UPDATE: It’s official, Cruz is running. Details here.Â
Rumor has it that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will announce his run for the Presidency tomorrow at Liberty University which fits in well with his theme of the need for more liberty in our country. [read_more]It was first reported in the Houston Chronicle that Cruz will not report the forming of an ‘exploratory committee’, as Jim Webb and many others have done, but will announce he is running for President.
“Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate.”
More on the story here and here.Â
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A great speech. He actually stands for something. What exactly has Walker stood for? I know he flips and flops on amnesty and common core a lot.
Obama gave great speeches too. Look where we are…
Ted Cruz has been true to his words. Pretty pathetic to imply he is in any way similar to the liar that occupies the White House.
Obama in a red suit.
Goody. There are precious few conservatives — Mike Lee is another, but he fails the “good hair test” — who can make as strong an argument for conservative solutions and values. Anyone who believes in the importance of vigorous debate has to welcome Cruz to the ring.
LU is getting back in the game. Nice to see.
He cannot win, and he has to know it. These candidates have confused running with winning. Who cares bout’ Iowa anymore?
Let’s move on to people who may have a chance at winning.
I can’t help but wonder if megalomania is contributing to this sort of decision. He’s not likable. And while that may seem petty, it’s tremendously relevant in such a political climate.
Megalomania it must be!
If that’s true, Brian Schoeneman is in big trouble.
Wow. you really are obsessed with him.
No dear, that would be YOU who is obsessed with Brian and me.
That’s fascinating, except (a) I don’t have a Facebook page and (b) I don’t know Brian Schoeneman. Keep up your web sleuthing, you are clearly quite adept!
Yes, I am. You’re not the first person to recognize that!
Savoia di Lucania, you’ve been quite obvious. People know who you are.
Being you are so confident — tell me, who am I? Because I’m going to find whoever you say I am, drag them onto this blog, and let them assert the contrary.
Just because YOU don’t like him, does not mean he is unlikeable.
Sorry but I’ve lived through 9 presidents now. And sitting back, listening to this person, looking over his positions, observing how he relates to others, he’s simply not going to win the nomination, and certainly not the presidency.
Wow. And you call me old! Sounds like you were advising LBJ!
Didn’t you say the same thing about Dave Brat?
Hah, the default Tea Party counterargument. And how exactly is Dave Brat doing? Delivering to those folks down in southern Virginia?
He is doing great! Thanks for asking:-)
He sure did great in that Meet the Press interview where he balked on foreign affairs and couldn’t formulate a response to a question on minimum wage (note Brat has a PhD in economics). I’m looking forward to watching him and his agenda flounder…
TODD:
Let me ask you a few other issue questions. We’ve talked a lot about
immigration. Where are you on the minimum wage? Do you believe in it,
and would you raise it?
BRAT: Minimum wage, no, I’m a free market guy. Our labor markets right now are already distorted from too many regulations.
I think [the] Cato [Institute] estimates, you know, there’s $2
trillion of regulatory problems and then throw ObamaCare on top of that,
the work hours is 30 hours a week. You can only hire, you know, 50
people. There’s just distortion after distortion after distortion and we
wonder why our labor markets are broken.
TODD: So should there be a minimum wage in your opinion?
BRAT: Say it again.
TODD: Should there be a minimum wage in your opinion?
BRAT: Um, I don’t have a well-crafted response on that one. All I know
is if you take the long-run graph over 200 years of the wage rate, it
cannot differ from your nation’s productivity. Right? So you can’t make
up wage rates. Right?
I would love for everyone in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, children
of God to make $100 an hour. Right? I would love to just assert that
that would be the case. But you can’t assert that unless you raise their
productivity. And then the wage follows. You know the —
TODD: It sounds like you’re making the case against–
BRAT: — the Left sometimes just thinks you can mandate, sure —
TODD: So it sounds like you’re making a case against a federal mandated minimum wage.
BRAT: Um, I’m just making the case I just made, which is that you
cannot artificially make up wage rates, they have to be related to
productivity.
This sure seems like a response to me. You will note that the only part of that exchange that was ever reported was “Um, I don’t have a well-crafted response on that one.”… it certainly seems to be the only part you ever bothered to read.
He’s got my vote.
Oh dear God… please no.