Conservatives are lining up for Ted Cruz in Texas-Tea Party election we have to win!(Palin/TPX)

Tea Party Express ^ | 5-20-2012 | Amy Kremer

[BlackElk]

If you don't like negative primary campaigns, how can you stand Romney or haven't you heard his campaign of toxic lies about every conservative in the race. Is Romney a "severe conservative" too?

If Cruz tells half truths, that makes him half better than the way Romney treated Santorum, Gingrich, Cain and others with zillions in elitist funded political ads in each primary state.

[BlackElk]

Tell it to the Wall Street Journal as you await the defeat of Dewhurst.

[BlackElk]

You have a problem with the direct election of US senators by their constituents???? I realize that the rich guys could just directly bribe their way to the Senate by buying state legislators’ votes, cash American, under the table, like in the 1800s. It is just a shame the way the peasants just mess things up by having a vote in actual primaries and elections, isn’t it? What is a spoiled rich brat to do to avoid their infernal meddling???

[Syncro]

I know you were disappointed, but I was running on lack of sleep.

: > )

I actually like Cruz for Senate.

The Conservative Choice for Texas Senate Seat

by Ted Cruz 2 days ago

Two weeks ago, I sat down with the Dallas Morning News editorial board. Their first three questions were: (1) "Is it good to be a moderate?" (2) "Do we need more compromise in Washington?" and (3) "How will you be bipartisan and work across the aisle?" At that point, I laughed out loud and told them, “If you’re looking for a moderate establishment Senator who will be a bipartisan compromiser, working with Democrats to raise taxes, increase spending, and grow the debt -- I ain’t your guy.”

I continued, “If that’s what you’re looking for, you have two perfect choices in this election. Both David Dewhurst and Tom Leppert have spent their entire careers in elected office working across the aisle, compromising with Democrats to raise taxes and grow government spending.” The Dallas Morning News agreed. Torn between Leppert and Dewhurst, they ultimately chose Dewhurst because, as they said, “Dewhurst has been bipartisan at times, including appointing Democrats to head committees.”

They emphatically didn’t choose me, because I’m a conservative who really believes in conservative values. Even worse, I’ve spent a lifetime fighting for those values and will lead the fight to stop the spending in Washington. As they put it, “He’s pugnacious, in-your-face, combative.” Well, when it comes to taking on the Obama agenda, that’s just what I’ll be.

*snip*

And, in a refreshing display of intellectual honesty, the Austin-American Statesman endorsed me in this race, not because they agree with my views – they expressly disagreed, saying they thought my views are too conservative – but because Texas primary voters are looking for a strong conservative fighter, and that’s who I am. As they put it, “For Republican primary voters looking for a no-frills, no-apologies conservative, Cruz is the genuine article.”

In my view, the last thing we need in Washington is another go-along-to-get-along bipartisan moderate. Barack Obama is the most radical President we have ever had and his profligate spending has driven our nation to the brink of bankruptcy, but he didn’t create the problem alone. Career politicians in both parties, eager to stay in power by buying votes, have cooperated (“compromised,” to use the media’s preferred term) in robbing the taxpayers. And we’re going broke. 

I don’t think the problem in Washington has been too much principle from Republicans. To the contrary, in 2006 and 2008 Republicans lost their way, and that’s a big part of the reason why Obama was elected. I think we need to draw a line in the sand – to get back to the free-market principles that have made our nation great. We need to stand up and fight for liberty, fight to restore the Constitution. 

As the papers said, if you want a moderate establishment incumbent, David Dewhurst is your choice. But if you want a strong conservative fighter – who will lead the fight against the Obama agenda and not compromise us into bankruptcy – then I ask for your support.

Ted Cruz is a conservative Republican, endorsed by Sarah Palin, running for Senate in Texas. More info: www.tedcruz.org

We need to break loose from these embedded incumbents, break the ties they have with the beltway.

It's Tea Party Candidates that will make the necessary changes.

[BlackElk]

It is hard to imagine that you are not paid staff for Dewwurst. Your loyalty certainly merits a nice paycheck.

I believe in class warfare. It is a two-way street, however, and not just an opportunity for the Dewhursts and Weickers to keep the peasants in their place without the peasants grabbing their pitchforks and fighting back.

Oh, I see Dewhurst is not worth $250 million but ONLY a little less than $200 million. Poooooor Dewhurst!!!! How WILL he make it through next winter, impoverished as he is???

