Ted Cruz's Dazzling Announcement Speech Scared the Heck Out of the Left

Rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 3-23-2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Carl Vehse]

"Other than being pro-American, that's his biggest difference with BO."

Ted Cruz is a patriotic, overwhelmingly qualified candidate for the Presidency.

Barack Obama is an America-hating, terrorist-supporting traitor.

[RJS1950]

Many of the other threads plus the local conservative talk radio seems to be headed in the direction of dismissing him as inexperienced, he’ll cave or is lying about things like immigration, or he will lie, all republicans do and a host of other flawed reasoning.

For God’s sake! He just announced, give him more than 5 minutes, one day, or even six months to put himself out there.

Same old so-called conservative habit of dismissing a good conservative candidate because

1. he doesn’t agree with me EXACTLY on all issues,
2. I don’t like his religion,
3. I don’t trust him to be different from the RINOs,
4. he is reported to have said something I didn’t like (but of course you never verify that is what he said),
5. I believe what the lying democrats and media say about him,
6. I believe what the RINO GOPe says about him.
7. ...and the list goes on

When do all you doubters of every conservative think you are going to find that perfect candidate so we don’t end up with one of the GOPe my-turners?

[kidd]

For all of those who thought Rush was in the Walker camp, please read the entire article.

[RayChuang88]

The part that makes me stand up and cheer is that Cruz wants REAL tax reform, at least to the flat tax that Steve Forbes proposed in 1996.

The current income tax code is rife with political corruption and costs American residents and businesses US$1 TRILLION per year (as of 2014) in compliance costs and economic opportunity costs; just going to the flat tax would cut that by at least 70%, in my humble opinion (can you imagine Americans getting US$700 billion per year back to use for way more productive purposes?). I think Cruz would be open to even more radical tax reform like the FairTax proposal (H.R. 25/S. 155), which would free up over US$900 billion per year for more productive purposes.

That amount of money freed up per year would cause the biggest economic boom the USA has ever seen, and would literally "float the boat" of many other economies around the world along with it.

[SamAdams76]

The speech was amazing and it had broad appeal.

I had my doubts in the beginning that Ted Cruz would have much appeal beyond the solid conservatives. I'm happy to say that those doubts have been removed.

I see Cruz pulling in millions of voters who have otherwise been sitting out elections. I also see some "Reagan Democrat" appeal here.

Reagan had two landslides because he was able to bring working class Democrats into the GOP fold. Is there any real man out there that would vote for Hillary or Elizabeth Warren over a man like Ted Cruz in a general election?

Not many, I would reckon. No matter what political party they are affiliated with.

[Always A Marine]

"...we finally now have, on display, someone who can cheerfully, confidently, happily articulate conservatism in a charismatic, positive way. Somebody who's not afraid of it. Somebody who's not ashamed of it. Somebody who doesn't see any need to qualify it or to make excuses for it."
- Rush Limbaugh speaking about Ted Cruz, March 23, 2015

These words by Rush resonated with me as I was driving and listening, and I was hoping to find them in print. Rush mirrored my thoughts exactly.

[justa-hairyape]

Ethanol subsidy support should be a good litmus test for Republicans. If you are for them, you are a crony. If you are against them, like Cruz, you are genuinely concerned with the nation as a whole, and not just the special interests. That could hurt him in Iowa though.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why does everyone assume that Iowa voters are all farmers? Farmers make up less than 2% of the population of the United States.

[Cyman]

Love Ted Cruz. Hate his Ivy League connection.

[The Unknown Republican]

I have not been this excited about a Presidential candidate since November 13, 1979.

[SoConPubbie]

Interesting take......my prediction, and it’s been this way for months, is that he will win the nomination and the election.

Preach it brother C.E.W.!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Oh I will....EARLY and OFTEN!!

[alstewartfan]

The entire left hates his Ivy League connections as well!

[usurper]

Thanks for the link, I just sent him $100.00. More on the way in the future.

[PGalt]

HOORAY Rush! (I didn’t hear the show)

HOORAY Ted!

[Georgia Girl 2]

No teleprompter? How he do dat? :-)

[arasina]

The good Newt. Cute. ;-)

[arasina]

Was the caller referring to Free Republic? (I know...he called it a blog, but...)

[CA Conservative]

Why does everyone assume that Iowa voters are all farmers?

No one assumes that. But in Iowa, the farmers wield influence far out of proportion to their numbers, primarily because so much of the economy in the state is dependent upon agriculture. In other words, it is not just the farmers - it is also the farming equipment dealers, the people who repair that equipment and sell other supplies to farmers, the people who work on the farms; then the people who sell groceries, homes, cars and other goods to the people who rely on the farms for their income, etc.

That does not justify a candidate pandering, but does help explain why the farmers have such influence.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Having lived in Iowa from 1974 (age 14) to 2002 (age 42)(except for my service in the armed forces) and having worked on two presidential campaigns, I’m aware of the conditions on the ground there.