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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 06/14/2015 8:41:48 PM PDT by TNMOUTH
Oklahoma City, OK - A great time. Most of us got our picture taken with him, too at no extra charge. What a great deal! Steve and I attended the round table discussion. Mark Thomas of Canadian County asked him if he thought he could keep his principles while serving in office (my version of the question). Cruz said yes, he could. Steve Byas asked Cruz about TPA/TPP. Cruz spent a good deal of time on this answer. He said he voted for TPA because every President had had TPA until Harry Reid killed it. Cruz said all this does is fast track any trade agreement. Cruz said TPP is still being worked out. They have yet to vote on TPP. Cruz said the big deal with TPP is that it is being kept secret. Cruz has read it and called for it to become public. He said any country can say which portions of the agreement they will and will not abide by. He said there is nothing in it that would cause us to lose our sovereignty. He said he has always been a free trade guy. Cruz came across as a very sincere guy, I thought. He shook many of our hands (including mine) as he came into the room. Then, when we went across the street to the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame--which was a great and handy place to hold it---Cruz went around to several tables and shook their hands, too. Cruz gave a great speech---he will fight for us, he went to DC and has told the truth and did what he said he would do, he things the US can be turned around and he thinks the GOP will win this time if we do not nominate in the same mold as John McCain and Mitt Romney; "He's someone I could see sitting in the Oval Office" ~Donna Byas When he finished the speech, he got a very, very, very long standing ovation. It went on so long, that after he sat down, he stood up again to acklnowledge it and kind of put his hands in the shape to tell the crowd thanks but that's enough---It was a really long standing ovation. He is a great speaker and he does have charisma. He seems very sincere and the real deal. He did so well that I changed my Facebook picture to the picture Steve and I took with him today. I was kind of waffling--heading towards Walker, but Cruz just really made me a believer today. It's the 2nd time I have seen him speak---we went to see Cruz and Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for TW in Tulsa during the US Senate race--though we supported Randy Brogdon. Cruz is an excellent speaker. He's someone I could see sitting in the Oval Office, standing in front of the cameras before all of Congress and the US Senate making a State of the Union address, or sitting down eye ball to eye ball with Putin and drawing a line in the sand about some invasion or other nuclear war heads or something. He also is a friend of Israel. I think he said we need to make our enemies fear us and our friends know they have an ally. I think he would do that. Oh, and the food was very good. We also had cheesecake again, and Steve said it was very good---as I decided I ought to cut back somewhere. We had some sort of fancy chicken with vegetables---very good. It was well attended. Oh...and all the money went to the Oklahoma GOP which I thought was a stand up, generous, and great thing to do of Ted as he had to miss the Gala because of the NSA vote. So, the OKGOP has twice made money off Ted Cruz's name. He did show up onscreen from DC but being there in person is quite different. I really thought Cruz would have won the straw poll had he been there in person to speak and had Carson not bought 100 votes. I had another "Disneyland" kind of day. It is really neat to see Presidential hopefuls come through Oklahoma for a change. Chairman Randy Brogdon organized a really great event. Cruz thinks he can get the 50 million or so Christian right voters who stayed at home last time to come out and vote for him; Cruz thinks we can turn the US around with Tax reform (he wants the flat tax), he wants to abolish the IRS, Bring back jobs we've lost over seas, and regulatory reforms--get Obama's zealots out of the business of regulation--they strangle small businesses, repeal every word of Obamacare and repeal Common Core--get back to local control of Education, Restore America's leadership was the 3rd plank. He is deeply optimistic. His Dad is his hero. Cruz and his wife are members at First Baptist Church of Houston.
I’ll reads this just as soon as you figure out paragraphs.
Cue the “Cruz is toast” crowd :-)
Suckas...
Sorry, still trying to figure this out.
Read it anyway...it is good stuff.
Using the Preview button would help.
A lot. That’s why it’s there.
Nice report. Thanks for posting.
Cruz is a CFR and a Goldman Sachs ‘stooge’ do you know? ;-)
I like Cruz but I disagree on this. The American working class always gets shafted in these “free” trade deals.
Thanks for the great report
Ted Cruz Ping! Isn’t there a link???
Then we could read it without getting a headache...
http://soonerpolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/ted-cruz-wows-crowd-at-okgop-luncheon.html
You’re welcome, TNMOUTH.
Cruz is the best we got
Lets keep up our support until we hear the debates where I am sure everyone will be asked to explain their most controversial positions.
Cruz deserves to be heard and supported until we hear him out.
Sometimes it rains and fair weather friends ain’t friends at all they are GOPe trolls.
Ted doesn’t duck tough questions like most do. He doesn’t give BS spin answers.
Lets let at least half the debates go bye before we choose.
Dems don’t eat their own like the GOP. Its great to have principles but give the guy a chance for us to see his whole approach to governing.
This is what I have been hearing happens wherever Ted goes.
Ted is creating a sensation because HE CLEARS UP THE CONFUSION and DRAWS SHARP DISTINCTIONS so that no one is left wondering just where he stands and what he has done to show he means and acts on what he says and believes.
Even employees of competing primary campaigners are acknowledging that Ted is gathering momentum and support and that his speeches are pegged off the high end of the scale.
What you say is true but it’s not the trade ‘documents’ that are doing the shafting, it’s the presidents who use them.
Similar to the argument that it’s not guns that kill people, it’s the people using the guns that kill people.
Ted is well aware that prior trade agreements have shafted American workers. But in his case there are American assets that other countries are begging for that would create millions of secure high-paying jobs for Americans. For example there is an ENORMOUS surplus in natural gas (NG) in the USA. Asia and Europe are begging for Americans to export their NG surplus as LNG. They will buy all they can get. But Obama will not let it happen, Ted Cruz most certainly will have LNG approved for export.
Obama won’t let the 1.5 trillion dollars US corporations have in foreign profits be brought back here at a small tax rate. All that money could help plant and job hires.
Ted is always talking about this
It’s 20 trillion, not 1.5 trillion.
But on everything else you are correct.
Ted Cruz is the once in a generation perhaps lifetime presidential candidate that people can trust. We are indeed fortunate to have him at this time in history.
“Ted Cruz is the once in a generation perhaps lifetime presidential candidate that people can trust. We are indeed fortunate to have him at this time in history.”.........
Although “We, The People” may think Cruz is the greatest politician since sliced bread, the rino’s will not select him as their candidate. Cruz is too conservative, straight forward, trustworthy, speaks directly to the people and is a person who can be trusted, they will NOT give him the nod.
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