Ted Cruz Tweets His Presidential Intentions
Tweeting all the Way to the White House
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For a while now, we’ve been at a stage where a good understanding of social media is crucial if you want to get anywhere in politics (apart from all the knowledge, morality, wherewithal and whatnot). Clearly aware of this, Senator Ted Cruz became the first major player to put his name down for the 2016 presidential race, and he did it on Twitter.
I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015
Well, more accurately, he did it during a speech at Liberty
University in Lynchburg, VA, shortly after which he promptly put the video
footage on his feed. If you don’t know who Ted Cruz is, he’s a Tea Party
senator who featured heavily in the Affordable Care Act opposition (which
ultimately resulted in the government shutdown in October 2013). Famously he
gave a 21 hour long speech in the senate (the fourth longest in US senate
history) against the act (and Obamacare at large).
During the speech, Cruz asked his audience to “imagine
heathcare reform that keeps government out of the way between you and your
doctor”. In fact, he started a fair few sentences with ‘imagine’ and Twitter
being what it is, the John Lennon jokes quickly started rolling in. Some people
just quoted the actual song, whilst others reworked the lyrics to criticize
Cruz and his ideas.
Imagine this Ted Cruz speech auto-tuned to the John Lennon original.
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 23, 2015
Imagine it's 2017 and all of this is over
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) March 23, 2015
Elsewhere, other users decided that it might be prudent to
forward Cruz some suggestions for campaign slogans, ranging from the sublime (‘Cruise
with Cruz!’) to the brutally honest (‘I Don't Own a Selfie Stick’). Green Eggs
and Ham has been fairly regularly referenced as well, being that he read it
during his almost filibuster in a bizarre bid to exemplify his family-man
image. Mention has also been made of Cruz’s Canadian birthplace.
I'm the reason Canadians apologize so much.
#TedCruzCampaignSlogans
— TheNeoAtheist (@TheNeoAtheist) March 24, 2015
"Global warming? My freezer still makes ice cubes. Riddle me that, Scientists." #TedCruzCampaignSlogans
— JMA (@J_Nole22) March 23, 2015
#TedCruzCampaignSlogans I don't own a selfie stick. #tcot pic.twitter.com/VJb0lG1eJl
— IPayMyJizyaWith.357 (@SonofLiberty357) March 23, 2015
Thus far, he’s the only person to have made a concrete
statement about running in 2016, but there have been others hinting at it,
including Donald Trump. No, I’m not kidding. The tycoon is reportedly setting
up an exploratory committee at some stage this week, having allegedly already
put at least $1 million into research. He actually did this in 2012 as well,
ultimately deciding against it, so this might just end up becoming the
political equivalent of a fart in the wind. Trump has also been one of the people to question Cruz's ability to run, given that he's Canadian by birth.
Callum Davies
Callum is a film school graduate who is now making a name for himself as a journalist and content writer. His vices include flat whites and 90s hip-hop. Follow him @CallumAtSMF
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