority, after repealing Obamacare (of course). And it's kind of fun to contemplate. The U.S.-Mexico border is 1,954 miles long. Assuming we rotated those 125,000 newly reassigned agents on three separate eight-hour shifts (gotta guard the border 24/7, after all), we could install one agent roughly every 250 feet. That's less than a football field, people. We could basically handle border security like the world's largest game of Red Rover. Weekends would be a little more porous, but that's what overtime pay is for."

10. Montel Williams, radio and television personality

Cruz is again compared to President Barack Obama.

"Because the last time we elected 1st term Senator the result was just swell."

Montel Williams
✔ @Montel_Williams

#TedCruz Announces. Alrighty then.
#TedCruzCampaignSlogans "Because the last time we
elected 1st term Senator the result was just swell."

7:51 AM - 23 Mar 2015


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016electionbias; birtherism; cruz; doublestandard; gettedcruz; tedcruz
So Montel is a double racist? LOL
1 posted on 03/23/2015 7:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Montel’s not very smart. The disaster of obama has zip zero nada to do with him being a first term Senator.

Total idiotic non sequitur.


2 posted on 03/23/2015 7:14:44 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Is Canadian-born Cruz eligible for the presidency? “

His parents are Canadians?


3 posted on 03/23/2015 7:15:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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To: BenLurkin

Neither one is.


4 posted on 03/23/2015 7:15:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, if his parents are both American citizens then it doesn’t matter where he was born. You’d think everybody would know that.


5 posted on 03/23/2015 7:16:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He wasn’t the “first” to announce. Didn’t Ben Carson announce?


6 posted on 03/23/2015 7:28:18 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Again, envy, envy, envy

Envy will kill you. Better to keep your mouth shut and let God take care of it.


7 posted on 03/23/2015 7:32:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: DouglasKC

Dr. Ben Carson Announces Presidential Exploratory Committee
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/dr-ben-carson-announces-presidential-exploratory-committee-n316306

Senator Cruz skipped that phase and went right to declaring, so the article is correct.


8 posted on 03/23/2015 7:32:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jerry brown: “That man betokens....”

Betokens?

First rule of communication is to use words your audience will understand so they get your meaning. Generally, those that use bigger words where simpler words would suffice are either trying to baffle you with BS, hide their lack of knowledge behind large vocabulary, impress you with their vocabulary or some combination of those.

Brown certainly betokens those types of communicators.


9 posted on 03/23/2015 7:50:53 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just sent Ted $100 for starters.

I’d love to have him sticking it to liberals and RINOs for the next 10 years.


10 posted on 03/23/2015 7:54:31 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: BenLurkin

His mother was American, his father Cuban.


11 posted on 03/23/2015 7:59:57 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Neither one is

Sen. Cruz's father was a Cuban national at the time of his birth in Calgary. FWIW.
12 posted on 03/23/2015 8:05:53 PM PDT by PrairieDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We needed this. The entire process of the Beltway ruling class dictating to us all which candidates they would allow gave me a severe case of indigestion. For better or worse, folks, this isn’t going to be business as usual. We’re all done with that.


13 posted on 03/23/2015 8:10:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Fair and Relevant Question

 Erick Erickson (Diary)  |   



With
 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) beginning his run for the Presidency today, I should make public the question I’ve suggested to reporters in private.

Senator Cruz is for certain going to be joined by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who will announce in a few weeks.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who I think is underrated in his bid for the Presidency even though Jeb Bush is intent on locking up Florida, will also most likely declare his candidacy.

All three of these men would make excellent Presidents. I know them personally. I backed them when they were at single digits in the polls. I pray for them regularly. I like them all.

Still, I think they have to answer a question those who come from Governor’s Mansions will not. That question is this:

For six years, Republicans have said the nation made a mistake electing a one term Senator the President of the United States. Why should you, a one term Senator, be the GOP’s nominee?

Given Republican rhetoric against President Obama for six years, it is fair and relevant. I look forward to their answers.



14 posted on 03/23/2015 8:11:57 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: All

Hey Governor Brown, not everyone lives in California although it may seem like it during the commute.

And climate change seems pretty lame after two winters straight out of the Little Ice Age in most of the country.

Sure, California is in a drought. But dude, it’s a desert anyway. The Salton Sea is just overflow from an industrial accident. Come to think of it, so are you.


15 posted on 03/23/2015 8:42:04 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Is it just me, or is there something wrong with political correctness? /s)
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To: BenLurkin

Madison settled the question more than 200 years ago. A natural born citizen was born of an American citizen father with a domicile in the United States.

An American’s wife at the time was not allowed the right to vote and was folded in with her husband in terms of nationality and culture. In other words it was the man and his domicile that determined whether natural born citizen was conferred.

The term ‘domicile’ is distinct from ‘residence’.

When early Americans were sailing the seas or residing abroad, they were considered loyal to the United States if they maintained a ‘domicile’ INSIDE the United States. They could ‘reside’ abroad but maintain a ‘domicile’ inside the United States. For example, Thomas Jefferson resided in Paris as the US Ambassador while maintaining his ‘domicile’ in Virginia at Monticello.

The question came to Madison as to how to determine citizenship for children born at sea. This was not a rare event as many ocean voyages lasted weeks and months. Secondly, if a man and his family were stationed abroad such as employed in the Foreign Service like a consulate or embassy, then children born abroad of a citizen father were considered natural born.

The natural born requirement originated in correspondence and communication between John Jay and General George Washington. Jay was concerned that Presidents would be Commanders-in-Chief and therefore capable of establishing a tyranny on the people using the Army. The proposal was to ensure ALLEGIANCE and LOYALTY by requiring children to be natural born meaning born to a citizen father and citizen mother. Dual citizenship was never an option in that era. Mothers were expected to fold in with their husbands as to allegiance, loyalty, citizenship, residence and domicile.

A mother needed not be a natural citizen. As soon as she married a US citizen she automatically became a US citizen. Even if she was native Indian, German, English, French etc. she at once became a US citizen through marriage to a US Citizen. Dual citizenship was never an option and divorce was extremely rare so there wasn’t much confusion or conflict as to a married woman’s status.

In light of the 14th Amendment and its abuses, the US Supreme Court and Congress must weigh in at some point to clarify issues of ALLEGIANCE and LOYALTY which are the underlying issues of the term ‘natural born’.

We now have a President whose allegiance and loyalty are questioned. And we have a foreign born candidate whose allegiance and loyalty are above reproach. It’s time for our best jurists, historians and philosophers to work at shining a light on determining in this current era of divorce, independence of women, dual citizenship, ease of migration, fast long distance travel etc. what ensures ALLEGIANCE and LOYALTY in a President, and how to ensure it is successfully transmitted across generations.


16 posted on 03/23/2015 8:50:33 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jerry Brown:..." direct falsification of the existing scientific data".

Uh, the fact is, it was scientists espousing man-made global warming who were caught doing this.

17 posted on 03/23/2015 8:59:42 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Bratch

“For six years, Republicans have said the nation made a mistake electing a one term Senator the President of the United States.”

Just the wrong one term senator.


18 posted on 03/23/2015 10:24:43 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

He will say that and then support Elizabeth Warren.


19 posted on 03/24/2015 4:41:19 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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