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How Ted Cruz Has Already Won the Faith & Freedom Conference
US News & World Report's The Run 2016 ^ | June 18, 2015 | David Catanese

Posted on 06/18/2015 6:25:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Texas senator blew away the crowd of conservatives with a finely tuned speech on religious liberty.

There are two full days left of the Faith & Freedom Coalition's annual Washington conference.

But Ted Cruz already won it on Thursday.

The Texas senator measurably outperformed his two Senate GOP colleagues, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, with a tightly woven sermon on religious liberty delivered with vigor and conviction. He was rewarded with the most frequent and loudest applause and the highest praise from the gathering of social conservatives at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.

It wasn't just the dramatic delivery that separated him on the dais, though – it was his smartly tailored speech that began with a silent prayer for the victims of the mass church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and ended with a spontaneous leap off the stage into the center of the ballroom audience, where he was swarmed like a rock star.

There are still more than a half-dozen 2016 contenders who will speak on Friday and Saturday. But none is likely to match Cruz's dynamism.

"I like everybody who spoke, but Ted Cruz was phenomenal," says Julie Parmer....

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; charisma; charleston; conservatives; cruz; election2016; evangelicals; tedcruz; texas

1 posted on 06/18/2015 6:25:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'll vote for Cruz. If the GOP tries to deny my ability to do so, I will write him in as opposed to voting for Bush. I'll do some soul-searching if the nominee is a Walker or a Rubio...I'm done voting for RINO's. PERIOD!

I view Walker as a political animal, Rubio...OK, maybe, with reservations. I'm done holding my nose, the GOP has played me for years, no more!

2 posted on 06/18/2015 6:31:08 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

I am not so sure Walker isn’t a Rino. He has lots of positions he has flip flopped on including immigration legal and illegal.

Rubio I feel is definately a Rino crossdressing as a conservative. Rubio was a protege of Jebs, joined at the hip for years. But Rubio has made a big era admitting he still supports illegals just that he realized he didn’t have the votes. Kind of like a killer saying I would have shot more people but I ran out of Ammo.

Cruz is the best except he wants to have 5x as many H1b visas as we have today. Why, at a net worth of 85 billion isn’t Gates rich enough? Don’t our own citizens deserve to get hired first. And the H1b guys have lowered the wages in every field that they work in.


3 posted on 06/18/2015 6:39:21 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: SoConPubbie

Ping.


4 posted on 06/18/2015 6:39:53 PM PDT by upchuck (Downsizing and decentralizing government is something the Republican establishment just wonÂ’t allow)
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    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

5 posted on 06/18/2015 9:15:30 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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    Daily Digest ;Ted Cruz Ping!

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    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!


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6 posted on 06/18/2015 9:30:41 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Thanks for switching me. This is much better.


7 posted on 06/18/2015 9:34:08 PM PDT by upchuck (Downsizing and decentralizing government is something the Republican establishment just wonÂ’t allow)
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To: upchuck
Thanks for switching me. This is much better.

You are very welcome!
8 posted on 06/18/2015 9:44:40 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Your comment pretty much sums up my thinking on all three.


9 posted on 06/18/2015 10:34:32 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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To: Zenjitsuman
Rand seems to be on the right side on the H1B issue,

I would not trust Carly Fiorina on it. She hired so many Tata consultants that the remaining White employees of H-P took to calling it Hewlett-Patel.

10 posted on 06/19/2015 7:28:00 AM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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