Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) is on the edge about running for president in 2016. He says he is a big fan of Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, but he can’t resist advising his potential challengers on how to run.
This is what he told George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s ?This Week,?
??Look, Jeb Bush is a good man, he’s a good governor, I respect him… If he chooses to run, and it certainly looks like he’s going to, he’s going to have to make the case to Republican primary voters concerning his record, concerning certainly his support for Common Core, concerning his policies on immigration. And I think we’ll have a debate on that.?
?But at the end of the day, I think Republicans are looking for a leader… What I would urge every Republican thinking about running to do, and this is true of senators, of governors ? stand up and lead. I’d be thrilled if six months from now we have a half dozen Republicans standing and leading and making the case that there is a better way we can get back to the free market principles and constitutional liberties that built this country and made this country a shining city on a hill.?
One of Cruz? biggest problems is that the Bush family has a big hold on Texas. Jeb Bush, who is ?exploring the possibility of running,? grew up in Texas before he went on to be the governor of Florida. President Bush 41 and 43 both retired in Texas.
Cruz reminds me a bit of his adopted state’s small animal, the armadillo. You know, he has a tough shell and huge claws. I believe he just might have a long, sticky tongue because he often pulls out some strange things:
“You might think a camel’s hair brush must be made of camels. But a camel’s hair brush is made of squirrel fur, and it makes you wonder… the squirrels apparently have a very bad marketing department.”
Cruz is even telling the squirrels how to run their lives. Figures.
