Ted Cruz could struggle to raise funds for presidential run

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz’s ambitions are clear. He’s a frequent visitor to Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s building a campaign staff.

But to make a serious White House bid takes serious money — at least $20 million by the time the first ballots are cast in early 2016. And that could be a challenge.

Although the Texas Republican is popular at conservative gatherings, Cruz has shown only modest success as a fundraiser. Like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, he can probably count on showers of cash from enthusiastic legions of small-dollar donors, and that’s an important start.

But many major GOP donors and bundlers want nothing to do with a tea party agitator — particularly business interests dismayed by the federal-spending brinkmanship Cruz has advocated. That could limit his ability to elbow aside well-funded rivals.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20141201-ted-cruz-could-struggle-to-raise-funds-for-presidential-run.ece

[Thinkingabout]

1. Well, guess Ted will have to have lots of townhall meetings and those who really likes to hear his

crap and get the funds from them. The best lesson people like him can learn is you can't run everywhere acting like a crazed fool and expect to get sane people to back your political runs.

[Prophet 451]

2. If he even eligible?

I thought he was born in Canada? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[MiniMe]

7. You are correct

And I wish that would be brought up more often, or do I sound like a birther? Of course, Cruz admits that he was born in Canada.

[Prophet 451]

8. No, birthers are just racists

They won't even accept a presented birth certificate because their whole reason for existing is the refusal to accept that a black man could be a natural-born citizen. Cruz, on the other hand, actually ISN'T a natural-born citizen.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. He is a natural-born citizen because of his parents

He is not native born, but the Constitution only requires natural born.

[Prophet 451]

10. But doesn't define what "natural born" means

Although he's a white Republican so watch the Birthers suddenly fall silent.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. It has been adequately defined by the courts, by statute,

and by legal scholars based on the meaning of the term at the time the Constitution was written.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause

[lastlib]

16. He's natural-born?? All this time I thought.....

...he was cooked up at a Stygian-witch fuckfest. (well, not exactly cooked up--more like scraped off the pot-bottom after the cooking was done.......)

[DavidDvorkin]

17. There is that

The Constitution doesn't actually specify human in so many words.

[cheyanne]

3. All it will take is one rwnj billionaire

to put him in the race.

[Marie Marie]

4. Exactly. Don't the Koch Brothers love his ilk?

[lastlib]

5. shit--are we gonna have to pass the hat for him here at DU??

he's GOT to run--where else could we buy such cheap hilarity? Maybe The Colbert Report could fund him, just for the comedy gold he'd provide.

[bvf]

12. Alas, The Colbert Report will not be around

to save him. It will be interesting to see how soon his aspirations fizzle in any event.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Even Sheldon Adelson passed

That will cue in the rest of the uber-rich rightwing crazies. If he's too freaky for Adelson, he is pretty far out there.

[Vogon_Glory]

11. Would That The Calgary Kid Have The Same Problem

Would that the Calgary Kid have the same problem when he runs for re-election as a US Senator from Texas in 2018!

[lame54]

13. C-mon ted - where's the birth certificate eh?

[kairos12]

14. Please, please let this idiot get the GOP nomination. It would be a laughapaloooza.