Exclusive–Ted Cruz on Potential 2016 Run: Question for all GOP Primary Voters Is 'Who Is Standing Up

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CLEMSON, South Carolina — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)—a likely 2016 presidential candidate—expects the GOP field for the 2016 presidential nomination to form by June of next year, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on the way to a tailgate event with several candidates for statewide and federal office at the Clemson University football game on Saturday.

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As it pertains to the Republican primary in 2016, Cruz said the litmus test for GOP voters should be whether a given candidate has led on the battlefield of ideas against the left and political establishment as a whole.

“I think the critical question for any primary voter in terms of who to support is: Who is standing up and leading? That’s the test I intend to apply as a voter who will vote in the Republican primary in 2016,” Cruz said. Elaborating, Cruz stated:

We’re facing enormous challenges, fiscal and economic threats, threats to our Constitutional liberties, a world that keeps getting more and more dangerous as America has receded from leadership. What we should be looking to is who is standing up and leading? Who is making the case that the path we’re on isn’t working and there is a better path? We can get back to the free market principles. We can get back to the constitutional liberties that this country was founded upon. What I would encourage everyone who is thinking about this to do is stand up and lead.

When asked what has surprised him most in just under two years in the U.S. Senate, Cruz said he has been most surprised by the cowardice of some Republicans he works alongside:

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	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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Exclusive–Ted Cruz on Potential 2016 Run: Question for all GOP Primary Voters Is 'Who Is Standing Up and Leading?'

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Ted Cruz Ping!

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Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

[NoLibZone]

He’d be one great candidate.

I am not well versed on the birth requirements .

He meets them right?

[SoConPubbie]

He meets them right?

Yes.

According to the Constitution, US Law and all relevant US Supreme Court rulings, he is eligible.

[Timber Rattler]

And Cato...

Yes, Ted Cruz Can be President

And Free Republic.

If Ted Cruz decides to run for the Presidency and he appears to be the strongest conservative running, I will support him to the hilt.

[Din Maker]

When asked what has surprised him most in just under two years in the U.S. Senate, Cruz said he has been most surprised by the cowardice of some Republicans he works alongside:

OH, HELL YEAH. You go Ted.

[WTFOVR]

Yeah? And what of his Goldman Sachs exec wife? More Kabuki theater for the uninformed and desperate. When are you people going to open your eyes to the fact that we are all being played by the power elite of the ruling class, i.e.: the Republocrats. “Change is a coming! ... Just be gullible one more time, and vote for the next iteration of Washington whores ... WE’LL make it all better - WE promise!” Gag!

[Heart of Georgia]

What on Earth are you talking about? Sen. Cruz and a handful of others are the glue trying to hold this country together.

[WTFOVR]

Here is a “starter course for you” - and all the rest here who think Ted Cruz, or any other of the Republocrats are able to pull our bacon out of the fire they started and stoked into a raging conflagration of Armageddon proportions ... Read it twice, if need be, and then sit in your conservative corner and cry your hearts out ... That is if you are honest enough to comprehend and accept what this info actually means for America - and the world ... Neither you, nor Cruz, nor anybody on this entire planet has the ability to “FIX” this ...

http://www.barnhardt.biz/2013/09/07/on-poland-and-detroit-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/

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Yeah? And what of his Goldman Sachs exec wife? More Kabuki theater for the uninformed and desperate. When are you people going to open your eyes to the fact that we are all being played by the power elite of the ruling class, i.e.: the Republocrats. “Change is a coming! ... Just be gullible one more time, and vote for the next iteration of Washington whores ... WE’LL make it all better - WE promise!” Gag!

Give it a break already.

Just because a person belongs to an organization doesn't mean they are writing and supporting everything that organization does.

By your broad brush, nobody should be in congress when the liberals are in charge because they are just as responsible, even though they vote against every rotten bill, as those who vote for the rotten bills.

[SoConPubbie]

The ravings of a madman.

We should just throw our hands in the air and run around like our hair is on fire, right?!

[okie01]

We should just throw our hands in the air and run around like our hair is on fire, right?!

Then, we should just lay down and give up, lamenting that "All is lost!"

Whereupon, WTFOVR will presumably have accomplished his mission.

That seems to be his objective, anyway -- in that he seemingly has no interest in a solution.

[Gator113]

LOL.... It looks like someone left the lid off the nut jar again.

Drooling loons be damned, I hope to vote for Cruz.

[WTFOVR]

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

[WTFOVR]

Read the link I posted - then tell me who is “nuts” - all that info is sourced, and not to “conspiracy” websites. You people had better wake up soon or the reality is gonna steamroll you ... Well, it’s gonna steamroll you anyway - and me, and every other living soul on this planet ... But at least you will know “what hit you” - and why.

[Gator113]

Get back in that jar or I will eat you. Get back in that jar.

[going hot]

So the financial world is on the brink, and nothing will save it.

OK, so it will. What of it? Do you stop breathing, do you shoot your wife and kids and hang your self? What?

I, and most sane, like minded people, do wish to continue to suck air, and go about making the best out of what we are dealt.It is going to take strength, and it will take strong, determined leaders, whose primary interests are the health and welfare, as well as the security of this country.

So, do you want to have a say in picking such a person?

[Heart of Georgia]

LOL at you and all your overly-spammed insults flung at me and Sen. Cruz. I’m in good company there. HINT: Sen. Cruz and I are the normal ones.

After years of being dumbed down by screwball liberals running everything in this country, including the education system, it’s completely understandable that YOU and others might find the Constitution and Conservatism a bit difficult, but it’s time you learn, and Sen. Cruz has the ability to teach you what it’s all about.

Sen. Cruz sincerely believes in upholding the Constitution, he is highly educated in the meaning of the Constitution, he understands the Constitution, and he can clearly articulate the Constitution to others.

So if that’s feel-good hoopla, I’m there!

Other than that, I’m wondering why you’re spamming your maniacal rambling posts all over FR. They seem geared towards making conservatives appear evil. Am I right?