Posted on 04/19/2016 10:34:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It wasn’t a good night for Ted Cruz, who finished third in New York amid a landslide for Donald Trump in his home state. There was some talk, which turned out to be more hopeful than realistic, that because of the fact New York was a closed primary with registration rules so restrictive that you had to be registered as a Republican back in October of last year in order to vote in it the circumstances would serve to hold down his vote – perhaps even keep him under 50 percent. That didn’t happen; with 70 percent of the vote in Trump was sitting at 59 percent and Cruz at a poor 15.
But most of the country is nothing like New York. And even in the event Trump pulled all the delegates out of New York he still would have only tied the delegate count Cruz has racked up during the course of this month.
So Cruz wasn’t in New York tonight. He’d moved on. Tonight he gave a speech in Philadelphia which, frankly, looked more presidential than anything anyone has given thus far this year on either side.
It goes 11 minutes. It gives off the vibe of history in the making.
Here’s a transcript of the speech…
I am so excited to share with you what America has learned over the past few months.
And it has nothing to do with a politician tonight winning his home state.
It has everything to do with what we’ve seen in the towns and faces that have been weathered with trouble, joblessness, and fear. It is what we learned looking at the factories that have been shuttered and the hearts that are closing.
We have learned that America is at a point of choosing.
The media will say it is about choosing a president. But it really isn’t.
Our real choice is personal, and every generation must make the same choice.
Will we continue to live in the past with what we know no longer works, or will we move forward to a new and better place?
The people in state after state have made it clear. They cry out for a new path.
This is the year of the outsider. I am an outsider, Bernie Sanders is an outsider.
Both with the same diagnosis, but both with very different paths to healing.
Millions of Americans have chosen one of these outsiders. Our campaigns don’t find our fuel in bundlers and special interests, but rather directly from the people. The wide-eyed youth of any age that haven’t given up on the hope that tomorrow can and will be better.
Ronald Reagan and Jack Kennedy were outsiders.
They both represented a whole new vision and vibrancy. A new generation of ideas. Jack Kennedy looked forward instead of back to the first half century of world war. He knew that America could dream and build if we were set free. Not tanks for war, but rockets for exploration.
Reagan looked out – to us – the most powerful force for innovation that the world has ever known:
There we found the new tech pioneers like Bill Gates and a young Steve Jobs. They had vision and the freedom to build a new world that that at the time only THEY saw and because they were free. They challenged the way and changed the way all of us live, work, and interact.
Now it is our turn.
This generation must first look inward to see who we really are, after years of being beaten down.
Years of being told we couldn’t, shouldn’t, or wouldn’t. This generation needs to answer a new set of questions. Can we? Should we? Will we? Are we still those people? Those dreamers and doers? Are America’s greatest generations in our past? Or are our best days yet ahead? We must unite the Republican Party because doing so is the first step toward uniting all Americans.
The question is not whether all Americans can or will agree on a majority of issues all of the time. The question is whether a majority of Americans are hungry to rally around a set of principles larger than any single issue that a politician may use to divide us.
Tonight, I’m speaking to you from Philadelphia. It’s natural, when we talk about our Nation’s earliest days, that we focus our attention on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. And we can learn a great deal about a path forward by focusing on the passionate disputes and disagreements among our founding fathers — differences that were put aside only because of the weight and consequence of the foundational principles they sought to proclaim and the price to be paid if they failed to rise to the task.
Today, as Republicans, we agree on a lot. And sure, areas of lesser agreement exist as well. But on the fundamental question: are we satisfied with the current direction of our country; we speak with one voice.
I call on you, as JFK did in the 60’s. And as Reagan did in the 80’s. To chart a new American journey forward. One that isn’t led by me or anyone in Washington, but by you. And millions of others just like you.
One where we still have differences, yet we choose to concentrate on what we have in common.
One that lifts others up and believes in the rights, responsibilities, goodness, and strength of all mankind.
We have so much that binds us together: our families, our work ethic, our ability to dream and build unlike any people in history. But most of all our charity, our love for our fellow men and women and our willingness to sacrifice for those in need.
Let us unite…on the things that have always made us great. We are great because we are good. Because over and over again we have chosen courage in the moments of crisis; freedom in the face of compromise; and hope in the face of challenges that everyone told us could not be overcome.
Our sitting president ran on a slogan that should have been a great first step…It promised us, “yes we can.”
Now is the time to take that slogan and put it into action.
“Yes we can” was a recognition of the hope that we can and should recover. The problem was that Barack Obama’s prescriptions only led to more elitist control from Washington. Less freedom for the People.
But now is the time, as Americans, to once again reclaim that hope. To take another giant leap for mankind. To speak the words with all the power and might that we can muster and use the words that have changed the world time and again:
The words that the slaves yearned to hear from the American people and Abraham Lincoln when they cried out for freedom. The words, that Europe and Britain heard when they cried out for help defeating totalitarian evil in the 1940’s. The words that led two men in North Carolina to be the first in flight. And half a century later the first man to reach the moon. And decades later, two men in their garage to come up with Apple. They are the words that will repair our tattered spirit, lift up our economy and those who are barely making it, they are the words that will vanquish the evil of ISIS. and return the rule of law.