As to Ivy League SCOTUS associate justices other than the five GOP nominees I have identified: Sotomayor graduated Yale Law, Ginsburg attended Harvard Law but graduated Columbia Lawl Breyer and Kagan graduated Harvard Law. That makes it unanimous.

Newt Gingrich is not a lawyer. Nor is Herman Cain. Nor is Sarah Palin. None of the three are Ivy Leaguers at all. Rick Santorum is a lawyer but graduated Dickinson School of Law (not at all Ivy League. Michelle Bachmann is a lawyer but graduated Oral Roberts Law School and got a Master's in Tax Law at William and Mary, neither Ivy League. That excludes any love of mine for an Ivy League Executive Branch. Neither Boehner nor McConnell is an Ivy League lawyer. Both should be dumped and Ivy League or lawyer is well blow my radar as a requirement for their replacements. I would far prefer rampaging conservative ideologue and bitter enemy of the GOP-E as my top two qualifications.

Oh, Do Wurst is a businessman. Just as thrilling as Robamney is a businessman. That just settles it.

[hocndoc]

The owner is a US citizen. He employs US tax paying citizens in the US for sales and distribution - used to employ many more.

Why can’t Cruz just say that, yes, he agreed to be the Counsel of Record in this appeal? Why turn it into another skewed, negative ad?

[hocndoc]

Black Elk, your last few post are imaginative, to say the least. But they don’t follow any logical line.

Synchro, Dewhurst is neither an “incumbent” nor an elite. He’s just worked hard to prove the Amrican system works.

David Dewhurst put himself through college, playing basketball. His father was killed when he was 3, his mother worked afterward, but he didn’t inherit or benefit from family money. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for the CIA. *Then* he became a businessman and built that fortune from scratch. In his 50’s, he ran for Land Commissioner, then Lt, Governor.

I wish Cruz had taken a few years in business. Mostly, I wish he had run on his merits, rather than going abrasive and negative last fall. If he wins, I hope my original expectations are true.

[Syncro]

The owner of what?

[Syncro]

That story isn't selling, Dewhurst being squeaky clean (and running soft nice loving ads) and Cruz a nasty, scheming politician.

Sorry the records of both cause me to lean towards Cruz as the better candidate.

Electing Dewhurst would have a negative effect on the State of Texas.

Sorry, change incumbent to highly connected moderate GOP operative.

If we are going to go there, Cruz's father was in prison in Cuba as a young man, beaten and tortured before he escaped and came to America.

If Dewhurst wins, my expectations will, unfortunately, be realized.

He may not be an "elite", but his GOPe is pretty loud.

[ngat]

JFYI, Romney is also a graduate of Harvard Law. How do you think he learned to tear apart corporations and labor agreements?

Sorry, your attempt to equate David Dewhurst with Lowell Weicker is completely off base.

Weicker is a perp school grad, er, thats prep school, heir to the Squibb family fortune, lawyer, and Obama supporter. David Dewhurst is a graduate of public schools, self-made producer of products people like to buy, and to try to imply the conservative Dewhurst would support Obama is laughable.

Don’t worry, the assets David Dewhurst controls while he is on this earth are being used wisely to produce food for you to eat, gas and electricity to heat your home, and fuel so you can drive your car. Thanks to men like David Dewhurst, maybe YOU can make it through the winter.

Thanks for the list of career lawyer-politicians. Looks like we have quite enough of ‘em “serving the people” without adding Ted Cruz.

I don’t think enough conservative Texans will be fooled into electing another one.

[hocndoc]

Jordan Fishman, the owner of Alpha Tire Systems, in Florida.
http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/4901

[ngat]

“He may not be an “elite”, but his GOPe is pretty loud.”

You say that just because you want to believe it. It’s not true, though. In fact, Cruz has the Bush endorsement.

No conservative who has reviewed the records of the two candidates could possible call Cruz the “better candidate”. Unless they just prefer Ivy-League Lawyers with Goldman-Sachs connections over veteran, native-born, Texas-product- producing Texans with leadership, executive, and legislative experience.

[ngat]

By the way, I’m not paid staff or connected in any way to the Dewhurst campaign.

The fact I’m trying to educate tea-party followers that there are conservatives other than the ones endorsed by Sarah Palin is a function of Cruz going negative on Dewhurst from the beginning, when he did not need to, and wanting to open the eyes of fellow tea-party supporters.

[hocndoc]

Never said that Dewhurst ran soft nice loving ads. Said they are truthful.

Neither did I imply that Cruz is an “elite,” I stuck to rebuttal of your claim that Dewhurst is.

