Senator Ted Cruz at RedState Gathering 2015
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Jim Bridenstine on Ted Cruz and Electability
Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) spoke at Red State today, and also brought Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to the podium for his speech. Bridenstine spoke of many things we are dealing with in this country, but as he introduced Cruz, he spoke about the issue of electability. He said the following: (See video below.)
[Pullout Quote] …it is without hesitation, and it is without equivocation, that I personally endorse Ted Cruz, not only for President of the United States, but I endorse him for Commander in Chief of the United States Military. ~ Jim Bridenstine
On Cruz and his “electability.”
I want to talk for a second about electability, because a lot of times I hear that when I tell people I’m endorsing Ted Cruz for President of the United States. I want to tell you how you win elections. You win elections when people show up to vote. I hear over and over again that we’ve got to win the Independents, and I’m telling you, Ted Cruz will win the Independents. Friends, Mitt Romney won the Independents, and he lost the election. You know who won the Independents, also? Ronald Reagan, and he not only won Independents, he won Democrats. That’s the kind of candidate we need. We need a candidate that will turn out the base in massive volume, as we’ve seen Barack Obama do over and over again.
We need the base to show up. We need to win Independents. We need to even win Democrats. Ted Cruz can do that, and I’m going to tell you why –– because he actually believes what he tells you he believes, and I know that because I know him personally.
We need a candidate that can unite all parts of the Republican Party: the fiscal conservative, the social conservative, the national security conservative, and I’m telling you, Ted Cruz…this is what’s amazing about Ted Cruz –– we have a very true, grassroots conservative running for President of the United States. A full-spectrum conservative, a grassroots candidate, that for the first time that I’ve ever seen, also had the ability to raise $50 million in his quarter running for president.
Ted Cruz is our best chance to beat Hillary Clinton, and I really believe that, or I wouldn’t be standing before you, telling you that. I want to tell you this, I have had the opportunity to know Ted Cruz personally, to have dinner with him, and his beautiful family, Heidi, Caroline, Catherine. I have seen them interact with each other. I’ve seen Ted Cruz eating a cheeseburger with his family at the dinner table, and his beautiful children run up to him –– other members of Congress are at the table, mind you –– and they say “chase me, daddy.” In front of all these members of Congress and their staffers, he drops his cheeseburger, and goes chasing after his little girls.
This is a man who loves his country and he’s willing to fight with everything he has to make sure that his children, and my children inherit an America that is better than the one we inherited. And for the first time in history, at least since WWII, friends, that is at risk, at jeopardy. He will fight with everything he has to make sure that our country is heading in the right direction.
I want to tell you this, it is without hesitation, and it is without equivocation, that I personally endorse Ted Cruz, not only for President of the United States, but I endorse him for Commander-in-Chief of the United States military.
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-co...ine-on-ted-cruz-and-electability-3041524.html
Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) spoke at Red State today, and also brought Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to the podium for his speech. Bridenstine spoke of many things we are dealing with in this country, but as he introduced Cruz, he spoke about the issue of electability. He said the following: (See video below.)
[Pullout Quote] …it is without hesitation, and it is without equivocation, that I personally endorse Ted Cruz, not only for President of the United States, but I endorse him for Commander in Chief of the United States Military. ~ Jim Bridenstine
On Cruz and his “electability.”
I want to talk for a second about electability, because a lot of times I hear that when I tell people I’m endorsing Ted Cruz for President of the United States. I want to tell you how you win elections. You win elections when people show up to vote. I hear over and over again that we’ve got to win the Independents, and I’m telling you, Ted Cruz will win the Independents. Friends, Mitt Romney won the Independents, and he lost the election. You know who won the Independents, also? Ronald Reagan, and he not only won Independents, he won Democrats. That’s the kind of candidate we need. We need a candidate that will turn out the base in massive volume, as we’ve seen Barack Obama do over and over again.
We need the base to show up. We need to win Independents. We need to even win Democrats. Ted Cruz can do that, and I’m going to tell you why –– because he actually believes what he tells you he believes, and I know that because I know him personally.
We need a candidate that can unite all parts of the Republican Party: the fiscal conservative, the social conservative, the national security conservative, and I’m telling you, Ted Cruz…this is what’s amazing about Ted Cruz –– we have a very true, grassroots conservative running for President of the United States. A full-spectrum conservative, a grassroots candidate, that for the first time that I’ve ever seen, also had the ability to raise $50 million in his quarter running for president.
