Posted on 10/29/2015 7:59:09 AM PDT by Isara
By getting away from his talking points.
Boulder, Colo.
Ted Cruz went a long way Wednesday night in making the case for himself as the conservative consensus candidate. It didn't hurt that he used his first extended answer in the debate to excoriate the journalists asking the questions.
Ted Cruz Attacks Media at CNBC Debate (video)
The righteous rant got one of the loudest rounds of applause of the night from the crowd at the University of Colorado. It was a smart move for Cruz to take time to go after the media since the CNBC moderators were, indeed, asking questions right out of the Hillary Clinton opposition book.
Cruz wasn't the only one to criticize the media-Marco Rubio got off plenty of good hits, and Chris Christie had a great moment near the end mocking a question about regulating fantasy football. But Cruz's moment set the tone for the rest of the debate, and the Texas senator took advantage of a strong opening to score a number of points throughout the night
His answer to a question about the Federal Reserve left him sounding informed and decisive. "The first thing I think we need to do is audit the Fed, and I am an original cosponsor of Ron Paul's audit the Fed legislation," said Cruz. "The second thing we need to do is I think we need to bring together a bipartisan commission to look at getting back to rules-based monetary policy." Cruz criticized the Fed's quantitative easing policy and how the bank's activity hurts regular people.
"On Wall Street, the Fed is doing great. It's driving up stock prices, Wall Street's doing great. You know, today, the top one percent earn a higher share of our income than any year since 1928," Cruz said. "But if you look at working men and women, you look at a single mom buying groceries, she sees hamburger prices have gone up nearly 40 percent. She sees her cost of electricity going up, she sees her health insurance going up, and loose money is one of the major problems. We need sound money, and I think the Fed should get out of the business of trying to juice up the economy and simply be focused on sound money and monetary policy ideally tied to gold."
Cruz also began to define himself against the draconian conservative caricature. In discussing his tax plan, he made sure to note that under his proposal "no billionaire pays less than his secretary." In another moment, moderator Becky Quick questioned Cruz about the dubious claim that American women make significantly less than men for the same job. Cruz used the opportunity both to show a personal side of himself as well as land a hit on Democrats.
I'll tell you, in my family there are a lot of single moms in my family. My sister was a single mom. Both my aunts were single moms. My mom, who is here today, was a single mom when my father left us when I was 3 years old. Now, thank God my father was invited to a Bible study and became born again, and he came back to my mom and me, and we were raised together.
But the struggle of single moms is extraordinary. And, you know, when you see Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and all the Democrats talking about wanting to address the plight of working women, not a one of them mentioned the fact that under Barack Obama, 3.7 million women have entered poverty. Not one of them mentioned the fact that under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733.
It was at one moment emotional and the next moment devastating against the Democratic party-in other words, gold for conservative primary voters looking for a champion.
Cruz's weakest moment of the night demonstrates why it was otherwise a terrific debate for the first-term senator. His closing statement didn't stray much from his stump speech, and his delivery was rote and flat.
Getting away from his talking points for almost the whole evening turned out to help Cruz a lot in this debate. It will be interesting to see if he learns that lesson for the future.
Cruz wins.
His attack on the media is the only takeaway.
I just gave him more money.
I’ve never contributed to a campaign before.
But I’m giving to Cruz with regularity.
Once in each of Americas generation there rises up such an outspoken warrior such as CRUZ.
BF Franklin
Winston Churchill
Patton
McArthur
there are more I can't think of right now, but
How blessed I am to see once more time in my lifetime such a Warrior as Ted CRUZ rise up and defend America against all foreign and Domestic Tyrants. GOD has surely answered my prayers.
LOL! That will cause a few heads to explode here. I expect several to accuse you of what you have pointed out with regard to the Trump candidacy fandom.
That was his breakout moment. He hit the ball out of the ballpark, and now the media can no longer just ignore him and pretend he is not on stage.
I hope they go after him with increased fury. We need to expose them for the propaganda corps that they are. Ted Cruz is just the man to do it.
Ted is FANTASTIC when he stops using his talking points.
I was in the room when he went on an extemporaneous discussion for 5 minutes in front of 60 people. He was FAR BETTER thinking on his feet than any of his prepared stump speech points.
This guy is amazing.
Cruz’s handlers should help him be himself and stop being a scripted politician as much as possible.
Oh man, Rand Paul is looking thin and not healthy in that video... He looks like a ghost.
You know when your getting old when your older than Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio, my how time catches up to you.
I am catching up to you in age.
In my 50s.
Ted Cruz looks a lot like Senator Joseph Macarthey.
Sen. Joe Macarthey was absolutely right.
There will be a Dump the Trump marathon soon enough with plenty of buyer’s remorse to go along with it.
Suckers never learn when they have been had.
Trump is yanking their chains for effect.
This sounds familiar. Where have I heard this before?
Not yet Annie, not yet. Just keep on praying, I know that I and my family will.
I'm praying day and night that God will put a born again Christian such as Cruz in the Oval Office where he can at least begin to turn America back to the one and only God of the bible who entrusted it to our Christian forefathers more than 2 centuries ago.
I fully realize that the majority of young Americans today don't want America to return to the Christian nation that it once was when a majority of my generation believed in Him and His inerrant written Word. But I also know from many long years of experience with Him and His Word that He does answer the sincere prayers of His people if and when we honor Him by accepting Him as Lord of Heaven and earth and then obeying His laws.
With that hope in mind Annie, keep on earnestly praying for an authentic Christian President such as Cruz claims to be. I and my family will join you in that endeavor, and God may yet restore America to it's rightful 1st place in the nations of the world.
Ted Cruz confers with his most important supporters during a break in the debate.
He sure was, I said it then and I say it now.
We are not alone in our prayers, many , many people are doing the same, and I do believe HE will honor these prayers. Cruz is such a bold Christian and not ashamed to say it as well as having a brilliant mind.
You say "Not Yet", I understand, but I am going to approach it as if it has already happened, lol. FAITH and thank you Lord.
Thank you again, and God Bless you and your family.
May GOD let us have him as our President. for some unknown deep inside feeling I do believe it will happen.
""Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"(Heb.11:1)....I try to have the Faith of Abraham.
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