Posted on 01/18/2015 2:17:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz delivered on Sunday what looked like a dry run of his 2016 presidential stump speech to the South Carolina activists who will help decide that election.
In his first visit to the state, which will host the third presidential primary in February 2016, since October, Cruz told the state’s Tea Party activists that nominating a moderate in 2016 would lead Republicans to lose just like they have when those moderates led the ticket in the past.
“If we nominate another candidate in the mold of a Bob Dole or a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, all of whom are good, honorable decent men,” said Cruz, needling Romney a week after he expressed interest in running a third time, “the same people who stayed home in ’08 and ’12 will stay home in 2016 and the Democrats will win again.”
Cruz’s speech to the 1,500 activists at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention gave him an opportunity to mingle with those who volunteer and raise small-dollar donations for presidential campaigns. Two other potential presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and neurosurgeon Ben Carson, also have that chance this weekend at the event in Myrtle Beach....
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Eventually someone here will figure out that you and those like you constantly making excuses for and freely pushing Romney and the rest of the GOP evil is why fundraisers take 3 months.
Were you gone, that money would come back.
I don’t understand how a Conservative state like SC can keep reelecting that RINO faggot Lindsey Graham.
Because someone who believes in the same things as Obama is somehow BETTER because he has an ‘R’ next to his name.
Nope! No Romney, no Bush, no Huckabee, no Graham.....vote Cruz or Walker.
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Or...... Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico. She would neuter the Dem’s “War on Women” vote and get the majority of the Hispanic vote and beat Hillary into oblivion.
Nope! No Romney, no Bush, no Huckabee, no Graham.....vote Cruz or Walker.
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Or...... Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico. She would neuter the Dem’s “War on Women” vote and get the majority of the Hispanic vote and beat Hillary into oblivion.
once they get in, it’s hard to get a reasonable conservative to take them on in the primary. maybe Nikki Haley will drop the big sniveling homo after her second term as governor is over.
Romney running is the best event for Cruz.
Mitt will take votes away from Jeb, not Cruz.
If I were Cruz, I would encourage Romney to run.
It’s how Thad survived in Mississippi, open primaries
And then what happened?
Vet, Romney lost, that's what happened.
Had Romney won and we were three years into his presidency, Obama would be forgotten, past, gone. Romney would have a "Republican" administration that was philosophically in tune with Democrats on FIVE major issues. Three years into his presidency, limited government conservative Republicans would be much weaker; cynical voters who know what a crap shoot it is to vote "Republican," would tune out. Leftists would "win" (default) by ever larger margins. That's what would have happened if the man you voted FOR had won.
There are some who to hold me responsible for what happened because Obama won. I am only responsible for what would happen if my guy won. Voting for Romney was as nuts as voting for Obama.
You would be bearing the blame and burden for remorse and regret that went beyond strategic and to the spiritual, because you would have been responsible for endorsing and supporting the amoral government-advancing Republican president who destroyed limited government conservatism as a political voice.
At least now, limited government conservatives can either reclaim the Republican party or start fresh with a third party. Romney is an amoral pro-government political vampire and he is bad news all around. Voting for that is destined for regret. You are only looking at what you're running away from, and not looking at the nightmare you're being manipulated into replacing it with.
So-real and I and plenty of others have. You will too, someday. Stand up and fight. Face it down and replace it with the solution: LIMITED GOVERNMENT philosophy.
So you snuck into the voting booth with me that cold November day?
SORRY, Vet! You're correct, I assume you voted for Romney. Sorry about that!
The point's the same, though. Any voter only ever gets to vote "for." The only thing I'm responsible for is what would happen if what I vote for WINS.
Folks who try to hold me responsible for what happened because Obama won, are out of line. I voted third-party. Whether or not Obama won was not what my vote was about; my vote was about whether or not Romney won. I'm relieved and grateful that he LOST.
Why are he and I even in the same party???????
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