The Curious Case of Ted Cruz and Jose Medellin

Well all political candidates have received money from Super PAC's to date...including Trump, so I don't even understand why that's an issue.

Cruz is an actual Republican, and they acknowledged he was their best chance to beat the Johnny-Come-Lately pseudo-republican Trump. Cruz has been a long time Republican, but he's also been a thorn in their side, first as Texas Solicitor General, then from his Senate seat.

Nothing I've seen in his votes in the Senate, or his positions indicates anything is about to change in his ideology...unlike Trump who changes his ideology every time he goes on TV...

Forget the labels "Republican" and "Democrat". The republican party is going against the wishes of their own people. If the people want Trump, the GOP needs to shut the fuck up and give the people Trump. Instead they've been constantly talking shit on the guy and making up rules as they go to keep Trump out. So fuck the GOP.

The best possible candidate would have conservative views on some issues and progressive views on others. It's called balance.

Here you go ^^^^^

It's just way too much about "parties". Sick of it, myself.

Oh please...Cruz is the only one who is claiming to be an "outsider" while being just the opposite.

I guess Cruz paying off Walker's campaign debt in return for Walker's endorsement doesn't bother you either? How about Cruz's former roommates saying that Cruz will be whatever you want him to be just to be elected?

No?

Maybe you should listen to these guys:



I will leave you with this...right now in this country we do NOT need another freakin' lawyer even one who has memorized the Constitution, we need a CEO who will kick ass and take names. This country is in very bad shape and the last thing we need is another demagogue who thinks that his short, practically non-existent resume makes him qualified to take on this bloated, corrupt mess in Washington.

We need a doer and not a talker with a screechy voice...

You stay with the guy who has convinced himself that G-d wants Ted Cruz to be president and I will answer and repeat what I read a few days ago..."If G-d wanted Ted Cruz to be president of the United States then He would have made sure that Cruz was born here".

Yeah, but she's 1 out of 45, and she was much more active as a "Partner" almost in Bill's campaign. They even said she was going to have a big policy role. Since then Laura and Michelle have gone back to pet social issues. There's no indication yet out of the Cruz camp that Heidi is going to have a major policy role like Hillary did.

You skirted the point. Again, she set the precedent. A Presidential spouse riding coattails, receiving eight years' worth of free, high profile exposure, from there climbing on up the ladder to mount the biggest horse in the nation. It clearly was the plan from the get-go. Should we think such a thing could never happen again?

How come Trump didn't run independent then?!?!?

ST I know what you are doing here. A troll research project for the establishment. I know from the past you are a smart man so stop dumbing it down. I would love to be a bankrupt billionaire failure like Trump. Lol. You have to try better than that. I predict Cruz will self destruct this week.Too slimy and fake. skeletons are coming out of the closet on this phoney.

My guess is because there is at this time no viable infrastructure, at least at the national level, for an independent candidate.

So he really has no relationship with the party, no affinity for it's platform, and no care as to how this effects actual Conservatives seeking office going forward. It's a smash and grab...

Well I'm not partial to the two party system either, but you don't destroy that by running within it. All that tells me is that Trump is either a sell-out, or a democratic plant...

He had the money and wherewithal to form a viable third party, instead all he's done is set back those of us in the Tea Party who were actually trying to take the Republican's back to actual conservative constitutional ideals. If he fails to destroy the GOPe, then he's just made them stronger.

Interesting... Why wouldn't Cruz use this or the SCOTUS cases in his campaign? I voted Trump in the primary because Cruz has that feeling of the establishment and bankster influence. This sheds more positive light on him.

Good post ST.

I don't presume to know that he has no relationship with the party. I suspect he hasn't much respect for it as it now stands.



I disagree. It is rare that a terminally entrenched institution is dismantled from without. The most effective attack will come from within. Even the FF knew this.

I think Trump has done a pretty damned good job of exposing the Repub party for the corrupt outfit it is. When he's the nom, he'll get to do the same thing to the Dem party. He'll show that in this country we have the Uniparty. Be patient.



Why didn't Cruz run as the Tea Party candidate, rather than try (from within, mind you) to dismantle the Repub party as it now is? Why didn't Ron Paul run as a Libertarian?

You know why as well as I.

I know, Trump just kills him in the Charisma dept. But Cruz is far and away the most Conservative and Consitutionalist candidate in the race.

