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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ted Cruz would be a formidable 2016 presidential contender

By HUGH HEWITT
"I'm Ted Cruz and I approved this message ... because I can clean up this mess."  No, you haven't heard anything like that yet (unless you live in Texas where Ted Cruz, R-Texas, romped to a first-time win in the U.S. Senate race last fall.)  But don't be surprised to hear it in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond, come mid-2015.
If you keep cable news on in the background, you probably would have seen Cruz last week urging you to visit AbolishIRSNow.com, a project of the Senate Conservatives Fund, founded by then-senator and now Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint.
"It's been so successful, we are ramping it up," Matt Hoskins, executive director of the fund, told me. Cruz is already a powerful, trusted conservative brand, Hoskins added, though he has been in the Senate only six months.
When the IRS scandals broke this spring, Cruz was quick to see, understand and act upon the outrage that erupted immediately. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spent his energy on drones, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on immigration reform, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on various issues including a double-layered border fence, but Cruz, fresh from dueling Sen. Dianne Feinstein on gun control, took out after the symbol of Washington, D.C.: the tax gatherer…….To Read More…..
 

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