13 years in politics, beginning in mid-life, is nothing for Dewhurst to be ashamed of. He has lead a partisan Senate through runaway Dems, two budget crises, and our immigration pressures from DC.

Unfortunately, until last fall, Cruz has no record, other than being assigned to defend the laws that Dewhurst passed in the Texas Senate. Laws that even Cruz claims are not moderate.

[ngat]

“You have a problem with the direct election of US Senators by their constituents???”

Don’t you???

You mean you did not know that the seventeenth amendment was a plank in the platform of the Progressive Movement to undermine and nuetralize the constitutional impediment to unlimited Federal Government power? And that it has been wildly successful? And that far from preventing the rich elites from getting control of the Senate, it has enabled them to?

The Progressives’ purpose in passing the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for direct election by popular vote of senators, was for the individual states’ elected representative governments to give up any representation they had in the federal government.

This led to the gradual slide into near irrelevance of state legislatures, and state governments became mere administrative units of the Federal Government. The popular-vote election of senators guaranteed an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.

Now we, out here in flyover country, have to put up with the infernal meddling of federal government lawyers to a degree that would have been unthinkable to the founders and writers and ratifiers of the constitution.

[Syncro]

until last fall, Cruz has no record, other than being assigned to defend the laws that Dewhurst passed in the Texas Senate (I believe actual Senators hasd something to do with that to, as Dewhurst is just the presiding officer of the Texas Senate)

I never knew the Solicitor General's only duties were to defend the laws that the Lieutenant Governor passed in the Senate.

Or that the Lieutenant Governor was soley responsible for passing laws in the Senate.

I admit I am not as political savvy as others, so bear with me.

About Cruz having no record, he actually does

• law clerk to William Rehnquist and J. Michael Luttig

• authored more than eighty briefs before the United States Supreme Court and presented forty-three oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.

• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms

• Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States

• He has enough of a record that "Ted is currently the only Senate candidate in the nation to have the support of sitting U.S. Senators Jim DeMint,[25] Mike Lee,[26] Rand Paul,[27] and Pat Toomey.

  Dewhurst...has lead a partisan Senate through runaway Dems.

  Dewhurst appointed 32 Democrats to committee chairmanships, which resulted in killing conservative legislation.

  "Dewhurst has consistently sided with Democrats more often than with conservative Republicans, according to a study by Dr. Mark Jones, the chairman of the Department of Political Science at Rice University"

  "...(in) a Dewhurst-run Senate...the senators who enjoyed the most success were in the moderate and center wings of the Republican Party."

  Dewhurst's position in favor of government schools and against parents being able to choose how their children are schooled is not to my liking.

  A lot of the information in this post is from links I posted above and Wikipedia.

  Your guy has done some good stuff I admit.

  But I will always align myself with candidates who are closest to Tea Party ideals.

  Oh and earlier, I wasn't implying that the "owner" wasn't an American, just that he moved his factory to China.

  May the best man win!

[Syncro]

Yeah, Cruz is Cuban, and not born in Texas.

His dad as a kid, was jailed and severly beaten but eventually escaped.

Native born is nice, but speaking of endorsements:

Cruz is currently the only Senate candidate in the nation to have the support of sitting U.S. Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Pat Toomey.

That should fix the Bush endorsement huh?

Oh and don't forget "product producing" in China.

[hocndoc]

Either Dewhurst gets credit for passing Tort reform, loser pays, DOMA, Voter ID, the sonogram bill and a Woman’s Right to Know, etc., or he shouldn’t get blamed for the bad things that have happened.

What that Rice professor’s article actually says is that Dewhurst must be more “moderate” than 4 of the Republican Senators. But — showed him more conservative than the other 27.

That Rice professor put Hairy Legged Jeff *Wentworth* in the “conservative” column, btw.

As to the Dems as Chairs - that’s tradition in Texas. For one thing, we’ve got Dems more conservative on business and right to life than Wentworth who voted against Tort reform, WRTK, and the Sonogram bill.)

The Solicitor General does what the Attorney General tells him to do. He’s a staffer, an appointed position. (On the other hand, he would have had leeway on signing papers as Counsel of Record for his law firm who signed up with Linglong.)

Cruz is good at arguing. We have no idea what sort of legislator he will be.

[Resettozero]

What you have written here is true. A leftist would spin it differently and understate what this ammendment actually has accomplished.

When my homeschooled children and I were covering this area of history, the textbook DID emphasize that it was not necessarily a good ammendment in the long run.