He's just hard for ordinary voter's to identify with, that's why I wish he would get these SCOTUS victories out there, put kindof a personal face on all of this.

Cruz isn't a bad guy, but he's made enemies because he won't bend on his principals first as Texas Solicitor General, and now in the Senate.

Asking with sincerity - if Cruz is an ardent Constitutionalist...why is he running? Isn't he Canadian?

He's Eligible under the Natural Born Citizen legal definition as it stands today.

Most legal scholars, all fifty state election boards say he's Eligible. No legal jurisdiction has come up with anything different. Even Donald Trump said he was Eligible...until he got close in the polls.

I recall maybe a few months ago, I heard it reported that George W. Bush said of Ted Cruz, "I just don't like the guy." Even though I voted for Trump, that makes me like Cruz, especially that he fought and won against yet another globalist sellout by Bush.

Dubya’s Anti-Endorsement of Cruz Couldn’t Have Come At a Better Time
By: Steve Deace | October 26th, 2015


"According to Politico, Bush ’43 sized up Cruz as Jeb!’s toughest Republican opponent before heaping still more praise on him. In fact, big brother George gave Cruz the mother of all establishment endorsements.

“I just don’t like the guy,” Dubya said of Cruz, who previously served the former president as an advisor during his 2000 presidential bid."

"I know Cruz’s recent quarterly fundraising numbers were outstanding, but money can’t buy good tidings like that. You mean the ex-president, which every conservative goes out of their way not to mention on the way to deifying Ronald Reagan, doesn’t want you in his exclusive establishment club? The president who refused to openly criticize Barack Obama while the Marxist in the White House was dismantling the country thinks you worthy of his disdain? The ex-president who bottomed out in the polls and handed Congress to Pelosi-Reid has condemned you?

Well, I guess Cruz just won’t be able to call up Dubya when it comes time to abandon free market principles in order to save them or some horse puckey like that. In the meantime, he will just have to settle for being too cool for establishment school. And going into this week’s debate, the timing is outstanding."


"Because the press likely won’t be able to help itself, Cruz should have such a moment set up on a tee for him on Wednesday, especially with speculation swirling that Dubya’s Bush brother Jeb! is prepping his last gasp. After the moderators try picking a fight between presumed frontrunners Trump and Ben Carson, Cruz’s turn will come to answer a version of the very question that has more or less defined the entirety of his Senate career: “Why is George W. Bush just the latest member of GOP leadership who has a problem with you?”

Cruz may have demurred when he was first asked to respond to Dubya’s “endorsement” last week, but that was then. No need to rush into an opportunity for a political disemboweling when millions are just days away from turning on their TVs to witness such thrills.

Then, when the time is right, you pounce like you’ve just come across a B-list Hollywood actress at the Iowa State Fair, or the overmatched president of the Sierra Club. No need for Cruz to pretend he isn’t dying to answer this question. In fact, if the first question directed at him during Wednesday’s debate doesn’t address Bush’s insult, he should proceed as if it was asked anyway.

Cruz needs to put his name on this. With big, bold letters."


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George W. Bush comes out to speak against Ted Cruz.

Sen. Cruz and Rep. Salmon Introduce “Kate’s Law,” the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act
Bill would establish five-year minimum for illegal aliens who have reentered the country after having been removed


WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced "Kate's Law," the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015 as a companion to legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.). The bill would amend federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any illegal reentry offense. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times.



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Oh please...Cruz is the only one who is claiming to be an "outsider" while being just the opposite.

I guess Cruz paying off Walker's campaign debt in return for Walker's endorsement doesn't bother you either? How about Cruz's former roommates saying that Cruz will be whatever you want him to be just to be elected?

No?

Maybe you should listen to these guys:



I will leave you with this...right now in this country we do NOT need another freakin' lawyer even one who has memorized the Constitution, we need a CEO who will kick ass and take names. This country is in very bad shape and the last thing we need is another demagogue who thinks that his short, practically non-existent resume makes him qualified to take on this bloated, corrupt mess in Washington.

We need a doer and not a talker with a screechy voice...

You stay with the guy who has convinced himself that G-d wants Ted Cruz to be president and I will answer and repeat what I read a few days ago..."If G-d wanted Ted Cruz to be president of the United States then He would have made sure that Cruz was born here".

That Cruz chick works for Goldman Sacks. That should be all the information a true Patriot needs.