… TEXAS SENATOR LAUNCHING PRESIDENTIAL BID THIS WEEK
|| By FITSNEWS || One of our favorite lines from the movie Spaceballs was when the evil Lord Dark Helmet – portrayed by Rick Moranis – chides his subordinate Colonel Sandurz for always “preparing.”
“What are you preparing? You’re always preparing!” he says. “Just go!”
We’re not sure if U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has seen Spaceballs, but he’s certainly taking a page out of its script …
Cruz will skip over the whole “preparing” to run for president thing … formally announcing his candidacy for the highest office in the land on Monday. No exploratory committee. No “testing the waters.” No “preparing to go.” Just going …
Cruz will make his announcement at Liberty University – a Christian college based in Lynchburg, Virginia. In announcing his intentions, Cruz gets a two-week jump on U.S. Senator Rand Paul – who is kicking off his campaign on April 7 in Louisville, Kentucky.
What do we think of Cruz? Well, there’s a lot about him to like … in fact, like Paul, he’s one of the few candidates vying for the 2016 “Republican” presidential nomination whom we believe actually deserves your consideration. And while Cruz (like Paul) is currently polling in single digits in early-voting states like Iowa and South Carolina, we’ve written previously on how he has a clear path to victory in the Palmetto State.
Assuming he has the resources …
On that count, Cruz’s team is confident – telling The Houston Chronicle his campaign “will aim to raise between $40 million and $50 million” during the GOP primary.
“The key to victory, Cruz advisers believe, is to be the second choice of enough voters in the party’s libertarian and social conservative wings to cobble together a coalition to defeat the chosen candidate of the Republican establishment,” Theodore Schleifer of the Chronicle reported.
Interesting calculus …
Obviously Paul has a head start (and a famous last name) on Cruz when it comes to courting libertarian leaners – and Cruz will have to battle former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum for evangelical voters.
But if he can raise the sort of money his aides seem to think he can … the path is there.
UPDATE: Here’s Cruz’s official launch video, released shortly after midnight on Monday via Twitter …
I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015
94 comments
His problem is that he is a US Senator. Obama was in the US Senate. Because of that, people will not make the same mistake of electing a senator… Obama has so sullied and disgraced the senate-dweller-to-president model…
Cruz is GREAT…but it’s likely people will demand a governor, who has shown success, as the next president.
The country is in such a mess…we’ll need an executive, w/ thick skin, and the guts to spit in the face of the media, and the Democrat jackals, who will hate him for loving America…Cruz can stand up against the country’s enemies from within…but the Senate is a liability….when we cannot afford any…
No, the problem is he will make the announcement from Liberty University. This fuckhead is DOA. Endorse him now and put him out of his misery.
Your candidate is Hillary (LMAO) or the party will be ripped apart if she is denied again, after selling her soul to you….
At least the GOP has choices…Dumb@$$…
Choices? Ahahahahahahahaha!!!
Actually: I hope you are right. I hope the GOP picks the Winner early …and does not waste time…
I think a lot of people know they look like IDIOTS now because my advice was not taken pre-election 2012…
Instead, We got 4 more years of the Obama Disaster because so many of you belied the media and the Democrat lies.
I know you have to feel ignorant about that, unless you are the Dumbest Mother-F*#ker on the face of the earth…
Incorrect once again, asshat. I am hoping it’s Jeb, just to see your head explode. But it is funny to see how scared you are of her…you mention her on an hourly basis. Obsess much? Don’t worry your pretty little tin foil head over her. She won’t even post. If there is anything to LMAO about, it’s you think Ben Carson is a viable candidate. No wonder your blog failed. Choices…you don’t believe in choice. HAHAHAHAHA!
You sound like a carping little high school freshman sissy. LMAO….Your WHOLE political existence is attached to how it relates to me…
How old are you, 12????…
I unfortunately am attached to you in one way…I favor Scott Walker. And that scares me.. And it doesn’t matter what age I am…your blog failure is funny to every age demographic there is! HA!
