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The following article was sponsored by BADNET

Ted Cruz, Hispanic-American and United States Senator, is one hell of a guy.

Known for his fierce resistance to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (also known as Obamacare), he has decided to run for President in the 2016 election.

Only one problem.

He doesn’t own his name.

Let’s take a step back in time. Way back in 2008 there was a lowly real estate agent who decided to take his destiny into his own hands. He bought http://www.tedcruz.com and built this website:

Well, “real estate Ted Cruz” must have gone out of business, because after a few years his domain went dark. Then, sometime around the end of 2014 something interesting happened.

Some joker caught wind of Ted Cruz the Senator’s upcoming bid for President. And this joker did a very smart thing. He bought up http://www.tedcruz.com and planted a pro-Obama message on it.

What can the real Ted Cruz do? Nothing. He is now helpless to control the conversation around him. You might think that page doesn’t get much traffic, but from where I’m looking, it’s firmly on the 2nd page of Google.

Plenty of voters tend to be older people. They didn’t grow up with the internet. And like it or not, they tend to add a .com automatically to whatever they’re looking for.

Say, something like “Ted Cruz .com.”

Nowadays politicians know that much of their fundraising and campaigning is done online. So what is Ted Cruz going to do? He’s going to ignore this problem as long as he can, and then he’s going to settle with the domain owner. For a hefty payout.

All because he made the mistake of not owning his name online.

This is not a dumb man either. Cruz graduated as valedictorian of his high school in Houston. He graduated cum laude from Princeton. He won the US National Speaker of the Year award and went on to compete in the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his professor claimed him to be, “off-the-charts brilliant.” But he was very obviously un-brilliant about managing his professional reputation online.

Now what’s the lesson in here for you?

You might not decide to be famous today. But what about tomorrow?

• Maybe you’ll want to own a brick-and-mortar business.
• Maybe you’ll want your friends and family to easily get in touch with you.
• Maybe you just want to safeguard yourself from bullies and domain squatters who can harm your reputation.

A smart man should own his name. If your domain’s still available (and nobody’s decided to take it yet), you can grab it for free from BADNET.

If your domain’s not available, you might have to pay for it out of pocket, but do what you can to get ahold of it. You never know how important it may be.

Ted Cruz can still buy this domain name if the website owner agrees. He certainly has the cash to do so. But can you afford that mistake?

Owning a domain name is cheap. You can grab one for free if you sign up for web hosting at BADNET.

But not owning one? That can do some damage.

Do you own your name?

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Thought this article was going to be about him signing up for obamacare after pissing on it forever. Dudes a hypocrite. He is just going to hurt people in the Republican Party during the primaries. Blood is going to flow way before the presidential election.

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The biggest mistake Ted Cruz ever made was being born in Canada! How in hell is he going to be President if he wasn't born in the USA?

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I don't know much about Ted Cruz, but his rant was interesting.

Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stunning, public attack on his own party leader, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz accused Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying, and said he was no better than his Democratic predecessor and couldn't be trusted.

Cruz, a Texan who is running for president but ranks low in early polling, delivered the broadside in a speech on the Senate floor Friday, an extraordinary departure from the norms of Senate behavior that demand courtesy and respect.

"Not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie," Cruz said.

At issue were assurances Cruz claimed McConnell, R-Ky., had given that there was no deal to allow a vote to renew the federal Export-Import Bank — a little-known federal agency that has become a rallying cry for conservatives. Cruz rose to deliver his remarks moments after McConnell had lined up a vote on the Export-Import Bank for coming days.

"It saddens me to say this. I sat in my office, I told my staff the majority leader looked me in the eye and looked 54 Republicans in the eye. I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie," Cruz said.

"We now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things that he knows are false."

The majority leader was not on the Senate floor when Cruz issued his attack, and ignored reporters who tried to ask him about it in the Capitol's hallways. A spokesman said McConnell would have no response.

McConnell has long indicated he would allow a vote on the Export-Import Bank as an amendment on the highway bill, which is the course he's now following. Senate supporters of the Export-Import Bank have said they got that commitment from McConnell in the course of debate on a separate trade bill, though there's been some dispute about what precisely was agreed to.

No senator rose to defend McConnell on the floor, as some Republicans sought to avoid engaging in the dispute and giving Cruz still more attention. Questioned by reporters later, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, challenged Cruz's criticism of McConnell, telling reporters, "I think it's wrong to disclose private information, especially when the disclosure is not accurate."

"Keep in mind, he's running for president," Hatch added. "People who run for president do some very interesting things."

McConnell and Cruz have never had a thriving relationship. The new majority leader's allies earlier this year derided Cruz's Senate record, complaining that he often speaks out but has missed important developments. After complaining about President Barack Obama's nomination of Loretta Lynch as attorney general, for example, Cruz skipped the final vote on her confirmation.

Some close to McConnell call Cruz "Mr. 1 percent," referring to his share of support in the crowded race for the GOP presidential nomination. Recent polls have him a few points higher among more than a dozen contenders.

Cruz, for his part, has grown increasingly outspoken about his contempt for McConnell and other Republicans, using his newly published book, "A Time for Truth," to attack his colleagues on various fronts and accuse them of failing to stand up for their principles.

On Friday he charged that the Senate under Republican control is no different from when Democrats ran the show before this year and McConnell is behaving like his Democratic predecessor, Harry Reid of Nevada. Republicans accused Reid of shutting down debate and limiting amendments when he ran the Senate.

"Now the Republican leader is behaving like the senior senator from Nevada," Cruz complained. He also derided an announcement from McConnell that the Senate will vote Sunday to repeal Obama's health care law, calling it "an empty show vote" and "exercise in meaningless political theater" because the legislation will inevitably fail to get the 60 votes needed to advance.

"We keep winning elections and then we keep getting leaders who don't do anything they promised," Cruz said.

The Senate's historian, Betty K. Koed, said that it was not a specific breach of Senate rules to call another senator a liar, but pointed to rules cautioning against talking ill of other members or imputing unbecoming conduct or motives.

"In more recent times there's been very little of this type of behavior," Koed said.

Also, Cruz is a natural born citizen despite being born in Canada. My dad is the same way, born in Canada but a natural born citizen.

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(04-02-2015 03:00 PM)Wayout Wrote:  The biggest mistake Ted Cruz ever made was being born in Canada! How in hell is he going to be President if he wasn't born in the USA?

The constitution says the President must be a Natural Born Citizen.

If a person is born to two US Citizen parents anywhere in the world they are a Natural Born US Citizen.

Natural Born means at birth. "Naturalized" would mean becoming a citizen after birth, such as an immigrant that becomes a citizen.

"Where" someone is born is not the only factor involved.