Posted on 05/28/2012 6:19:22 AM PDT by Qbert
The late Andrew Breitbart saw in Ted Cruz the future of the conservative movement.
On paper, Cruz seems like someone out of central casting, perfectly put together to represent conservatism’s future. His father fled oppression in Cuba for freedom in America. He grew up immersing himself in the works of Frederick Bastiat, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman, earning scholarships by giving speeches about their ideas. He went to Princeton and Harvard law without losing the common touch. He racked up legal victories that helped defend the Second Amendment and America’s sovereignty against the World Court.
But while Breitbart admired these things about Cruz, they were not why, after speaking with the conservative GOP Texas senate candidate (Texas's primary is on Tuesday) at what would be his last Conservative Political Action Conference, Breitbart told close friends and associates that Cruz represented conservatism’s future. It was because Breitbart saw in Cruz, first and foremost, a fighter who was fierce, principled, uncompromising, and relentless. These were the characteristics Breitbart first looked for and those who were a part of the “Army of Davids” had in spades.
Stephen K. Bannon, the filmmaker who was one of Breitbart’s closest friends and whose movies have captured the fierce and patriotic spirit of Jacksonian Tea Partiers, always remembered how effusively Andrew Breitbart “admired the fact that Ted Cruz was a fighter and came from a family of fighters.” Breitbart also knew, when he learned how Cruz had been “preaching the gospel of constitutional limited government since he was a teenager all across Texas,” that fighting for constitutional conservatism was in Cruz’s bones. He knew Cruz was the real deal and not a poseur.
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“Breitbart Is Here: Late Conservative Hero Admired Ted Cruz’s Fighting Spirit”
Bleeeech.
Another sappy Cruz ad and this time they manage to get the words Fighting Spririt, Hero, Conservative, and invoke the name of the fallen martyr breitbart himself all in the same title sentence.
Give me a break.
"Give me a break."
Club for Growth, Levin, Palin, Breitbart, DeMint, et al on Cruz's side... Rick (Al Gore's former manager/anti-Capitalist) Perry on Dewhurst's. Gee I wonder why...
oops, you posted on the wrong site
“Club for Growth”?
You’ve got to be kidding me.
You mean the same Club for growth that during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries was using funds from backers of Mitt Romney to attack Romney”s opponents?
How is trying to wake conservatives up that have fallen for the Harvard Lawyers guild’s attack ads against the true conservative in the race, David Dewhurst, posting on the wrong site?
I so hope Cruz defeats Dewhurst. It’ll be like a b**tch slap for Perry, Dewhurst and the establishment good ol boy club.
He may not be the perfect candidate, but one things for ded-gum certain, he’z not the incumbant.
Dewhurst, you gotta go homey.
Ted Cruz is ten times better than Dewhurst. Dewhurst is nothing but a career politician. He doesn’t have any better credentials than 0bama. Dewhurst is a brainless empty suit.
Ted Cruz is ten times better than Dewhurst. Dewhurst is nothing but a career politician. He doesn’t have any better credentials than 0bama. Dewhurst is a brainless empty suit.
To all TEXAS Primary voters: List the top 10 demonstrated positive values for each Candidate for all offices, and vote accordingly.
BTW, let us make this a “clothespin-free” election!
If you value your vote, then vote your values!
I prefer stay far away from anything remotely Jacksonian. Call me an elitist, but there's nothing Jacksonian that I admire.
Second, I've been slightly bemused during this entire Senate primary.
I've chuckled at the thought that a Ivy League attorney (Princeton & Harvard) who clerked for Rehnquist, worked in a D.C. firm, served in the Bush administration, served as Texas' Solicitor General and is a partner in a firm representing people like Goldman Sachs is somehow an "insurgent" or "outsider."
I've chuckled at a Dallas mayor thinking he could run successfully for the Republican nomination, when he previously sought the endorsements of Acorn and SEIU.
I've chuckled at Craig James, because - well - he's Craig James and he has the worst polling numbers one could possibly imagine, since he's pretty much hated by anyone who gets to know him.
And lastly, I've chuckled at the current Lt. Gov. who is about as exciting as a fence post, but is still in the lead and close to going over 50% despite some really bad decisions made on his part during various legislative sessions.
This entire campaign, since 2010, has seemed like a joke.
Reality check.
Lt. David Dewhurst is not the career politician in this election contest.
Lawyer Cruz is the career politician.
How could anyone make that mistake?
Hey, servantboy, wake up, there is no incumbent in this race.
“I’ve chuckled at the thought that a Ivy League attorney (Princeton & Harvard) who clerked for Rehnquist, worked in a D.C. firm, served in the Bush administration, served as Texas’ Solicitor General and is a partner in a firm representing people like Goldman Sachs is somehow an “insurgent” or “outsider.” “
You won’t be chuckling so much if the Cruz you described so accurately becomes our second “conservative” lawyer-senator.
Dewhurst is Kay Baily in boots.....GOPe....
No, I will still be amused.
Oh. I re-read your stuff.
Now I realize you are playing the role of the slightly bemused intellectual, above it all, finding humor in the folly of the provincials who take life and commerce seriously, and are so far removed from the center of government populated by sophisticates as yourself.
In reality, it is Cruz who is the GOPe candidate, not Lt. Governor of Texas David Dewhurst.
The Cruz campaign has been successful at planting the idea that Cruz is not the GOPe candidate, but Cruz is in fact the GOPe candidate.
Cruz has simply used the Alinsky tactic of accusing your opponent of being what you yourself are.
Dewhurst IS one of the best conservatives we have had in years in Texas.
In reality everything in David Dewhurst’s life and career as Lt. Governor of the State of Texas proves that he is a conservative.
Everything about Cruz and his life so far show that he is much more likely to have liberal tendencies than Dewhurst.
Did you know Cruz is just another Harvard Lawyer with the straight-out Goldman-Sach connection trying to pull off STARTING his political career with Texas’ US Senate seat? It’s audacious and incredible when you think about it.
This guy Cruz, who has spent most of his adult life in Massechusetts and Washington, with his out-of-state endorsements and money, is actually is trying to convince Texans that Lt. Gov. Dewhurst is the GOPe and the liberal in this race? I cannot believe you are buying it!
Cruz has no record, except for arguing cases on behalf of his bosses whoever they might be at the time, taking the positions he was hired to take.
I know you are finding it hard to wrap your head around this, but Dewhurst is the Conservative, Cruz is the liberal insider in this primary election.
Cruz is our Rubio
If that doesn't make you chuckle just a little, then you might not have a sense of humour.
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