Within the last week or so, unnamed fans of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz have launched an Iowans for Ted Cruz website to support a future presidential bid by the tea party hero. After the jump I’ve posted some “testimonials” and a “grassroots plan” that appeared on the site. The business wing of the Republican establishment in Iowa would freak out to see Cruz do well in the caucuses. Democrats would probably love to see someone as extreme as Cruz be nominated for president in 2016.
Incidentally, Cruz is eligible to run for president as a natural-born citizen, even though he was born in Calgary, Canada.
This is an open thread: all topics welcome.
From the Testimonials page:
Ted Cruz is a passionate fighter for limited government, economic growth, and the Constitution. Unlike most politicians, he doesn’t offer platitudes and empty promises. After over a decade in public service, he has a proven record, over and over again, of standing up for conservative values, fighting and winning on a national level. Ted Cruz doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk.
That page quotes Bob Vander Plaats as saying, “If the caucuses were being held today and you threw in all the potentials … Cruz would be at the top of the list immediately.”
Conservative talk radio host Steve Deace is quoted as follows: “I am cynical and hard to please, but I have never seen anything like Ted Cruz. Could unite conservatives like no one has since Reagan.”
Here is the Facebook post from which that quote was taken.
Listening to Ted Cruz address a packed house of Iowa pastors. This is a candidate but a force of nature. I’m highly cynical and tough to please as many of u remind me, but I’ve never seen anything like this. Imagine Mike Huckabee on moral issues, combined with a one woman Newt Gingrich on a grasp of history and argumentation, combined with the best parts of Ron Paul on limited government and challenging the status quo. This guy is a living, breathing example of the power of a well developed worldview. I almost want to find a wart or two just so I don’t sucked in only to get disappointed later on.
The Iowans for Ted Cruz site also includes this comment from Iowa GOP Chair A.J. Spiker: “Ted Cruz embodies bold leadership and Iowa Republicans appreciate leaders who stand up for them and fight big government recklessness.”
For what it’s worth, I expect Spiker to endorse Senator Rand Paul, assuming he runs for president.
Grassroots Plan
How we plan to build a grassroots infrastructure for Senator Ted Cruz.Our mission is to build a grassroots organization in all 99 counties to support Ted Cruz in Iowa. How do we plan to accomplish this volunteer effort?
1. We plan to organize a leadership structure in each county. We will identify and organize county chairs who can manage the field operations in their counties. Then, we will expand by identifying canvass captains, phonebank captains, and data captains in each major county. We will also identify digital captains across the state.
2. We will contact registered voters who are likely to attend Republican caucuses and identify their candidate preferences.
3. We will then incorporate identified Cruz supporters into our organization by signing them up on our email list, providing ways to volunteer, and helping them to advocate for Cruz online.
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The question with Cruz is whether he will ever become a legislator. Once he becomes someone that has to lose some of his pie in the sky ideals he will lose some of his fans. We saw it with Rubio, Herman Cain (once people found out he work for the Federal Reserve), Bachmann (once they found she was a tax attorney), example after example.
We see it on the left as well. Once Elizabeth Warren starts to craft more and more legislation, the left will call her a sell out! Bernie Sanders has no national ambition so he can go on his crusades and the left can love him up as he attempts to pass legislation that will get nowhere. By the way I know Sanders is good behind the scenes. I’m talking about the major pieces of legislation that get the most press.
Cruz may never need to be a legislator, they may send him up to the Majors before he is ready. We did the same thing with Obama and now some Democratic members on the Hill think he’s disinterested in the legislative process. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Heck, Cruz may be more deeply involved than I think he is.
I just find politics very frustrating some times. Blowhards like Cruz and some people on the left get the most appreciation out there because they tend to our most radical desires, it seems.
moderateiadem Sun 28 Jul 3:51 PM
I don't see Cruz being interested in governing
even if the GOP retakes the Senate majority. He will be a purist for life.
I love when people like Steve Deace praise Reagan. If he were alive today they’d call him the worst kind of RINO with all the tax increases he signed into law, as well as supporting gun control as governor of California.
desmoinesdem Sun 28 Jul 4:48 PM