Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the bull in the China shop in the Republican Party, who has grand ambitions to be President of the United States, has taken quick action to trash his Canadian heritage, having been born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 1970.
While technically a citizen of both Canada and the US, due to his mother’s American citizenship, Cruz has now declared that he has no interest in remaining a dual citizen, because he knows that could cause him grief as he seeks to take over the Republican Party. He has already made enemies in the GOP establishment with his vicious attacks on other Republican Senators, as well as the opposition Democrats, the news media, and higher education, including his Harvard Law School background, calling the faculty there a bunch of Marxists, reminding us of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who he, ironically, greatly resembles in appearance, demeanor, and behavior!
Cruz represents the calling card of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and other malcontents,who wants to take the Republican Party to the extreme far Right, and will take no prisoners!
It is clear by his action on his Canadian citizenship that Cruz is running for President without announcing it this early, and that he will do anything and everything to destroy any GOP opponent, and at this point, his key rival seems to be Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, the son of former Congressman Ron Paul, who inherits the allegiance of many young people who see the father as a god like figure with his libertarian beliefs.
Both Paul and Cruz have the allegiance of the Tea Party Movement, but Cruz cannot be called a libertarian, and the holy war that will ensue between the two will, at this point, likely favor Cruz over Paul.
So at this point, it seems a good bet to believe that Cruz will overcome Paul and also, his fellow Cuban, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, and that he will be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2016, at age 45.
His candidacy will draw a lot of attention and controversy, and Cruz will not care how many enemies he makes on his road to being the opponent of Hillary Clinton, his most likely opponent, or any other Democrat who might emerge, including Joe Biden.
And when one looks at the Electoral College math, it is clear that Ted Cruz is likely to be the GOP Presidential nominee, but his chances of becoming our 45th President are next to zero, and that Clinton, Biden, or whoever the Democratic nominee in 2016 is, will win a landslide victory, greater in electoral votes than Barack Obama in 2012!
And part of that great Democratic victory in 2016 will likely include Texas, as the state is moving toward “Blue” status, and it is ironic that Cruz, easily elected in Texas in 2012, will help create the Democratic majority by his personality, confrontational attitude, and refusal to understand that if one insults Mexican Americans, woman, African Americans, labor supporters, environmentalists, and gays, there is no way that his party can ever win back the White House!
So after a smashing defeat, Cruz will be history as a loser, and the GOP will finally, if it has any common sense, return to the moderate mainstream center, or else it will finally be in the dustbins of history after 2016!
Well it seems clear to me who would be the best candidate for the GOP. Apparently Ted Cruz. Liberals and the establishment Republicans always let us know who they fear the most. As always it’s a conservative. I remember liberals and Rockefeller Republicans hating and bashing Reagan. Well Reagan won 2 landslide elections, something an establishment Republican has never done, nor will ever do. History just proves that. So today we see the same fear and hatred of both liberals and establishment Republicans towards Ted Cruz, or any other conservative for that matter. They are so predictable. According to their playbook, the candidate should be another northeastern “moderate” Republican, like Christie for example. For all his bravado Christie sucked up to Obama and did not have the courage to join the states in their lawsuit against the Obamacare disaster. So the story would go, Christie or any other moderate is the candidate in 2016and the Democrats (Hillary) win, as always when Republicans establishment types get their way. Notice that McCain, Graham or any other capitulating Republican is always ready to smear and insult conservatives. They have all the courage in the world when it comes to attacking conservative. Something they dare not do to liberals or Obama even.
It is clear that the Republican Party inside the beltway is happy with Obamacare and they will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop it. And the Democrats know this.
In the meantime the media as always is preparing its attacks on Ted Cruz, as they do with any clear outspoken conservative. Anyone who defends liberty , the Constitution and free markets is instantly attacked and racism is on full display. Anyone who wants to limit the power of the authoritarian unaccountable bureaucracy is attacked as racist of course! Liberals have Carte Blanche to be all the racist they can against black , Hispanic or any other minority who dares to be conservative.
