article_snippet: (CNN)Texas Ted Cruz Ted Cruz will announce Monday that Ted Cruz is launching Ted Cruz campaign to become the 2016 Republican nominee for president.
article_snippet: Ted Cruz has been positioning for this nomination almost since Ted Cruz entered the upper chamber in 2012.
article_snippet: Ted Cruz announcement takes place at a bastion of  conservatism, Liberty University, the institution founded by evangelical leader Jerry Falwell.
article_snippet: Ted Cruz is going to run from the right.
article_snippet: Ted Cruz has spent much of Ted Cruz short career in Washington blasting the "mushy middle" of his party (which might be news to most Democrats), which Ted Cruz dismisses as a "failed electoral strategy.
article_snippet: During a recent visit to New Hampshire, where Ted Cruz vowed to eliminate the Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service, Ted Cruz said that "I'm pretty sure, here in New Hampshire,
article_snippet: Ted Cruz will test the conventional wisdom that Goldwater's strategy was and remains a failure.
article_snippet: Although Goldwater was clearly wrong when Goldwater ran in 1964, Ted Cruz thinks that the times have changed.
article_snippet: If Ted Cruz really sticks to this strategy of extremism, Ted Cruz faces very long odds of making it to the White House.
article_snippet: this strategy of extremism might help Ted Cruz to garner some primary votes against Jeb Bush in red states, but it is not an approach with a great track record.
article_snippet: Cruz is also not just someone who defends extremism but a politician who can easily be tied to the congressional obstructionism that has turned off so much of the electorate.
article_snippet: This is the congressional Republicanism where Cruz comes from.
article_snippet: There have been few practitioners of this style of legislative politics as prominent as Cruz.
article_snippet: The electorate is not as likely to experience any dramatic swings like we saw in Midwestern states in 1964, where solidly Republican areas went Democratic because solidly Republican areas were scared off by Goldwater, but a Cruz campaign could be exactly what Democrats need to cement victories in the swing states where the outcome is still uncertain.
article_snippet: Monday, Cruz will bask in the spotlight of Cruz announcement.
highlights_snippet: If Ted Cruz follows Barry Goldwater's path, Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz party could lose big .
  