“Is Cruz Our Best Hope?”
Yes.
He’s one of the few who stands up to the democrats and the liberals and doesn’t give a damn about them or their calculated rules and machinations. In reality, he knows their game and doesn’t play along and surprise, surprise, is drawing blood...in six months...while other senators have been there for over twenty years, going along and getting along.
And what really gets them...Cruz will probably be re-elected by acclimaation, while the moderates can only squeak by, if that.
And let’s not forget the titanic battle by the REPUBLICAN PARTY (both RNC and NRSC) to keep this man out of the Senate!
Concur. I’m on Cruz control. As you noted, it’s early, but he could be the next Reagan.
Cruz is one of the good guys.
It is far too early to decide whether he is the best of them, but he certainly deserves ongoing consideration.
Response: While admitting he makes all the right noises, if he is our best hope God Help us.
Just to see.
Perhaps he is.
Because, if he stays in the Senate too long, he will eventually be stricken with Potomac Fever.
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I can recall when Coburn of Oklahoma was lauded as being one of the ‘stand up’ guys. Now, however, Coburn has been in Washington so long that on any issue he is a toss up. You never know which direction he will go. And he isn’t the only one who has succumbed to the Washington plague.
Right now he’s the only one in congress worth a crap.
Palin.
Matters not which way to me, but that is what we need, desperately.
Then why did he stay there and graduate rather than find a non-Marxist dominated school?
Hell yeah!
No. The GOP has never elected a senator president. The “hispanic” vote is based only on welfare checks and can not be obtained by the GOP. Gov Walker or Jindal would be better.
Cruz is our best and probably only hope. Everyone else, so far, will give in to anything Obama wants.
Cruz is ineligible. I stand with Rand.
To early to tell... I like what I’m hearing but have been fooled before so I’ll watch, listen and learn.
The GOP and its followers seem more hung up on which turd world country candidate’s ancestors came from than policy.
Geezz, it is like listening to Saul Alinsky inspired democrats.
FIRST: Make sure, unlike Ovomit, that there are no birth issues. We NEED a real American this time.
I want a candidate who can articulate the EXACT meaning of the brilliance of the founders and promise a self imposed resignation should he/she stray from that most basic of foundation. No if and or buts! Stray from the Constitution and your toast.
I want a candidate who can disarm the left like Chris Christie without all the accompanied squishy RINO tactics that Christie has been known to exhibit.
If we must prove that color is important, after decades of being told it is meaningless, then Alan West, Herman Cain (and back him up this time), Alan Keyes... otherwise forget the taco test, forget the pigment test, forget the religion test, and run someone who loves the country (along with their spouse), who will follow in the footsteps of the founders and limited government and reinstate state’s rights.
I'm not a big fan of moderate Republicans, but four years later Lech Walesa proved Ford correct.
The writer cites a poor example. Political control does not always equal 'domination', where the spirits of free men and women yearn to express themselves.
That said: if I had to choose someone right now and could choose anyone I wanted to run for President, it would be Ted Cruz. It would also return my national vote for President to the Republican Party.
I’m going to say “no” to the article’s question if only because I’m sick to the teeth of the immediate stampede to the name of the moment as the next great hope for the presidency. We got it when Scott Brown (unemployed-MA) won the Senate special election to replace Kennedy. We got it again with Rand Paul during his filibuster. Now it’s Ted Cruz.
I mean, yes, it’s possible that Cruz is the best option for 2016, but it’s way too early to tell that right now, and I’d like to see him “in action” in the Senate for more than just a couple of months before boarding that train.