Ted Cruz tosses red-meat to Duval Republicans

TrendingNews ^ | February 21st, 2015

[SoConPubbie]

As he continues to the test the waters for a potential 2016 bid for the White House, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas made his pitch Friday night to the Republican Party of Duval County, one of the state’s largest local parties.

Sprinkled throughout his remarks was a common theme that most potential GOP presidential nominees have focused on: Obamacare.

“In 2017, a Republican president in the White House will sign legislation repealing Obamacare,” he said.

Cruz has built a national reputation as a firebrand conservative not afraid to mix it up with the establishment in his own party. In 2013, he grabbed headlines by speaking for 21-hours on the Senate floor about the need to defund Obamacare, an act that endeared him to many of the party’s conservative activists.

The red-meat issues that dropped Cruz on the national radar were on full display as he gave a keynote speech to a packed ballroom at the Jacksonville Hyatt Regency.

“We should abolish the IRS,” Cruz said to a loud ovation.

Duval County is home base for many large GOP donors and a big swath of Republican voters, but it could be tough for any non-Florida candidate to wrest that support away from bush-blitzkrieg/”>Jeb Bush or U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, both of whom are also considering presidential bids.

Bush has captured much of the attention, and money, in recent weeks and is seen by many as an early front-runner.

[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]

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[MuttTheHoople]

As opposed to red arugula land tofu from the democrats.

[cuban leaf]

“In 2017, a Republican president in the White House will sign legislation repealing Obamacare,” he said.

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Yep. A LOT of water will have gone under the bridge regarding O-care by the election. A lot of fans of it are getting hit square between the eyes and it will only get worse by then.

The fact that not one R voted for it is absolutely devastating. And by 2017, any R that does not fight tooth and nail against it, well, if they were up for re-election in 2016, they will no longer be in office.

Obama put off the pain to a lot of people for as long as he could. That time came to an end this year as people filed their tax returns. It will be very bad, but wait until next year.

I almost see Obamacare as an attempt at a bloodless coup. It is that over the top.

[SoConPubbie]

I almost see Obamacare as an attempt at a bloodless coup. It is that over the top.

By itself, maybe not, but taken with the other Marxist actions of the P.O.S. POTUS we have now, absolutely.

[duckman]

“...Ted Cruz of Texas made his pitch...”
Is this on Youtube or C SPAN? Could not find any info in the article.

[cuban leaf]

Yes, on its own it is just dumb. Really, REALLY dumb.

[PoloSec]

I am a staunch Cruz supporter and I sometimes wondered why just single out the IRS there are so many other gov’t communist criminal organizations that must needs be abolished, I wanted Cruz to go after them all.

Then it occurred to me the IRS is the life blood of all gov’t agencies, cut them off at the source, a simpler tax code would demand reassessment and allocation of funding making congress revisit the worthiness of all these communist programs, their effectiveness compared to cost would be damning.

Of course the democrats and rino’s would fight tooth and nail, but if Cruz is elected president with a conservative congress it could happen; some might say “Pie in the Sky”; but I’m sure in the not to distant past many dems would have said what we are seeing today (the fulfillment of their communist agenda) is “Pie in the Sky”, yet here we are.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I almost see Obamacare as an attempt at a bloodless coup. It is that over the top.

By itself, maybe not, but taken with the other Marxist actions of the P.O.S. POTUS we have now, absolutely. “

If Cruz can make the case for abolishing Obamacare and amnesty, that covers 60-70% of the population. He wins!