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Posted on 01/24/2015 11:04:34 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Cruz introduced a new major theme, the “Miracle of America,” in his speech to the thousands of Iowans gathered at the event hosted by Citizens United and Rep. Steve King (R-IA).
“What I want to talk to you about today is reigniting the Miracle of America,” Cruz said in his speech in the Hoyt Sherman Place theater in downtown Des Moines. “This country was built on an extraordinary miracle. The Miracle of America began with a revolutionary idea—which was that our rights, they don’t come from government. They come from God almighty. The Constitution, as Jefferson says, serves as chains to bind the mischief of government.”
He used the phrase, “Miracle of America, many more times throughout the speech, and after almost every line, Cruz earned loud applause from the thousand-plus in the room.
When asked to explain the meaning of the phrase during his exclusive interview with Breitbart News backstage, Cruz said that it signifies the “extraordinary challenge” Americans are facing over the next two years—and the importance of how big of a deal it is to actually fight for those values laid out by America’s founders. Cruz said:
We’re facing a time of extraordinary challenge right now and over the next two years. Americans need to come together to reignite the ‘Miracle Of America.’
The Miracle of America consists of the principles this country was founded on, first and foremost that our rights come from God Almighty—not from government—and that the Constitution serves, as Jefferson puts it, as chains to bind the mischief of government.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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CRUZ or LOSE!bump
We WILL be heard and we WILL take back our country.
Pray America is waking from her dark nightmare.
In my remarks today at the Freedom Summit, I talked about the special role that Iowa plays—that the caucus-goers in Iowa play, which is to look candidates in the eyes and to test them. To press them. In any Republican primary, candidate after candidate will claim to be conservative. Scripture tells us ‘you shall know them by their fruits.’ What I urge the Iowa caucus-goers to do is to ask every candidate: don’t tell me you’re conservative. Show me. Show me where you’ve stood up and fought for principle. Show me where you’ve led. Show me what you’ve accomplished.
Cruz...
“The Miracle of America began with a revolutionary idea—which was that our rights, they don’t come from government. They come from God almighty. The Constitution, as Jefferson says, serves as ‘chains’ to bind the mischief of government.”...
That spoke volumes in so many ways.....Cruz more then gets it...he lives it!
Ted Cruz stole the idea from Rush.
“American Exceptionalism”
I can support that.
Like watching a Western and the Cavalry shows up. I would prefer it to be Sarah with one of her rifles, but that might still be pushing the envelope.
Add me? :)
yes, I love that he used that quote....”the mischief of government...”
He’s spot on most of the time...I am one who does not expect perfection from Cruz....doing so is a grave mistake. Once he announces I expect him to give some gravy to thother voters beside his base. So he’ll sprinkle some goodies out there some conservatives will be uncomfortable about.
He really is the only candidate who matches all the tests for a leader and able to hold his own very well.
I remember when I first honed in on him......and knew then if Cruz ran I’d be in his court. He’s like a lazer and that needs to so.
GO TED BUMP!!
I thought “American Exceptionalism” was a norm throughout my entire life.
Every election is the crucial election, the fork in the road. No. The crucial election was 2012 along with 2010. With these elections we finally learned that there is no conservative party and we cannot take over the Republican Party or even influence it past some lip service. Nearly all elected national politicians become part of the Imperial Party just as soon as they arrive in Washington. The reasons people voted for them are irrelevant. There is no security and no free wealth in arcane things like “principles” and “the Constitution.” There is lifelong wealth and comfort in becoming an enthusiastic part of the Party. Losing one’s next election would be a minor annoyance but doing the will of the voters cuts the pol off from the lifelong wealth that the lobbyists and plain old corruption give them. Hold to principle and remain a ragged bum on 175,000 a year. Toe the line and gain investment wealth that you never had to pay into that continues for life and leave a nice pile for your heirs.
That eliminates Christie, Romney, Jeb or any Bush, Carson, and Huckabee.
Agreed. A good example is Ronald Reagan’s biggest mistake, George H.W. Bush as his Vice President.
Cruz is on record as being for an annual 500,000 quota increase in H-1b visas. A lot of us are screwed either way. Vote for Cruz and be washed out of the economy or don’t vote and let socialist bleed us dry.
Cruz is on record as being for an annual 500,000 quota increase in H-1b visas. A lot of us are screwed either way. Vote for Cruz and be washed out of the economy or don’t vote and let socialist bleed us dry."Washed out of the economy"? We are already doing a great job washing ourselves out of the economy through our lower interest in the sciences than the foreigners.
H-1b's are high-tech sciences in Bio, Med, computer/I.T., etc. right? We either start finding/recruiting interested American students and graduating them with skills like other countries are doing -or- we have to attract immigrant & non-immigrant resources to fill the ever increasing high-tech jobs. Take your pick.
Now, I'm not saying an H-1b increase is AT ALL desireable (it is not!), but an inbound H-1b requires a job with an employer to keep that H-1b visa. They can't just show up and hang out. The demand is there and the market is clamoring for it and America is not able to fill that demand. That's does not mean we *can't*, it tends to indicate the up & coming workers aren't as interested in pursuing the fields.
Maybe the govt should do something (state or federal) to incentivize American students to seek those degrees, instead of "Womyn's Studies", "Non-Profit Clothing Design", or whatever other politically correct, bull-butter degrees we are churning out. But until we start sowing those high-tech seeds and reaping that harvest, the workers have to come from somewhere. My understanding is that America is behind the curve producing those skilled workers. Whatever number we are turning out *still* isn't enough to meet the demand. That's *OUR* bad and we need to fix it.
So let's mark this particular issue down in the "unlikeables" column when scoring Cruz. We don't like it. But politicians like Cruz have other constituents that are *begging* him to increase H-1b's and they have apparently won the argument with him. He still has (my opinion) more "likeables" than "unlikeables". I think that there is no perfect candidate anywhere to be found. It is an exercise in complete frustration to expect perfection in any political candidate -- even if you wonder why it's so hard to find a candidate as "perfect" as (past-politician, pundit, philosopher, yourself, whoever). Newsflash - they weren't perfect either.
But maybe you have a better candidate in mind. At this early point I'm still looking around to see if there is someone to bump Cruz off the top of my list. Weighing "likeables" vs "unlikeables" in the crop of imperfect Presidential contenders, who is your preferred candidate over Cruz?
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