Conservatives to Cruz: 'Run, Ted, run'

The Hill ^ | 09/01/13 12:30 PM ET | Alexandra Jaffe

[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.

[CitizenUSA]

Post #19 wasn’t directed at me, but I don’t know of anything that would show Senator Cruz has divided loyalties.

That said, JCBreckenridge was replying politely. Whether Jim enforces the rules or not, STFU is hardly civil discussion and includes an obscenity. Yeah. We understand acronyms. Again, it’s Jim’s board, but I don’t like it when people are jerks to other people.

[mylife]

Cruz has everything but experience.
That in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, because they can’t hang past positions around his neck.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, Breckenridge should not have been eating our own. Not on FR. He can go to RINOS_R_Us.com us to eat all the conservatives he wants.

[no-to-illegals]

don’t want to eat “Juan”! Can we crispy critter “Juan” though?

[CitizenUSA]

JRandomFreeper: “I don’t want a known liar and attacker of conservatives back.”

I was trying to get JCBreckenridge to explain and/or prove his statement in post #12 that Senator Cruz has a Canadian passport. He should be required to prove it, but he’s unfortunately zotted.

I have absolutely nothing against challenging people when they write something that isn’t true. I expect and want to be challenged myself. #1 so I can learn. #2 so conservative lurkers could also learn the truth.

I think the board rules are good ones. We should be able to discuss things politely without resorting to personal attacks. JCBreckenridge should have been held to task for post #12, but that can be done respectfully.

[upsdriver]

I suspect some posters don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to the actual law and the constitution but they have so much invested emotionally in the crackpot birther conspiracy theory that they’re caught in a trap of their own making. Gonna have to chew their own leg off to get free.

The Constitution has been bastardized at every turn by the ruling elites for years. Ted Cruz is one of very few who actually uphold, revere and honor our Constitution. This issue is what some posters want to hang their "constitutional" hat on? Personally, my opinion is that these anti-Cruz posters are GOPe infiltrators.

[JRandomFreeper]

He was warned. He persisted. He rode the zot. All is right with the world.

/johnny

[trisham]

Life is short. Breckenridge was a member from 3-2012 until 9-2013, and the owner of this site determined that he was not an asset.

I'm not going to mourn his passing.

[no-to-illegals]

La La La LA!

[Lakeshark]

Dissenting views don't include outright, flat-footed lies about a conservative.....I don't want a known liar and attacker of conservatives back. .

How about your own flat footed lie that I was Lindsay Graham's butt boy and supported him, does that count? Or are you somehow immune from your own criticism?

[C. Edmund Wright]

Sorry I ruffled your skirt.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Sorry I ruffled your skirt.

[C. Edmund Wright]

if Paul and Cruz both run, expect a nasty dogfight in the grassroots. Previous examples of intramural viciousness ... PatRobertson vs. Jack Kemp in ‘88 Huckabee vs. Brownback in ‘08 Iowa and Bachmann Iowa ‘12 got a bit crude.

Which is all so stupid and self defeating. What voters in primaries really want is a vision for beating the libs.....but consultants and candidates are often too stupid and too duped by conventional wisdom to figure this out. Newt proved this twice in 2011-12, and then he and his consultants got stupid too.....

[SoConPubbie]

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.

Once again for those born in Rio Linda:

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.

[JRandomFreeper]

Ping me to that.

/johnny

[Lakeshark]

If I Find it for you, will you self zot? That would be your principle, right?

[JRandomFreeper]

Ping me to that.

/johnny

[SoConPubbie]

Cruz had to reside in America in order to keep his American citizenship. This is not true of natural born citizens. He is a Canadian citizen as well as an American citizen. He would be eligible for Cuban citizenship (through his father), at the time of his birth.

Please list the relevant US Law, or Supreme Court ruling or part of the US Constitution that declares that this is so.

Otherwise, you are presenting your opinion as fact, and my FRiend, that is dishonest.

[Lakeshark]

Oh, it’s there, just need to know if I take the time to search it out, that you’ll self zot for your slanderous lie.

[trisham]

Ping!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3061599/posts?page=83#83