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.
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Of course Walker won’t take on the Republican Powercrats - he is pals with GOPe (Priebus, Ryan, Rove).
Walker was not to be heard from when Ted tried to defend the country against Obamacare nor when Ted was defending the Constitution against Obama’s usurpation of power.
Walker was AWOL! We need strong, decisive leadership and the courage that goes with it. Ted gets it, Walker doesn’t.
Conservatives would have to be crazy to support Walker instead of Ted Cruz.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Cruz or West stumble or have to walk anything back.
“good, honorable and decent men”
Ted, please avoid lying like this. It doesn’t help you or us. Tell the truth. They are human garbage intent on spreading liberalism and helping the communist in the White House.
Rally your base. Don’t alienate it.
His base will fit into a phone booth if he does something like that... and you know it
West: Pigford and Trayvon come to mind. Those were idiotic positions.
I know that christians tell the truth. Unlike you wanting to hide it to benefit evil.
Good for him.
I stand with Ted
agreed
Cruz can’t call them RINOs. I’m getting concerned he may go the way of the RINO.
If he does what, call out all the RINO GOP-e out for the POS they really are? I don’t think so. We need SOMEBODY calling them out as the crap is getting deep lately.
Don’t worry. HT’s personal beef with me is showing again. Had anyone else BUT me said that, he’d agree completely.
And I thought I got a lot of crap for being conservative on FR here, but you get attacked like no other. I can’t believe there are that many traitors on this site.
Liberals hate the truth. It’s really that simple. FR is filled with them.
Those of us that speak it get attacked by those that wish to hide it. Ted Cruz is a good man and perhaps our only real hope to run.
this was wrong and I don’t think using John McCains “Barry is a good man/no need to fear him” line with new characters serves anyone but the GOP.
I think he’s trying to ‘play politics’ and we don’t need that from our leaders. We need truth. Brutal, unclouded truth.
And to prove all the above, if anyone here thinks America or conservatism is best served by saying provably false things about the 3 idiots in question that contributed mightily to spreading liberalism in the GOP, let them show why.
Sometimes the anti-Ted animus shows up even here. I have not figured that out yet.
Walker isn't out there on the campaign circuit "saying what needs to be said" because, unlike any US senator, he has a full-time job. Cruz is doing pretty much what our current squater in the White Hut did for his entire senatorial career: running for president.
Don't get me wrong, I like Cruz, and will likely enthusiastically back him for the presidency if he becomes the nominee (particularly if the choice boils down to him vs. Romney, Bush, Huckleby, or Christie). But I would prefer to hold out for some more choices from the ranks of conservative governors. Walker, Perry, Jindal, and several others are worth a look. And I'm still perfectly willing to adds Palin to that list, should she get in on a timely basis and not dither away most of 2015 before throwing her hat in the ring.
Conservatives need to coalesce around a champion early, but not too early.
“squater”? Did I do that? “SQUATTER”.
Anti-Ted animus or not, you can’t say Norm waffles on conservatism yet I see some “freepers” (and I say that loosely) attacking him. Even Cruz here is sort of playing both sides by not trying to paint the GOP-e as the enemy and if he keeps this up even he will be thrown in the Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul recycling RINO bin. I have faith he will remain strong against a bunch of liberal republicans but time will tell.
The first death sentence should be on the IRS followed by the EPA accordingly.
You know, when you lose your primay, come back, get the primary - lose the election it just might not be your thing to do.
In the wake of the 2010 and 2014 conservative waves the odds drop further.
When you see Sen. Ted Cruz in South Carolina telling the crowd "you are really a nice guy," you are done.
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As much as I like Allen West, this isn’t going to happen. He and his family just moved to Texas, and thee won’t be a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate from the same state.
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