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Posted on 01/18/2015 3:46:26 PM PST by SoConPubbie
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Ted Cruz urged archconservatives on Sunday to help nominate a Republican from their own ranks in 2016 or risk losing a third consecutive national election. The unspoken message: someone like him.
Cruz called GOP nominees like Mitt Romney in 2012, John McCain in 2008 and Bob Dole in 1996 "good, honorable and decent men" but not conservative enough. All lost their bids for the presidency.
"If we nominate a candidate in that mold, the same people who stayed home in 2008 and 2012 will stay home in 2016 and the Democrats will win again," Cruz told hundreds of activists at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention.
South Carolina will cast the South's first primary ballots in 2016, shortly after the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
Cruz's appearance came days after Romney confirmed at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting that he's considering a third White House bid. Romney weathered an uneasy relationship with the GOP's conservative wing in 2012 in part because no single candidate among several conservative alternatives could sustain a viable campaign.
But this time former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are in the picture, courting some of the same donors, consultants and media attention that went to Romney four years ago. Neither has committed to a campaign yet.
Tea party convention goers from several states this weekend have expressed optimism that the new dynamic could create an opening for Cruz or another establishment critic if he can consolidate rank-and-file conservatives who distrust the GOP's traditional power structure.
Cruz, beloved among tea party conservatives for his role in the partial government shutdown in October 2013, pointed to the GOP's success in the November midterms as proof that the nation is ready for an unapologetically conservative president.
(Excerpt) Read more at njherald.com ...
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When will we find the same courageous conservative leadership from Scott Walker??
When will he speak up courageously, and take on his own party leadership and point out where they are wrong?
No bias there, no sir.
The GOP-wing of the Democrat party is terrified of him.
They know he, and he alone, could short-circuit their usual theft of the nomination.
Sadly, we’ve reached the Orwellian point that in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Cruz is a revolutionary.
“Cruz urged archconservatives”
In the many years I have been reading AaaPee articles, I can’t recall ever seeing Democrats referred to as “archliberals”.
Walker seems like a decent person, and he obviously has kicked some serious leftest butt in Wisconsin, but he isnt out there saying what needs to be said. Sticking his neck out like Cruz is.
And I tried to listen to one of his speeches. I didn’t feel moved at all.
Cruz/West 2016!
“Sen. Ted Cruz urged archconservatives...”
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Jeez, a favorite term of the oh-so-predictable leftist Associated Press. Archconservatives is one of their approved words...but I never see “archliberal”, “archprogressive” or, heaven forbid, archRINO.
Or “President Zero urged his fellow Communists and Mohammadans...”
“like Mitt Romney in 2012, John McCain in 2008 and Bob Dole in 1996”
I hope they don’t take away from Bush’s win that he was conservative enough.
We need a President who is ready to kill and imprison communists and muslims in America.
To be honest, while Walker has appeal, I don’t know if I could vote for him. Honestly I’d have an easier time voting for Jindal.
OF COURSE CRUZ IS TOP!
That includes the courts who have destroyed marriage and encouraged pedophilia. I wanna see Kagan behind bars!
I agree. He is very soft spoken, and there is nothing wrong with that, but he does not seem to have fire in his belly. Cruz for me.
I think that Cruz is going to touch a nerve with the American people and in so doing will knock the major media down a peg or two. (hopefully more)
Yes, please!!!
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