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Posted on 01/13/2015 5:53:26 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, railed against the Obama administration for taking a pass on the Paris Unity Rally Sunday, when other heads of state had managed to make the trip after the terrorist attack last week.
"How sad was it in the streets of Paris, as 40 world leaders walked down the street, absent was the United States of America? Where was the president? Where was the vice president? Where was the secretary of state? Where was the attorney general, who'd been there moments before, but chose to get on a plane and fly back home?" Cruz asked the audience at the Heritage Foundation's policy conference.
The Texas Senator declared that an administration "unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'" could not "win a way against radical Islamic terrorism," adding, that the attack had not been carried out by "a bunch of ticked-off Presbyterians."
"We will not effectively combat what we are facing until we acknowledge what we are facing," Cruz said at the conservative think tank.
The president wasn't Cruz's only target, though. He turned his attention to governing and to his fellow Republicans--who now control both houses of Congress--and he reminded them to stick with their plan to repeal Obamacare.
"Two months ago you would have seen Republican candidates say we would fight tooth and nail to repeal Obamacare," Mr. Cruz said of the oft-repeated GOP campaign promise in the midterm elections . "Yet now when the topics come up at times you hear crickets chirping. It ain't complicated. We need to do what we said we would do."
After the speech ended, other media outlets reported that Cruz spoke with reporters and took a question about 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney's interest in another run for the White House. "There are some who believe that the path to Republican victory is to run to the mushy middle, is to blur distinctions," Mr. Cruz said. "I think," he continued, "recent history has shown us that's not a path to success. It doesn't work. It's a failed electoral strategy."
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All Senator Cruz needs to do to be completely on-point is to remove the word “radical”.
Terrorism IS Islam in its purest sense.
Which other candidate has exhibited the strength of character to so consistently go after the policy differences and bad behavior of both the Democrats and those in our own party who refuse to represent us?
Scott Walker???
Mitt Romney???
Jeb Bush???
Chris Christy???
Rand Paul???
Ben Carson???
Huckabee???
Santorum???
None of them even come close.
None of them are as consistently conservative and consistently leading on the issues of the day.
None of them are as consistent in stepping fearlessly into the battle of the day to lead.
We need to coalesce around one potential conservative candidate.
Ted Cruz is that man!
Life is too short. Life is too short to be shut out by liberals and rinos and kept away from America’s child Freedom. Life is too short. Simple truth is liberals, rinos, moslems are all fighting to make America’s life shorter. Life’s too short.
I know the candidates are not perfect by a long shot, but here is who I would vote for on your list.
Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Ben Carson and Rand Paul.
As for the rest ABSOULTY NO GO. I don’t care who they are running against because to me Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christy are all Internationalist/Globalist that push the Socialist Agenda.
I think Santorum and Huckabee with full Republican support is unelectable IMO. In other words there is no way either man could win the office.
I'd love to see TedCruz/JeffSessions as the ticket. They're articulate and their different backgrounds, both very impressive, could provide what the US needs...inspiration.
JMHO
the attack had not been carried out by “a bunch of ticked-off Presbyterians.”
LOL Sing it Ted!
I would not put Scott Walker on my list. He is too close to the GOPe (Priebus, Ryan, and Rove), he is weak on amnesty, and he was nowhere to be found when Ted Cruz was fighting to defeat Obamacare and to defend the Constitution.
IMO, a conservative would be crazy to support Walker over Cruz. There would be no reason on Earth to.
Cruz it or lose it!
We need an ISO9000 party...
1. Say what you do
2. Do what you say
3. Prove it with documentation.
I guess the Obama regime is not ISO9000 compliant.
Great article!
He’ll win the nomination if he keeps this up. Or the GOPe will have him whacked.
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