They are the words that when Americans come together and say with conviction – they change the world.
They are the vision of this campaign:
Not yes we can, but now: Yes we will.
We will restore our spirit; We will free our minds and imagination; We will create a new and better world; We will bring back jobs, freedom, and security; We will find new ways to ignite an energy revolution with more jobs and greater choices; We will defeat the evil of Islamists and ISIS; We will live as neighbors, friends, and family in peace once again; We will heal the sick, feed the poor, and defend the defenseless; We will restore our rightful place in the world. We will do what Americans do best. We will live for others – we will change the world through the hope of freedom’s enduring promise. And our unrelenting spirit.
You can be empowered, and in a digital age it is all the easier for your voice to be heard. Your choices to govern your work, your education, your future. If only Washington will get out of the way.
Join me on this journey of less talk and more action because I know you. You may have been knocked down, but America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat and the crowd has given the final count. It is time for us to get up, shake it off and be who we were destined to be.
Don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise.
Here is the truth: You don’t need me or any politician.
But we do need each other, all of us, coming together as one, as We the People, because not only do we say – yes WE can, beginning here and now we pledge to each and every one of us, yes we will.
And now my friends, onward to victory.
Or a whole lotta Rose' being chugged.
He will absolutely NOT lose his next senate run in Texas. You are dreaming.
My wife is from Philadelphia (Archbishop Ryan High School). I’ll have to tell her she’s a moron.
Dude has gone full guano.
Never go full guano.
We're relative days away from electing a new president and one candidate is worried about a fractured party !
Donald Trump has stated from his first day that all he wants to do is make America great again
As best as I can remember, he's never attacked anyone ... he's responded TO an attack ... but he's never attacked first.
If this Cruz speech is owning the night ... the night's a cheap whore's blowjob in a dark alley
Well, he got 14,5%, 3rd place and 0 Delegates (as of right now).
He clearly owned the night, for some.
Just what we need - another politician who makes great speeches. No thanks. I’ll take a problem solver.
Trump and his insufferable sycophants will be lucky to get 45% of the vote in November against Hillary. A lot of arrogant bravado all during the Primary. With Trump’s sky high negatives the General election will be a whole different story, but Trump loyalists are gleefully satisfied with a pyrric Primary victory.
The level of derangement necessary to consider a guy who gave a speech to 2 dozen people while catastrophically losing a primary in one of the largest states by a blowout margin even larger than expected is off the charts.
Cruz is done. Finished. Over. THE END. Period.
Move on already.
He lost - no, he got pummeled - and according to this new report Cruz owned the night. lol is right.
[The level of derangement necessary to consider a guy who gave a speech to 2 dozen people while catastrophically losing a primary in one of the largest states by a blowout margin even larger than expected is off the charts.]
Well-said.
Also apropos. I use it interchangeably with 'the Walking Ted'.
I have been following politics since working on the Goldwater campaign as a kid. This has been unlike any other election cycle and I’m still trying to figure it out.
The true conservative in the race is Cruz but there is just something about Trump that has made many conservatives care more about Trump’s nationalism than conservative values. Many people believe that the country is about to be past the point of no return and only Trump has a chance to change it.
Trump showed early that he had the balls to go after Hillary. He actually went after Bill as sexual predator. We have been waiting for someone to do that for many years. I hope Trump will bring up Mena and cocaine and finally destroy the Clinton legacy. And if anyone would ever dare talk about Bill’s half black son, it is Trump. No one else would ever do it.
Building a wall drives the left crazy. Protecting us from Islamic invasion and terrorists drives the left crazy. Attacking the media drives the left crazy.
Trump supporters hope his business instincts will translate to choosing great advisers who will help make the country work again.
It might be a minor issue to many, but it should be a big issue. He is saying the word Christmas unashamedly and refuses to kowtow to the PC police.
Cruz main focus is delegate capture after the vote. The votes are just to go through the motions of looking like he is campaigning. His interview on Hannity was pathetic.
Mr. Trump had a very good night in his home state. Although it was expected, his take of the delegates was quite impressive. I was surprised at the total vote however with less than a million votes cast in the republican primary.
The 60% winning total was only around 520 thousand which resulted in 89 delegates while the winning total in the much less populated state of Wisconsin was over 530 thousand and resulted in only 36 delegates. I guess it is a good thing we don’t go by popular vote.
Here's a link to an equally credible blog post, concerning a truth that has been withheld from us: A Flat Earth.
http://thelowdown0.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-earth-is-flat.html#.VxchGjArLIU
Inspiring speech.
lol
Worth repeating. And the rest of your post was very good also but this jumped out at me.
Texas primary:
Cruz 1.2 million votes
Not for Cruz 1.5 million votes.
Democrats not for Cruz 1.4 million votes.
Not popular even in Texas.
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