Posted on 01/20/2016 4:22:32 PM PST by Isara
The old lions of the conservative movement-leaders with direct ties to the 1960 signing of the Sharon Statement by 90 members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at William F. Buckley's residence-are uniting around the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz with passionate endorsements of his candidacy.
82-year-old Richard Viguerie, the pioneer in direct-mail fundraising, makes the conservative political case for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign with the vigor and energy of a man five decades younger.
“Ted Cruz is the best conservative candidate since Ronald Reagan,” Viguerie tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
“He’s what we've waited for ever since Reagan. He checks all our boxes.”
“He’s everything we’ve wanted in a candidate. He unites the party in a way that no other candidate can,” Viguerie adds.
In 1962 Viguerie, then 29-years-old, was named the executive director of YAF. For more than half a century, Vigurie has dedicated his life to the advancement of the modern conservative movement.
76-year-old Morton Blackwell, founder of the Leadership Institute, YAF member in the 1960s and long time Republican National Committeeman from Virginia, endorsed Cruz last week, saying he "has consistently demonstrated his deep commitment to conservative principles."
“Yes, I support Ted Cruz,” Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center,...
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“It’s clear cut that you are either with the establishment or you are with Ted Cruz. That is the new reality,” Bozell says.
“It is the Republican party that has disdain for conservatives,” he adds.
"Ted Cruz has made virtually all of them [in the Republican establishment] feel uncomfortable. The sin he commits is honoring his promise," Bozell says. “What they, the GOP establishment, want is unanimity in dishonesty,” he notes.
“That’s why I urged Ted Cruz to run for President. I’ve urged him since about five minutes after he was elected to the Senate [in 2012],” Bozell explains.
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There are Conservatives who stand, unwavering on conviction and principle. And then there are those here at FreeRepublic who are convinced that the only way for the GOP to win in 2016 is to nominate a Democrat as their candidate.
Trump is dangerous. He is unpredictable.
Cruz has a PROVEN RECORD.
I have admired Richard's opinions for many years but if that statement were true Cruz would not be running near 10% in New Hampshire and behind in Texas even after Trump insulted all the illegals.
Add Sarah Palin to that list. Palin I hardly ever knew there.
Trump hasn’t won anything yet. Giuliani led the GOP polls for over a year and still won nothing.
Savage is finally right on something, and that is, Cruz would be demolished in a Presidential election. They ( Hillary-Democrats-Media) would use his and especially his father’s over the top religiosity to paint them as raving lunatics. It also doesn’t help that he is just plain weird looking, and has a preachy attitude.
Yep stood there unwavering and for 27 years seen everything move Left because they are the mindless housen$%%$%& on the GOPE Plantation. “Just keep voting for the GOPE, this time they will change for sure!”.
What, if anything, is different between the 12 years of the 2 Bush Presidencies and the 8 years of Clinton in terms of Government Spending, Regulatory Overreach or any other Conservative agenda item?
Cruz will mouth all the right slogans and do nothing but what the Political/Media/Business machine tells them to do. If he oppose them, he will be tied up with phony media manufactured scandals and a uniformly hostile Congressional Leadership until he knuckles under in desperation to build SOMETHING for his “legacy”.
This is why people need to quit worshiping the career politicians who happen to mouth the proper slogans. Under the surface, all professional politicians driven by ambition and ego to write their names in the History books.
Well if Viguerie, Blackwell and Bozell are that sold on Cruz, they better get their asses to New Hampshire and start knocking on doors, because the latest poll (Gravis/OANN) show Cruz in THIRD place, 5 points behind (of all people) that idiot John Kasich.
And of course Trump is leading with 35 percent.
Our founders and our supreme court has said the same thing, many times. Cruz was born into the allegiance of a foreign sovereign. he is a natural born citizen. of Canada.
Let us not forget that only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda with illegal immigration and other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media has been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And we wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
What? I was told on here Cruz is WILDLY POPULAR in Tx?
These great conservative lions dont care much for the constitution, do they?
But many posters here are with the establishment. Sad.
Palin supported Orrin Hatch and McCain, so it is not too surprising.
The same establishment that owns Cruz ?
That elder statesman of the establishment, bob dole, endorsed trump, not Sen. Cruz.
That elder statesman of the establishment, bob dole, endorsed trump, not Sen. Cruz.
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