Posted on 02/20/2014 4:08:42 PM PST by mandaladon
SARASOTA, Florida—The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) just held its winter meeting here, and the wealthy beachfront communities that dot the coast are typically considered one of the beating hearts of the Establishment GOP's donor community. Tonight, though, it's Cruz country. An event originally scheduled as a small rally for potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mushroomed into a major political event after nearly 2,000 people RSVP'd online. “We are shocked at the level of interest that we’ve received for doing this rally,” Sarasota GOP chairman Joe Gruters told Breitbart News. “It’s obvious that the state is aware that he is listening, and they’re excited about what Ted Cruz is saying and it certainly cuts across the bow of the establishment in D.C., which is maybe not trying to ‘stifle’ what Sen. Cruz is saying but certainly that Cruz is getting so much attention at the local level in a county like Sarasota shows you that he’s a major player and that people should watch out for and everything that the guy is doing,” he added. Cruz opened his remarks here with one his signature phrases. “I spent all of last week in Washington, D.C.," he said. "It is great to be back in America.” Following what will now be a sizable rally at the Sarasota Hyatt – participants are already lining up “like Black Friday campers at Best Buy,” one organizer emailed – Cruz will attend a $500 per person VIP fundraiser and, to wrap up the evening, a $5,000 per couple private donor dinner. The fundraising proceeds are going to the Sarasota County GOP party. Organizers say 1,800 people signed up for the rally and at least 200 for the dinner.
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Ted Cruz and the Tea Party were made for each other. The TP is the opposite of low-information voters. They know how dangerous Big Government is and how important it is to restrain it.
There are a lot of people out there in the grassroots that are waking up. Ann Coulter and Thomas Sowell, are you listening?
Is he visiting any other sites in FL? I hate it when I hear he was close by and didn’t know about it.
Karl tokyo rove is crapping his depends and linda grammy and turtle mcconnell are in shock.
The TEA party principles are intact and there is a patriotic heart beating in America.
Sowell and Coulter hate Ted Cruz because Ted Cruz exposes their loved ones, liberal Republicans.
Warms the cockles of my purist heart! Go Ted!
Practically in Jeb Bush’s backyard. Hahaha.
Cruz has figured out who his enemies are; he has very few friends in the old guard GOP. Progressives on either side of the aisle are scared to death of Cruz, and they should be.
A man of the people.
“...But before the Presidential race, we have to get the turnout and support for Tea Party philosophy candidates and get them elected.
Senator Cruz is doing his part, now it is time for us to do ours.”
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Most definitely TWB! 2014 is shaping up to be a year where, IF WE ALL WORK HARD, the Tea Party can substantially increase the number of Tea Party Republicans in both the House and the Senate (as well as at the state & local levels).
The following is just one of many places where folks can start (there are many others).
http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/endorsements
Cruz power. The momentum builds.
Dr. AS-Sowell 2000 real republicans showed up to see a real republican who hasn’t begun to fight.
Go TED!!!!! GO!!!!!! RUN TED RUN!!!!!
WIN TED WIN!!!! PRESIDENT CRUZ!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww nice!!!! VERY NICE!!!!!!
If the Staten Island Tea Party ever hosted him, like they did Newt, they would have to hire aircraft carriers to get everybody there.
I'm willing to give Thomas Sowell a mulligan for his recent uncharacteristic remarks, but Ann Coulter went full-on RINO a long time ago. No reprieve for her.
Crowds and votes.
Ann and Thomas seem to write great articles on a lot of issues before they get scared and run back to the RINO house.
We can’t be making the left too upset now can we?
argh
We have to get past his backbiters here at FR. Ted is far and away, the best Conservative in the crowd.
Seems clear to me that he can take the GOP nomination. Probably take it very fast!
But...can he beat HIllary in the fall?
I’m not sure of that.
But we have to try.
Who would have thought that one man had the power to smoke out cowards across the right? Imagine what ten more like him could do.
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