Ted Cruz is our best chance to beat Hillary Clinton, and I really believe that, or I wouldn’t be standing before you, telling you that. I want to tell you this, I have had the opportunity to know Ted Cruz personally, to have dinner with him, and his beautiful family, Heidi, Caroline, Catherine. I have seen them interact with each other. I’ve seen Ted Cruz eating a cheeseburger with his family at the dinner table, and his beautiful children run up to him –– other members of Congress are at the table, mind you –– and they say “chase me, daddy.” In front of all these members of Congress and their staffers, he drops his cheeseburger, and goes chasing after his little girls.
This is a man who loves his country and he’s willing to fight with everything he has to make sure that his children, and my children inherit an America that is better than the one we inherited. And for the first time in history, at least since WWII, friends, that is at risk, at jeopardy. He will fight with everything he has to make sure that our country is heading in the right direction.
I want to tell you this, it is without hesitation, and it is without equivocation, that I personally endorse Ted Cruz, not only for President of the United States, but I endorse him for Commander-in-Chief of the United States military.
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-co...ine-on-ted-cruz-and-electability-3041524.html
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Predarat, Cruz will be in Chattanooga on Monday, August 10 so it's possible he will be in other Tennessee cities this week.
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Looks like he will be in both the Boro and Franklin tomorrow.
http://blog.4president.org/2016/201...ugust-10-2015-and-tuesday-august-11-2015.html
http://blog.4president.org/2016/201...ugust-10-2015-and-tuesday-august-11-2015.html
Thanks for sharing. I told my wife about it and she said she heard that on the news this morning.
Ted Cruz is getting tremendous support in Rutherford County. According to the Meet Senator Ted Cruz in Murfreesboro website, this event is sold out as of 8/7/15 and not accepting any additional RSVP's. However, you should still be able to meet Sen. Cruz in Franklin (click second web address below).
https://www.facebook.com/events/892151190873968/
https://www.tedcruz.org/rsvp/brentwood/
https://www.facebook.com/events/892151190873968/
https://www.tedcruz.org/rsvp/brentwood/
Registered and printed my ticket for the Southern Sweets Meet and Greet with Senator Ted Cruz in Franklin. Looking forward to meeting him and other American loving patriots.
It was a privilege to see and hear Sen. Cruz speak today. I was truly honored to be with so many patriots that love this country and want to take it back. God bless Ted Cruz!!!
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks of God and country in Murfreesboro
SAM STOCKARD
Published: August 10, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruztold a throng here Monday the country is "in crisis," but he is bringing words of "hope."
"America is waking up. I'm here to tell you now: Help is on the way," Cruz said to an overflow crowd of more than 500 Republican supporters at Patterson Park Community Center on his Cruz Country Bus Tour throughout what he calls the Southeastern Conference primary.
Considered a thorn in the side of Washington Republicans and Democrats alike, Cruz jumped to 13 percent from 6 percent in the NBC/SurveyMonkey poll gauging the popularity of GOP candidates after last week's debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cruz refused afterward to address the popularity of real estate magnate Donald Trump, who is leading a heavy field of candidates in most polling with more than 20 percent.
"The simple reality is there's nothing the media likes to talk about more than the politics of personality, of one Republican throwing rocks at another. I'm not interested in playing that game, and I don't think the American people are interested in it," Cruz said to reporters.
Americans are interested in finding good-paying jobs, getting health care in the wake of "Obamacare," and regaining constitutional rights, which are under assault by the federal government, he said.
"And across the globe, radical Islamic terrorism is on the rise and American's national security's been profoundly endangered," Cruz said. "The focus of our campaign is on reigniting the promise of America, getting back to the common-sense principles that built this nation, free-market principles and constitutional liberties that made America great."
Cruz briefly address the potential of a third-party candidacy, saying, "I think it'd be terrible to happen, so I hope it doesn't." Trump refused during the debate to rule out a third-party candidacy, a scenario that could siphon Republican votes away from the party's candidate and give a Democratic candidate the White House.
Despite falling into the middle of the Republican candidates, a fiery Cruz exuded confidence Monday, telling the audience, if elected, on his first day he would rescind "every illegal and unconstitutional" executive order by President Barack Obama.
The U.S. senator from Texas called the Department of Justice the "most lawless" he had ever seen. Besides rescinding Obama's orders, Cruz said he would have the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Planned Parenthood, whose leaders were seen on video allegedly discussing the sale of fetal tissue.
With the event sounding at times like a tent revival with numerous speakers invoking God and country, the candidate said he would stop "persecution of religious liberty" across the nation. He made note of a case joined by the Little Sisters of the Poor, one of nearly 50 religious groups fighting the Affordable Care Act over a provision requiring employers to provide insurance coverage to employees for contraception.
