CRUZ or lose.
Posted on 12/31/2014 5:39:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
TEXAN LOOKING TO SHORE UP “CONSERVATIVE” SUPPORT IN PALMETTO STATE.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will attend the 2015 South Carolina Tea Party convention next month, sources close to the event tell FITS.
The Texan – who along with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is seeking to emerge as a leading alternative to the GOP “establishment” – is the third presumptive “Republican” presidential prospect to commit to the event, which is being held in mid-January in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Also attending? Social conservative Rick Santorum – who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination in 2012 – and neurosurgeon/ author Ben Carson, who is mulling a presidential bid of his own.
We’ll be honest: This website has little use for the “Tea Party” label – just as we have little use for the term “conservative” and absolutely zero use for the “Republican” identifier. These self-applied designations have been debased over the years – stripped of all meaning by dozens of self-serving politicians who used them exclusively for personal promotion, not public (i.e. taxpayer) protection.
Seriously … we hear the terms “Tea Party,” “conservative” and “Republican” and we just roll our eyes. Then we point people to Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s “Tea Party” governor (link HERE). Or to the “conservative” GOP leadership in Washington, D.C. (link HERE).
Show us your votes, candidates … not your labels.
Anyway, while the politicians who pander to this crowd may be (and usually are) completely full of it … Tea Partiers vote. And in many instances, the issues that matter to them are worth discussing – and acting on. For example, we support the Tea Party in its bid to get rid of the notoriously corrupt Internal Revenue Service … an issue which will be front and center at this year’s gathering.
(And yes … Ted Cruz is all over this).
Our hope? That the Tea Party can channel the crazier angels of its nature and develop a more credible identity and coherent message – one that eschews opportunistic politicians and embraces specific policy proposals (like dumping the IRS and the existing tax code in favor of a fairer, flatter consumption-based tax).
The 2015 Tea Party convention in South Carolina will take place from January 17-19 at the Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C. For registration information, click HERE.
Sen.Cruz will be well received by the Palmetto state patriots. Jeb Bush will stay a million miles away.
Niki Haley is a RINO.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2014/06/26/mark-sanford-nikki-haley-peas-carrots/
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-governors-back-adelson-online-gambling
“Niki Haley is a RINO.”
What’s your problem, troll?
You were just on a Scott Walker thread calling him names.
GFY, DU troll.
Cruz-Carson, 2016...
Think about it!!!!!
Looks like folks here have begun to notice.
The article implies Nikki Haley and House leadership are RINOs and crony.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/06/sc-conservative-groups-feel-betrayed-by-haley/
http://therightscoop.com/levin-says-bye-bye-nikki-after-haley-endorsed-romney/
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/14/nikki-haley-to-introduce-romney-at-cpac/
We don’t put people on national tickets who’ve never been in government before. I’m sure Dr. Carson is a fine man, but he needs government experience. I have tons of such experience and you don’t see me running for office, especially the top two jobs. And before anybody brings up Ike or Grant, the Army is part of the government.
Your attack against Wisconsin Gov. Walker on the other thread two hours ago was total BS.
Now you’re attacking the governor of SC.
Get lost.
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Sounds good to me!
The voters in SC are fortunate to have Ted Cruz speak.
You don’t belong on this site, and you’re not welcome here- GET LOST!
Ted can come, but will their hearts be with Lindsey? Probably not in that it is “Tea Party” and Lindsey probably doesn’t even drink tea. SC will always be for its Lindsey.
Niki Haley is a RINO.
What’s your problem TROLL.
Cruz/Haley 16...
You are COMPLETELY destroying your credibility by linking to FITSNEWS. The owner of that site was the creep who, in a failed attempt to destroy her first candidacy for SC Governor FALSELY said he was banging the married Nikki Haley. Yes, he beat Lena Dunham to the punch and proved that males also can cast false aspersions against people to advance an agenda.
Such trollish behavior and posts do not have a place on FreeRepublic IMHO.
Ted can come, but will their hearts be with Lindsey? Probably not in that it is “Tea Party” and Lindsey probably doesn’t even drink tea. SC will always be for its Lindsey.
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I hope that the South Carolina Tea Party convention organizers have the good sense to have Tim Scott introduce Ted Cruz and avoid having the munchkin Little Lindsey Graham do the honors.
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