Ted Cruz wins Townhall's "Conservative of the Year"

[compromise]

First The Blaze (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?435964-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Blaze-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The American Spectator (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436107-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-American-Spectator-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The Hill (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot), now Townhall declares constitutionalist hero Ted Cruz their person of the year.

1) Ted Cruz: Why Ted Cruz for conservative of the year? Because not only has he filled Jim DeMint's role as the leader of conservatives in the Senate, he's tough, he's smart and he's willing to fight, which is more than can be said for John Boehner, anybody in the Senate leadership, or our last two presidential nominees.

Although Cruz didn't win the defund fight, it's hard to miss the fact that the GOP could have easily wrung concessions out of the Democrats on the issue if we had competent leadership and the claims that the GOP would be badly damaged by the battle all turned out to be 100% wrong. Moreover, because of Cruz's efforts, every Democrat in the Senate is now on the record voting in favor of Obamacare, voting against a delay and voting for an Obamacare subsidy for themselves and their staffs. That will probably be worth a couple of seats in 2014.

Like Jim DeMint before him, Cruz doesn't win every battle, but the fact that we have men like him in there fighting for us keeps conservatives from giving up hope.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/12/31/top-10-conservatives-of-2013-n1770176/page/full

[Anti Federalist]

Anyone but a Paul.

[compromise]

First The Blaze (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?435964-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Blaze-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The American Spectator (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436107-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-American-Spectator-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The Hill (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot), then Townhall (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?437417-Ted-Cruz-wins-Townhall-s-quot-Conservative-of-the-Year-quot), now the Dallas Morning News declares constitutionalist hero Ted Cruz their person of the year.

From the day Ted Cruz introduced himself, he has been exactly what he said he would be, for good or ill.

In May 2012, he was just a name in a crowded field of Republicans seeking to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison as U.S. senator. Pressed repeatedly about how he intended to govern in Washington with an unbending, uncompromising, hard-right platform, Cruz figuratively threw up his hands:

“If you’re looking for a moderate who would work across the aisle and might possibly be interested in raising taxes … I’m not your guy,” he told this newspaper’s editorial board.

And so he wasn’t. Yet Cruz, buoyed by tea party momentum, rolled past Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the GOP nomination and Democrat Paul Sadler in November 2012. This was just the warm-up act.

What Ted Cruz has done in less than a year since taking the oath is, well, remarkably good to supporters, remarkably bad to most everyone else, or just remarkable. Love him, hate him or fear him, Cruz has catapulted himself into every serious discussion of Congress — and congressional dysfunction — and crafted the outlines of a 2016 presidential run.

More than enough to qualify as a finalist for Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year. Who better typifies uncommon impact?

The problem is that Cruz’s impact has been more to his benefit and less to his state’s. He has raised his personal profile to heights extraordinary for a freshman senator, but, as we feared, Texas has lost influence and prestige along the way.

Cruz, for instance, became the face of the doomed effort to force congressional defunding of the Affordable Care Act, highlighted by his 21-hour faux Senate filibuster. When House Republicans gave Cruz what he wanted, the federal government went into partial shutdown, costing the GOP valuable good will among voters and exacerbating the perception of a hopelessly gridlocked Congress.

It didn’t help that Republicans eventually had to surrender for next to nothing. And it’s clear now that the shutdown distracted attention from what would become a disastrous Obamacare rollout.

Cruz, 43, is clearly intelligent and well spoken, but he’s something other than introspective. Even overwhelming defeat does little to shake his confidence in the rightness of his cause, if only the rest of us could see it. This appeals to his growing fan base, even as it troubles those of us who believe that only by giving a little can someone gain something in return.

One suspects this matters even less to Cruz now than it might have in May 2012. He seems to revel in his status as boogeyman-of-choice for non-tea partiers. Heath Harris, a top Dallas County prosecutor, even evoked the senator’s name in justifying his decision to run for the county’s Democratic Party chairmanship. Without new ideas, Harris said, Democrats risk “losing all the gains we’ve made and tuning the county over to Ted Cruz and the tea party.”

Somewhere in Washington, Cruz no doubt got a good chuckle from that.
Read more: http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/2013_December/texan-of-the-year/cruz/

[AngryCanadian]

If i remember correctly in the 2000 era, this is the same The Dallas Morning News that endorsed GW Bush. In fact.


