Posted on 07/31/2012 6:35:50 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
Tea party-backed Ted Cruz has defeated Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
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I woke up to very good news this morning. Thank you GOD.
Amen
The TEA Party is BACK and we just “GOTSUM”!
LLS
Try looking at it this way: Dewhurst or Sheila Jackson-”We need more black names for hurricanes”-Lee?
If you look at it with that relative view, yeah, they have a point.
On the other hand, on an absolute scale? Yeah, Dewhurst and company can GTFO.
It’s great news for Texas & our nation.
Who are those folks that keep saying the tea party is dead?!??! Please step forward & identify yourselves!
Great way to start my day!!!
Well Maxine Waters also doomed the TEA Party to he\\ but we got other plans in mind, thank the Lord...
The Tea Party had their marches and demonstrations. They were the reason why the GOP won big in 2010. They are now into the next phase where they are actually running candidates and winning.
Occupy group still banging on bongos and sleeping on other people's property.
A contrast between the producers and the takers
Besides the stuff you know about there is this:
It was also a very bad night for squishy Republicans, like House Speaker Joe Straus. And a downright miserable one for Mr. Straus’ own state senator, the newly-defeated Jeff Wentworth.
The Texas Legislature has been vastly improved with this primary election cycle, and last night only cemented conservative gains. Of the state legislative races, the biggest run-off news was conservative-champion Dr. Donna Campbell defeating liberal incumbent Jeff Wentworth by a two-to-one margin.
One quick lesson for Republicans in the Texas House: the closer they stand to Speaker Straus and his henchmen – like State Reps. Charlie Geren and Jim Keffer – the more likely they are to lose.
Two more Straus committee chairmen (Sid Miller and Chuck Hopson) lost re-election, joining the three Straus chairs who lost in the first round of primary voting.
In the open-seats, Straus-friendly candidates fell like flies.
A bit of explanation is in order here I think.
Two sessions ago the Texas House of Representatives was a closely divided body with 76 Rs and 74 Ds. The speaker of that body, a staunch conservative though somewhat heavy handed in his leadership style man named Tom Craddick was ousted when a number of supposed Rs conspired with the minority Ds to elect a RINO named Joe Straus as speaker and thus the house has since labored under the leadership of a speaker elected largely by the minority party there.
EVERY ONE of the Rs who were a party to that have now had their hats handed to them by the voters in their districts!
This also shows the GOPe that Sarah Palin can still bring in the votes for conservative candidates.
Yes, thank you Texas Tea Party!!!!!! Wooohooo!!!!
Boy, these unintended consequences seem to be piling up, lets keep it going!!
Excellent job, congrats to all!!!
Did I remember correctly that Cruz said 1 of the 1st things he would do is bring in 6 conservatives to congress?
Or am I making that up (wishful thinking)?
A double a$$ whooping, woohoo!!
Texas rocks. Spirit of San Antonio alive and well.
According to RCP Cruz defeated Dewhurst by an impressive 14 points .
Cruz was born to a Cuban-American father and an American mother in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where his parents were working in the petroleum business.[1] His father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba until he escaped to freedom in Texas in 1957.[6]
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[7] and then graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston.
Cruz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel as one of North America’s top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[8] In 1992, he was named Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton) by the American Parliamentary Debate Association.[8] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.[9]
Cruz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[10]............How’s that for a resume!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Your "wishful thinking" is the reality imo.
Check out what I found at Google searching for "ted cruz bring conservatives to congress"
News for ted cruz bring conservatives to congressThis guy is the real deal, what a blessing he's IN!
New York Times
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I had the honor of meeting and talking to his father at a TPX Tour Tea Party Rally earlier this year. Cruz has a great family.
Plus, check out This Comment on this thread from a political astute buddy of mine in Texas
God Bless you for the links and putting my doubts aside!! I do believe it was quoted in a FReeper thread.
Seems like we’re making a difference. I can only assume the lamestream media thought we were “dead” because we weren’t going to DC anymore.
Little did they know, after barrycare was shoved down our throats, we went “underground”. We are ALL about action.
Even here in NY, we voted in a conservative...
http://huntingtonny.gov/elected_official.cfm?ID=17
There was some “hoopala” regarding him being on the R ticket, so he went I....and won!!!
I 1st met him at Huntington’s Conservative Party Christmas party (I met this party when I volunteered at the Hofstra Debate 08).
I did not change my R to C because I would not be able to vote in the primaries. My sister, FReeper nothinglefttolose did.
Baby steps, but we MUST start from the bottom and bring it up!
Great, keep up the good work back there in NY!
All this time the media was saying the Tea Party is dead, they were also reporting on the Conslervative influence it was having.
LOL!
We have to keep fighting hard being as the GOP isn’t interested in countering voter fraud, and their attitude of letting the dems (open primaries) and the media choose their candidates.
The Tea Party is Dead!
Long live the Tea Party!
AMEN to that!
NY is a very blue state and extremely hard to change. But with us out there, from the bottom up, I think we can make a difference.
It's a long haul, but we are willing to fight for it! One baby step at a time!
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