Cruz lands prime SRLC speaking slot [May 21-23, 2015]

Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will keynote the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) in May, where he’ll appear alongside a number of his potential opponents.

"Sen. Cruz's recent announcement for president has created quite a buzz among Republican voters. We're excited he'll be joining us for the SRLC, as I know primary voters will want to hear what he has to say,” SRLC Chairman Dave Weston said in a statement.

“With the future of Obamacare increasingly in doubt, many have looked to Cruz as the point of the spear in Republican efforts to defeat the president's signature policy."

Cruz kicked off presidential primary season with an announcement earlier this month. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) followed suit last week and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told donors on Monday that he will run.

Neither Rand nor Rubio are scheduled to appear at the gathering of Republicans and conservative activists, but invitations have been extended to both candidates.

Cruz will share the SRLC spotlight with eight other prospective GOP presidential candidates: Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.), former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.), former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), Gov. Bobby Jindal (La.), Dr. Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump.

A number of those potential candidates are expected to have declared their intentions by the late May event in Oklahoma.

"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

Ted Cruz will knock it out of the park.

Bobby Jindal and Dr. Ben Carson may have something interesting to say.

The rest in the lineup are a complete waste of time.

~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz the only true Conservative in this race.

I thing I like the most about hearing Cruz is his ability to communicate the need for restoration of our Free Republic, he doesn’t need to stand and speak from notes; he knows what he believes and is not afraid he will say something wrong, freedom, liberty and love of righteousness is in his DNA.

BINGO -

Hitlery - As well as the other pubbie candidates, I’m thinking, are quaking in their boots at the thought of having to debate CRUZ.

RIGHT trumps all else....combined with intelligence and knowledge and love of country - and Master at debating - ultimate weapon

Sure glad he’s on our side!

I keep hearing that Ted Cruz is not liked among his fellow Senators. Is this true, and if so, why? If it is true, will it hurt his chances to be the party’s choice in Nov. 2016?

You really wonder?

To them, he's an upstart that doesn't doesn't kow tow to their seniority - nor play games or bargain with the devil. He's a major threat to the status quo in Foggy Bottom.

He's A true statesman, in the RR. Founding Fathers model.

Thank you all for your in-put. He seems to be doing so well with both campaign contributions and the opinions of the public, but not in the Senate. People, except Senators, seem to like what they hear, and he doesn’t back up. I had read that if a candidate doesn’t “kowtow” to the powers that be, he/she won’t make the cut (Michelle Bachmann, for example). If he isn’t #1 on the ticket in 2016, I hope he’s #2. With as many strong Republicans to chose from, I had thought it would be a shame to waste any of them, but I’m beginning to think that it will take two strong candidates to clean up Obama’s mess. The rest can go in Cruz’s cabinet.

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