Ted Cruz Visits N.H., Vows To Abolish IRS And Education Department

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: AP

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT

LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) -- Ahead of his expected presidential campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz is banking on his hopes that rural New Hampshire voters and his home state of Texas share a similarly dour view of government.

He is promising to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and scrap the Education Department. He vows to curtail federal regulators, likening to locusts that deserve to be killed. And his standard campaign-style speech includes a zinger about the Second Amendment.

"I'm pretty sure, here in New Hampshire, y'all define gun control like we do down in Texas: gun control is when you hit what you aim at," Cruz said Sunday during the first of a two-day visit to New Hampshire.

It's all part of the pitch Cruz is making to rural voters, here in New Hampshire and in other early nominating states with vast stretches of farms and forests. All candidates make such efforts, and frequent stops at county fairs and farm stands will be a staple of campaign schedules by the time there are declared candidates.

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a tea party favorite and possible presidential candidate in 2016, speaks to Paul Horvath, of Somersworth, N.H., during a visit to the Strafford County Republican Committee Chili and Chat on Sunday, March 15, 2015, in Barrington, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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[heaven05]

1. whoever votes

for this POS is the same...

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Great picture: Looks like Cruz is pleading for his life.

That mountain man doesn't seem to be very jolly.

[Orsino]

4. Nathan Fillion should so play him in the movie. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Wait 'til a bunch of them find out...

his flat tax will cost them more.

[rickford66]

5. Has Cruz ever even held a gun?

And isn't he still a Canadian?

[Fred Sanders]

6. When did the far away barkings of tongue clucking fascists to a few fellow fascists become Breaking News at DU?

[father founding]

7. dog bites self

Doesn't the Education Dept. give Texas the right to chose textbooks for the whole country, resulting in the loss of jobs for Texans, and where is the oil industry going to get their enormous subsidies from, without the taxpayers ?

[Corey_Baker08]

8. This Man Is A Danger To Our Country, He Will Say Anything To Get Attention...

I would like to think that his extreme views such as these will not go over well with more moderate conservatives in the GOP Primary & he will quickly exit the race.

He's like a clone of batshit Bachman & if I'm correct she was one of the first to withdrawal from the 2012 Republican Primary...

He makes me sick.

[Bartlet]

9. A Teabagger favorite.

Even his own Republican party thinks he's a dimwit. Thank God he's not smart enough to keep his mouth shut, he might actually have a chance of beating out Huckabee for last place in the polls if he did.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. This is the agenda of Christian reconstructionists/Christian dominionists everywhere:

TURN EVERYTHING OVER TO THE CHURCH!