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"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
 

1 posted on 04/16/2015 12:26:24 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


CRUZ or LOSE!

2 posted on 04/16/2015 12:26:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

What’s not to like...

And I still remember that silly scene with Scotty, it was great

Hillary still thinks The Graduate is the Latest Thing...


5 posted on 04/16/2015 12:33:25 PM PDT by Regulator
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7 posted on 04/16/2015 12:43:09 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: SoConPubbie; Windflier; BlackElk; JRandomFreeper; DoughtyOne; All
As the story goes, the Senator [Cruz] sat at a desk, picked up a computer mouse inquisitively, and proceeded to speak into the mouse with his best Scottish brogue, “Computer! Computer!” as though expecting the computer to respond to his voice.

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are! {^)

8 posted on 04/16/2015 12:43:58 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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On pain-capable right to life legislation: “I strongly support pain-capable legislation. As a matter of principle, we should not have exceptions. But I will also take incremental gains.”

It's not a gain. It's immoral and unconstitutional to grant permission in the statutes to kill babies.

12 posted on 04/16/2015 1:07:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SoConPubbie

Very good article, that covers more than the horse race part of the process.


20 posted on 04/16/2015 1:55:55 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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Thanks for posting this article. I really enjoyed reading the account of this meeting between Ted Cruz and the Liberty Movement in Iowa last January.

From the article, there are two paragraphs that impressed me the most, firstly:

The questions started rolling, and Cruz fielded broad queries about executive overreach, shutting down government agencies, and changing the culture of Washington. But after the first couple questions, the Senator paused and threw down the gauntlet. “Let me make a brief request, which is just in general: no softballs,” he challenged, “Ask the hard questions. I suspect not everyone here is right now inclined to support me, so ask the hardest questions you have and let’s have a conversation.” Emphasizing the importance of forthrightness, he added a promise on his end. “I’m not gonna blow smoke at you. Where there are areas we agree I’ll tell you, where there (are areas) where we disagree I’ll tell you… And I hope you will come to conclude that where we are on the same page you can trust me to say it.”
Among a highly skeptical audience, Ted Cruz challenges everyone to ask hard questions in a no-holds-barred Q&A lasting two hours! Cruz was intent on them hearing exactly where he agreed and disagreed with them. Cruz is confident in what he believes and doesn't insult people's intelligence with pandering responses. In my mind, just because Cruz appears before groups of Liberty Movement voters and fearlessly engages them to hash out common ground does not justify members of the media taking the lazy route and fixing a simplistic label of "libertarian leaning" to him.

Secondly, this paragraph caught my eye:

Inevitably, the conversation turned to 2016 and the prospects of the dueling candidacies of Cruz and fellow “Whacko Bird” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Likening the Republican Primary to the NCAA basketball tournament, Cruz admitted that Rand was strong in the libertarian “bracket”, but made it clear that should he run, he would fight for the liberty vote as well. “I intend to vigorously contest (for support from the Liberty Movement), and I think it’s entirely consistent to fight for liberty… and to fight for conservative principles as well,” said Cruz. He also noted that he was the only candidate in the country in 2012 to be endorsed by both Ron Paul and Rick Santorum in his Texas Senate race. “Now, those are two worlds that are not normally arm-in-arm,” Cruz explained in an understatement that drew laughter from the room.
My goodness, can you say consensus builder!? Uniting libertarians and pro-life evangelicals demonstrates Cruz's message of reclaiming the Constitution and Bill of Rights appeals to a broader cross section of voters than the liberal media wants us to believe. It puts the lie to Democrat claims his philosophy is extreme. Draw in the Reagan Democrats after more exposure to Cruz in the debates and on TV/radio/Internet and we're well on our way to victory.
29 posted on 04/16/2015 2:20:00 PM PDT by Unmarked Package (Cruz to Victory 2016)
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I would walk through flaming broken glass to vote for Ted Cruz.


34 posted on 04/16/2015 3:57:08 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler
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bookmark


49 posted on 04/19/2015 5:02:47 PM PDT by Steve0113
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