Ted Cruz Says He's Running for President in 2016


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Republican, Texan, Hispanic, 44-year-old, two-year, Senator Ted Cruz announced he was running for President of the United States yesterday at the private, selective, Christian school of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I think Ted Cruz is super-intelligent, very ambitious, mostly principled, and rather crazy. He's a quasi-libertarian in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, but also a religious nut in the tradition of Sarah Palin. He advocates "a simple flat tax" so that we can "fill out [our] taxes on a postcard," and is committed to "repealing every word of ObamaCare." He wants to protect gun rights and promote private school vouchers. But he's opposed to abortion and gay marriage.

Cruz thinks America -- historically and currently -- is "great," "indispensable," and "a shining city on a hill." He rejects Obama's largely-successful attempt to "fundamentally transform America" into a nanny state and Big Brother of do-gooder fascism and socialism. He attacks Obama's recent immigration amnesty for 4-5 million illegal aliens as "lawless" and "unconstitutional."

Unfortunately he foolishly thinks "our rights don't come from man. They come from god almighty." Cruz says he wants to "protect us from radical Islamic terrorism" and to "call it by its name." But its name is "Islamic activism" or "jihadism."

Overall Ted Cruz seems relatively good, but Republican, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul seems better.

speech transcript: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/23/ted-cruz-announces-presidentia

speech video: http://www.c-span.org/video/?324979-1/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-announcement

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He clerked for SCOTUS Chief Justice Rehnquist. He prepared the Amicus brief in the landmark Second Amendment case D.C. vs. Heller.

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and that the last two items in the Bill of Rights offer an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[35][41]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[7][42] While at Harvard Law, he was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[21][43] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[11]

I guess we do not have to worry about seeing his grades at Harvard because he graduated from the law school magna cum laude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

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The only electable Republican will be a governor, not a US Senator and certainly not a member of the US House of Representatives.

I think the only Senators that made it were Kennedy (Dad's cash) and Obama (liberal racial guilt), this and the previous century. I also don't recall any others from the 18th century.

Oh, Cruz may have been magna cum laude, but that's no magna cum Obama. Anyway, he'd be perceived as too negative on sundry issues and policies to get in the door. So, it'll be Bush, Walker or what's his name from Texas. If Walker doesn't get it the Rep hard asses are screwed. If he does get it he'll need to be neo-conned down or it's WWIII, baby! I think it'll be Bush vs Walker. It'll be where the big money goes. Bush gets the edge. Walker is too much a wild card for the big money. Then, two unfresh names, Bush and Clinton, and Hillary with too much baggage.

What's it all mean? Bush won't start WWIII so no need to be a prepper--live and prosper, forget Washington. The shit won't really hit the fan for another decade unless it involves Iran.

--Brant

everyone is now waiting for Obama to go bye bye, hoping something else doesn't go bye bye in the meantime

2016 will be the most important election since 1912--if only the guy who had shot Roosevelt had killed him, Wilson wouldn't have been elected--my grandfather saw Roosevelt after the election on the streets of Chicago and shouted out a greeting causing Roosevelt to visibly wince--Roosevelt like Wilson was a war-loving if not war-mongering progressive who became President because McKinley, a war-mongering Republican, was shot and killed (not able to survive the ineptitude and incompetence of his doctors and all this is not to ignore how different the world would have been if Coolidge had run for re-election in 1928 instead of retiring out of grief for the loss of his son who died from a simple infection in the age just before antibiotics)

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The New Yorker magazine (Nov. 19, 2012) hopefully states that: "In high school, Ted became involved with a group known as the Free Market Education Foundation, which introduced him to the writings of conservative economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat, and Ludwig von Mises." Cruz is also a friend of the Republican Liberty Caucus and the Tea Party. And he once called Ayn Rand "one of my all time heroes."

