Cruz Easily Wins Value Voters Summit Straw Poll

National Review Online ^ | October 12, 2013 3:15 PM | Katrina Trinko

[SoConPubbie]

Senator Ted Cruz easily beat the competition in the Value Voters Summit Presidential Straw Poll, winning a whopping 42 percent of votes cast by social conservatives at the summit.

Both Doctor Ben Carson and former senator Rick Santorum won 13 percent of the vote. Rounding out the top five were Senator Rand Paul (six percent) and Senator Marco Rubio (five percent).

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[SoConPubbie]

We have our leader, ladies and gentlemen!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SoConPubbie.

As Cruz hews to hard line, other 2016 contenders go mute on shutdown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3077997/posts

[snip] ...in the aftermath of Cruz’s fiery speech... The shutdown went unmentioned by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), both early champions of the defunding battle. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is working toward a compromise with the White House on the shutdown and debt ceiling that does not erode ObamaCare, made a short argument for his alternate plan in Friday afternoon video message to the group... Paul’s and Rubio’s dodges, and Ryan’s implicit rebuke, demonstrate that they are seeking to avoid being tainted by the fight’s fallout while avoiding any confrontation with the party’s base. Cruz used his speech to frame the debate over ObamaCare and the government shutdown in stark terms, painting it as a key battle in the larger war for individual freedom. [/snip]

[Amagi]

Cruz is fearless, articulate, extremely bright, and 100% patriot.

[onyx]

Senator Cruz RULES!!

God bless and keep him and his precious family.


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[Jack Hammer]

It’ll be difficult to beat any Leftie Marxist at this point, with so many ‘Americans’ having their hands out and sucking away at Uncle Sugar’s teat.

[SoConPubbie]

It’ll be difficult to beat any Leftie Marxist at this point, with so many ‘Americans’ having their hands out and sucking away at Uncle Sugar’s teat.

I really think that is an over-stated and inflated position.

If the GOP actually puts up fighters and principled statesmen like Senator Ted Cruz or Governor Palin, they will win.

If instead, the put up Progressive-Lite candidates like Mitt Romney who walk away from the social agenda and limited government agenda, they will continue to lose and become more and more irrelevant.

They have a choice, either represent the people who vote for them, the base and others, or represent the big campaign contributors who are pushing things like the Gay Agenda, Amnesty, etc.

They can be Collaborators with the Democrats or they can be the principled opposition.

They cannot be both.

[Jack Hammer]

They put up Sarah Palin; she got trashed by the Leftist media.

The same will happen to Cruz.

[SoConPubbie]

They put up Sarah Palin; she got trashed by the Leftist media.

The same will happen to Cruz.

So?

They did the same thing to Reagan.

I'm reminded of the following scripture:

John 15:20-21
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

[MuttTheHoople]

What? No Chris Christy?

[campaignPete R-CT]

try to temper your irrational exuberance, Mr. Hammer.

[Jack Hammer]

Sorry if I seem cynical; I’m very old and very grouchy.

Of course I hope Cruz will be the next president; I’m just not very hopeful.

A great deal of bitter experience.

[Viennacon]

Cruz has pretty much locked down the SoCon wing of the party, and he’ll likely get those key Iowa endorsements. Bad news for Huckabee, who I think leans more to Christie.

[Bluestocking]

The DNC/MSM can’t beat Ted Cruz like they did Sarah Palin.

Ted Cruz not only graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, he has also been highly praised by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, who said of Senator Cruz, his former student, “Without a doubt he is among the smartest students I’ve ever had… I’ve had great students but he has to be at the top of anyone’s short list, in terms of raw brain power.”

Ted Cruz also won national college debating championships during his undergraduate years at Princeton.

Katie Couric, Sarah Palin’s nemesis, would have been mincemeat in his hands, and so will any other liberal denizen of the MSM foolish enough to take him on.

[campaignPete R-CT]

I’m very old and very grouchy, too.

We need updated reasons to have hope for America. The establishment has gone bad and the populist culture is worse.

We are not losing the battle, we are not even in it. There is no pessimism like the pessimism born in the post-defeat age.

[lonevoice]

But...but...the MSM and even Fox News is telling me that Ted Cruz is a big loser now and even his own party hates him. I’m soooo confuuuused. Not. :-)

[Jack Hammer]

“There is no pessimism like the pessimism born in the post-defeat age.”

You said it, Brother.

[PoloSec]

Cruz is setting the standard, raising the bar far above self service, making integrity, honesty, boldness, character and sacrifice, once again the principles of leadership, he is quickly gaining the respect, confidence and loyalty from all those who wish to once again see a free republic.

[Signalman]

Is Ted Cruz the new Ronald Reagan?:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3070604/posts