Posted on 08/25/2013 10:28:32 AM PDT by Lakeshark
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, faced CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday, defending his plan to defund Obamacare and what he would do to fix health care in America.
Cruz praised the power of grassroots activists, suggesting that a “grassroots tsunami” was about to hit Washington D.C.
“It’s going to take a tsunami and I’m going to do everything I can to encourage that tsunami,” Cruz asserted.
Watch the entire interview above in which Cruz discusses his birth certificate, 2016, Gov. Chris Christie, and the battle for Republicans to win a majority in the U.S. Senate in 2014
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In watching the interview, not only was I listening to to what Cruz was saying but was especially interested in how he was saying it. There is no doubt that Crowley and others like her will always look for that "gotcha" moment in their interviews. She did not succeed.
Reagan had and Cruz has the gift of being able to deliver a message in a non-threatening, common sense manner which invoke strength and credibility, a very rare combination. Cruz is being a MAN which is refreshing to see and is almost extinct in today's political landscape. Best regards.
Whew! Would someone please put a bag over that women’s face?
We’d better. That’s about the only chance we have.
O please, special please let it be.
There should be NO alternative. The Federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to regulate medical care.
Oh, fine, JRandomFreeper! Go ahead and stick with reality!
Yes..the teflon non irritability is where the gracious speech comes from.
nooooo! i don’t speak
that way! lol
“save for later”
...but TC is pretty
“effing likeable”-—
i’ll have to remember that
one, too!
kg/nancy
Thanks for the ping, Lake. Just watched the interview, and I’ve got to agree. Ted Cruz is made of the sort of stuff that becomes legend. He articulates and defends conservative thought with ease and real conviction.
Like Reagan before him, he’s also got an air that sets others at ease - and he does it without being defensive or overly combative. The man simply believes in the things that made this country great, and voices those concepts with calmness and clarity.
It’s a powerful combination that is tough to attack or defend against. Other Republicans should watch him and learn a thing or two. They too would garner enormous support among the voters if they emulated him.
Of course, it starts with honestly believing in the precepts our country was founded upon. Without that, they’re just wanna-be frauds.
NOW is the time for the Tea Party to just start showing up! Where are they????
NOW is the time for the Tea Party to just start showing up! Where are they????
Just listened to the debate. First, I think he did an excellent, cautious job. He wanted to focus on 2014, so he wasn’t led off track about certificates, presidential aspirations, or Rinos. Good job.
Another thing that hit me was that Candy Crowley is a crafty questioner with a clarity of mind about where she’s going with an interview. Why I note this is simply to say that there’s no way in the Romney/Obama debate that she accidentally pulled out a paper supporting Obama’s contention that he had called the Benghazi killings terrorism. There’s also no doubt that she knew Obama really hadn’t called Benghazi terrorism but was talking of Mideast terrorism in general and was busy at that time imprisoning a video producer who’d made a silly video about Muhammed.
Bottom line is that she was crafty, and Cruz, a brand new senator, avoided every trap like a pro.
I did want him to say that he’d support the most conservative candidate in races where Rino incumbents are challenged by legitimate conservative Tea Party candidates in the primaries. He avoided that question, saying he was focused on taking back the Senate.
Getting rid of Obamacare is the alternative plan.
Why do people these days use “health care” and “health insurance” interchangeably? The two may be related, but it is the latter that needs serious revision, so that the former may be reasonably-priced and competitive.
No, that’s not really Candy it’s “Andre the Giant” in drag!
Alternative my ass! There is no alternate (better form) of tyranny.
Bring them back.
How? Why the hell do you think 'they' left and still leave? Look to Detroit for your answer!
Government is the problem, the bigger the government the bigger the problem EVEN if it's a big GOP government. The problem is not who the king is the problem is that Washington is the throne. The throne needs to be taken down, dismantled, and kicked to the curb.
We need to stop spending so much damned money on everything imaginable, and lower business taxes and fees and eliminate a ton of needless regulations. That alone would solve a lot of monetary problems.
****Cruz is being a MAN which is refreshing to see and is almost extinct in today’s political landscape.****
Yes indeed!!! I am so sick of the ‘Valley Girls’ in the State Department and the Jay Carney-barkers in the WH - giving pressers of smirking, semantic rubbish.
yup! Obama sucks!
dethrone-—start over
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