# Ted Cruz Presidential campaign discussion thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 23, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774 "2015-03-23T14:47:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/567 "2016-01-27T01:51:13Z")

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These posts are from SRIOTD, but they belong here as well:

> [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26944):
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> > “I have prayed for the next George Washington,” Beck said of Cruz. “I believe I have found him.”
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> And look at all the flack I get in GD for saying prayer doesn’t work.
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> ETA: to be fair, Cruz’s views on slavery are probably compatible with Washington’s.

> [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26948):
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> Well, if “a new George Washington” is someone to plunge a great empire into internal war, cut off a sizeable chunk of its territory, and send a third of the population of that chunk into exile, all for the sake of his own speculative investments, yeah, Ted Cruz probably could be that guy. The question is, is there a corollary to the Kingdom of France to back him?

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