You hate Republicans more than you fear what Obama is doing to this country…it’s idiots like you who are leading us to ruin…
I’d rather you stick w/ the stupid $#!t you’ve been clinging to, than to denounce Obama now, after he’s ruined the country…
I told you he is a F*#k up…we don’t need you now…so Get lost, @$$hole….Hillary will be glad to have you…That’s where you belong…
I’ve got it figured out. I know why you hate the economic growth that Barry is bringing us? Just how much gold did you buy nuckle head. The only way you can even get close to breaking even now is for a new depression to raise the price of gold. Else I guess you’re out about what, $50K. Obama sucks because of your poor choices. Ha!!!!
Hey Fuckhead, if I happened to be 12, I wouldn’t be a high school freshman.
Suffice it to say you remind me of Pee Wee Herman..LMAO…Except I don’t you’re trying to play a Dumb@$$…
PS: Still want to FIRE Spurrier and keep Lo???…Idiot…Hahahaha..
either way the US’s decline will continue. Cruz cannot muster a political majority of voters. Once the military superiority is history due to continuous science & technology funding cuts a lot of nations including former allies will paly “pay back time” – America no longer has the stuff it takes to be a global leader or keep its own ‘way of life’ alive…Clinton will continue to appeal to ‘identity politics’, women, liberals who believe the last decade is only a little nightmare that will pass. Another experiment in history failed become “We the people” became too complacent and gave up what really matters: values and ethics. Cruz or not these issues cannot be be solved by Cruz, Bush or any other politician – Admiral Stockdale anyone?
I keep hoping and praying you are wrong , but it is looking less and less likely. I never would have thought my beloved country could do the things it has done in the last six years , but it has.
We’ve endured a Civil War…bro…
My god, what the heck has this country done in the last 6 years you find so repulsive. Can’t imagine? Really?. I mean we enslaved hundreds of thousands black people for the first hundred years of the nations existence, we slaughtered hundreds of thousands of native Americans and took their land; we refused to allow women the right to vote for the first 140 years of the country’s existence; we segregated and refused to educate minorities until the 1960s. We refused to grant asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi’s prior to our entry into WWII.
But somehow, we have done things in the last six years you can’t imagine “your” country doing. I think I know what thats is. Electing a n$%%^# President. Why don’t you just come out and say it.
Has nothing to do with skin color. I was one of the early supporters of Condi. Rice, would gladly support Ben Carson, or Herman Cain . The last six years have seen the “fundamental change ” of our once great country into the startings of a third world banana dictatorship “led” by a Muslim communist who “leads from behind” thereby leaving the world without American leadership position. Our debt has skyrocketed while our wage earners have been saddled with losses of jobs and more of their incomes taken by a totally wrong health care scheme. That doesn’t even get to the sell out of Israel and the embracing of every Islamic radical that shows up. We left Iraq to the radicals for political reasons that will bite US on the butt before long. We are leaving Afghanistan to the wolves after the many American military killed and wounded. (wasted)
It was so good to hear Ted Cruz lay out his ideas that were so reminiscent of Reagan.
Same stuff Barry and his Right Wing extremist fruit cakes were mouthing off back then.
That was Fifty years ago.We’re still here and will be for the foreseeable future ,you and this kook Cruzs failure to give the country away to your wealthy owners notwithstanding.
The British Monarchy, Democrat Slaveholders, Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, and Tojo, Bin Laden and Obama have all thought the way you think about the American people…
They all eventually got served by reality…
The Eqyptians, Romans and Nazis all sounded like you…chirpy cheer leader speeches in the face of a not so flattering reality is not a good strategy. America is weakening internally and as a global power. There is no sign of anything changing. There comes a point of no-return.
If I were made of the stuff you’re made of…I’d likely feel the same way…
You are an idiot. We spend more on our military than the next three largest nations combined, but somehow we are not keeping up. We are not spending enough? How is that countries who spend a third of what we do are suddenly pulling ahead? Why don’t you go back your basement and watch Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck all day. They obviously provide all the information you want anyway.
