Thread: Ted Cruz: We’ll ‘turn this country around’

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By ELIZABETH TITUS | 2/27/14 5:52 PM EST

Ted Cruz: We’ll ‘turn this country around’

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told tea party activists on Thursday that he is “filled with the promise that we’re going to turn this country around” after legislative fights over drones, guns and Obamacare last year.

The freshman Republican received a hero’s welcome at a Tea Party Patriots-hosted fifth anniversary event for the movement in Washington, where he discussed the three issues.

“If you listen to the media, if you listen to Democrats — although I repeat myself — they will say the fight to stop Obamacare did not succeed,” said Cruz, who pushed to defund the president’s signature health care law in a fight that led to a government shutdown last fall.

(PHOTOS: The tea party celebrates 5 years)

“Really?” Cruz said. “Well, I’m a big believer the proof is in the pudding. Last fall, millions of Americans rose up and said, ‘Stop the disaster that is Obamacare.’ … We elevated the national debate of the incredible harms Obamacare is visiting on millions of Americans.”

Republicans’ poll numbers suffered after the shutdown, but the health care law is still poised to be one of the central issues in this year’s midterm elections. Republicans must net six seats to take back control of the Senate.

Cruz joked about senators who underestimated the popularity of colleague Rand Paul’s filibuster on President Barack Obama’s policy on the use of armed drones last year.

“When Rand started that filibuster, a host of our colleagues had no idea what he was talking about,” Cruz said about the Kentucky Republican. But news of the filibuster caught fire on Twitter and lawmakers started returning to the chamber that night, Cruz said. “You’d see somewhat rumpled senators walking on the Senate floor going, ‘The tweetie thing is happening!’”

He lambasted Obama’s response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting in December 2012. The shooting prompted Senate Democrats to try advancing new legislation expanding background checks for guns, but the effort fell short.

“He could have come out and said, ‘Let’s go after violent criminals,’” Cruz said. “ … Instead he used it as an excuse to try to go after the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”

Speaking to reporters after his speech at a Hyatt Regency hotel near the Capitol, Cruz declined to get into specifics about a recent flap in the Kansas Senate Republican primary, in which Sen. Pat Roberts’ challenger, a doctor named Milton Wolf, came under scrutiny for posting and joking about X-rays on Facebook.

Cruz, who upset an establishment candidate in his own primary two years ago, said earlier Thursday at a POLITICO Playbook Breakfast that he is “likely going to stay out of incumbent Republican primaries” but that “things can change in politics.”

“I will confess I am not involved in that race,” Cruz told reporters about the Kansas primary after the tea party event. “… I trust the grass roots in each state to make the decision. Incumbent politicians have enormous advantages anywhere they’re running, and I think every elected official, me included, owes it to the grass roots to make the case on the ground why he or she is standing up for the principles you said you would and fighting for the values of the people who elected you.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...ty-104061.html

The choices for a Conservative Republican candidate in 2016 that is capable of surviving the vetting process of the Republican Elitist Party (REP) globalist sellouts is down to less than five possibilities, probably only two, or only one.

The challenge for ANY Conservative to survive in this ONE-PARTY socialist experiment is NOT the Democrats, it is the SOCIALIST GLOBALISM power blocks now controlling the Republican Party.

A primary controlling instrument of the REP is The Chamber of Commerce, which controls the purse strings of the Republican Party.

Essentially, no real Conservative is able to survive with their conservative standards, morals, and convictions WITHOUT THE APPROVAL of the Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, if a Conservative is NOT sold out and is the candidate the MAJORITY of Conservatives want, that person MUST be willing to LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH before the election, then BOW DOWN to the (controlling) Chamber of Commerce lobbying power blocks once they get into office.

It really is this simple.

Are we going to believe that Ted Cruz, or any other Conservative worth believing in and voting for is capable of surviving the entrenched globalist controlling blocks that have already destroyed the Republican Party the day after they stand before the world and swear to defend the US Constitution?

Another one bites the Dust!! TED CRUZ = AMNESTY

Started by AuntB, 09-16-2013 0

I KNOW you're all desperate to BELIEVE in SOMEONE! Me too! But aren't you tired of being conned??? There ARE decent people out there to support, but you can't as long as you won't let go of the LIARS!

Linder Letter: Republicans Need to Focus on Reagan Democrats (RE: Ted Cruz)
The Blaze ^ | February 28, 2014 | Former Rep. John Linder (R-Georgia)
Posted on Fri Feb 28 21:29:20 2014

I have enjoyed reading the many articles attacking Ted Cruz lately. They remind me of some happy times. I have seen this act before and when the curtain finally fell we were left with some wonderful memories.

Thirty-eight years ago Ronald Reagan announced that he would challenge President Ford for the Republican nomination for President. That excited me and I became one of his campaign leaders for Georgia.

Most of the friends I had in the party at that time made up the establishment. They were beside themselves with anger and fear. They were convinced that Reagan would destroy our party.

Their concern with Reagan was that he just wasn’t up to it. What did he know about foreign policy? How could he stand up to the Soviets? Did he understand Realpolitic? Does he have to be so dogmatic? He was just an actor for God’s sake!

During that campaign, as in all campaigns, the establishment sat on the stage at the head table and the rest of us milled around the small round tables below.

After Ford won the first several primaries, his people reached out to the Reagan side. They urged us to switch sides. They wanted to focus on Carter.

They were convinced that Ford could beat Carter and that Reagan could not. No one would take Reagan seriously. The conservatives in the media had a field day ridiculing the actor.

I remember a conversation I had with my friend who chaired the Ford campaign. After listening to his plea I said that, to me, politics is about what you believe. I knew what Reagan believed. If Ford had convictions I had no idea what they were. I urged him to watch Reagan connect with the people. New people were coming into the party every day. And these were not folks you might meet at the Club for lunch. They carried a lunch bucket to work. Or a brown paper bag.

Four years later we had the same fight. The establishment was with George Bush or John Connally or Howard Baker. Again, the Wall Street crowd sat at the head table and Main Street sat down below.

The arguments against a Reagan candidacy did not change. Reagan’s tax cut idea was a “riverboat gamble.” The insults from the chattering class were reconstituted. It was a never-ending series of put-downs until New Hampshire. Then it was over.

Reagan won that election with the support of Larry Lunch-bucket and Betty Brownbag. They were called Reagan Democrats. When asked why they chose to vote for Reagan they said, “When he talked we felt that he was talking to us.” The Reagan Democrats have been ignored since 1984. They are being ignored today.

The establishment doesn’t like change. They’re afraid that their seats at the head table will be taken by those new to the club. Those who so ardently opposed Reagan’s nomination in 1980 crawled all over each other to chair his 1984 race. The conservatives in the media were in awe. Today they have convinced themselves that they put Reagan in power. His presidency was their presidency. They are the keepers of the flame.

Today’s establishment includes elected officials and commentators. They genuflect before wealthy consultants who declare that you must be nice and poll your way to victory. Most important, do not take hard positions. Hard positions are easy for the media to ridicule. We don’t want to be embarrassed on the front page of The New York Times.

Larry Lunch-bucket and Betty Brownbag don’t read The New York Times. They really do want to know what you believe and how it will impact their lives. They want your positions to be hard positions. They want you to not only believe them, but to act on them. If they hear a choice they will vote. If they hear an echo they will just stay home. They have really important things to do.

Just ask President McCain or President Romney.

http://www.theblaze.com/contribution...gan-democrats/