Posted on 05/20/2015 5:35:16 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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Ted Cruz SURPRISES the GOP Beltway Establishment Pundits at the FFPC Florida Straw Poll (May 19, 2015) in Orlando, Florida.
A virtual dead-heat between Ted Cruz (30.3 %) and supposed "Florida native son darling" Marco Rubio (30.7 %).
Jed Bush and Scott Walker finished poorly in a third-place tie with a paltry 8.9 % each, barely passing an otherwise weak showing by Rick Santorum (6.7 %), Rand Paul (4.5 %), Ben Carson (3.4 %), Mike Huckabee (2.2 %) and Rick Perry (1.1 %).
GOP 2016 candidates Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, and John Kasich each received "zero" straw poll votes.
Political analysts view this straw poll victory for Senator Ted Cruz as reinforcing the idea that America's Conservative voters are deciding very early on to consolidate behind the best qualified genuine conservative candidates, and NOT repeat the disaster of the "Political Circular Firing Squad" in 2012 when Mitt Romney and the Karl Rove Establishment GOP defeated in detail otherwise excellent candidates such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
Shown below (photograph courtesy of conservative political consultant Kevin Wright) are ten of the estimated twenty-five Ted Cruz Florida grassroots supporters who attended the FFPC event.
Their attendance was noteworthy in that most of the Ted Cruz attendees received only three days advance notice of the event.
Douglas Coggeshall, a Conservative Evangelical Christian who is building a Florida grassroots organization for all of Florida's 67 counties, challenged the FFPC event's attendees to build effective county-level grassroots organizations NOW, to defeat the Jeb Bush GOP $ 100 million dollar juggernaut in the GOP Presidential State primaries in 2016.
Coggeshall invited event attendees to participate in the July 18 Tampa planning meeting for the Ted Cruz Florida Grassroots Victory Campaign.
The Florida Family Policy Council (FFPC) event was superbly moderated by John Stemberger (Florida attorney) who presented a comprehensive examination of individual candidate strengths and weaknesses prior to the straw poll vote.
Discussion leads included Carl Stevens, Sara Johnson, Florida Senator Alan Hayes, Bryan Empric, Karin Hoffman and Pastor Kurt Kelly.
Discussion leaders Carl Jackson (columnist) and Karin Hoffman (Tea Party national leader) pointed to Ted Cruz's extraordinary record of accomplishment while serving as U.S. Senator, and his unique quality of NOT having "flip-flopped" on any campaign issues, unlike GOP 2016 presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker.
Florida State Senator Alan Hayes received a standing ovation as the Florida Family Policy Council (FFPC) recognized his accomplishments and dedication to successfully passing legislation to protect unborn children in Florida.
Sen. Hayes powerful leadership in the Florida Pro-Life movement was enthusiastically applauded.
Douglas Coggeshall
Ted Cruz Florida Grassroots Victory Campaign
Ted-Cruz-2016@Engineering-Excellence.US
(727) 485-6220
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Cruz 2016
Alan Keyes Press Secretary
hehehehehe...
They don’t give raw totals or the details of how the vote was conducted (online?). And Rubio apparently got 33.7% to Cruz’ 30.3%, not as reported at the top of the thread.
https://www.facebook.com/floridafamilypolicycouncil
We want a fight this time dammit.
Ted Cruz 2016
People in FL don’t know much about the Rubio record: I doubt they ever will.
Our only hope is that Cruz’s superior debating skills will push all the rivals into early oblivion. Nothing else can save the nation at this point.
Loveable Lindsey and Huckabee are there to keep votes from Cruz in SC in hopes that Jebbie can prevail and then follow up with a big victory in FL. But Rubio is checking Jebbie in FL.
Cruz is not my first choice either but it’s nothing personal. I think he would make a fine president. At this moment I just have a preference for another candidate. That said, if he’s the nominee I will vote for him without reservations. The thought of Shrillary, Uncle Joe, Fauxahontas, Marty O’Malley, and any other lefty becoming the next president is too gruesome a thought. Besides a President Cruz won’t put up with the likes of a John Boehner as House speaker and Mitch McConnell as the Senate majority leader. He’ll have them booted out of leadership which is only a good thing. Admittedly, my preferred candidate(s) may not have the guts to give Bonehead and McSellout their walking papers but Ted would.
As smart as Cruz is, I would rather see a Governor on the top of the ticket in 2016 and 2020 and Cruz as VP.
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Yeah right! The only Governor who has ascended to the Office of President, in the last 40 years, that was a great President was Ronald Wilson Reagan. The rest weren’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
33.7 for Rubio came from John Stemberger, who I possibly mistakenly understood was president of the host organization. Perhaps his Florida Policy Insider is not the same organization?
https://twitter.com/JohnStemberger
Rubio’s “record” and “positions” are constantly moving targets ...
” As smart as Cruz is, I would rather see a Governor on the top of the ticket in 2016 “
Like Gov. Brown ?
Yeah boy! Exile that conservative Cruz to a position where he is the hell outta the way! The traitorous leaders in our House & Senate approve your message!
” Those who governed include Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton...which tells us that previous governorship means very little.”
Ha! Good one, Catherine.
Cruz facing Hillary? He’d be branded by the Media as a bully and male chauvinist after the first debate. It will be Lazio vs Clinton Part Deau. The Democrat BS Media rules as always. The Gimmedats are already absorbing the BS on a daily basis.
In Florida. Interesting.
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