Posted on 04/06/2015 12:05:37 PM PDT by gwgn02
HOUSTON, Texas — About six or seven hundred hardcore conservatives gathered outside the new Houston campaign headquarters for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last Tuesday, an event at which he showed off his presidential prospects as the first declared candidate for 2016.
Cruz, the true Washington outsider, has had a hugely successful first two weeks as the first declared candidate for the White House—raising millions of dollars, hiring key staff, and building a formidable operation, all while sticking true to his aggressive conservatism. Cruz has shaken up Washington, the political class, and the media establishment by essentially proving since his announcement that contrary to inside-the-beltway elitist belief, he is in fact a very viable candidate for president of the United States.
“I think we are certainly trying to do everything possible to energize and mobilize the grassroots, to energize and mobilize millions of courageous conservatives,” Cruz said in an interview with Breitbart News.
“The greatest trick the left has ever played is to convince the world that America doesn’t share our values,” Cruz added. “America remains a fundamentally center-right country with Judeo-Christian values. And these are common sense principles that America was built upon, and just like in 1980 it took millions of men and women across this country to come together and become the Reagan Revolution. Likewise, today, it will take a similar army of courageous conservatives to result in the same sort of fundamental change we saw in 1980. Our nation is in crisis and the Washington elites cannot solve this problem. It can only come from the American people. That is where our focus and energy is directed, and I’m incredibly encouraged by the enthusiasm we’re seeing right now.”
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“Firebrand”
That epithet became old shortly after it was first used. When are the pundits going to tire of it? It’s just a polite way of saying “troublemaker”.
Huzzah!
At this point, I think many are in favor of “troublemaker”.
Breaking rules means no BS... Say what you think and mean... Sad we have come to that...
Reagan went around the MSM and spoke directly to the American public.
Hopefully, for the sake of the Constitution and Conservatives, Ted Cruz can manipulate the political jungle.
Thanks for the positive report.
Matt Boyle reporting from Cruz HQ ping ...
Running this like a business, responding to what people are interested in, huge emphasis on data, energized workers instead of those in it for a career...sounds like the Obama campaign, the only good part of which is that it is a successful model for SuperCruz to adopt and blow away all of the staid Republicrats.
As for Rand Paul, who is not a staid anything, I don’t believe that he will be as organized. Cruz is trained and experienced in breaking problems down into manageable components, and then constructing a coherent structure from those components. There is none of the vascillation and apparent inconstencies in the Cruz message that there is in the Paul message, and largely because Cruz is a deep thinker and strategist, whereas Paul is more of a gut-level guy who values the individual. I predict that Paul will be around for a while, but will peter out not too long after Super Tuesday, with most of his supporters going to Cruz.
Regarding others: Huckabee is a one-instrument band, he caters to (and does extremely well with) the evangelicals. It isn’t enough to get the nomination, let alone the White House. I am hopeful that Cruz’ head start, and his attempt to appeal to the evangelicals, will make Huck stay on the sidelines and go back to work making a couple million bucks a year at Fox. He can be tapped for some cabinet position if he throws support to Cruz. Christie - dead man waddling; the Obama hug finished him, he just doesn’t know it yet. Cruz could score real big by offering him the Dept. of Labor or Commerce. Rubio - with Cruz out there and raising bucks already, Rubio is just the 2nd conservative Hispanic out there. He won’t even win his home state because of Bush - and that will kill him. Bush - there are so many people that will simply not vote for the man because of his name that it makes winning the nomination very difficult. Besides, in (yet another) Clinton-Bush match, the Clinton will win (though were logic and common sense to prevail, Bush would clobber her - but we’re way beyond common sense in this country). Walker - he stands a chance, but he hasn’t declared and isn’t in front of everyone NOW. He doesn’t have the enthusiasm of the Cruz campaign. He will only stay in the news if he declares, and does so soon - every day that passes puts his organization another day behind Cruz’. Everyone else - FUHGEDABOUDIT! Mike Pence? Dug his national political grave last week, because of no guts. Kasich - unknown outside of Ohio, falling further behind every hour, very staid. He’d be a very good President, of that I have no doubt, but I think him unelectable. Jindal - won’t happen, no real charisma. Again, would be a very good President, but unelectable. Carson - make him Surgeon General or head of the FDA, he is simply not cut out for anything but local or state-level politics. He’s got some good ideas (and some not-so-good like his knee-jerk anti-gun comments a few weeks back), but he’s not Presidential timber.
Cruz-Walker is the winner for me. Cruz is the deep thinker, the ultimate pro-America candidate, and Walker has great executive experience and has shown PLENTY of guts over the past few years. That guy is a great campaigner, and just blows by the media. To me, this is an unbeatable ticket. What are the Dems going to put up, Cankles and some middling governor of a nothing state? Or maybe Cankles and Dick Turbin or some other corrupt pol? Or Fauxcahontas and anyone? Puhlease, this is about as bad of a freakshow as the Obama crowd, and the public is plainly tired of those unpatriotic morons.
bttt
How does ‘firebrand’ compare with ‘populist’?
bttt
“Populist firebrand” = “Demagogic troublemaker”, just more polite.
Ted Cruz. Accept no substitute.
If they succeed he's toast, because he'll never get enough middle of the road types to cross over.
I think they'll fail simply because Cruz (like Reagan did) knows how to respond confidently without appearing blind-sided or nasty.
Bump!
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CRUZ or LOSE!
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