George W. Bush Presidential Center goes 'Home for the Holidays' (http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/headlines/20131219-george-w.-bush-presidential-center-goes-home-for-the-holidays.ece)

[AngryCanadian]

Is this what they said about Paul Ryan to?

The most Conservative by far of all Conservatives

[compromise]

First The Blaze (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?435964-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Blaze-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The American Spectator (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436107-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-American-Spectator-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The Hill (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot), then Townhall (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?437417-Ted-Cruz-wins-Townhall-s-quot-Conservative-of-the-Year-quot), then the Dallas Morning News (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?437418-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Dallas-Morning-News-s-quot-Texan-of-the-Year-quot), now Frontpage Magazine declares constitutionalist hero Ted Cruz their person of the year.


Harry Reid called him a “laughingstock” and Grover Norqust’s men accused him of being a “terrorist.” The head of the Chamber Commerce suggested that he learn to sit down and be quiet. Nigeria demanded that he apologize and Chris Matthews accused him of wanting to kill Obama’s baby.

At September’s end, Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine gloated, “Someone tell Ted Cruz the ObamaCare War is Over.”


“Cruz can say, ‘Everyone in America knows Obamacare is destroying the economy,’ and quite plausibly believe it. News to the contrary has never penetrated his mental bunker,” Chait wrote suggesting that Cruz and his allies would end up like the Japanese soldiers on lost islands fighting for a lost cause.

Fast forward a few months and it’s ObamaCare that looks like the lost cause.

A Rasmussen poll places Cruz as the third most influential world leader after Obama and the Pope. Texas Republicans favor him for the top job and he took first place in the Value Voter Summit straw poll. Cruz ties Hillary Clinton in Colorado and beats her among independents.

It’s quite a comeback for a man who was being lowered into the coffin by the liberal media just a few short months ago after a vicious hate campaign with no parallels except the left’s War on Palin.

From one end of the country to the other, the voices of the inevitable, Democrats and Republicans, politicians, pollsters and pundits, in ink-stained print, on the sprawling feeds of cable news and the endless whirl of the Internet, boomed their message.

Ted Cruz was wrong. Ted Cruz was doomed. Ted Cruz would destroy the Republican Party. Ted Cruz was a mad fool for taking on ObamaCare in all the wrong ways. But as the old year tips into the new, Cruz is standing tall and ObamaCare is being torn apart by its namesake in a frantic effort to save his popularity.

Desperation has forced Obama to become Ted Cruz, tearing away pieces of ObamaCare, throwing around delays and postponements for his signature legislation like confetti at a parade.

“One man with courage makes a majority,” Andrew Jackson said. “The Washington strategist said keep your head down, don’t rock the boat, the economy is not going great for President Obama so keep your head down and we will win. Shock of all shocks, we got our butts cleaned,” Cruz said.



“Just keep your head down and we will win races,” Cruz said. “The problem is if you do that, you destroy every single reason anyone has to come up and vote.”

Now the Washington strategists are catching up with Ted Cruz. And so are the polls.

Ted Cruz understood that the impact of ObamaCare on ordinary Americans would be the defining issue of the next election. And he understood that ObamaCare itself would prove him right.

While Republican leaders tried to hold him back, Ted Cruz was getting out in front of the health care policy cancellations, taxes and job cuts. While some Senate Republicans were collaborating in Obama’s illegal alien amnesty, chasing populism with empty gimmicks like domestic drones strikes or delivering empty speeches and bloated budgets; he never deviated from what really mattered.

Ted Cruz was too ruthless, they said. Too arrogant and mean-spirited. Too unwilling to compromise.

And they were right. Ted Cruz was too unwilling to compromise. Too unwilling to choose Green Eggs and Ham, accept ObamaCare as the law of the land and retreat to fighting on the next sinking atoll that the Washington strategists would declare the next great battlefield shortly before they declare it a doomed cause and negotiate another strategic withdrawal to the home islands.

The Republican leadership still favors the great compromisers who compromise on budgets and illegal alien amnesties, and who are never ruthless unless they are stabbing conservatives in the back.

The Cruz Effect forces the Republican Party to choose between style and substance. It can keep its glib unconvincing candidates with perfect faces and perfect hair who have no ideas and nothing to offer. Men whose only virtue is standing for nothing are still the choice of the political machine for the elections of tomorrow where heads will once again be kept down and no harshness will be allowed.

But the definitive figure in the Republican Party is FrontPage’s Man of the Year.

