She doesn't appear all that hideous to me!!
Posted on 12/01/2014 9:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz’s ambitions are clear. He’s a frequent visitor to Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s building a campaign staff.
But to make a serious White House bid takes serious money — at least $20 million by the time the first ballots are cast in early 2016. And that could be a challenge.
Although the Texas Republican is popular at conservative gatherings, Cruz has shown only modest success as a fundraiser. Like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, he can probably count on showers of cash from enthusiastic legions of small-dollar donors, and that’s an important start.
But many major GOP donors and bundlers want nothing to do with a tea party agitator — particularly business interests dismayed by the federal-spending brinkmanship Cruz has advocated. That could limit his ability to elbow aside well-funded rivals....
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I have my “I’m With Fred” mugs from the last go around. Really hope Ted Cruz can do better than Fred.
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995 and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996. Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998. While with the firm, Cruz worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association, and helped prepare testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. Cruz also served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner's lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.
Bush Administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team. Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
If you can find me a 43 year old with a more varied and responsible background, I'd love to look at him or her.
Sounds like a winner from Heller alone. But this all just reinforces my position that he is where he should be. Again, I’d gladly vote for him given the chance.
I think a Cruz/Palin ticket would be much more successful than the NSM claims, but doubt that that will come about.
I don’t think we’ll ever see a Palin ticket again. Boy talk about spraying perfume on a turd (McCain).
Many Republican candidates were outspent 2to 1 by their Democrat rivals. Maybe Republicans won’t need the money to win elections
He can’t feed his family on his Senate paycheck?
Don’t get me wrong, but one only needs to model the David Brat campaign in Virginia that ousted Eric Cantor. Brat’s total expenditures for the campaign were less than Cantor paid for a single campaign dinner.
He did by message, principles and sticking to them. The message was complete concise and very understandable.
I would assume by the past history of Cruz with ability to convey the same will obliterate the field of RINOs but the conservatives need to coalesce behind one candidate to do it effectively. Money will help, but it is not the end all and Brat proved it in Reagan-esque style.
This isn’t Cruz’s first rodeo. He won his senate seat in no small part because he locked in financing early. He knows how important money will be for his presidential race and is now doubt well ahead of the rest in getting commitments for funds.
Have you seen his wife?
Whose wife, Brat or Cruz?
But a huge number of regular Americans sure as heck do, and once the ball gets rolling, the money will be there. All Cruz needs to do is make the official announcement.
I'm getting really, really tired of the "Cruz needs to wait and get some more experience" or "Cruz can do more good in the Senate" or "only governors make good presidents" cop-out arguments.
Obama was a great candidate, but is an absolutely terrible president, the worst in our history. And that's not because he was in the Senate or he didn't have much experience, it's because he's a fundamentally flawed individual and his beliefs are contrary to everything this country stands for. But his candidacy created a level of excitement that we haven't seen since 1992.
I remember the excitement of the Perot Circus in 1992, but again, he was a fundamentally flawed candidate. All the talk about "Romney would have won if the turnout was better" is true. But Romney absolutely sucked as a candidate.
Our next candidate needs to create some of that Perot excitement, and not do any of the stupid stuff that Perot did.
Our next candidate has to resonate with the American people in ways that our last few candidates couldn't. That is Palin's greatest strength, but I really don't think she wants the job.
Sure, there are other competent Republicans that would make good presidents, but can they create the excitement that is needed to get the flock of sheeple moving? Excitement that Bush I, Dole, Bush II, McCain, or Romney couldn't muster?
I believe only Cruz can do that.
We've run out of time. We have to get this one right
/rant
Fred’s.
Oh yea. Jerri is a really smart and intelligent woman. Not to mention that she is the antithesis of Limbaugh’s Undeniable Truth #24.
24. Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
Once his hat is officially in the ring, we will write some checks. The author doesn’t realize that most of us can’t afford to donate “on spec” but are only too willing to spend our cash once the investment becomes tangible.
The big money in Texas went to Dewhurst.......nuff said....passion speaks louder than money!!
She doesn't appear all that hideous to me!!
And ask Tom Steyer what that 74 million got him.
Brat had 200K and two staffers. Cantor spent millions saying the name ‘Brat’, giving him name rec he never could have afforded. There are a couple of jaw-dropping articles about the race at politico.. the way Cantor was trapped into handing Brat his seat on a silver platter. Very satisfying.
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