Let see some examples of the liberal and the media hatred, racism and bias, shall we?
“I don’t think he should be defined as a Hispanic,†former governor Bill Richardson (D., N.M.) said in response to a question about Cruz’s view on immigration. Richardson later said his remarks were “misinterpreted.†I mean a guy who’s last name is Richardson and who says he is of Hispanic heritage is passing judgement?
“I’m shocked that he would continue to use his seat in the judiciary committee to just mislead millions of Americans and put forward a willingly ignorant position on what the Constitution says and what it does not say,†said MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, in reference to Cruz’s questioning of Senator Dianne Feinstein about her proposed ban on “assault style†weapons, which Cruz argued was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Clear example of not only media bias but an establishment Republican hating conservatives!
Then we have MSNBC agitator and nutjob Chris Matthews, who sees “echoes of Joe McCarthy†in the young lawmaker. Matthews has described Cruz as a “political terrorist†who represents “the unsmiling, contemptuous face of the wild, nasty, hard-right fringe†— a politician with a “black Irish look†that hate groups “must like.†He has even compared Cruz to Father Charles Coughlin, a noted Nazi sympathizer during the 1930s!!! So know freedom loving limited government Constitutionalists are Nazis?? Nazi! The prime example of big government statist just like the communist and all leftist! This just goes to show the ignorance of “I will have another beer” Matthews.
Of course we also have The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown equated Cruz’s limited-government views to the philosophy of the Afghan Taliban. Cruz is a “no-government conservative,†Brown said, adding:“That is what Cruz is a member of. This is the Taliban.†Typical leftist tactic, take your opponents view to the ridiculous extreme and never debate the issue.
These are the same people who instantly cry racism to almost any criticism of President Obama. Even saying he plays golf is racist according to that insane shadow of a man Matthews. But Cruz, as well as any other conservative minority is fair game for liberals. After all they are liberal and they are “entitled” to have the right to insult , hate and be racist. Because they know they will never ever be held accountable. How could they? They are liberals. This is my humble opinion.
I think his chances are zero too!
Wow, what a rant on your part, Robert, which you have the right to express, of course, but I am sorry to say that Cruz is a dangerous man, as I said in the most recent Cruz entry yesterday on this blog. He is everything that your listing of people above said he is!
Having said that, I can tell you that I fully realize he might be the GOP nominee in 2016, as he is more aggressive than even Rand Paul, and I do agree that Christie, who has personality problems as much as Cruz but in a different way, is NOT going to be the GOP nominee in 2016. So I would bet at this point that Cruz will win the nomination, and then lose in a massive landslide to any Democrat, and clean out the right wing from the GOP, and send it to a third party fringe movement, such as the Socialist Party or Green Party.
It does not matter whether Cruz, Paul, Christie or whoever is the GOP nominee, as the Democrats have the Electoral College advantage for the long term future, and if Cruz is nominated, Texas will also go “Blue”, sooner rather than later, as the Mexican Americans in Texas will tip the tide to Hillary, Joe, or whoever the Democrats run for the Presidency!
We shall see, we shall see. What is clear is what you just said about Mexican Americans is exactly the reason why Democrats want amnesty.
I think all these more moderate GOP leaving the party shows that the fringe elements are on their way to becoming a third party.
I wonder if it works Ted Cruz’s nerve in the fact that he did not wait for two more years to run for statewide office in Texas. (I’m referring to Rick Perry opting not to run for re-election for the governorship.)
Ted Cruz will not be his party’s presidential nominee in 2016. (Not unless the Republicans decide they want to be landslided so that they can, hopefully afterward, cleanse their party of trash like this junior U.S. Senator of the Lone Star State.)
D, that is exactly the point. Let’s hope that Cruz is the nominee, and the landslide against him will be monumental, as he is indeed what you said, trash! He is Joseph McCarthy in appearance, manner and image, and is truly scary, more than anyone, including Rand Paul, who is not as vicious as Cruz is. He “takes no prisoners”, and is a threat to the nation’s future were he to become President. He would make George W. Bush look like an absolute dream as a person and a President!