Cruz to NRA: Come And Take It!

Invoking the Battle of Gonzales cry “Come and Take It,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz took his case for the presidency to National Rifle Association activists at the organization’s annual spring meeting in Nashville on Friday.

“That was the opening battle of the war for Texas independence,” he said of the 1835 skirmish. “And I’ll tell you, we’ve seen in the news, this weekend, Hillary Clinton is announcing for president.”

“Well, I’ll tell you, if Hillary Clinton is going to join with Barack Obama and the gun grabbers and come after our guns, then what I say is, come and take it.”

Besides knocking Clinton, Cruz revisited the campaign theme that he has uniquely demonstrated his conservative bona fides in comparison to the rest of the Republican presidential field.

In the spring of 2013, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings left 20 children and six adult staffers dead, President Obama pushed for gun control measures, and heavily lobbied Republican senators to join in. Cruz pointed to his work defeating gun control legislation then as evidence that he is the NRA's best presidential advocate.

“In the weeks and months that followed Sandy Hook, if you guys were sitting in the Senate Republican lunch, you’d have jumped out the window,” Cruz said, describing a resignation that tighter legislation was inevitable.

He argued that his filibuster threat, along with those of U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and fellow presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., “slowed it down and it shined a light on what was happening and that’s when the men and women in this room began to take over.”

“Each of you and millions of Americans lit up the phones,” he said of the pressure brought to bear on Republican senators who were not committed to his efforts.

“Heaven and earth descended on those senators,” he said of the response that eventually killed the legislation.

Beyond Gonzales, Cruz detailed Texas culture to ingratiate himself to the crowd.

“The Second Amendment? In Texas, there’s a right answer: 'I support the Second Amendment',” he said. “Unless you’re clinically insane – even if you’re a Democrat — that’s the right answer in Texas.”

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Ted Cruz is Ronald Reagan, George Patton and Thomas Jefferson all in one Evangelical Christian package.

Ted Cruz has successfully argued before the SCOTUS ... won a 5-4 landmark decision on the Second Amendment ...

Ted Cruz calls "Radical Islamic Terrorism" by that same name ... will Ron-Rand Paul do the same ?

"NEVER".

Jeb Bush ?

A silver-spooned GOPe RINO-Liberal (less educated than Cruz) would be mincemeat in a GOP Primary debate against Cruz.

Typically, the political tactic against any "frontrunner" (such as Ted Cruz by Jan-2016) is for the other GOP candidates to gang-up against him in the debates.

That's a bad idea.

Remember when Newt Gingrich "eviscerated" Juan Williams during the 2012 GOP Primary debates (about black kids having a job at school) ?

Juan Williams NEVER challenged Newt again in that debate, nor did ANY OTHER MSM stooge make the mistake of trying to "embarrass" Newt Gingrich.

Ted Cruz will do the same to the other 2016 GOP primary opponents (one at a time) should they challenge him as a group.

It will not be pretty.

"Anyone" (Conservative or Liberal) who can win a landmark SCOTUS case is undisputably "brilliant". Period.

Neither Santorum, Huckabee, Ben Carson, Jindal, Trump, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, or Carley Florina (sp) chick has the "intellectual street cred" and PASSION that Ted Cruz has.

Again, Ted Cruz is Ronald Reagan, George Patton and Thomas Jefferson all in one Evangelical Christian package.

In 2016 that's otherwise known as "undefeatable".

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The most important thing Ted said was make every candidate prove he/she fought for the Constitution and fought back agains’t Obama. Very few really did.

For a junior senator, he has the best anti Obama chops.

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