Cruz drew thunderous applause when he said he would "rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal," which he called the single greatest threat facing America today. Cruz said Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and the nuclear agreement designed to limit its nuclear weapon capability would funnel $100 billion to the country to arm "radical Islamic terrorists."
In addition, Cruz said he would begin the process of moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, in spite of the Arab world's opposition.
"The single biggest difference between me and the others on that stage (in Cleveland), with me you can trust I will do exactly what I say," Cruz said.
The son of a Cuban refugee said he would create a flat tax enabling Americans to file their taxes on a piece of paper the size of a postcard. The Internal Revenue Service's 90,000 employees could be sent to the country's Southern border, he joked, because anyone trying to sneak into the nation from Mexico would turn back if they saw those IRS workers waiting.
Cruz told the story of how his father, Raphael Cruz, left their family during his early childhood but then found God with the help of the Rev. Gaylon Wiley, changed his life immediately and returned to take care of his wife and child.
Wiley, now a semi-retired minister in Lebanon, just happened to be in the crowd and said afterward he was proud to play a role in the Cruz family's life, saying he was merely "delivering the mail" when he spoke with the elder Cruz in a Houston, Texas home one night in the 1970s.
"We're grateful today that God took a little toe-headed, hawg-slopping boy from West Texas, had the privilege of moving him to Houston to meet Ted Cruz and know today that he'll make us a great president," Wiley said, moments before he and his wife, Betty, gave Cruz a big hug.
Jimmy Turner, a Murfreesboro attorney who contributed to Cruz's campaign when he started it, said he thinks Trump's star will "fade" and he'll be out of the race in a couple of months, putting Cruz in a stronger position as state primary battles near.
"Just as a conservative, he seems to be in line with all of the beliefs that I have, both politically, spiritually and just as a man," Turner said. "And so far he has been a politician, a senator, who has said what he's going to do. He actually follows through with that, which is rare."
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/sen-ted-cruz-speaks-of-god-and-country-in-murfreesboro-cms-42580
SAM STOCKARD
Published: August 10, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruztold a throng here Monday the country is "in crisis," but he is bringing words of "hope."
"America is waking up. I'm here to tell you now: Help is on the way," Cruz said to an overflow crowd of more than 500 Republican supporters at Patterson Park Community Center on his Cruz Country Bus Tour throughout what he calls the Southeastern Conference primary.
Considered a thorn in the side of Washington Republicans and Democrats alike, Cruz jumped to 13 percent from 6 percent in the NBC/SurveyMonkey poll gauging the popularity of GOP candidates after last week's debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cruz refused afterward to address the popularity of real estate magnate Donald Trump, who is leading a heavy field of candidates in most polling with more than 20 percent.
"The simple reality is there's nothing the media likes to talk about more than the politics of personality, of one Republican throwing rocks at another. I'm not interested in playing that game, and I don't think the American people are interested in it," Cruz said to reporters.
Americans are interested in finding good-paying jobs, getting health care in the wake of "Obamacare," and regaining constitutional rights, which are under assault by the federal government, he said.
"And across the globe, radical Islamic terrorism is on the rise and American's national security's been profoundly endangered," Cruz said. "The focus of our campaign is on reigniting the promise of America, getting back to the common-sense principles that built this nation, free-market principles and constitutional liberties that made America great."
Cruz briefly address the potential of a third-party candidacy, saying, "I think it'd be terrible to happen, so I hope it doesn't." Trump refused during the debate to rule out a third-party candidacy, a scenario that could siphon Republican votes away from the party's candidate and give a Democratic candidate the White House.
Despite falling into the middle of the Republican candidates, a fiery Cruz exuded confidence Monday, telling the audience, if elected, on his first day he would rescind "every illegal and unconstitutional" executive order by President Barack Obama.
The U.S. senator from Texas called the Department of Justice the "most lawless" he had ever seen. Besides rescinding Obama's orders, Cruz said he would have the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Planned Parenthood, whose leaders were seen on video allegedly discussing the sale of fetal tissue.
With the event sounding at times like a tent revival with numerous speakers invoking God and country, the candidate said he would stop "persecution of religious liberty" across the nation. He made note of a case joined by the Little Sisters of the Poor, one of nearly 50 religious groups fighting the Affordable Care Act over a provision requiring employers to provide insurance coverage to employees for contraception.
Cruz drew thunderous applause when he said he would "rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal," which he called the single greatest threat facing America today. Cruz said Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and the nuclear agreement designed to limit its nuclear weapon capability would funnel $100 billion to the country to arm "radical Islamic terrorists."
In addition, Cruz said he would begin the process of moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, in spite of the Arab world's opposition.
