Ted Cruz belives he is the Chosen One

[PDittie]

Cruz, who spoke at a Politico Playbook Breakfast, was pressed by moderator Mike Allen on whether he planned to run for the presidency.

"It's premature," the Texas Republican said.

But Cruz said Republicans would stand a better chance of capturing the White House if they put forward a conservative, rather than moderate, candidate.

"Let's look at the last 40 years," Cruz said. "Every single time Republicans have nominated a presidential candidate who ran as a strong conservative, we won. And every time we have nominated a candidate who ran as an establishment moderate, we lost."

"What I find to be astonishing is that the D.C. political consultants look at that record and say, 'In 2016, we need another establishment moderate," Cruz said.

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-cruz-puts-clinton-odds-white-house-win-185404688.html

Beware this ass, people. As a 7th generation Texan, you can bank it: he's going to run. The only thing that's premature is whether he can con enough people to win the nomination.

[spanone]

1. he's dangerous.

[Gothmog]

2. Carnival Cruz is not going to be president in our lifetimes

I believe that he is going to run but he will not be able to raise the type of funds needed to compete for the GOP nomination. The big money donors who fund the GOP will not support this idiot. Carnival Cruz may do well in Iowa and South Carolina where the tea party control the outcome but he will not be able to raise the money to compete in Florida, New Hampshire and other states.

OTH, Carnival Cruz being the GOP nominee could be another Goldwater event that could help the the GOP realize that it needs to adopt sane policies.

[villager]

5. Except that they adopted Goldwater policies and eventually prevailed...

...to the point where Goldwater wound up on the party's left, relatively speaking.

Alas.

This was of course helped along by some well-timed assassinations, ongoing election fraud, et al. But nonetheless...

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. I am really not looking forward the next presidential election.

[Itchinjim]

4. He's Canadian.

Not eligible.

[rustydog]

9. Doesn't matter to Republicans

Remember they wanted to change the rules so AAHNOLD could run for Prez?
Not being born in America is only an obstacle (whether you were or not) to Democrats.

[DeschutesRiver]

11. Correct, so he won't be president. But he will make a ton of $$$ in a pretend run. nt

[onehandle]

6. He believed that as a child as well...

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[Berlum]

7. teh annoinTED One(R)

nt

[jwirr]

8. So did Romney.

[DirkGently]

10. He's got that Dead Zone look in his eyes.

"The missiles are flying. Hallelujah. Hallelujah."