Ted Cruz has emerged as the leading voice of principle in a Republican Party that has become pathetically eager to trade substance for style. He made his stand on substance and in a short few months the pundits and politicians who had abandoned him were forced to do their own sharp turns when he was proven right.

Political parties are not brands of mouthwash or detergent. They cannot be sold through money and repetition alone. Campaign volunteers do not walk through the rain when there is nothing to believe in. Struggling men and women do not mail out checks because they are told to do it. And millions and millions of Americans do not take time out from caring for their families, working a second job and struggling to make ends meet to wait on line and cast a vote for a man whom they do not believe in.

Cruz has brought principle and substance back to the Republican Party. And that has given millions of its supporters who despaired after the defeat of 2012 something to stand for, to fight for and to believe in.

The Cruz Effect happened because one man understood that you don’t keep your head down while looking for popular fights to pick, but you pick the unpopular fights that truly matter and you fight them until they become popular.

Ted Cruz took on ObamaCare and when everyone was done writing his political obituary as a dangerous loose cannon who shouldn’t be allowed to talk without the party’s permission, they looked up from their iPads to find ObamaCare hunched over and bleeding in a corner while Ted Cruz was back in Texas speaking to cheering crowds.

In 2013, he took on ObamaCare, the media and his own party without ever losing faith in the fight. And instead of the fight burying his political career, as every media outlet insisted it would, it buried Obama’s second term instead.

This was the year when Ted Cruz showed the Republican Party what was possible when you fight the good fight for what you believe in. And that is why he is FrontPage Magazine’s Man of the Year.
Read more: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/frontpages-2013-man-of-the-year-ted-cruz/

[Warlord]

GO AWAY

[devil21]

Goldman Sachs sure does have long, long tentacles. I wonder how much taxpayer bailout money Goldman is giving to these website operators for these Cruz love-fest articles? Heidi must really want to be first lady.

Ted Cruz' Goldman Sachs connection:
Ted Cruz wife Goldman CFR member and the Bush family (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot)

[devil21]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot

[FrankRep]

GO AWAY
I'm just glad someone like Chris Christie didn't win the award.

Ted Cruz has an excellent voting record, but I'm a Rand Paul fan.

[LibertyEagle]

blah, blah, blah. Who cares.

[devil21]

Thanks for merge mods. Maybe you could merge all of the "compromise" Cruz media love stories into a single thread so we have a central thread about Cruz? The Cruz spam is just irritating people now.

[AngryCanadian]

I'm just glad someone like Chris Christie didn't win the award.

Ted Cruz has an excellent voting record, but I'm a Rand Paul fan.

Cause Cruz is trying to avoid what Ryan Paul did.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

People are still giving out these 2013 "awards"? Who cares anymore?

[compromise]

Cause Cruz is trying to avoid what Ryan Paul did.

Wait, Ryan Paul?

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk262/vvvMARCOvvv/paulryanlol_zpsef9748bd.png

Ryan is obviously running a confusion campaign between himself and Rand, and it appears you have fallen for it.

[mosquitobite]

I said this from before the shutdown, that Cruz' fake filibuster was going to be more of a winner with the base than Rand's.

I live in a red state - I am surrounded by these people!

[AngryCanadian]

Wait, Ryan Paul?

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk262/vvvMARCOvvv/paulryanlol_zpsef9748bd.png

Ryan is obviously running a confusion campaign between himself and Rand, and it appears you have fallen for it.
Are you an hidden Ted Cruz fan?

Ted Cruz is no freind towards liberty. As for Paul Ryan standing Rand Paul, thats staging. :rolleyes:

[FrankRep]

Are you an hidden Ted Cruz fan?

Ted Cruz is no freind towards liberty. As for Paul Ryan standing Rand Paul, thats staging. :rolleyes:

Ted Cruz votes pro-liberty at least.


Name: Ted Cruz (http://www.thenewamerican.com/freedomindex/profile.php?id=C001098)
Senate: Texas, Republican
Cumulative Freedom Index Score: 95%

[NIU Students for Liberty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdpsfBsN_Dg

[bunklocoempire]

Anyone but a Paul.

But wait! Paul is in there.

