Posted on 07/28/2013 6:13:04 PM PDT by drewh
Sen. Ted Cruz hasn’t said whether he has presidential ambitions, but Sunday he won one of the first straw polls for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
The Texas Republican captured 45 percent of the 504 votes cast by attendees at the Western Conservative Summit, a day after drawing several standing ovations during his luncheon speech at the fourth annual conference.
“We shall see what sort of crystal ball summiteers have in awarding that decisive nod to Sen. Ted Cruz, who was so magnificent from this platform,” said John Andrews, founder of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, which hosted the event.
Placing second was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who delivered the keynote address Friday at the three-day summit, with 13 percent of the vote.
Tied for third were Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, and former Rep. Allen B. West, Florida Republican, with 9 percent each. Mr. West was the conference’s featured speaker Sunday, while Mr. Paul received the most votes among those on the ballot who didn’t attend the conference.
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Put up or shut up!
Not going to happen Ms. Spammer.
YOU HAVE NO LIVING LEGAL AUTHORITY ON YOUR SIDE!
LoL. The dead not good enough for you?
Appealing to some authority is a logic flaw. Because so and said says so, make you wrong! How about thinking? BTW, you're wrong on your assumption that all knowledgeable are dead.
There seems little likelihood that liberal elites won’t raise the challenge. The real question would seem to be: will the court’s give him the pass they gave the fraud occupying the Oval Office? Will they be afraid to hold an hispanic accountable the way that they have been afraid to hold a half-black accountable? This is now that hispanics have become a “race” doncha know. In any case the Rule of Law as we knew it will have suffered greatly but that will not stop a double standard from being displayed.
Actually, after-birthism were the biggest Fogblowing trolls on FR.
Here's a few that have been zotted over the last few years among the scores of them and other Democrats.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~jamese777/
http://www.freerepublic.com/~non-sequitur/
http://www.freerepublic.com/~curiosity/
You are making a fool of yourself.
You stated that I was a “simpleton”?
If that is so, why are you having such a hard time naming even ONE LIVING AUTHRITY on your side?
Isn’t it likely, even MANDATORY, that living legal authorities look at history, and the legal record, to come to current conclusions about the law?
Is it your absurd position that every attorney in the country is completely incompetent to practice law?
You can not even name an ATTORNEY on your side of this stupid argument.
You can not even name an ATTORNEY on your side of this stupid argument.
Edwin Vieira.
Get over yourself.
You LOST an argument, and now you are trying to deflect.
IF there were indeed strong, consistent, legal opinions on your side of the argument, at any time in history, there would be a LIVING LEGAL AUTHORITY, today, telling us about it!
We live in a Constitutional Republic where, through out our history, we have disagreed on various topics.
YOUR position, on this issue, NEVER held the majority view at law, or in our political system
Get over yourself.
You LOST an argument, and now you are trying to deflect.
IF there were indeed strong, consistent, legal opinions on your side of the argument, at any time in history, there would be a LIVING LEGAL AUTHORITY, today, telling us about it!
We live in a Constitutional Republic where, through out our history, we have disagreed on various topics.
YOUR position, on this issue, NEVER held the majority view at law, or in our political system
Ted Cruz is THE REAL DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Count me in.
You might as well be trying to tell the FReedopers on a pot thread that smoking MJ causes brain damage. It just won’t take. Then they will start quoting the work of an 18th century Swiss politician.
Hyperbole hyperbole. Oh, FR survived the last 5 years where 10s of thousands of natural born citizenship threads have been posted as I said above, and it should easily be able to survive for the next 5 years too.
NOBODY agrees with you folks, nobody of any importance anyway.
Didn't I tell you appealing to authority is a big logic flaw. Tsk Tsk...
Yes he is!
You just go with the flow we all know that.
Ignoring authority, all the time, is a sign of deep mental illness.
If Cruz is eligible for POTUSA so are the two sons of deposed Egyptian president Morsi who were born on the USA as well as Huma Albedin, Hillary’s confident and big time Muslim and Wiener’s wife. She was also born in the USA. I can’t accept that allowing such possibilities supported by the tremendous influx of Muslims in the USA and the ‘care less’ for USA part of population with other interests other than the Constitution. I believe our Nation’s Founders knew the perils of such possibilities and worded eligibility to prevent such. In my opinion Cruz is very good patriot but being such a patriot should not make a person blind to what the Founders intended. Obama holds the office of POTUSA but he is an enabled usurper. Enough is enough of this discarding the Founders intent which has been a cornerstone of this Nation for many years.
Ignoring the people who have traded on their “integrity” which is considerable. People who lack integrity in government and in the media. It is overwhelming.
A cerebral narcissist wants attention, and cares nothing at all about results.
You do not care about reality, or consequences.
You only want a stage on which to perform.
You only want at least a FEW people to look upon you as their false “god”.
You have absolutely NO foundation for you views. Your views are absurd and ridiculous.
But it is not your mission to change any minds, it is only your desire to “lead” your small cult of followers.
Yes, and SO WHAT?
How many gang bangers were eligible before they got convicted or killed?
How many serial killer were eligible before they got caught?
THE VOTERS, and their elected Representatives, decide these things, NOT THE COURTS!
I just point out things that are a matters of fact. You just don't like it.
A cerebral narcissist wants attention, and cares nothing at all about results.<./i>
Sounds like you when you spam the threads like this one trying to shut down contrary viewpoints.
You have absolutely NO foundation for you views. Your views are absurd and ridiculous.
No, actually there is a huge body of evidence posted on FR that you ignore and it is not absurd.
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