I have to agree GT. I have been looking more and more at Scott Walker. My preference is Cruz but Walker has a proven track record of success against unions and those that have attacked him. He won a recall election with more votes than in the original election. I heard him in Cola and was very impressed. It has gotten much harder to impress me lately.
Well said, R.E.
I wish I would’ve seen Walker in Columbia. I saw Cruz a week ago, and was really impressed. He is a very deliberate and determined man. Not easily spooked.
I saw Jeb at Sistercare, and viewed him (and Haley) as doing nothing but pandering to a liberal crusade de-jour…Jeb is a lightweight compared to Cruz or Walker…..
And if Rand Paul would distance himself from some of the Kooks his father attracts, and stands up for America’s right to defend itself and its allies, he could be strong…but he has that albatross Obama has hung around the neck of anybody from the Senate….
That said: I’m sure I’ll get my chance to see Walker many times.
“I have to agree GT.” The low information voter speaks.
vicious people like you are what is destroying America
No, DUMB-@$$#$ like you are a F*#king Disgrace…
The opposition to Evil and Corruption has not been viscous at all…So you’ve roamed free, and damaged us SEVERELY…
And it was just luck that nuclear weapon didn’t detonate in Charleston Harbor a few months back, and then Obama fired all the Generals, and he’s a communist and only Cruz is standing up to him. Ha, ha, ha!!!!! GT’s sister’s questions to Sanitorium.
He would be an excellent GOP candidate for POTUS. He is the whole GOP ball of wax rolled up into one easy to define creature. That man has the Santorium all over him. Wait a sec..im picturing the perfect duo ….i see his VP choice now…go Teddy!
Try again…your visuals are like, so 2012, and utterly banal…
The American people would not put this idiot in the white house if he were running against a bucket of hair.
Hmmm…nice visual….with or without the fake Greek columns?
The American people, generally speaking, are idiots. Why would it surprise you that an idiot was elected by idiots?
If your own favorites for the Republican nomination are polling in the single digits, perhaps it’s time to reassess your position.
Barry Goldwater redux
The Democrats Dream Candidate
This guy is a joke, it is quite sad the republican party has so few, if any, decent presidential candidates.
Too bad that he isn’t as polished as Biden…ha…ha…ha…
Great…another guy running for President who is foreign born.
O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/20/ted-cruz-born-canada-eligible-run-president/
Closer and more Western than Kenya…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0zkQ9mbWc …
Load up the clown car.
No Administration can generate more laughs and tears than our present…
Yes, but can she feel anything?
Senator McCarthy returns…..
You mean AL “Punish the climate change deniers” Gore, right?
No, I mean Senator McCarthy. The guy even looks just like him. Fortunately, the current 24/7 media scrutiny, except for Faux News, will show the “mold” growth to be sanitized for the health of the country.
What would simple minded dyed in the wool liberals do if they didn’t have Fox to browbeat?
Cruz is right on the issues, but I don’t believe he can persuade the American people of that.
1. He has got a hard edge that turns people, especially women, off.
2. Another Texan.
3. Another Freshman Senator.
4. Born in Canada.
But they just loved Romney…and his conciliatory demeanor…And that worked out real well…NOT…
You’re repeating the Democrat Talking Points, because they are SCARED to Death of Cruz.
He has all the right tools, but Obama so damaged the the idea that a US Senator has the credentials, Cruz will suffer because of that…We’ll get THE MOST Anti-Obama President possible…
But Cruz is GREAT, otherwise..
I like his stances on a bunch of issues, but between the above and the fact his wife works for Goldman-Sachs the media will have a field day with him.
The cozy relationship with Goldman Sacks Of It has been very, very good to Oh Bummer. Two secretaries of treasury and two fed chair-personages plus several boatloads of campaign cash.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0zkQ9mbWc
… And That bit about women? Did you ask any Texas women?
