This Is Not a Drill. Ted Cruz Is Well Positioned in the GOP Presidential Race.

[TexasTowelie]

Any who predicted last spring that donors to Texas Senator Ted Cruz's then-nascent presidential campaign were setting their money on fire is probably feeling pretty foolish right about now. Yep, that was a boneheaded move right there. In the six-plus months between Cruz's presidential announcement at Liberty University and Wednesday night's third GOP presidential debate, his campaign has been both adeptly run and increasingly lucky. About 90 days out from the February 1 Iowa caucuses, Texas' junior senator is looking good. Well, not him so much, but his campaign.

This week, especially, has been fun for Cruz. Monday, he picked up the endorsement of Texas' most powerful elected official, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, joining forces with someone who supported one of Cruz's opponents during Cruz's 2012 Senate campaign.

"Senator Cruz is the prescription for what ails the Republican Party and this country," Patrick said. "This country has been in malaise for eight years. Our party has been asleep for more than eight years."

Patrick then called Cruz America's greatest conservative hope since Ronald Reagan, before heading with the senator to a gun range to shoot semiautomatic weapons.

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[B Calm]

1. All the clowns feel they are well positioned to win their party nomination.

Rubio is in a good position too.

[trusty elf]

2. Drill baby, drill!

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[LuvNewcastle]

3. Don't count him out.

Americans are in the mood for serious change, and Cruz would definitely bring it. An accentuation of one trait and a magnification of another is all it would take to make Cruz nationally viable to independents. His followers have been planning this for a long time, and if he gets the nomination, he's going to run a fierce campaign. Status quo is not what most of America wants now. No one should think that moderation (not doing anything) is a winning platform. It's going to be an ugly campaign season. What we're seeing now is nothing. A lot of shit is going to get dragged out into the light, and it's not going to be nice at all.

[unc70]

4. Is it time someone went birther on Cruz?

Cruz's birth status is the same as Obama would have been if actually born in Kenya. Is Trump the one to add that to the mix if Cruz starts gaining support?

BTW I strongly believe that Cru is not natural born. Most of the legal "scholars" are RW types, many of whom were covering for John McCain. But it doesn't matter in using the attack premise.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I've read that there is a question about

Cruz's mother's citizenship at the time of his birth. His father was definitely not a citizen, and his mother's citizenship was kind of up in the air at the time. I think she started out as a Canadian citizen, which is why they were in Canada when he was born. It's kind of twisted, as you would expect, but I've never read anything that proved to any certainty what his mother's citizenship status was when Cruz was born.