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The New Yorker magazine (Nov. 19, 2012) hopefully states that: "In high school, Ted became involved with a group known as the Free Market Education Foundation, which introduced him to the writings of conservative economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat, and Ludwig von Mises." Cruz is also a friend of the Republican Liberty Caucus and the Tea Party. And he once called Ayn Rand "one of my all time heroes."

Kyrel: Thanks for the info on the Rand quote.

The rest is accurate.

“One of my all time heroes, Ayn Rand, in Atlas Shrugged described how the parasitical class would put into place arbitrary power. Standard-less rules precisely so the productive citizens in the private sector would have to come on bended knee to those in government seeking special dispensation, seeking special favors because that arbitrary and standard-less rule empowers the political class and disempowers the people. I couldn’t help but think about Ayn Rand’s observations.”

Hate to be picky, however "heroines" would have worked better...ya know, the Republican War On Women!!

In this same article, Ted explains

Referring to a hearing earlier that day, in which Eric Holder was grilled on whether or not it would be constitutional for the federal government to kill US citizens on US soil, Cruz found himself “thinking of those arbitrary standards Ayn Rand talked about. That if the only protection we the people have against the federal government choosing to take the life of a US citizen on US soil is our trust that they would refrain from doing what is inappropriate rather than the protections of the constitution then I would suggest that our liberty is fragile, indeed.”

http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2013/03/08/sen-ted-cruz-takes-ayn-rand-washington

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we should have a libertarian-randian-tea party caucus in Congress

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I am amazed at what I ran into with that Cruz Rand search:

This is from his book called - Ayn Nation Under God:

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In regards to Cruz, the author explains that:

And, after some filibustering that wasn’t actually a filibuster, Senator Cruz tipped his hand, quote:
“I want to point to some more excerpts from Ayn Rand that I think are relevant to the battle before this body. First, from ‘Atlas Shrugged:’ [sic] We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. . . . We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties…” [Congressional Record Vol. 159 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 No. 127—Part II, page 57.]

He goes on, quoting from Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead to justify his notion, “on another level, we are facing an assault on liberty,” Ayn Rand’s notion of “freedom”—that the “men of the mind” are impeded by the ‘parasites’ and ‘moochers,’ and ought to be swept away by, essentially, Social Darwinism, et al, etcetera. The so-called “free market” that produced 1930s Gangland Chicago.*

[* You know: more or less what we’ve got now.]

But there is something monstrous in this, and it’s not as easy to articulate as you might think. The Ayn Rand types, the “Libertarian” True Believers have their rap down as pat as any Jehovah’s Witness that ever knocked on a suburban door on a Saturday morning….

Interesting...

https://hisvorpal.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/ted-cruz-and-ayn-rand/

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Adam,

What a character.

This is a progressive Kool-Aid drinker par excellence.

Here's the link to his Kindle book on Ayn Rand: Ayn Nation Under God.

He'll give you real reality, too. Don't believe me? He'll tell you himself. Just read his most recently published Kindle book: Reality 101 - Political Self Defense for Progressives.

I tried to find out what he looks like.

From his blog:

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:smile:

Michael

(btw - Go Ted Cruz. I will support him strongly if he gets the nomination.)

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Kyrel writes:

Unfortunately he foolishly thinks "our rights don't come from man. They come from god almighty."

Gee... that idea was good enough for the "foolish" men who founded this nation. :laugh:

It only seems unfortunate for the leftists who believe that rights come from the government.

Cruz says he wants to "protect us from radical Islamic terrorism" and to "call it by its name."

...because that's what it truly is.

But its name is "Islamic activism" or "jihadism."

Only to politically correct leftists who continually softpeddle Islamic fascism because they're allied with them against America. They're the same stupid ninnies who call the Fort Hood massacre "workplace violence".

Just to refresh your memory... that's where Nidal Hassan murdered 13 Americans and wounded another 29 while yelling "allahu akbar!".

Workplace violence my ass.

You will never defeat an enemy you are too scared to name.

Greg

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You will never defeat an enemy you are too scared to name.

