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Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz has no right to tell Republicans to stop attacking each other. “I find it ironic that Ted Cruz is giving lectures on Republican-on-Republican violence,” said Christie on Fox News. “I mean with all due respect, I don’t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz.” Christie called Cruz “hypocritical” for saying he refuses to attack Republicans even though he worked with the Senate Conservatives Fund. In the 2014 midterm elections, the political action committee supported primary challengers to incumbent Republicans they deemed to be too moderate. Christie...

Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday that it is "asinine" that TV Land pulled "The Dukes of Hazzard" after widespread calls for the Confederate flag to come down. "I think the cancellation of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' is utterly asinine and an example of corporate America’s embrace of political correctness to a degree that is ridiculous," Cruz said in an interview with The Washington Post. "I’m curious if the Torquemadas seeking to ban 'The Dukes of Hazzard' from our TV sets are equally exercised by all of the leftist college students with posters of Che Guevara in their college dorm rooms,"...

Within the space of just 48 hours, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law; that straightforward statutory words may be twisted to mean the opposite of what they say; that discrimination — heretofore, the textbook example of a willful act — can be committed unconsciously, thereby supplanting our constitutional foundation of equal opportunity for all with the totalitarian’s dream of guaranteed outcomes for favored factions; and that five politically unaccountable lawyers, by dint of being issued robes, may impose their vision of the good society on 320 million Americans, reimagining our most basic institutions,...

Boldness comes more naturally to Ted Cruz than compromise. Barely through his first year in the Senate, the Texas Republican bucked his party leaders and became the public face of a government shutdown while standing up for conservative ideals. Rewind three decades back, and you'd find Cruz selling a similar message as a teenager in Houston. You could say Cruz ran with a gang in high school. Their colors were blue jacket, white shirt, red tie. They called themselves the Constitutional Corroborators. And their leader was the head of a conservative think tank named Rolland Storey, who took them around...

Originally from Buzz Feed "We Got Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz To Do An Audition For “The Simpsons”. Here's the You Tube Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0sRkvX4KE

Sen. Ted Cruz continued his line of attack Monday against Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion upholding Obamacare subsidies, saying that he took off his umpire mask and “put on an Obama jersey” with the ruling. In an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” Cruz told the host that the two Obamacare rulings Roberts made will “go down as some of the most political decisions” in the history of the Supreme Court. The comments come on the heels of Cruz telling Sean Hannity on Friday that the ruling, along with the ruling making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, marked “some of the...

I cannot provide the complete transcript- it’s 17 pages long. I have provided two (2) excerpts and the link. In the 2nd excerpt, Cruz dumbfounds the interviewer by saying- ‘ the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage need not be obeyed, except for the parties to the litigation!” What we all feel in our hearts and souls about the Founders America, Ted Cruz articulates in reasoned argument supported by the law and the Constitution. Like WF Buckley, Ted Cruz cannot be dismissed by the Left as some “rube conservative”; this because he defeats than in intellectual argument. If we’re looking...

Ted Cruz continued his verbal assault on last week’s historic Supreme Court decisions on Monday, saying the justices who ruled in favor of Obamacare and gay marriage “rewrote the Constitution.” “They joined a team, they put on bright-blue Obama jerseys and they rewrote the law,” the U.S. senator from Texas told Yahoo News’ Katie Couric during a live sit-down interview from Yahoo’s New York City studios. “Those decisions are a threat to our democracy.” Cruz slammed Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion in the Obamacare case on behalf of what the 2016 Republican presidential hopeful called “five...

