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.
Wouldn’t accusing another Freeper of being on drugs be considered a ‘malicious lie’?
America needs Cruz Control.
What drugs am I on again? You said I was on drugs!
Asking a question isn't an accusation.
Liar.
/johnny
“Millions of natural born Americans hold Canadian passports. So what?”
What difference does it make???
The CATO Institute seems to think so. Mark Levin agrees. The Heritage Foundation loves him as does the Federalist Society. These people are all constitutional scholars with experience at the Supreme Court level. I’ll take their word on it over a passel of internet sea lawyers any day of the week, even the lawyer Orly Tate who has scored exactly zero in the slam dunk case against Obama.
CATO Institute: Yes, Ted Cruz Can be President:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3060736/posts
By the way, you may wish to do a little research into Cruz’s winning record as Texas Solicitor General. The man knows the constitution and he is a constitutional conservative and he is a winner.
...I said with all due respect......what else do you want?
None.
DITTOS!!!!!! Conservative Needed! Join TP and ramp up the music and make the heads spin!
There are fifty states ... and most hold presidential primaries.
ZERO of the fifty have this “NBC birther” requirement to gain ballot access. And there is NO case law ... no state statutes in ANY of the fifty states.
It doesn’t exist in current law anywhere. So can you see why most everybody considers it to be a fringe novelty subculture political concept? How many states even require a birth certificate for ballot access?
If he were a liberal, he’d probably violate the split loyalty thing.....so that would be totally different. However, your Canadian passport argument is simply pathetic, absurd, and insulting.
“As to his eligibility, I think the questions you raise—which are legitimate concerns—will be settled soon enough, if they have not been already. Lots of folks are saying he is eligible, and it sounds like a strong case can be made for that.”
Agreed.
Cruz is fully qualified.
Of course, I also noticed you could not answer the question, just complain about my approach. Why don’t you grow up, ditch the whiny emotion, and deal with a question you have proven unable to deal with up to this point......
Concerned people are showing their concern.
Concern trolls about the most conservative candidate we have can bite me.
Well, I disgree sir. I think the office is larger than any one man, be it Cruz or Washington. I love the man and I understand very well why you want him as President.
I am sorry, but I cannot, in good conscience, support Cruz as president. There are many fine patriots in this nation who would qualify and would be eligible.
I think you are making a mistake. We are a year out of the midterms and two years out from 2016. Why announce this now? Why push your chips in for something that may never happen and if it does, won’t really be relevant for 2 years?
I confess, I don’t understand it, JR. Why this, why now?
I’m with you, Jim. It’s disheartening to look at the Cruz threads and seeing just about every last one of them becoming a birther thread.
But obviously you know this.
You've proved that by lying and saying he has a Canadian passport. Why should you be believed about ANYTHING?
/johnny
“If he were a liberal, he’d probably violate the split loyalty thing.....so that would be totally different. However, your Canadian passport argument is simply pathetic, absurd, and insulting.”
What’s pathetic or absurd about the argument that the American president ought to be born in America?
And no, I’m not of the opinion that ‘only liberals’ can have divided loyalties. Is that really the standard now, “being a conservative” is enough? That is a very broad, and open to all kinds of abuse.
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