Exactly. Too scared and too philosophically ignorant to correctly name. The enemy is Muslims. Especially the activists and jihadis. Most of these "terrorists" don't engage in much terrorism. They engage in soldiering and military service, like with ISIS. To call the fighters "radicals" or "fundamentalists" or "militants" grants a huge moral sanction to our evil enemy: the Muslims.

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You will never defeat an enemy you are too scared to name.

Exactly. Too scared and too philosophically ignorant to correctly name. The enemy is Muslims. Especially the activists and jihadis. Most of these "terrorists" don't engage in much terrorism. They engage in soldiering and military service, like with ISIS. To call the fighters "radicals" or "fundamentalists" or "militants" grants a huge moral sanction to our evil enemy: the Muslims.

They're fascist Islamists. The Muslim religion is quite inert. So too is any philosophy or religion. There are also fascist Christians and fascist secularists. Whatever we call them or whatever they call themselves. It's fascism's manifestations that need to be fought. While fascist is more basic and universal than Islamist or Muslim, it's the evil Muslims that need to be fought not the plus 1.2 billion Muslims who aren't evil. If you go fight them the fascists get to hide and you'll never root them out.

Fascism is not an ideology, it's initiation of force off a geo-political base. There's a lot of de facto fascism right here at home. In this parlance ideological fascism as in Italy 90 years ago is fascist Fascism since that's what the fascists called their ideology. Hence this awkward semantical jumble by me.

--Brant

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  • 5 weeks later...

Apparently, if you are a key person in the homosexual "community" and you dare to meet with Senator Cruz, you will suffer economically from your friends in the "community."

These folks are so very Stalinist in behavior.

HELL'S KITCHEN — The owners of gay hotel and wedding spot The OUT sparked outrage and a boycott after meeting with Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz Monday.

Co-owners Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, who also own a large stake in gay beach resort the Fire Island Pines, faced mounting criticism both online and from hotel clients after the meeting.

AIDS charity Broadway Cares canceled a May 10 event set to be held at the hotel's club, 42 West, because of the meeting, they said in a release.

"We cannot in good conscience hold an event at a venue whose owners have alienated our community," they said in a statement.

A Facebook campaign boycotting the pair's properties had garnered over 4,500 supporters by Friday, and called the meeting with Cruz "a devastating blow to the community."

This behavior is insane.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150424/hells-kitchen-clinton/owners-of-gay-hotel-face-boycott-ted-cruz-meeting-with-ted-cruz

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Apparently, if you are a key person in the homosexual "community" and you dare to meet with Senator Cruz, you will suffer economically from your friends in the "community."

These folks are so very Stalinist in behavior.

HELL'S KITCHEN — The owners of gay hotel and wedding spot The OUT sparked outrage and a boycott after meeting with Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz Monday.

Co-owners Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, who also own a large stake in gay beach resort the Fire Island Pines, faced mounting criticism both online and from hotel clients after the meeting.

AIDS charity Broadway Cares canceled a May 10 event set to be held at the hotel's club, 42 West, because of the meeting, they said in a release.

"We cannot in good conscience hold an event at a venue whose owners have alienated our community," they said in a statement.

A Facebook campaign boycotting the pair's properties had garnered over 4,500 supporters by Friday, and called the meeting with Cruz "a devastating blow to the community."

This behavior is insane.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150424/hells-kitchen-clinton/owners-of-gay-hotel-face-boycott-ted-cruz-meeting-with-ted-cruz

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Yes it is, Adam.

It's the feminized insanity of the left.

Greg

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Hey Greg. Maybe the Left should get a sex change and become a macho bully transgender Left.

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Hey Greg. Maybe the Left should get a sex change and become a macho bully transgender Left.

Eric "The Hatchet Man" Holder, in his farewell speech leaving his Department of Injustice [Levin], stated that,

Warning try not to laugh hysterically...

the rights of the LGBT community is:

...the civil rights issue of our time.

