Posted on 09/02/2013 8:48:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was met with enthusiastic cheers from an "adoring" audience during his address at a conservative summit on Saturday, the friendliest of any of the potential 2016 presidential hopefuls to speak at the Defending the Dream summit.
The event, hosted by Americans for Prosperity, drew a handful of other conservative stars and would-be presidential contenders: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R ) and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R ) all spoke.
But according to The Washington Post, none received so warm a welcome as Cruz. He was met with chants of "Run, Ted, run!" after giving a speech focused largely on the imperative of defunding ObamaCare, a cause which he and a handful of other conservatives in the Senate have championed in recent weeks.
Cruz slammed fellow Republicans who have criticized the push as potentially politically harmful and pledged not to back down from a threat to shut down the government if the law is not defunded.
“Right now, the people who are fighting the hardest against our effort to defund Obamacare are sadly Republican,” he said. “Over and over again, they say, ‘We can’t win this fight.’ Well, you know — you lose 100 percent of the fights that you surrender at the outset.”
Cruz has fast emerged as a darling of the conservative movement, taking a place somewhat lost by Rubio after the Florida senator took the lead on immigration reform, drawing him criticism from conservatives and leading to a drop in many national polls of the 2016 GOP presidential landscape.
Indeed, Rubio's reception at the same summit on Friday was decidedly less enthusiastic. Though he received cheers for parts of his speech, he was also heckled over immigration reform with shouts of "No amnesty!" from the crowd.
In contrast, Cruz took the stage to a sustained standing ovation and exited to calls for him to run for president.
/johnny
It happened, but I’m not going to do the search til you promise to follow your priciple.
I skimmed your posts, and if there were any that were to lakeshark, I missed them.
/johnny
What voters in primaries really want is a vision
2 millions adults in IA. 100,000 will do the GOP caucus.
Vision takes a back seat to field organizing.
Vision has its limitations in NH too.
here is part of the Kemp autopsy
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-01-23/news/0010230043_1_kemp-robertson-national-convention-delegates
Dearest Trisham, he did the slander, I’m just waiting for him to promise to follow his principle before I show it.
I remember well 5.7 yrs ago when Queen Hillary was a "lock" for the Dem nom and a guy named Baraq from Kenya by way of Chicago snuck in and stole the kishka.
I didn’t see his post on this thread that slandered you.
Shark ... you dont identify our state.
so we cannot check the progress in your Legislature on NBC codification and ballot access Birth Certificate legislation.
How is it going?
It was some months ago on another thread. It was a clear slandererous lie. I don’t and haven’t supported Lindsay.
Rand-Paul not necessarily involved himself ... see his recent comments about Cruz citizenship ... but the paulistas like to freelance.It would be best that Rand Paul not run because he has his own Amnesty Proposal.
The Paulistas are strong enough in western NH to successfully undermine Cruz there. It would be best if Paul were to not run and, instead, endorse Cruz.
Sorry, can you rephrase, I don’t understand your question.
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I see. That explains it.
Baraq organized like a madman and a community organizer. Hillary ignored the caucus states, thinking she would have the thing wrapped up after a few primaries.
she followed the mark Penn strategy
“ Penn also pushed the “big states” strategy that essentially ceded smaller states and caucuses to Obama. Some say this enabled the huge victory margins that translated into what is now a nearly-insurmountable pledged delegate lead for Obama.
After Clinton didn’t do as well as she hoped on Super Tuesday — a date when staffers had long predicted she would virtually wrap up the nomination — campaign senior adviser Harold Ickes told the New York Observer that Penn’s claim that he did not bear responsibility for her performance didn’t hold water, and that the strategist was “the single most responsible person for this campaign” besides the candidate herself.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/07/clinton.campaign/
how is the birther thing going in your state?
any legislation on ballot access, birth certificate, etc? NBC codification?
This is primarily a state matter. Unless state statutes violate the US Constitution.
Then you have a long slog ahead of you. We'll see you in a few days. I don't know about Johnny, but I have over 46,000 posts I'd have to sift through. I'd need a PERL script and access to the central database. Until then, I'll do what most people do...go with the person I've been friends with the longest.
I don't have to power of zot. Obviously.
/johnny
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