[SoConPubbie]

	"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

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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[cotton1706]

For the first time since Obama took office, we’re actually fighting the democrats. We’re not just going along and pretending to go through the motions while the democrats rule with an iron hand.

[Kharis13]

If you want to know who the Libs fear, simply take notice of who makes them the most shrill and hysterical. There’s no doubt they’re TERRIFIED of Ted Cruz. And knowing he’s a Harvard debate champion won’t help them much, either.

Mr. Cruz has my support.

[thesearethetimes...]

Excellent. Tweeted, FRiend.

[Jim Robinson]

Amen, Go, Ted, GO!!

[Personal Responsibility]

People hate the Republican Party right now — and they should. It doesn’t communicate well,

I disagree with this conclusion. I think the Republican party communicates perfectly well. It’s a party at war with itself and I think everyone gets that.

[COBOL2Java]

In fact, a big part of the reason why the GOP lost the House, the Senate and the White House was because Medicare Part D and more funding for the National Endowment for the Arts was their idea of what the GOP should be doing when it was in charge.

Ah! So THIS is why we should vote for the "R" behind the name regardless of core values - so if the R's win back the Senate and the White House, we can get more crap like Medicare Part D and National Endowment for the Arts funding?

I KNEW there was a reason not to vote willy-nilly for a candidate just because he or she had an "R" after their name...

[sickoflibs]

RE :”If this isn’t a winnable fight for the Republican Party, you have to wonder what a winnable fight would look like? If Obama publicly sacrificed a baby a Satan on Ted Kennedy’s birthday, would the public believe that the GOP was waging a war on children after listening to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell for 10 minutes?”

Dems dont seem the least bit scared.

Now Reid is putting conditions on a debt limit increase: saying if the GOP really wants it then they have to make confessions, restore sequester cuts spending in a CR (that obviously ends the shutdown).

REID :”Not only do you get NOTHING for the debt limit increase but if it helps you to have one then you will have to pay for it. Otherwise Obama and I will get your approval down to the single digits losers”

[Paladin2]

"It’s all well and good to say, “The most important thing is to win more seats and then we’ll fight later.” The problem with that is we’ve already gone down that road during the Bush years and we found that the same people who don’t want to fight now, didn’t want to fight when we had the House, the Senate and the White House either."

If the GOPe doesn't stand now, they will be down the tubes shortly.

Elephants have a long memory. Elephant abusers are recognized and attacked when opportunity arises.

[Grampa Dave]

Ted Cruz Isn't The Problem With The Republican Party, He's The Solution!

[AndyJackson]

the way Harry Reid ...fight[s] for liberal principles

I call BS. This guy was formerly the gaming commissioner for the state of Nevada. To accuse him of principles is a slander.

And then Nancy D'Alesandro? Principles?

[Phillyred]

“Ted Cruz Isn’t The Problem, He’s The Solution”

Great bumper sticker for 2014

[paristexas]

Has Cruz spelled out explicitly what it would take for him to give in and vote raise the debt limit? It’s not just about Obamacare anymore, is it? I feel like I’ve lost the plot lately. Has he decided to refuse to raise the debt limit under any conditions?

[VerySadAmerican]

Cruz running on a third party ticket would never have won. But now that the Tea Party candidates are in office they should leave the GOP and start their own party. Then let’s see if the elites will caucus with the democrats.

I’ve always thought the republicans taking over the house only postponed what’s eventually going to happen if the GoP doesn’t grow some balls. If they hadn’t taken control in 2010 I believe the democrats would have taken a bath in 2012.

[Windflier]

"The road to recovery for the Republican Party starts with proving that it will fight aggressively for the principles it claims to believe in as opposed to being talking big and never backing it up.

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee get that. If more Republicans in DC understood that, the GOP wouldn’t have lost the last presidential election because a few million members of its base stayed home."

This is the real reason that Romney lost, and is the key thing that a great many Freepers still need to analytically process to move forward to real victory.