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Posted on 04/11/2015 10:40:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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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CRUZ or LOSE!He was very gracious to others, sharing the credit when he said, he stood up with his friends Rand Paul and Mike Lee. He called them his friends and did not allude to a current rivalry.
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.”
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.
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He scores!
It's a pleasure to hear him say something this good on a daily basis.
He has all of Gingrich’s combative intelligence with none of Gingrich’s baggage.
I have had the honor of meeting Mr. Cruz. He attended 2nd Amendment Day in Austin TX, which is very close to where I live. I had worn my Second Amendment Sisters T-shirt which has the message: FIREARMS—THE ULTIMATE IN FEMININE PROTECTION across the front.
He came over to tell me how much he liked the message on the t-shirt, and we had a nice chat about the 2A.
I think this guy is the real deal, and I urge all of you to support him with your money as well as your vote.
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Wow, lucky you!
I hope more of us get to share out Ted Cruz meeting stories like you did.
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“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.”
Grammar aside, very nicely put!
Wow! Even the liberal media comment on how kind and gracious Ted Cruz is. Just think, you had a conversation with our next President!
Defeatist attitudes like yours are why we're losing this nation to the horde.
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