And if anyone wishes to recall that he is in contempt of Congress...funny how that has no relevancy or meaning today.

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How many folks who heard Ted speak about the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were able to understand the distinction that he was making?

I know I had to struggle to some old places in my history mind to even have comfortable understanding.

This lady is very impressive:

About the Author
Sarah P. Condor-Fisher, Ph.D., Esq., LL.M. grew up in communist Czechoslovakia. When she was 17, she was apprehended crossing the border, cross-interrogated by the Secret Police (KGB) and jailed. She studied MA in philosophy at University College London, she holds BA and MA in English and Ph.D. in American Literature and Literary Criticism. She is also a practicing California attorney with her own law firm. Dr. Condor-Fisher published over 50 books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She is also a former Olympic swimmer, Miss World and Miss USA in natural bodybuilding (INBA).

http://politichicks.com/2015/11/why-cruz-mentioning-bolsheviks-and-mensheviks-is-relevant/

In the third presidential debate in Bolder, Colorado, Sen. Ted Cruz compared Hillary Clinton to Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks (Russian: “bolshoi” = “of the majority”) were the mainstream communists who arose as the Social Democratic Party of Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently, when the inner party struggle began about how to change the system, whether by a violent revolution or a natural transition, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party (of Soviet Union), because their end was immediate socialism (ultimately communism) achieved by a revolution (October 1917).

And,

Mensheviks, although Orthodox Marxists, were a minority (Russian: “menshoi” = “smaller”).

She explains that:

Sen. Cruz compared Sanders to Mensheviks because 1) Sanders is more orthodox than Clinton, and 2) Sanders believes in a gradual change from within (Alinsky’s strategy). Mensheviks believed that socialism could not be achieved in Russia due to its economic backwardness and that Russia would first have to go through a “capitalist stage” of development.

She was educated in Czechoslovakia and in a very Ayn way was apprehended trying to cross the border at the age of 17:

During my junior high school years, we were indoctrinated into the idea of communism as the final, most wonderful stage of social development: Lenin was a genius because he made it happen! Marx was a genius because he materialized Hegel’s theoretical dialectic and phenomenology, or knowledge of the “spirit/idea” rather than simply material conditions. Hegel had revolted against Descartes, Hume, Locke, Kant – the philosophers of epistemological approach, who are indirect authors of our Bill of Rights (they preceded Hegel and our Founding Fathers built on them). They also follow the line of strict moral education and family values based on duty, obligation, and punishment for failure. As a result of Hegelian-Marxist influence and political correctness, this moral credo has become increasing blurred in our society.

This paragraph floored me:

Hegel’s philosophical breakthrough is sometimes referred to as a “mythical encounter” of two conscious beings who, in order to absorb the other’s consciousness, must be self-conscious first. The ultimate goal here is that of merging conscious beings. Modern-day socialists translated this into the sphere of community organizing, seeing that even the self-conscious Bolsheviks had to merge with the Mensheviks in order to achieve their common ultimate goal. In Hegelian language, this goal would be defined as uniting individuals into a crowd of followers of a certain idea (“phenomenon”). This is what Sanders did when he passed the torch to Clinton in the last Democrat debate, thus uniting the two factions of the Party.

She then expanded her thoughts.

Madison (in Federalist 10) based his argument on the fact that the United States will be a large country governed by representative democracy. Only in the direct democracy can factions prevail, says Madison. Our political system has thus built-in precautions against being overtaken by a faction. A combination of direct and representative vote (Congress is voted directly, Presidential elections consist of popular and electorate votes), the system of checks and balances (adopted from Montesquieu) and Constitutional emphasis on the rights for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (taken from Locke, who emphasizes that happiness is derived from property acquired by labor).