“4. Born in Canada.”
So what. Obama was born in Kenya and McCain in the Panama Canal.
The Constitution is a joke anymore anyway.
Instead of elections, we should have a winner take all death match to see who’s the next president.
Cruz is campaigning as “the second-best choice?” Why doesn’t he just stick his head in a stump grinder?
The Democrats and media who HATE him for being Pro-American, will do that for him…
But is HE an American? Better get Donald Trump to do some research.
I’m sure he does not give a F*#k what you think…but if the media can take him down that way…they D*#n sure will give it their best shot…You people are FILTHY, if nothing else…
“I’m sure he does not give a F*#k what you think…” And we will guess with that retort that you would never make it as a lawyer. So, not a lawyer, failed blogger…what else is on that resume? LMAO
He was born in Canada. He is a canuck
Seems like he’s trying to get the Presidency via the back door. He seems like a back door man–and not the one in the house.
Any candidate that does not ATTACK Obama and the damage he has done Viciously…need not even try…
That eliminates Christie, Jeb, and FITS-fav Johnson…Romney already figured it out…
The people want this Horrible 8-year Nightmare over. And any Republican w/ a chance MUST identify Obama for the Disaster he is, and point out all the bad decisions he has made…or we’ll just keep spiraling downward…
He sounds just like you:
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Friday it was a “disgrace” for President Obama to allow a disagreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear program to overshadow ties between the two nations, and said the episode has eroded America’s world standing.
“What does this moment say to our allies and to our enemies around the world?” Christie asked about 600 members of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, Fla., during a keynote address at its annual Lincoln Day Dinner. “There is a severe price to pay when our president demonstrates openly on the world stage that our relationship with our allies is fractured and that we do not have the ability to influence thinking privately.”
But when it counted, Christie sucked off Obama…He killed his chances when he did that…He’s TOAST…
Was there a time other than Hurricane Sandy you are referring to? Because if you expected him to act like that dried out prune in Arizona when Obama visited after the storm, you are dumb and don’t know much about how to govern. I hope you love the recent pic of Haley and the president, but even money says you are one of the racists who posted on her FB page.
A$$-kissing, conceding moderates lost in 08 and 12 to a VERY poor opponent in Obama…
You had your shot, and took the gas-pipe…suck it up…and support a winner. We cannot afford anymore failure in this country…or w/ the GOP nominee…Christie is an obnoxious, Fat-@$$ chameleon…
I thought you liked Christie because of his stance on immigration. I know you support Jeb and his immigration stance.
Maybe if you worried about the F*#king mess Obama has made…you would not be so scared of the candidate I pick…
“We’re Number TWO!!”
What a cheer.
Yep DOA. Extreme candidates like this will only hurt the eventual mainstream GOP candidate. Announcing at Liberty stupid. Just playing to a simple minded base.
The ” mainstream GOP” candidate was nominated in ’08 and ’12….and lost to the absolute WORST president since Jimmy Carter…
You seem to forget the “extreme” backlash against Obama on Nov. 4, and in Israel, just last week…
The media makes liberals believe that you are a H#!! of a lot more popular than you are…but voters are SCREAMING out against the TOTAL F*#king mess you’ve made…We WANT YOU GONE from the House, the Senate and the White House…so we can begin to clean up the Obama disaster…
Awww you think that the majority of voters would elect someone like Cruz or that he would make a good President. Go ahead send your money, make some phone calls of support and pontificate away.
There’s plenty of time for the GOP to pick the right candidate…Cruz, or whoever it is…has a GIGANTIC mess to clean up….
I’ll leave the fear and pontificating to those Democrats scared to death Obama has killed their party for the next 8 years…
Will be interesting to see indeed.
Announcing at Liberty stupid?
If you realize the small percentage of voters that participate in Republican primaries, it is not such a bad idea. You’ve got to win the Iowa caucus and the primaries (the nomination first). Think about it, Charleston chew. Cruz is not trying to get your vote. Now that would really be stupid.