....As the sun begins to dip into the surrounding cornfields, Ted Cruz climbs onto the stage to make his pitch for the presidency. The centerpiece of Cruz’s stump speech these days is a denunciation of what the Texas Republican calls the “Washington cartel.” This is the senator’s term for the alliance of powerful interests and pliable politicians who, he says, conspire to control the country at the expense of the people. K Street lobbyists are a big part of Cruz’s cartel. So are big corporations, career politicians, the liberal media and the leaders of both parties. The newest members are...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday said county clerks in Texas should "absolutely" be able to opt out of issuing same-sex marriage licenses if they have religious objections. "Ours is a country that was built by men and women fleeing religious oppression," Cruz said in an interview with The Texas Tribune, "and you look at the foundation of this country — it was to seek out a new land where anyone of us could worship the Lord God Almighty with all of our hearts, minds and souls, without government getting in the way." The interview followed a major speech here...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a 2016 presidential hopeful, says GOP leaders want to divide conservative primary voters so that a moderate candidate will end up being the party’s nominee. "The last thing the Republican leaders in Washington want to see is millions of Americans across the country mobilizing and coalescing around one strong conservative candidate," he told a crowd of 200 supporters in Iowa on Saturday, according to the Sioux City Journal. Senior Republicans want the party’s various factions at each other’s throats so "once again, they run right up the middle with 24 percent and nominate an establishment moderate...

You Tube Video -- Ted Cruz Gives Senate Floor Speech on King v. Burwell {Scotuscare- Video -12 min)

...But Cruz was skeptical that his opponents were committed to stopping same-sex nuptials. "As much as there were crocodile tears shed in Washington yesterday on Obamacare, there were even bigger crocodile tears shed in Washington today on marriage," Cruz said. That is a contrast Cruz made sure to highlight to nearly every voter he met in the Hawkeye State. The script at Dutch Bakery here was workmanlike: Shake the hand. Share outrage at the decision. Ridicule Republicans' public statements. Blast them for "popping champagne." Shake a new hand. (edit) "I fully expect the drive for an Article V convention to...

Sen. Ted Cruz on the Hugh Hewitt Show, June 11, 2015. For those interested in Sen. Cruz, this interview debunks recent MSM reports that he's conceding the 1st three primary states. He explains his positions on free trade, ISIS, Turkey, and defense.

Ted Cruz is blanketed in confetti, raining from the rafters of a Cleveland arena. It's July 2016, and the senator has survived a grueling, 18-way primary to win the Republican nomination thanks to a groundswell once dismissed as fantasy. The surge came from the collective endorsement of national conservative leaders that boosted Cruz organizationally and financially, paving his way to a win in Iowa, a top-three finish in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and a cleanup in the Southern primaries of March. Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush had hung on, stealing votes from one another until each dropped...

Sen. Ted Cruz campaigns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Ted Cruz, the Republican junior senator from Texas, has heard the line about how the Party needs to become more moderate to win Presidential elections. “It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always ‘Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats,’ ” he told me. “That’s been true for my entire lifetime.

It comes as no surprise to me that Rand Paul does poorly with women. Most libertarians do. Pew polling shows us that “Libertarians are much more likely to be male (59%) and young (33% are under age 30) than are any of the other groups.” They tend to come across as unsympathetic, uncaring and rigid — like an ex-husband or stern boss. It also should come as no surprise that despite his ethnicity, Cruz is doing poorly with Hispanics. [C]ampaigns could help themselves if they took a look at GOP pollster Whit Ayres’s “2016 and Beyond: How Republicans Can Elect...

Lindsey Graham says he'd welcome Caitlyn Jenner as a political ally. He'd work with Democrats on entitlement reforms. And he'd lower climate-harming emissions to address global warming. As long as you agree there's "too much debt, too many terrorists," the South Carolina senator and 2016 presidential contender says there's room in his Republican Party for you. "Here's what I would say to the talk show hosts: In the eyes of radical Islam, they hate you as much as they hate Caitlyn Jenner," Graham said. "They hate us all because we won't agree to their view of religion. So America, we...

Ted Cruz was on with Cavuto today to talk about ‘attacks’ on him by Rick Perry, his disagreement with Rand Paul over the USA Freedom Act, and more.