TED CRUZ AND THE MATTER OF THE MUSHY MIDDLE

Breitbart ^ | 26 Jan 2015 | CICERO

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Sen. Ted Cruz lit up the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday: “Talk is cheap,” he told conservative activists before he slipped in a Biblical allusion: “The Word tells us you will know them by their fruit.” That is, the proof’s in the pudding.

And Cruz was just getting rolling; he challenged his potential rivals for the 2016 Republican nomination to, in effect, put up or shut up:

If you say you oppose the president’s unconstitutional executive amnesty, show me where you stood up. If you say you support life and you support marriage, show me were you stood up and fought. If you say you say you’ll stand up to the Washington establishment, the career politicians of both parties that got us in this mess, then show me where you stood up and fought.

Cruz received massive applause when he called for the complete repeal of Obamacare, the lockdown of the US-Mexico border, the rollback of EPA, and the abolition of the IRS.

Of course, other GOPers, also in Des Moines on Saturday, made similar points in their speeches, and other GOPers have also walked the walk.

Still, Cruz’s analysis is worth examining, because he is perhaps the most articulately consistent in making the the “stand up” point and explaining what it means for the 2016 general election. As Cruz says, activist can’t let the leadership say one thing and do another. Indeed, in the wake of the recent fiasco over the fetal-pain legislation in the House, Cruz’s critique takes on new force.

So even those Republicans who might not support his candidacy should consider his argument about winning a year from November.

At the Myrtle Beach Tea Party gathering on the 18th, Cruz made fun of “Washington Graybeards”—his term for the loss-prone elite Republican consultant class—”

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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[dware]

Nice words. Get back with me when he decides to run outside the GOP. I’ll vote for him in a heartbeat. Not gonna happen if he runs as an R, though. Such a shame, that.

[Jim Robinson]

"Cruz received massive applause when he called for the complete repeal of Obamacare, the lockdown of the US-Mexico border, the rollback of EPA, and the abolition of the IRS."

Go, Cruz, GO!!

[lormand]

You remind me of the people who voted for John Anderson instead of Reagan in 1980.

[dware]

And you are obviously one of the ones who continues to vote R no matter what, which is destroying my Country. Get on board with freedom.

[corbe]

Gov. Reagan almost beat the GOP guy (Ford) in 76. The other Republican (later) Independent (1980) Anderson also ran.
I sense your implying Sen. CRUZ can’t win as a R, I respectfully disagree.

It is to late to reform the GOP-e for the 2016 Presidential Election. But if Sen. Cruz follows Reagans 1980 strategy, I believe he has a chance. At that point we (Conservatives) can Rebrand/Remake the GOP, just as President Reagan did, though it was not as long lasting as most (here) wish it had been

If the Man/Women is NOT Conservative, I’ll sit this one out, like I did the last two.

[lormand]

You would be wrong. You assume too much.

In the past election, and for the first time, I refused to vote for my CINO congressman (rated D by Conservative Review) and did a 'write in' for my CINO Senator John Cornyn. I refuse to hold my nose when I vote anymore.

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CRUZ or lose.

CRUZ or lose.

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Bill Cunningham said Sunday night on his show, GOP has never won the presidency without Ohio. So, that is a real bellwether, you have to get some swing-states. Hopefully, Cruz can win Ohio and other battleground states. The swing-states are the tricky part.

[dware]

can Rebrand/Remake the GOP

Not gonna happen. Just won't. Been trying to do that now for a couple decades at least. Not going to happen.