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Ted Cruz For Senate
The Federalist ^ | June 3rd, 2016 | By Sean Saffron

Posted on 06/04/2016 11:07:51 AM PDT by Mariner

Lost in all the back and forth of the Republican presidential primary is a profound question for the conservative movement: “Whither Ted Cruz?” Let us not overlook a conservative powerhouse, with a proven track record of organizing actual voters across a wide swath of states, expertise at small-dollar fundraising, and the discipline to endure months of heckling by Donald Troll and his oafish minions.

Is no one else excited to see the next chapter for Cruz? If he so chooses, Cruz can be the conservative leader he was so often attacked for not being over the last few years. Now that he is no longer required to hedge his every position, craft every utterance for maximum flexibility, and throw inconvenient political groups under the bus, Cruz can focus on actually legislating and moving the American political center rightward.

As I argued last year (in an unheeded essay urging he stay put in the Senate):


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; goldmansachs; northamericanunion; oafishminions; proriotcruz; tedcruz; texas
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To: CyberAnt
Are you not aware that Cruz undertook to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship in 2014 once he "discovered" he was, in fact, a Canadian citizen up until that point?

He filed papers with the Canadian government to achieve that.

81 posted on 06/04/2016 12:03:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: harpu

Longhorn, from Austin, one of the liberal strongholds in Texas.... no thank you. I’ll be one more vote for Cruz.


82 posted on 06/04/2016 12:04:27 PM PDT by csivils
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To: xzins

Maybe he should refrain from telling people to **** off and die then.


83 posted on 06/04/2016 12:06:26 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: bigbob
How can he be a “powerhouse” when he hasn’t accomplished anything in the Senate other than pissing his peers off and promoting himself?

Indeed. I tried telling many Cruz supporters that a failed filibuster is not an accomplishment, but they wouldn't hear of it.

84 posted on 06/04/2016 12:07:32 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: xzins

“He is eligible”, not so fast. He MAY be eligible, and maybe not.

A question was raised during the primaries about his mother having become a Canadian citizen and relinquishing her American citizenship to do so.

Maybe not so, but worthy of a definitive answer. Since he LIED about his Canadian citizenship, why would we believe anything he says or mom & dad say about this issue. I want PROOF this time.


85 posted on 06/04/2016 12:07:39 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ted’s mother has always reminded me of Obama’s odd mother.


86 posted on 06/04/2016 12:08:07 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: xzins

I repeat...

Shirley, Texas can find a real Conservative American citizen - not a Canadian Establishment GOP-E puppet.


87 posted on 06/04/2016 12:08:21 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Cruz made his own bed. If he loses his Senate seat in 2018, that's on him, not on conservatives."

Correct.

Like McConnell, there are some men who warrant the loss of a single Senate seat.

88 posted on 06/04/2016 12:08:49 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Cruz was elected to a six-year Senate term. If he wanted to run for POTUS, he should have immediately resigned and the Governor would have found someone just as capable to replace him.”

Perhaps so. Cruz, Paul, Rubio, Christi, Graham, Walker, and every other incumbent could have resigned.

I don’t have a major problem with any of them not resigning as long as they didn’t miss any important votes or actions.

And if those who want to oust Cruz have someone to replace him with that is more conservative than him I’m fine with that. If that is the case, by definition that replacement will be among the three most conservative senators because that’s where Cruz stands.

Maybe those who so hate Cruz and want to oust him from the Senate will show the same ardor and work as hard to replace some of the Republican senators who score in the 50 to 70 range in conservative rankings.


89 posted on 06/04/2016 12:09:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: proust
He really has a lot image rehab to do.

It's not about 'image' for me. Ted proved what he really is, over the course of the primary. A public relations make-over isn't going to change that leopard's spots.

I would be very happy if Mr. Cruz returned to his Senate seat and did the job we Texans hired him to do. Even if he exhibited exemplary performance between now and then, I doubt he'd win my vote again. At best, I would consider such performance to be making up the damage he's done.

90 posted on 06/04/2016 12:09:09 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: chris37

show me that conversation


91 posted on 06/04/2016 12:13:28 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

It would be nice if instead of worrying about Ted we spent a little more time, energy, and money on the other 99 senators. I can think of several who would be way better targets. Reid, Schumer...


92 posted on 06/04/2016 12:13:29 PM PDT by Alcibiades (Save the Republic--NeverHillary.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Like 15 year olds that still trick-or-treat, Cruz’s `Meine Ehre heißt Treue’ storm troopers still want to re-fight the eligibility question—now moot—again-and-again.

The American people decided that political question before it had to be put before a real court.

And yeah, the cartoonish, clumsy, stupid, loutish name calling too, just like lefties. It’s hard to miss them when they won’t go away.
The rest of us would like to concentrate now on beating Clinton, not massaging Tead’s feet and political future.


93 posted on 06/04/2016 12:15:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

What do you think the rankings would be if we based them on actual items of the conservative agenda successfully passed into law as opposed to how an individual may have been allowed to vote in a pre-staged, pre-determined vote?

Hint: They would all get zero.


94 posted on 06/04/2016 12:15:47 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: xzins
Do you realize that scripter is...

What? Some exalted Senior Freepatorus Maximus, I'm not allowed to criticize?

That poster obviously didn't learn a thing about Cruz over the course of the primary, and is sitting here in a pout, defending him. That's a position worthy of criticism, if not outright derision - I don't care who you are.

Ted is just that bad.

95 posted on 06/04/2016 12:15:50 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: xzins

See post 27 and 30.

Ain’t that hard, all you gotta do is read the thread.


96 posted on 06/04/2016 12:18:04 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Mariner

Trump may have stopped calling him Lyn’ Ted, but I have not. I will actively support a challenger to primary him. Even his democrat opponent if that is what it takes to remove him from office. I seriously doubt he has any real chance at reelection so all a moot point. This all depends on if he drops out and stops stealing delegates and scheming about the upcoming convention. He lost and needs to be gone. I don’t ever want to see him on the national stage ever again.


97 posted on 06/04/2016 12:18:38 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Cruz can always flare up again. Treat with Trump.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"he should have immediately resigned and the Governor would have found someone just as capable to replace him. "

There's at least 100,000 good, capable, conservative men in Texas that would make fine Senators.

98 posted on 06/04/2016 12:18:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: faucetman

Cruz was born in 1970.

His mother and father moved to Canada in 1969.

That is not enough time for her to have attained Canadian citizenship by their requirements. Therefore, at his birth, Cruz’s mother was a US citizen, and she transferred that citizenship at birth to Ted Cruz.

That makes him eligible for the Senate. It does not necessarily make him eligible for the presidency, in my opinion, in the eyes of the Founders.


99 posted on 06/04/2016 12:23:08 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: chris37; xzins

Indeed I did. As I said, I don’t care anymore. I’m no longer interested in trying to have a conversation on the issue. FR is changing, I’ve changed and it’s probably time for me to leave.


100 posted on 06/04/2016 12:23:41 PM PDT by scripter
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