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CRUZ or LOSE!Posted on 03/25/2015 2:31:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Today, roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home. Imagine, instead, millions of people of faith, all across America, coming out to the polls and voting our values.”
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas announced Monday he would seek the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, aiming to inject much needed clarity and stark political contrast – not between Republicans and Democrats, but between himself and his party’s lickspittle, go-along-to-get-along, intellectual castrati.
Speaking before a packed house at the Liberty University campus in Lynchburg, Va. (a Christian institution of learning), Cruz hinted at his vote-getting strategy.
“Today, roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting,” said Cruz. “They’re staying home. Imagine, instead, millions of people of faith, all across America, coming out to the polls and voting our values.”
Cruz spoke without notes or the use of a teleprompter, emphasizing two words throughout his speech: “liberty” and “imagine.”
■ “What is the promise of America? The idea– the revolutionary idea… which is that our rights… they don’t come from man. They come from God almighty. And that the purpose of the Constitution, as Thomas Jefferson put it, is to serve as chains to bind the mischief of government.”
■ “Instead of the joblessness, instead of the millions forced into part-time work, instead of the millions who’ve lost their health insurance, lost their doctors to face skyrocketing insurance premiums, imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.”
■ “Instead of the lawlessness and the president’s unconstitutional executive amnesty, imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders. And imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.”
■ “Imagine instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth. Instead of small businesses going out of business in record numbers, imagine small businesses growing and prospering. Imagine young people coming out of school with four, five, six job offers.
■ “Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation, that imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends meet, imagine a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. Imagine abolishing the IRS.”
■ “Instead of a federal government that seeks to dictate school curriculum through Common Core, imagine repealing every word of Common Core. Imagine embracing school choice as the civil-rights issue of the next generation. That every single child, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of wealth or zip code, every child in America has a right to a quality education.”
Then Cruz acknowledged the daunting task ahead.
“Over and over again, when we faced impossible odds, the American people rose to the challenge. You know, compared to that, repealing Obamacare and abolishing the IRS ain’t all that tough. The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.”
Phony conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer (whom a colleague at the New Republic once described as “70 percent [Walter] Mondale liberal, 30 percent [Henry] ‘Scoop’ Jackson Democrat”), is not happy that Cruz will siphon votes away from the GOP’s moderate, empty-headed gasbags.
“We already tried a first-term senator,” said Krauthammer of President Obama, but admitted Cruz’s Republican presidential rivals do not have Cruz’s “fluency” with language and tend to make “a lot of [rhetorical] stumbles.”
“I wasn’t a great communicator,” President Ronald Reagan told a reporter, “but I communicated great things.”
Sen. Ted Cruz strikes fear in the hearts of his clueless rivals because the Texan knows what he believes and has the ability to “communicate great things.”
[“We already tried a first-term senator,” said Krauthammer of President Obama, but admitted Cruz’s Republican presidential rivals do not have Cruz’s “fluency” with language and tend to make “a lot of [rhetorical] stumbles.”]
“Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
“Abolish the IRS!”.. We have a winner!
well he says imagine abolishing the irs... that’s basically a call for drastic tax code simplification
herman cain, secretary of treasury???
Until we successfully threw Eric Cantor out on his ear I was starting to think we couldn't vote our way out of this. If we can elect somebody like Cruz, we may have a chance to start turning things around. And elect a lot more like Dave Brat
booting out a lot more like Boehner.
We had two million people from all over the country show up at the Capitol on September 12, 2009 and the air was electric. That energy and determined spirit did not go away. The reported demise of the Tea party is greatly exaggerated.
CRUZ or LOSE!If America still has a silent majority then Cruz will be our next President.
If not, we are doomed
Ted Cruz knows and loves the Constitution. That is why he gets my vote. The last candidate to speak of the Declaration of Independence, and how our Rights come from our Creator, was Alan Keyes.
Cruz must educate a whole country about true conservatism, about corpratists sp?acting like conservatives , rinoism, and also about the miseries from the left. Most of all, teach the positives about America. And wear his glasses while speaking so he looks like a prez.
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