For your enjoyment, here is an inspiring video from a guy clearly angling to be a 2016 presidential candidate:
I like the American flag flapping patriotically in the breeze at the beginning of the ad–nice touch–but if Ted really wants to run for national office, he needs to stop stealing slogans from other campaigns. The “Yes We Can” thing has been done before. And in the rest of his CPAC speech, Ted also mentions “Hope and Change” as his motto, and finishes his performance with “morning in America”. I get that borrowing the Obama stuff is meant to be sarcastic, but I can tell you from personal experience that sarcasm will only get you so far. This man needs his own slogans. And they shouldn’t be Dr. Seuss quotes, either.
Unfortunately, I’m not very helpful in this regard. I’m terrible at trying to come up with ideas for Ted. He certainly has policy positions he can write slogans about, but they don’t sound very catchy. There’s Obamacare–“It’s Finally Working! Let’s Repeal It!” There’s his call to abolish the IRS–you could go with “Sick And Tired Of Roads!” or “Food Stamps Are For Losers”. I’m pretty sure Ted is in favor of privatizing Medicare and Social Security, so perhaps an empowering chant of “Old People Can Make It!” might be nice, or even an #oldpeoplestrong, a la Boston Strong. And since the GOP is trying to repackage old moral values and sell them to the millennials, maybe a suggestive ad with two beautiful people and the tagline “Conservatives–Making Sex Feel Dirty Again” would do the trick.
Finally, a slogan to help Ted market himself to his fellow Latinos–“Build The Wall And Kick Them Out!”
So you can see the problem. I really do suck at this. Luckily for Ted, he will have professionals doing this kind of work for him. Let’s hope they come up with something that has at least a bit of an original ring to it.
eurobrat 
05/03/2014 at 8:04 am
You know. I don’t have a problem with gay people but I do much prefer those who just say; “I’m Gay” to those who attempt to hide it behind an Uber-masculine persona or Conservative Presidential Run.
The thing is that I can respect anyone who respects themselves but I can never respect a person who tries to pretend to be what they are not because they believe themselves, that what they are, is something to be ashamed of.
I don’t wish to be or see my country be a victim of Ted Cruz’s self loathing. Give me a good honest Gay man who knows who he is and wants to increase the freedom of Americans. Ted is living in a make-believe world where nobody will notice that he stands against his own nature by his repulsive dedication to the very people who would see gay people persecuted and who consistently chose to publically ridicule those people and disenfranchise them.
There is nothing that says “Presidential Material” about a man who can’t even come to terms with his own sexuality.
There is nothing that says “Presidential Material” about a hypocrite.
I find Ted Cruz no more palatable than I found Herman Cain or Michelle Bachman or Marco Rubio.
Each is a person who has turned away from their own heritage and their own people to form an affiliation with a Republican Party, openly dedicated to the oppression and disenfranchising of those who are just like they are.
Ted Cruz may even be a double offender. Hispanic (ish) and Gay.
People of such low character have brought down the walls of great cities.
What might they do to a nation already embattled over such questions.
05/03/2014 at 1:58 pm
Okay, this is interesting. I consider myself a news and current events junkie, but I have not heard that Ted Cruz is gay. (Except for the usual suspicion that someone who is so anti-gay is probably “protesting too much”). If this is the case, then that indeed makes him even more of a hypocrite.