Ted Cruz is a presidential candidate to be reckoned with

The Examiner ^ | July 2, 2015 | Sylvia Van Peebles, San Diego Politics

[2ndDivisionVet]

Every once in a while there comes along a candidate who is head and shoulders above the rest. Such a person is Senator Ted Cruz. He is that rare candidate who stands his ground, does not intimidate, never loses his cool and is, above all, always a gentlemen. Everyone who is anyone in the liberal media has been having interviews with Cruz. Not because they are so enamored of the Senator, but more because they are on a mission-a mission to trip him up, catch him off-guard, back him into a wall. They haven't been successful yet. Cruz is fully aware of their tactics.

Thursday The Blaze reports that a young staffer told Cruz how “nice” a member of the media is. Cruz responded with a reminder about the intentions of most reporters. “I actually stopped him and I said, ‘You know what? No, she’s not [nice]. She wants to destroy you. Nothing would make her happier than to take your life and filet you on the front pages. And don’t think for a minute that because she smiles and is friendly to you, that it’s anything else,’” Cruz said, sharing the story on The Glenn Beck Program.

Even though he agreed 100 percent, Beck questioned Cruz about his statement asking if it was a bit cynical. Cruz responded that the mainstream media is full of partisans who have “picked a team,” and “when the sheep are walking among coyotes, it pays to be cynical.” He added, “You see Republicans when they’re interviewed by left-wing reporters, and they get afraid,” Cruz said. “They want them to like them. They are not going to like us! They hate us.”(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

What say you?

[Politicalkiddo]

I say that I will be proud to cast my first vote for president for him. :)

[Huskrrrr]

Yes!!!!!

[JaguarXKE]

Just watch the Yahoo Stream video of Katie Couric’s interview with Cruz to see how masterfully he smacked down her leading questions. It was so obvious she was on a mission to corner Cruz, but she lost and Cruz came out smelling like a rose!

[rikkir]

Nice article. Somebody in the media sees our secret weapon.
I hope they keep trying to trip him up, every interview he looks better.
Let’s say he makes it to the general. Is there a snowballs chance Hillary’s people let her debate him? I say no way.

[Shadow44]

I like Cruz.

I don’t like the flood of candidates, especially when some of them don’t even serve any purpose other than as a stalking horse.

I think Rubio is also a fool to not run for re-election for his Senate seat. Plenty of other presidential candidates have done such.

[matthew fuller]

I say that Cruz is absolutely the sharpest candidate running. He has no peer, he stands alone.

[hosepipe]

Presidential material.. a Flag-General among Gomer Pyles.. and Barney Fifes..

NOW.. IF.... we can find a Veep that gets close to worthy of him..

[matthew fuller]

I seem to remember that my first presidential vote went to Barry, in 64.

[Politicalkiddo]

One of my uncles was telling me his first vote was for Nixon. My mother voted for Reagan her first time.

[nathanbedford]

I say what I've said many times before about Ted Cruz: he has never put a foot down wrong.

It was inspiring to watch him hour after hour on his feet filibuster against the forces of darkness in the Senate without committing any gaffe. Now he courageously runs the gauntlet of leftist gotcha artists to expose his candidacy to prolonged open ended interviews without a single hiccup.

In all of this, Cruz beautifully articulates sound conservative positions without apology but also without defensiveness. He is the kind of spokesman who puts the lie to snarky left-wing commentators who would make conservatism disreputable. He restores conservatism to its proper reputation of intellectual as well as moral integrity.

[IAMNO1]

“One of my uncles was telling me his first vote was for Nixon. My mother voted for Reagan her first time.”

My first vote was for Ford. Carter won! That hurt, a lot.

[SoConPubbie]

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[V K Lee]

IMHO, the only thing which could make Sen Cruz an even better choice at the moment is for him to ditch the DC pubbie-elites, band together his conservative followers to strike out on the road separately from the GOPe. Most of the DC critters are long since history, with their heads stuck up where the sun don’t shine. The GOP is currently on their hands and knees beggin’ for a bruising.

[Gator113]

Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race.

There is NO SECOND OR THIRD choice for me. For me, it truly is ~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~

[Elyse]

My first vote was for Ford, too. Election Day was on my 18th birthday that year. I was soooooo sad Mr. Peanut won.

[hosepipe]

More powerful than LOCO-motive

[IAMNO1]

“I hope they keep trying to trip him up, every interview he looks better.”

I agree. I love Rush, but he's always on this rant about Republican candidates not going on the lamestream media shows so they don't inevitably get taken advantage of. In my opinion, the candidates that have gotten repeatedly burned haven't been good enough. It's my litmus test that they hand these dopes their butts when doing these live interviews or they don't merit, and Ted Cruz has. My only concern (if I have one) is that, although done live, they will later be taken out of context for the sake of the “low information voters”. We'll see.

[SoConPubbie]

IMHO, the only thing which could make Sen Cruz an even better choice at the moment is for him to ditch the DC pubbie-elites, band together his conservative followers to strike out on the road separately from the GOPe. Most of the DC critters are long since history, with their heads stuck up where the sun don’t shine. The GOP is currently on their hands and knees beggin’ for a bruising.

I am confused.

Just how is he aligned with the GOP-E in your mind?

[dowcaet]

I feel bad my first presidential vote was for Jeb’s daddy in 1988, but in fairness I was a registered Democrat at the time so I was beginning my rightward turn then, though voting for Bush Sr and his sons is hardly voting for a rightward turn.