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Conservatives to Cruz: 'Run, Ted, run'
The Hill ^ | 09/01/13 12:30 PM ET | Alexandra Jaffe

Posted on 09/02/2013 8:48:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was met with enthusiastic cheers from an "adoring" audience during his address at a conservative summit on Saturday, the friendliest of any of the potential 2016 presidential hopefuls to speak at the Defending the Dream summit.

The event, hosted by Americans for Prosperity, drew a handful of other conservative stars and would-be presidential contenders: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R ) and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R ) all spoke.

But according to The Washington Post, none received so warm a welcome as Cruz. He was met with chants of "Run, Ted, run!" after giving a speech focused largely on the imperative of defunding ObamaCare, a cause which he and a handful of other conservatives in the Senate have championed in recent weeks.

Cruz slammed fellow Republicans who have criticized the push as potentially politically harmful and pledged not to back down from a threat to shut down the government if the law is not defunded.

“Right now, the people who are fighting the hardest against our effort to defund Obamacare are sadly Republican,” he said. “Over and over again, they say, ‘We can’t win this fight.’ Well, you know — you lose 100 percent of the fights that you surrender at the outset.”

Cruz has fast emerged as a darling of the conservative movement, taking a place somewhat lost by Rubio after the Florida senator took the lead on immigration reform, drawing him criticism from conservatives and leading to a drop in many national polls of the 2016 GOP presidential landscape.

Indeed, Rubio's reception at the same summit on Friday was decidedly less enthusiastic. Though he received cheers for parts of his speech, he was also heckled over immigration reform with shouts of "No amnesty!" from the crowd.

In contrast, Cruz took the stage to a sustained standing ovation and exited to calls for him to run for president.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New Jersey; US: Texas; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2016gopprimary; chrischristie; cruz; cruz2016; cruzmissile; florida; marcorubio; newjersey; scottwalker; tedcruz; texas; ursulathevk; wisconsin; zot
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To: JRandomFreeper

I think the Mods believe I’m a sicko, because I start out my “Abuse” messages with “Self abuse.”


201 posted on 09/02/2013 12:45:55 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
You did it, so I won't shut up. It's a long time consuming search to go back months on your posts, and unless you promise to follow your own principle, I'm not going to waste my time.

You did it just as I described.

Unless you promise to follow your principle, you're the one who should shut up.

202 posted on 09/02/2013 12:50:32 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: Lakeshark
I will hit the abuse button if my post is worthy of the abuse button. So far, all I've seen are accusations.

/johnny

203 posted on 09/02/2013 12:51:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Lakeshark
You did it, so I won't shut up. It's a long time consuming search to go back months on your posts, and unless you promise to follow your own principle, I'm not going to waste my time.

*******************************

I couldn't agree more. My only addition to the above is that this entire exercise is not simply a waste of your time.

204 posted on 09/02/2013 12:52:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT
I don't think it's discussed in our state laws, but I could be wrong.

The poster cripplecreek might know, or he would know who would.

205 posted on 09/02/2013 12:55:07 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: trisham

Agreed, let’s move on to fighting the dems and supporting Cruz and other fighting conservatives who want to gum up Bambi’s agenda to destroy America.


206 posted on 09/02/2013 1:00:50 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Then we need to relegate them to white noise and do what WE need to do for the country!


207 posted on 09/02/2013 1:02:20 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
You're boxed in Johnny. Make your promise to follow your word and I'll find it.

I guess you're not as principled as you claim.

208 posted on 09/02/2013 1:03:06 PM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE.)
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To: Lakeshark

Absolutely.


209 posted on 09/02/2013 1:06:06 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Winstons Julia
I’m not any sort of troll. I had no idea that there had been some huge deal previously here on Free Republic regarding Cruz’ eligibility.

Pretty much any Cruz thread devolves into birther nonsense.

210 posted on 09/02/2013 1:16:42 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: Lakeshark

Lakeshark: “...let’s move on to fighting the dems and supporting Cruz and other fighting conservatives who want to gum up Bambi’s agenda to destroy America.”

BUMP!


211 posted on 09/02/2013 1:36:47 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
Pretty much any Cruz thread devolves into birther nonsense.

If that keeps up we'll soon see a bugzapper thread started.

212 posted on 09/02/2013 1:36:55 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: CodeToad
Federal law requires certification of a candidates qualifications. Here is Nancy's certification of Obama:

That wasn't the ONLY one.

from WND, 9/11/09

..snip.

“Now this is the stuff real conspiracies are made of!” Williams, who also maintains his own website, wrote. “Please allow me to connect the dots here…”

“The DNC drafted, signed and notarized TWO slightly different versions of their Official Certification of Nomination documents, not one,” he wrote. “One of those documents had complete legal language, and one of them was missing the text concerning the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.

“The version which is absent any certification of constitutional standing for the office of president is the version that was filed with every state in the country, and the one used by the DNC to elect Barack Obama president,” he wrote.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/109363/#LOfCZWU2dPxgC12H.99
213 posted on 09/02/2013 1:55:17 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Lakeshark

Please take this elsewhere. Other than bumping the thread, it isn’t helping our side.


214 posted on 09/02/2013 1:58:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: JCBreckenridge
The US Constitution explicitly distinguishes between the natural born citizens and those born outside of the united states who become citizens. Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution.

That much is true. The rest is complete supposition on your part. Are you a Supreme Court Justice about to rule in the majority that favors your decision? No? Why waste my time spouting your opinions as facts?

215 posted on 09/02/2013 2:01:11 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Cyber Liberty

That may be. The all important goal is to get a conservative in the WH. This site isn’t simply a vehicle for debate.


216 posted on 09/02/2013 2:01:32 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
This site isn’t simply a vehicle for debate.

Correct. Jim would be more than happy to disabuse folks with the notion that it is. I see you've been here a while. So have I. :^)

217 posted on 09/02/2013 2:19:58 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I see you've been here a while. So have I. :^)

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I guess so. :)

218 posted on 09/02/2013 2:28:33 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lakeshark
Show the post. If it's worthy of a abuse button mash, I'll do that. I don't have power of zot.

And no, I'm not boxed in. You're the one that's not putting up.

/johnny

219 posted on 09/02/2013 2:30:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bunkerhill7
Andrew Jackson`s parents were born in Ireland. Thomas Jefferson`s mother was born in London.

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were both citizens of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and so were not required to be natural born citizens in order to become president.

Are you seriously so uninformed that you would throw out this kind of patent irrelevancy in response to a very serious question?

220 posted on 09/02/2013 2:38:12 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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