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Posted on 03/19/2015 9:01:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
South Carolina holds the First in the South presidential Primary in less than a year, so potential candidates are taking a shine to the Palmetto State.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rocked a crowd of about 500, Saturday, at the S.C. National Security Action Summit. It was held at the Brookland Baptist Banquet and Conference Center in West Columbia.
“No president has the right to give up the sovereignty of the United States,” Cruz told the assembly in his address. He received a standing ovation for the line. It was in reference to a deal the Obama Administration is making, using executive orders, to lift sanctions on Iran as that country attempts to build a nuclear weapon.
“The president may have a pen and a phone, but the next president is going to have an eraser,” to undo much of Obama's orders and policies, Cruz said to a loud round of applause.
Cruz seemed the popular headliner of the day-long event, even though he was the next-to-the-last speaker, ahead of former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA.)
Santorum said Iran has been “focused on Iran” since 2005, when he was a U.S. Senator. He said he has been more hardline against Iran than Republican President George W. Bush was when he was in office. Santorum, who spoke to a crowd that thinned after Cruz spoke, said it is imperative to stop Iran because it is a regime that has the goal of spreading radical Islam all over the world.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) was scheduled to speak at the summit, but he reportedly had trouble with flight travel and did not get to the event.
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CRUZ or LOSE!” crowd that thinned after Cruz spoke,”
Unexpected......
LOL
LOL, great line. Cruz is looking better and better all the time.
“Cruz is looking better and better all the time.”
I agree. A couple months ago, I was thinking Cruz, Walker, Carson in that order. Now it seems Carson is far from ready for prime time and Walker is increasingly shaky on important positions.
I’m far from ruling out Walker — he would still be far better than most in the field. But Cruz just seems to stand head and shoulders above the rest.
I think the upcoming debates will really tell the tale. I expect Cruz to kill it in the debates, and it will be interesting to see how good a debater Walker is. Many of us had high hopes for Perry last time around until we completely flamed out in the debates. I hope that doesn’t happen with Walker, and I hope he’s taking some lessons from Perry’s 2012 campaign and doing some serious preparation.
He needs to show more depth than just the talking points from his stump speeches. He needs to show us that he understands foreign policy and he needs to more clearly explain his immigration position. Being “opposed to amnesty” tells me nothing, especially given Walker’s history of at the very least tacit support for immigration reform. He needs to get right on that position or he may find himself in serious trouble with the base.
As for Cruz, I have yet to see a flaw in his positions, intellect and speaking ability. The main objection to him I guess is that somehow he is unelectable — the same thing they said about Reagan by the way.
I beginning to feel increasingly like 2016 is so critical that we can’t afford to pass up an opportunity to put a guy like Cruz in the White House. I know there is a big feeling out there that Walker is the “most conservative candidate that can win.”
But I think Cruz can definitely win — just imagine him running circles around Hillary in a debate in the fall of 2016. So at this point, unless Cruz badly stumbles and Walker really steps up his game, I see no reason to pass on putting our best up against Hillary.
With the 15 candidate land rush many forsee, each one should get about 6 minutes if they're lucky.
LOL, great line. Cruz is looking better and better all the time.
That's the line that stood out for me, too.
Cruz alone is taking a stand to ERASE superfluous, tyrannical government.
Others in the GOP take the stand that Republicans' job is to re-draw and tweak superfluous, tyrannical government.
Republicans who want to re-craft government to be more "conservative" socially but every bit as "helpful" and "compassionate" fiscally (food stamps, minimum wage, medical care, etc.), are functional liberals.
Functional conservatives are those who understand that the solution is to ERASE government that has overcrowded the original Constitution, so that Americans, including "social conservatives," are once again free to live their mostly and naturally-inclined Christian morals (rejecting open homosexuality and abortion, for example) without reference to the Federal government.
Such functional conservatives are few and far between. Cruz is one. We need an eraser -- or maybe it's like that little girl said, we need a fireman who will put out the raging, growing fire of government tyranny. Not replace it, not try to guide it or make it do less damage, but to PUT IT OUT.
Cruz is the ONLY one who has that approach.
AMEN!!!
They probably had no idea what a gifted speaker Rick Santorum is. They lost out. But, GO TED!!!!! The lines are getitng pithier and funnier all the time. LOL Bob
I love it; they put Cruz on next to last, and still he “rocks the event”.
So there!
The left will always mutter - he’s “unelectable”, hoping some of the squishy repubs will fall for it.
Or, I expect them to also proffer the fact that he’s a Senator and not a Governor - so therefore, he doesn’t know how to govern.
Which is hogwash.
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But, the fact the left voted for a Senator doesn’t seem to calculate in their brain.
I think having a father who escaped from tyranny has really helped Cruz see the dangers of it.
A lot of Americans have no clue what Tyranny looks like; that may be why they don’t fight it.
You’re absolutely correct Finny!
Spot on post.
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