"The single biggest difference between me and the others on that stage (in Cleveland), with me you can trust I will do exactly what I say," Cruz said.
The son of a Cuban refugee said he would create a flat tax enabling Americans to file their taxes on a piece of paper the size of a postcard. The Internal Revenue Service's 90,000 employees could be sent to the country's Southern border, he joked, because anyone trying to sneak into the nation from Mexico would turn back if they saw those IRS workers waiting.
Cruz told the story of how his father, Raphael Cruz, left their family during his early childhood but then found God with the help of the Rev. Gaylon Wiley, changed his life immediately and returned to take care of his wife and child.
Wiley, now a semi-retired minister in Lebanon, just happened to be in the crowd and said afterward he was proud to play a role in the Cruz family's life, saying he was merely "delivering the mail" when he spoke with the elder Cruz in a Houston, Texas home one night in the 1970s.
"We're grateful today that God took a little toe-headed, hawg-slopping boy from West Texas, had the privilege of moving him to Houston to meet Ted Cruz and know today that he'll make us a great president," Wiley said, moments before he and his wife, Betty, gave Cruz a big hug.
Jimmy Turner, a Murfreesboro attorney who contributed to Cruz's campaign when he started it, said he thinks Trump's star will "fade" and he'll be out of the race in a couple of months, putting Cruz in a stronger position as state primary battles near.
"Just as a conservative, he seems to be in line with all of the beliefs that I have, both politically, spiritually and just as a man," Turner said. "And so far he has been a politician, a senator, who has said what he's going to do. He actually follows through with that, which is rare."
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/sen-ted-cruz-speaks-of-god-and-country-in-murfreesboro-cms-42580
Ted Cruz energizes conservative base in Franklin
Sen. Ted Cruz, one of 17 Republican presidential hopefuls, revved up members of his Middle Tennessee base with a preacher’s energy Monday afternoon during a talk that drew about 1,600 sign-toting, button-wearing supporters to The Factory at Franklin.
“All across the nation, people are looking up and saying, 'This doesn’t make any sense, we can’t keep doing this,' ” the Texas senator said when he took the stage in The Factory's Jamison Hall. “Let me tell you, help is on the way.”
It was one of four stops that Cruz was set to make throughout the state. He started in Chattanooga, then stopped in Murfreesboro before heading to Franklin and on to Jackson for an evening event. Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, is just the latest GOP presidential candidate to hit Tennessee in recent weeks; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush spoke at a Baptist event in Nashville on Tuesday, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spoke with supporters over barbecue late last month. He is scheduled to speak at The Factory on Aug. 23.
In his roughly half-hour speech Monday, Cruz laid out a fiercely conservative vision for his first days in office — one that seemed to resonate with his audience of mostly Williamson County residents.
He vowed to rescind President Barack Obama’s executive orders, direct the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood and “rip to shreds the catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal,” which congressional Republicans have pledged to reject.
Cruz said he’d work to implement a flat tax, so that Americans can do their taxes “on a postcard.”
Cruz praised the Republican field of presidential candidates — he never mentioned Donald Trump — and leveled jabs at the Democratic candidates, referring to Hillary Clinton as a “wide-eyed socialist” with damaging ideas.
He rejected the Washington machine and claimed what he described as a base of “grass-roots” support.
“Look around at the patriots who are gathered here, look around at the young people, look at all the people under 30 here,” he said. “That is the future of Tennessee and our country.”
Cruz said Tennessee, which is slated to have its March primary as part of the new “SEC Primary,” along with other Southern states, will play a key role in the Republican nomination.
“Tennessee and Texas, we agree on just about everything — well, except football,” Cruz said, drawing chuckles. “And Tennessee’s role in this is making sure we nominate a real, a genuine, a strong conservative in 2016. That is the only way we win the general election is to stand for principles.”
Williamson County Republican Party Chairman Julie Hannah Taleghani said that while not much of what Cruz said was unexpected, the crowd’s enthusiasm — despite standing, in some cases, for hours in a crowded room — was a pleasant surprise.
Cruz took the stage a little more than an hour after he was scheduled to arrive.
But the crowd, which packed into The Factory at Franklin, cheered and chanted Cruz’s name at various points throughout his talk.
“They were hungry for this,” Taleghani said. “They waited and waited and waited — no matter how crowded it got — they wanted to wait it out.”
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn said she was excited to welcome Cruz, whom she introduced as a “consistent consistent conservative” to Williamson County, which she emphasized has had an important place in steering the state’s politics.
Williamson County residents were joined by others from around the region, though, including Ana Batts, a Cheatham County mother of five children with another on the way.
Batts said she didn’t know much about Cruz before she headed out to the event. She heard about Cruz’s stop through a Facebook group for home-schooled families.
