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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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1 posted on 09/02/2013 8:48:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; stephenjohnbanker; LUV W; Patty; itssme; BuckeyeTexan; Jane Long; CatherineofAragon; ..

Ted Cruz Ping!


2 posted on 09/02/2013 8:48:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

While Mr. Cruz has appealing qualities, I am concerned about his eligibility to be president.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 8:50:46 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: Winstons Julia

Indeed, as am I. Wonderful man, excellent senator. Stay, Ted, Stay! Stay in the senate! We worked very hard to get you in there - which is why the RINOs want to take you away from us.


4 posted on 09/02/2013 8:55:16 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Stell Dir vor: Der Praesident sagt, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin.)
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To: Winstons Julia
While Mr. Cruz has appealing qualities, I am concerned about his eligibility to be president.

Please show me in the US Constitution the relevant parts that define "Natural Born" as requiring 2 citizen parents?

Lacking that, please provide references/links to relevant US Laws passed by Congress and signed by a US President that define the "Natural Born" requirement as needing 2 citizen parents.

Lacking that, please provide references/links to Supreme Court rulings that define "Natural Born" as needing 2 citizen parents.

Until you can do that, there is no Constitutional requirement with regards to POTUS "Natural Born" requiring 2 citizen parents.

In other words, you can be concerned all you want, but Senator Cruz IS eligible to be President until Congress passes a new law or the Supreme Court rules on the matter to match the 2 citizen parent requirement that you apparently believe is what the founders meant and should apply today.
5 posted on 09/02/2013 8:55:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Winstons Julia

Democrats don`t care where candidates are born.


6 posted on 09/02/2013 8:57:42 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: Winstons Julia

Ted Cruz is a natural born CITIZEN and Patriot!


7 posted on 09/02/2013 8:58:32 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I always get the impression, when listening to his speeches, that he has perfected a style of contrived sincerity.,


8 posted on 09/02/2013 8:58:40 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Winstons Julia

Fortunately or not that law was resolved against your position


9 posted on 09/02/2013 9:00:20 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: bunkerhill7

“Republicans don`t care where candidates are born.”

I fixed that for you!


10 posted on 09/02/2013 9:01:09 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Stell Dir vor: Der Praesident sagt, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin.)
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To: SoConPubbie

MEGA DITTOS TO THAT!He “Says What He Means”(and he MEANS what he says)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 09/02/2013 9:03:03 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: SoConPubbie

“Please show me in the US Constitution the relevant parts that define “Natural Born” as requiring 2 citizen parents?”

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.

Why did the Fathers include this? They included this because they wanted to be sure that the highest office in the land was someone who was free of entanglements and was loyal to the united states, in an empirical fashion that would not change. You can purchase and acquire citizenship - where you are born cannot change.

Cruz was born in Canada. He does not have an American birth certificate. He has a Canadian birth certificate, a Canadian passport and he is a natural born Canadian citizenship, acquired from birth in Calgary Alberta.

Thus, he falls afoul of Article II section 1 of the US constitution. He is not eligible.


12 posted on 09/02/2013 9:05:21 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Stell Dir vor: Der Praesident sagt, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Andrew Jackson`s parents were born in Ireland.
Thomas Jefferson`s mother was born in London.


13 posted on 09/02/2013 9:05:56 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: Winstons Julia

I’m sure the Democrats are thinking the same thing digging too as they dig nto their law books and figuring every avenue to challenge his eligibility. Make no mistake they fear Cruz more than anyone else on the GOP side and will use any means necessary to take him off the table as a presidential candidate.


14 posted on 09/02/2013 9:07:14 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: JCBreckenridge

I see I have opened a can of worms, but he was born in Canada and one of his parents was born in Cuba.

I have a feeling that if he was a liberal Democrat, many here would be banging the, “He is not eligible” drum.

It’s important to have consistent standards.


15 posted on 09/02/2013 9:07:17 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: SoConPubbie; onyx

Run, Ted, Run!!


16 posted on 09/02/2013 9:07:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Winstons Julia

“I have a feeling that if he was a liberal Democrat, many here would be banging the, “He is not eligible” drum.”

Indeed. I share the exact same opinion. It’s ok because it’s Cruz. No, it’s not ok.


17 posted on 09/02/2013 9:09:38 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Stell Dir vor: Der Praesident sagt, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin.)
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To: Winstons Julia

I’m concerned that the GOP-e RINOs are going to let our country be flushed down the drain!!

The time to rebel against politics as usual is NOW!!

Let McCain/Romney be the end of the GOP-e loser RINO train!!

Go, tea party rebellion!!

Run, Cruz, RUN!!


18 posted on 09/02/2013 9:11:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: JCBreckenridge; Winstons Julia
They included this because they wanted to be sure that the highest office in the land was someone who was free of entanglements and was loyal to the united states

They did....so tell me where Ted violates this or kindly politely and with all due respect STFU.

19 posted on 09/02/2013 9:17:41 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: JCBreckenridge

no, and see post 19 if you can’t figure it out on your own.....


20 posted on 09/02/2013 9:18:26 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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