This is a fine mind:

The problem with factions is fundamentally ethical and moral. All our actions are based on self-interest and self-love. Without self-interest and self-love we can neither interest the others nor love another, because we are emotionally empty. Only an emotionally fulfilled person can be moral. When an individual gives away his or her identity, passes it onto a crowd, their individual self-consciousness is minimized, negated, abolished. Their self-love is taken away along with their self-consciousness, which becomes (in Hegelian terms) a mere “phenomenon” – a “geist” or spirit used by Marxists to further the interests of the crowd.

Let's see if Evita is asked about this charming piece of "secreting" her actual thoughts, you know the way they quote The Donald from 15 years ago...

In 1969, Hillary Rodham spent one year interviewing Saul Alinsky and wrote a 92-page senior thesis on him. In 1993, White House requested that the thesis be sealed. Only a few facts are available, indicating that she was not in full agreement with Alinsky at the time it was written because Alinsky’s “power/conflict model” was “inapplicable” and “anachronistic.” She must have conducted serious Marxist-Leninist research into the subject to receive an “A” and be widely praised for the thesis by her professors. Nonetheless, we may only surmise at what she thinks about the subject now. Cruz’s remark about Bolsheviks and Mensheviks may have rung a bell…

In conclusion, she thanks the Senator...

For us, it is important to realize that this fairly innocuous “by the way” allusion has historical implications which date back almost exactly 100 years. Only now, it is the United States, not Soviet Union, which faces the dangers of factions. I have no doubt that our system, the strongest in the world, built on minds that preceded and still overshadow such great philosophers as Hegel, Husserl, and Marx, will only become stronger by going through a crisis. Let us not forget that Russia was a feudal country ruled by a Czar, drowning in corruption, without any Bill of Rights or written Constitution at the time of its collapse… Nonetheless, thank you, Senator Cruz, for reminding us of history. It is never too late to learn more and become better!

I still think Cruz would be an excellent VP for The Donald...

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In 1969, Hillary Rodham spent one year interviewing Saul Alinsky and wrote a 92-page senior thesis on him.


Saul Alinsky interview, Playboy 1972:

ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I've been with the have-nots. Over here, if you're a have-not, you're short of dough. If you're a have-not in hell, you're short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.

PLAYBOY: Why them?

ALINSKY: They're my kind of people.


From the dedication of Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals":
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."


Good blog on Alinsky's affinity for Hell and the Devil:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/obama_alinksy_and_the_devil.html#ixzz3qNpQyAse

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This gives Cruz a boost and helps his ground game for caucus day...

King said he made his decision after a Friday visit to Europe, where, "I saw the erosion of the culture ... because of the colossal cultural suicide they're committing," ABC News reports.

"Our nation is sick and getting sicker," King said in a press release, stating that the unity of America has been ripped apart by the Obama administration over the past seven years, Breitbart reports.

"We need a president who is pro-life, pro-marriage, a constitutional originalist, who will make judicial appointments of judges to the Supreme Court and all federal courts who believe the Constitution means what is says and means what it was understood to mean when ratified," King said in the release.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/steve-king-ted-cruz-endorsement-gop/2015/11/16/id/702382/?ns_mail_uid=6735229&ns_mail_job=1643401_11162015&s=al&dkt_nbr=mygusxlu

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This was not smart...it came across as petty...and The Donald slammed a passing shot for a winner with this backhand...

Trump offered a more measured response to rival Ted Cruz. According to the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, Trump and the Texas senator are effectively tied at 22 percent and 25 percent, respectively. Cruz attacked Trump on Wednesday, saying he “embodies New York values.” That slight did not sit well.

“When you want to knock New York, you've got to go through me. New York is an amazing place with amazing people,” Trump said. “We took a big hit with the World Trade Center—worst thing ever, worst attack ever in the United States, worse than Pearl Harbor because they attacked civilians, they attacked people having breakfast and frankly if you would've been there and if you would've lived through that like I did with New York people—the way they handled that attack was one of the most incredible things that anybody has ever seen.”

Yep and as Bogart told Major Strasser, there were a few neighborhoods his Nazi's should avoid when they try to take NY.

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