CRUZ STORMS GOP ESTABLISHMENT STRONGHOLD IN SUNSHINE STATE WITH RECORD-SETTING CROWD

Breitbart ^ | 20 Feb 2014 | MATTHEW BOYLE

[mandaladon]

SARASOTA, Florida—The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) just held its winter meeting here, and the wealthy beachfront communities that dot the coast are typically considered one of the beating hearts of the Establishment GOP's donor community. Tonight, though, it's Cruz country. An event originally scheduled as a small rally for potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mushroomed into a major political event after nearly 2,000 people RSVP'd online. “We are shocked at the level of interest that we’ve received for doing this rally,” Sarasota GOP chairman Joe Gruters told Breitbart News. “It’s obvious that the state is aware that he is listening, and they’re excited about what Ted Cruz is saying and it certainly cuts across the bow of the establishment in D.C., which is maybe not trying to ‘stifle’ what Sen. Cruz is saying but certainly that Cruz is getting so much attention at the local level in a county like Sarasota shows you that he’s a major player and that people should watch out for and everything that the guy is doing,” he added. Cruz opened his remarks here with one his signature phrases. “I spent all of last week in Washington, D.C.," he said. "It is great to be back in America.” Following what will now be a sizable rally at the Sarasota Hyatt – participants are already lining up “like Black Friday campers at Best Buy,” one organizer emailed – Cruz will attend a $500 per person VIP fundraiser and, to wrap up the evening, a $5,000 per couple private donor dinner. The fundraising proceeds are going to the Sarasota County GOP party. Organizers say 1,800 people signed up for the rally and at least 200 for the dinner.

[newfreep]

Sarah Palin seems to smoke out the cowardly RINOs, too.

[Din Maker]

Wow! This guy could be the first Hispanic to ever be nominated for President of the United States.

[Din Maker]

I have not listened to a word Ann Coulter has said since she fell in love with Mitt Romney in early 2012.

[Din Maker]

The rhinos tremble
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I’m thinking you meant RINOs.

[Din Maker]

I just wish Ted would get a more stylish hair cut. The “greaser” styles went out long ago.

[Din Maker]

....make no mistake about it, the Mainstream Liberal Republican establishment hates Senator Cruz and everything he stands for....
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Exactly! That’s why I can’t understand how so many Texas Freepers can support Dan Patrick for Lt. Gov. in the GOP Primary. He hates Ted Cruz and was rooting for David Dewhurst in 2012.

[Din Maker]

....we have to get the turnout and support for Tea Party philosophy candidates and get them elected. Senator Cruz is doing his part, now it is time for us to do ours.

Yes, Ted Cruz is doing his part, unlike Rand Paul who has endorsed Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. And please, don't anyone tell me that he did it before Mitch had a GOP Primary challenger. If that's the case, he's not only a TP traitor, he's freakin' STUPID!

[Din Maker]

IF WE ALL WORK HARD, the Tea Party can substantially increase the number of Tea Party Republicans in both the House and the Senate....

And hopefully, the numbers will be large enough that when the Elections for Leadership are held, McConnell and Bohner will be found in the "Lost" column.

[Din Maker]

...can he beat HIllary in the fall?

Well, someone correct me if I'm wrong. (Like I have to give FReepers permission to do that...lol) But, say what you will; I say that a lot of Hispanics who would normally vote Democrat, will vote for the first President in History with a Hispanic surname, when they get in that voting booth. Am I right or wrong?

[ConservativeDude]

Well, call me a pessimist.

But I have serious doubts. I think Hispanics are for the most part, as committed to the rapid expansion of the welfare state. I believe they will vote D, rather than “Cruz”.

I do certainly hope that YOU are right, however!!!!

[Din Maker]

One thing for sure, being Cuban, Ted Cruz would carry FL in the Presidential Election. It's to the point now, that with NY and CA guaranteed to go Dem in every Prez Election, Florida is now the State that determines who will occupy the White House.

[nascarnation]

Florida and Ohio for sure.
I feel sorry for all the campaign commercials those poor folks will have to endure in 2016.

[GeronL]

I would love to find out

[Night Hides Not]

I have not listened to a word Ann Coulter has said since she fell in love with Mitt Romney in early 2012.

Who's Ann Coulter? Oh yeah, the skinny blond who used to be a conservative...she's dead to me.

[Windflier]

Sarah Palin seems to smoke out the cowardly RINOs, too.

Indeed she does. It's why almost none of them came to her defense when the press was roasting her and her family alive. The GOP-e hates her even more than the Dems.

[ConservativeDude]

Now that is a fair point.

But we need to hear from Ohio before we call it game over.

[caww]

Well, I’d rather see that then some of these spiked ‘do’s these guys are getting. However, generally the closer they get to actually running the final sprint to the Whitehouse then that’s when the stylists etc. come in....though I guess they never did for Kerry or Romney....they both just have too much hair!

[trisham]

It doesn’t matter to me. Romney has great hair, but it’s no measure of his character.