No Mickey Mousing around for him – Ted Cruz to announce Monday

Houston Chronicle reports that Ted Cruz will announce he is running for president tomorrow. He will announce outright and skip the exploratory committee route making him the first announced candidate, according to The Blaze “leapfrogging the competition.”

From the Houston Chronicle:

Senior advisers say Cruz will run as an unabashed conservative eager to mobilize like-minded voters who cannot stomach the choice of the “mushy middle” that he has ridiculed on the stump over the past two months in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

“Ted is exactly where most Republican voters are,” said Mike Needham, who heads the conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America. “Most people go to Washington and get co-opted. And Ted clearly is somebody that hasn’t been.”

Upon arriving in Washington, D.C., Cruz discarded the expectation of deference that accompanies a freshman senator, launching frequent one-man stands to stymie congressional Democrats and Republicans alike. After Cruz led a shutdown of the federal government in October 2013 as part of an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, conservative activists flocked to their new hero even as Republican leaders excoriated him.

Via The Blaze

In a Drudge Report poll released at the beginning of February, Cruz took the No. 2 spot among likely presidential contenders, behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll at the end of February, Cruz came in third behind Walker and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

We applaud his entry into the race.  It is crucial that the Obamanation be stopped.  The dangers of not reversing the government takeover of health care, controlling our borders and defense and foreign policy issues among others are profoundly threatening to our culture.  Conservatives need his caliber of articulation and aggressive defense of conservative small government personal liberty solutions in the race.

Those who say Cruz will be vilified because liberals will associate him with the bogey man of the “government shutdown” must ask the other candidates whether they would have supported saying no to the Obamanation or not.  They must be asked why they accept the Democrat narrative about what actually transpired. Where was the sting, to individuals and politically to Republicans? How would they have responded to the immediacy of political and constitutional crisis as a senator?  What would they do to stop the inculcation of some very bad precedents and policies? Would they compromise away principles of republican governance and constitutional law? Many Republicans did just that.

If they agree with standing on principle then they cannot chastise Cruz if they have any authenticity on such matters themselves, nor should they permit him to be characterized falsely. Candidates worthy of conservative support will not and will instead concentrate on how their conservative policies will be better for the country. There can be transitional policies that are consistent with conservative principles on the way to restoring freedoms from government bureaucracies and controls. But they cannot make use of or adopt the unconstitutional abuses that advanced the Obamanation. That is if they want conservatives votes.

The quicker the lawless bureaucracies are dismembered and constitutional principles restored the better. We welcome Cruz especially because he is the most likely to effectively articulate such key matters. That other seriously conservative candidates who are at this point still unannounced get in the race is good. But as they gather support and commitments from donors we are hoping they are not making promises they should not keep or shaving their principles. As radical as the Obamacrat policies have been requires at least as intense a pursuit of “fundamental change” to restore the country, its economy and its security.  The essence of Cruz’s campaign is that it is simple but not simplistic, and essential.

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