“Just playing to a simple minded base.”
Whether simple minded or not, appealing to the base is a smart move in a large field of candidates.
Hillary doesn’t have to a base because she has no primary opposition. That’s why many liberals are dissatisfied with her.
Interesting. I do agree that due to the small number of people voting in the primaries might make this a good idea, as it was with those who liked Michelle Bachman.
However, in the long run, the success of an extreme politician like this will only do the republicans harm in the long run. Cruz is not able to get elected in a national election. He is a distraction.
Announcing at Liberty does put him at a greater chance of early caucus success. However, it won’t help him with the White House.
But, if Cruz gets the nomination and loses at a worse than Goldwater number, it may – may – finally get through to the Christian Conservatives/TEA Partiers that they are no more than 30% of the population and that is a minority anywhere and everywhere except Fox ‘News’.
But, if he loses, they will also say – with Murdoch/Fox ginning it up – that there has been some kind of massive voter fraud. And, those 3.5 million Fox viewers will buy it.
And, it won’t harm the party in the long run. It will allow the party to end the psychosis that started eating away at it when Newt Gingrich became Speaker and took full control the day Barack Obama took the oath of office. The GOP will be able to once again become a real political party rather than an overgrown tent revival.
Yeah, huge mess. Unisured rates dropping across the country (except for the five pillar confederacy states and Texas), unemployment down to 5.6%, gas at $2.25, all time energy production, manufacturing is at an all time high, mortgage rates are good, property values stablized. Horrible. Simply Horrible. But hey, let’s go back to 2007/2008 – that was fun.
Did the DNC dock your pay for not spreading your ignorant Obama propaganda Bull-S#!t over the weekend?
Hate facts much – moron!!!
No I hate LIES by Dangerous people, like you….
Calling facts “talking points” does not make them any less true.
Idiots define myths as facts…you’re a F*#king idiot…
All this just to see who is going to lose to Hillary?
I understand that there is a new study underway to measure the average number of comments to a FITS News article before they turn into personal attacks on the commenters, off-topic remarks, and semi-censored swear words by GT. Stay tuned. It will break first here on FITS News in an exclusive.
It’s not just GT. It’s the people who respond to him…as if they still have not figured out after all these years that he/she/it is an professional troll.
It’s insane. You can see a story with 40+ comments and when you look over half of the comments are people deluding themselves that they can have a rational conversations with he/she/it and his/her/its responses.
Another Joe McCarthy
Ted Cruz is a fundamentalist Christian theocrat.
No one can be a fundamentalist Christian theocrat and truly believe in the form of democratic republic established by our Founders in our Constitution.
oh boy another social conservative. just the kind of republican that pulls votes from moderates and young republicans. Hope yall enjoy hillary
And Jindal is out. A read of his failures sounds a lot like a) a result of “free-market” and libertarian voodoo economics, and 2) SC’s future
“We have some of the nation’s highest poverty and worst health outcomes and you’ve done little to address them. Baton Rouge, your hometown, has the nation’s second-highest H.I.V. rate (New Orleans is fourth), but you’ve done nothing to address that crisis. What you have done is hollow out higher education and inject needless confusion and rancor into the state’s elementary and secondary education system. Meanwhile, the state’s health care system is a fractured, dysfunctional mess under your privatization schemes. Now, you’ve outsourced the state’s tax policy to Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.”
There was a free market somewhere in LA?
He was born in CANADA. Can’t run for POTUS.
Wel with Cruz running for the nomination – nothing will get done now in the Congress – he’ll block everything. He’ll kill his party, for his own grandure. Great guy. If you like assholes.
I’m not voting for that Cuban-Canadian sonofabitch.
He’s just doing it to get Secret Service protection from John Boehner. He runs his mouth too much about Boehner caved on amnesty for illegal immigrants that it pisses of the donors.