Posted on 08/09/2014 4:12:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday insisted that American voters have plenty of reasons to be optimistic, he said at a stop in the important presidential state of Iowa.
Speaking at the Iowa State Fair, Cruz said that grassroots conservatives would wrest the country back from President Obama and Democrats – much the way they did from President Jimmy Carter more than three decades ago. “All across this country, people are waking up,” said Cruz, long rumored to be considering a 2016 presidential bid. “And they’re waking up to bring America back to the principles we have been founded on. There is a better way than the path we are on.”
In his roughly 20-minute talk, Cruz bounced between sharp criticism of Obama and ways that the GOP can get the U.S. back on the right track. He spoke seriously about his policy proposals, but also took a light touch with apparent hecklers and talked up Iowa fair favorites like a cow statue made of butter.
“Thank you, sir,” Cruz shouted back at one point. “Appreciate you exercising your First Amendment rights.”
The state fair speech was just Cruz’s latest appearance outside his home state of Texas, with another speech on the docket later on Saturday at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit.
It comes just after Cruz again proved to be a thorn in GOP leaders’ side in the debate over the child immigrant crisis, with Democrats going so far as charging that the Texas Republican essentially ran the House.
To regain the majority in Washington, Cruz said conservatives needed to champion economic growth and contrast their proposals with Obama’s economic record; protect constitutional liberties, from First Amendment protections of speech to Fourth Amendment protections of privacy; and stand up more to foreign leaders like President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
“It reminds you of a new diet that’s really quite popular in Washington these days. It’s called the Obama diet,” Cruz said after mentioning both the butter cow and a pork chop on a stick. “You just let Putin eat your lunch every day.”
Like other leading Republicans, Cruz cast his economic pitch as positive for minorities and the working poor – those he said have been hurt the most by the economy over the last five years.
Cruz, for instance, said that work requirements in ObamaCare were making it harder for people to find full-time work, and pushed back once more on the blame the GOP has received for last October’s government shutdown.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has also sought to offer a more inclusive message with a new anti-poverty plan, ahead of the 2016 campaign.
Still, Cruz wasn’t shy in knocking the president for a variety of issues, including the IRS’s improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups and National Security Agency surveillance techniques.
He also placed the blame for the recent border crisis on Obama, called for a repeal of the Common Core education curriculum and even found a way to get in a shot at the rumored front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016 – former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“We are seeing the consequences of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy playing out across the globe,” Cruz said. “It seems like the whole world is on fire right now.”
a positive message would go a long way toward defeating the MSM’s attacks on him as an anti-obama whack job.
The demographics are completely different today thanks to drunk killer Ted Kennedys immigration act. If Reagan ran against the Peanut Iranian sympathizer today there is no way in hell he would have won. What has to be done today to win is not being done. Republicans are letting every opportunity slip right through their fingers to the point where I believe they do not want to win, probably because it's the RINO party today. Right now inner city blacks are going CRAZY over this immigration issue, something of course the media is completely ignoring. Why aren't Republicans taking advantage of that? All they would need is a very small percentage of the black vote and the Treason party would never win another election again.
If you think that Sen. Cruz is ignoring that, you need to do more research.
Go Ted go! Restore America!
Well if he is I haven’t seen it, but then again like I said the media ignores it But if he is that is great! The only way I find out about how blacks are reacting is by the ones I know and Youtube, literally Youtube. That’s how badly the media is censoring it. I have to do a search on Youtube to find new protests like this one.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ixOsjut3E
I bought into Jimmy Carter’s malaise.
I knew that something was off. We were sad...defeated.
But I was a Democrat and just took his word for it that it wasn’t anybody’s fault...just the new normal and we had to learn to live with it.
Who was this crazy ex-actor talking about a Shining City On The Hill?
Poor, deluded fool.
Eight years later I knew who the poor, deluded fool was.
Compasionate “Hope & Change”. Same BS.
I'll have a reason for optimism when a traitorous demonicrat politician has been indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced, hanged, and left to rot off the noose so that, after standing for hours in a long line, I have the opportunity to piss on his bloated and maggot-infested corpse.
:) Wonderful. Me too.
And from the NY suburbs. Voted for the Gipper in ‘80 on 98th street and 2nd avenue.
He took New York.
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