TED CRUZ TALKS FOREIGN POLICY, IMMIGRATION, AND COMMON CORE

Cruz said, “I am a fan of Jeb Bush. I’ll give him credit for candor and consistency. He is running based on his views, his views are different from that of an awful lot of Republican primary voters, but he is honest about it.”

Kelly told Cruz that Bush was unwavering in his support for Common Core education standards and asked Cruz what his views on the federal education standards. Cruz, like his fellow colleague in the Senate and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), has taken a strong anti-Common Core position. He reaffirmed his position to Kelly, telling her that he wanted to “repeal every single word” of the those federal education standards, aka Common Core.

“Education is far too important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington. It should be at the state level, but even better, it should be at the local level,” said Cruz.

Cruz stated that “the Obama administration has used Race to the Top money—federal money— to force states to adopt Common Core standards,” adding that there were “a lot of dollars connected” between the education program and the states.

“It’s just like the drug dealer that goes to the junior high and gets a kid hooked, saying, ‘just try it once.’ The federal government does that to the states with dollars—there are so many strings attached,” Cruz said about Common Core standards.

"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

He not only maintains the position that I want him to maintain, Cruz maintains his class.

I did well by sending his campaign real cash.

Good thing I'll be able to donate again.

/johnny

“He not only maintains the position that I want him to maintain, Cruz maintains his class.”

I haven’t seen a politician like him in a ling time.

I’ll know in a couple of months if i’ll be solvent enough to even survive financially. If so, I’ll be donating regularly. Only to him though. I don’t trust any others in the field to not stab me in the back by taking my $ then passing amnesty.

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