Top conservatives meet at secret dinner to discuss Cruz's future

The Hill ^ | 6/15/2016 | Jonathan Swan

[lodi90]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attended a confidential dinner with more than 20 top conservatives on Tuesday night to plan his comeback as a movement leader in the mold of Ronald Reagan.

The dinner was at the Virginia home of conservative activist Brent Bozell, and the agenda was to plot Cruz’s future and the future of the conservative movement. The undertone of the dinner was about how to position Cruz for a future tilt at the presidency and to spearhead the conservative movement from his seat in the Senate, those in attendance said.

Dining with Cruz and his chief of staff, Paul Teller, were some of the most powerful figures in the conservative movement.

The spectrum of economic, national security and social conservatives seated at the table included Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, Club for Growth President David McIntosh, direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie, National Rifle Association board member and former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell, and Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, sources confirmed.

According to those in attendance, the leaders discussed how they could work more effectively together and how to harness their vast financial and human networks in the service of conservative principles and Cruz's career.

Combined, those at the table have access to hundreds of millions of dollars and some of the largest ground armies on the right.

There was no specific discussion of electoral politics or whether Cruz will support presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this cycle.

Many of the leaders at the dinner want Cruz to run for president again, and they are viewing Cruz’s unsuccessful 2016 run as similar to Reagan’s failed attempt in 1976 to unseat the incumbent Republican president, Gerald Ford.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

As long as you admit it, all is well :)

Being stupid, I have to watch myself so I don't post anti-government anti-communist anti-immigrant stuff which will get me on the FBI domestic terrorist list. And being uninformed, I should refrain from making any comments on this "deal" Trump is working on with the NRA.

[nathanbedford]

I would say most people in that room see him as the leader of the conservative movement.

Donald Trump won about 6% of the potential vote in this country, Ted won somewhat less. There simply is not enough data to justify the sweeping judgments so confidently made on this thread about whom conservatives so emphatically support or whom conservatives so emphatically despise.

There is no end to the list of people who must be trashed in order to uphold Donald Trump. Ted Cruz now stands at the head of the list just ahead of former Senator DeMent. The trashing never ends even when Trump bots are given no fresh occasion to vent their bottomless well of venom.

If Trump loses, the same Trump bots on this thread who traduced Ted Cruz will be rummaging around for a new man on horseback to represent them. They will redefine conservatism once again and stand it on its head to make it into something it never was in order to rationalize support of the next charismatic figure.

About the only thing on this thread that makes any sense whatsoever is the idea that we should support Trump now because he is all we got at this point. Traducing Ted Cruz for no reason is hardly the way to gain more votes for Trump.

[Nifster]

Precisely

Ted could have avoided all of this had he not taken the south for granted.

[exit82]

When does Mr. Christian Constitutional Conservative honor his pledge he signed to honor the GOP nominee?

His miserable primary campaign proved he is none of the three things he claimed to be.

[OKSooner]

Send the, uh... uh, send him back to Canada.

(Did I say it right?)

[napscoordinator]

Cruz is hoping for a Trump loss so he can run in 2020.

Except for the Supreme Court and another 4 years of judges throughout the country AND 30 million amnesty voters, if we lose 2016, I think we are done with Presidential wins for a long time. We still may win House, Senate and local, but President will be done and over. We already are almost there with the electoral college looking horrible for Republicans....only Trump can have a chance to win. If it was Cruz running right now, we would lose big time in 2016. Now we have a good shot at winning.

[Fantasywriter]

Cruz could have avoided a lot of the fallout in the aftermath by keeping his word and supporting the winner. He claimed to be a man of his word. It was yet another lie.

[Godebert]

Ted Cruz is NOT eligible for president and never will be. He is NOT a natural born Citizen (Born in the country to Citizen parents).

[exinnj]

Would you care to elaborate?
Then I’ll believe you are a Cruz supporter.

[Godebert]

Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.

It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Neither the 14th Amendment nor Wong Kim Ark make one a Natural Born Citizen

The Harvard Law Review Article Taken Apart Piece by Piece and Utterly Destroyed

Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same

"The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776."....David Ramsay, 1789.

A Dissertation on Manner of Acquiring Character & Privileges of Citizen of U.S.-by David Ramsay-1789

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20 - Use of The Law of Nations by the Constitutional Convention

[jpsb]

Lying Ted signed a pledge to support the GOP nominee. Lying Ted has no honor, his word means nothing, he is a NWO globalist fraud.

[nathanbedford]

There is no GOP nominee.

[Yaelle]

Cruz is not who he pretends to be, but he pretends pretty well.

[poconopundit]

212 posts and counting. FReepers come out the woodwork when the subject is Ted Cruz.

Not only does he need to expose his Canadian birther records, he's got some serious explaining to do about helping Oswald in 1963!

[SERKIT]

3. Try not being such a douchebag.

[lodi90]

Actually she never said he was gay. She merely said he “may” have had gay “tendencies”. (whatever that means).

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Speaking of Ms. Cruz: is she back at sleazy Goldman Sachs raking in millions for the Cruz family? Cruz family values indeed.

[Nifster]

That too

[lodi90]

There is no GOP nominee.

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But are are 49 MURDERED AMERICANS in Orlando. You want more? Keep enabling the election of Butcher of Benghazi and you’ll get your wish.

[Right-wing Librarian]

>>he needs to modulate his speaking style and be less “preachy” in order to appear more sincere and attractive nationwide. I know this critique is superficial, but still important.

Yes, it is important. He also needs to concentrate on not eating his own boogers on national television, as this is a YUGE turn-off. I’m serious, that kind of stuff, while superficial, is still very important. We’re talking President of the United States. NO booger-eating in public, period!

: )

[nathanbedford]

I uttered not a word against Donald Trump but against the fools who believe that tearing down Ted Cruz after the fact somehow builds up Donald Trump, against those who have distorted conservatism.

Your outrageous allegation that I am somehow "enabling the Butcher of Benghazi" is a perfect example of what is wrong not with your candidate but with you.