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.
Do you always label those whom disagree with you as, “being on drugs?”
/johnny
Ok, please take your disagreement, your good conscience, your concern and your attitude to a site that may appreciate it. We don’t.
You’ll have to scan back and read my latest posts to find the answers as to why. Not going to waste any more time on you.
Live free or die.
bye
4 years ago, this was seen as a problem. Now it’s an opportunity. For team us? Really?!
/johnny
Catherineofaragon: “This Ted Cruz birther stuff would continue even if an angel came down and affirmed his eligibility.”
If conservatives cannot even discuss these sorts of issues amongst ourselves, what are we going to do when the leftist media gets involved? We need to present a strong case.
For the record, I like Senator Cruz quite a bit. I do agree with the FReeper who said Cruz has very little executive experience. If I had to choose between someone weak on conservative ideology but strong on executive experience, versus someone who was solidly conservative with little experience, I’d probably go with the latter. Nevertheless, it’s reasonable to acknowledge the lack of experience.
The same thing goes with Cruz’s citizenship. He makes the point that he was brought here at four years of age, and America is all he’s ever known. Illegal alien dreamers like to make the same point. It’s hardly relevant to whether one is a natural born American citizen or not.
Jim Robinson makes the point that Senator Cruz was an American at birth even though he wasn’t born in the USA. That’s a reasonable point. Does “natural born” mean something different than American by birth, i.e. not naturalized?
/johnny
So glad you asked. First, I never said THAT was a pathetic argument. What I said was pathetic was your reasoning on why Cruz didn't fit the bill as NBC. Two related, but not specifically the same, arguments.
Second, you aggrandizing of an accident of birth is unnerving and illogical. There are many people born in America who hate it, and plenty who were born elsewere who love it. By your absurd notion, we should choose the former over the latter if it comes down to that, which, by damn, it just might.
You know, folks like say .... Senator Rick Santorum (although it apparently wasn't necessary for Senator Santorum to remain in the Senate back then - for the good of the country).
And he's banned.
You would think if he was going to lie, he’d at least make up something that makes a damned bit of difference.
the term “natural born” means that one is an American citizen at birth, as opposed to “naturalized”, indicating that citizenship was granted after birth.
Is a child born of an American mother not a citizen of the U.S.? If not, what are the “disqualifying” circumstances?
/johnny
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.
I hope he listens to our pleas!
keeping Cruz in the Senate for the good of the country is not a bad argument, but that does not excuse the absurd and bureacratically smarmy technocratic arguments being made against Cruz by some. Its a totally different, and valid, discussion.
Personally, I like Cruz more than any other possible at this early time, but I am far more focused on two other things: A: the 2014 mid terms and B: the horror of so many so called conservatives ignoring clear original intent and getting caught up in technicalities and divining very circumspect intent to prove how much more of a purist they are. Pharisees of our time....
Speculation on future..
Further information: United States presidential election, 2016 On March 14, 2013, Cruz gave the keynote speech at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC.[76] He came in tied for 7th place in the 2013 CPAC straw poll on March 16, winning 4% of the votes cast.[77]
Cruz planned several speaking events for the summer of 2013 across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina which are early primary states, leading to speculation that he was laying the groundwork for a run for President in 2016.[78]
As Cruz was born in Canada, various commentators from the Austin American-Statesman[79] and the Los Angeles Times,[80] right after Cruz defeated Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in July 2012, began raising questions about whether Cruz is a natural-born citizen eligible to run for the office of President of the United States.[10][81] The majority of legal and historical opinion has been that he would be eligible given that he was a U.S. citizen at birth as his mother was a U.S. citizen who lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years.[10][82] On August 19, 2013, Cruz said he does not believe he has Canadian citizenship and would renounce any that he might have.[83]
They need to get over that stuff!
I think we should be able to discuss the issue politely. That said, do you have any evidence that Senator Cruz has or had a Canadian passport or took any action at any time that shows he intended to claim or use his rights as a Canadian citizen? If so, please present it.
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