She said she was encouraged by the Texas senator’s ideas on education, which involve squashing Common Core and abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
And Cruz, she said, seemed to be more focused than other candidates on “keeping the freedom to home-school.”
“I was impressed,” she said.
Still, she said, “I’m not completely sold — I want to hear more about the practical side.”
Before he headed on to Jackson, Cruz was set to meet privately with a group of home-schoolers, pastors and legislators, a campaign staff member said.
As he made his way through a crush of supporters, 11 1/2-year-old Tayler Smith of Dickson County stood on a chair and yelled above the din.
“Mr. Cruz!” she said. “Please make sure you protect home schooling!’
“Absolutely,” Cruz responded, holding out his hand for a fist bump.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/new...nergizes-conservative-base-franklin/31410199/
Sen. Ted Cruz, one of 17 Republican presidential hopefuls, revved up members of his Middle Tennessee base with a preacher’s energy Monday afternoon during a talk that drew about 1,600 sign-toting, button-wearing supporters to The Factory at Franklin.
“All across the nation, people are looking up and saying, 'This doesn’t make any sense, we can’t keep doing this,' ” the Texas senator said when he took the stage in The Factory's Jamison Hall. “Let me tell you, help is on the way.”
It was one of four stops that Cruz was set to make throughout the state. He started in Chattanooga, then stopped in Murfreesboro before heading to Franklin and on to Jackson for an evening event. Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, is just the latest GOP presidential candidate to hit Tennessee in recent weeks; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush spoke at a Baptist event in Nashville on Tuesday, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spoke with supporters over barbecue late last month. He is scheduled to speak at The Factory on Aug. 23.
In his roughly half-hour speech Monday, Cruz laid out a fiercely conservative vision for his first days in office — one that seemed to resonate with his audience of mostly Williamson County residents.
He vowed to rescind President Barack Obama’s executive orders, direct the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood and “rip to shreds the catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal,” which congressional Republicans have pledged to reject.
Cruz said he’d work to implement a flat tax, so that Americans can do their taxes “on a postcard.”
Cruz praised the Republican field of presidential candidates — he never mentioned Donald Trump — and leveled jabs at the Democratic candidates, referring to Hillary Clinton as a “wide-eyed socialist” with damaging ideas.
He rejected the Washington machine and claimed what he described as a base of “grass-roots” support.
“Look around at the patriots who are gathered here, look around at the young people, look at all the people under 30 here,” he said. “That is the future of Tennessee and our country.”
Cruz said Tennessee, which is slated to have its March primary as part of the new “SEC Primary,” along with other Southern states, will play a key role in the Republican nomination.
“Tennessee and Texas, we agree on just about everything — well, except football,” Cruz said, drawing chuckles. “And Tennessee’s role in this is making sure we nominate a real, a genuine, a strong conservative in 2016. That is the only way we win the general election is to stand for principles.”
Williamson County Republican Party Chairman Julie Hannah Taleghani said that while not much of what Cruz said was unexpected, the crowd’s enthusiasm — despite standing, in some cases, for hours in a crowded room — was a pleasant surprise.
Cruz took the stage a little more than an hour after he was scheduled to arrive.
But the crowd, which packed into The Factory at Franklin, cheered and chanted Cruz’s name at various points throughout his talk.
“They were hungry for this,” Taleghani said. “They waited and waited and waited — no matter how crowded it got — they wanted to wait it out.”
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn said she was excited to welcome Cruz, whom she introduced as a “consistent consistent conservative” to Williamson County, which she emphasized has had an important place in steering the state’s politics.
Williamson County residents were joined by others from around the region, though, including Ana Batts, a Cheatham County mother of five children with another on the way.
Batts said she didn’t know much about Cruz before she headed out to the event. She heard about Cruz’s stop through a Facebook group for home-schooled families.
She said she was encouraged by the Texas senator’s ideas on education, which involve squashing Common Core and abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
And Cruz, she said, seemed to be more focused than other candidates on “keeping the freedom to home-school.”
“I was impressed,” she said.
Still, she said, “I’m not completely sold — I want to hear more about the practical side.”
Before he headed on to Jackson, Cruz was set to meet privately with a group of home-schoolers, pastors and legislators, a campaign staff member said.
As he made his way through a crush of supporters, 11 1/2-year-old Tayler Smith of Dickson County stood on a chair and yelled above the din.
“Mr. Cruz!” she said. “Please make sure you protect home schooling!’
“Absolutely,” Cruz responded, holding out his hand for a fist bump.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/new...nergizes-conservative-base-franklin/31410199/
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