Right behind Cruz, the Robertson Duck Folk, and Wayne LaPierre and the NRA... :rolleyes:

and along with:

Rick Perry
David Vitter
Justin Amash
Glenn Beck
Jim DeMint
Trey Gowdy
Bobby Jindal
Heritage Action
Louie Gohmert
Darrell Issa
Hobby Lobby
Sarah Palin
Jeff Sessions
Steve Stockman
Scott Walker

...so yeah, anybody but Paul. Just like article author-fear monger John Hawkins is likely to suggest :

http://www.rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/why-ron-paul-can-never-be-president-in-12-quotes/

Written By : John Hawkins
December 20, 2011
...Ron Paul is absolutely, unconditionally unelectable. By that, I mean that Barack Obama would have a genuine shot to beat Ron Paul in all 50 states, including Texas and Utah. If Hillary Clinton ran as a third party candidate, Obama would still probably take more than 40 states against Paul. If Obama DIED with 3 months left in the election and his campaign was suspended, he’d PROBABLY STILL beat Paul by a margin larger than the one he had against McCain in 2008...

Screw Cruz and screw Hawkins.

[Natural Citizen]

First The Blaze (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?435964-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Blaze-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The American Spectator (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436107-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-American-Spectator-s-quot-Man-of-the-Year-quot), then The Hill (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?436584-Ted-Cruz-wins-The-Hill-s-quot-Person-of-the-Year-quot), now Townhall declares constitutionalist hero Ted Cruz their person of the year.



Hm. Gone are the days when real people's opinions mattered. Does the Blaze eat? What about the American Spectator? Does it bleed? The Hill...does it sleep?

I wish people would stop letting these entities assume their identity and orchestrate the terms of controversy. It's what is wrong with America.

[Dianne]

His and his wife's Goldman Sacks ties will take him down, that's our job !!!!

He is a great Orator, and theater of the absurd actor.................. but that's it. He is a bankster owned shill, that takes a stand when he knows his stand won't prevail.

[FrankRep]

His and his wife's Goldman Sacks ties will take him down, that's our job !!!!

He is a great Orator, and theater of the absurd actor.................. but that's it. He is a bankster owned shill, that takes a stand when he knows his stand won't prevail.

Our job is to protect and defend the Constitution, not attack a candidate's wife who's an innocent employee of a bank you hate.

[twomp]

More proof that "real conservatives" want war with Iran.

[Keith and stuff]

If i remember correctly in the 2000 era, this is the same The Dallas Morning News that endorsed GW Bush. In fact.


George W. Bush Presidential Center goes 'Home for the Holidays' (http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/headlines/20131219-george-w.-bush-presidential-center-goes-home-for-the-holidays.ece)
Cruz is a disciple of Bush so that makes a lot of sense. The Cruz of today sounds a lot like the Bush of then.

[NIU Students for Liberty]

Our job is to protect and defend the Constitution, not attack a candidate's wife who's an innocent employee of a bank you hate.

Then why protect a candidate who wanted to invade Syria and pressure Israel into launching an air strike on Iran while at the same time criticizing Obama for "easing" sanctions on Iran?

[TaftFan]

Cruz is a disciple of Bush so that makes a lot of sense. The Cruz of today sounds a lot like the Bush of then.

Not really. Bush was considered establishment back then.

[AngryCanadian]

Not really. Bush was considered establishment back then.

Ted Cruz stated his somewhere between McCain and Paul on the foreign policy.

[Keith and stuff]

Ted Cruz stated his somewhere between McCain and Paul on the foreign policy.

The stuff he says and thinks now are pretty similar to Bush of then. Remember when Bush was against nation building? Remember when he was against going to war unless there was a reason? That really used to be the way Bush presented himself. Of course, it was all an act. Is Bush's disciple acting? I don't know.

Personally, I'd rather trust a Ron Paul disciple than a George Bush disciple since Bush was 1 of the worst Presidents of all time. In fact, the GOP brand hasn't even come close to recovering for his horrible legacy.

[Natural Citizen]

In fact, the GOP brand hasn't even come close to recovering for his horrible legacy.

I hate that term. "Brand". You know? Everything is so commercialized. The people have just moved out of the way to let these political corporations orchestrate everything from what surmises the issues all the way to the narrative and political theater that surrounds it.

As far as Bush, he was an imbecile. Of course, this made him dangerous just because he didn't have a clue what would happen as a result of playing the role of sock puppet but people like Cruz are clever. Which makes them even more dangerous because they are knowingly complicit in scope yet seek a less aware demographic. The"dumb voters". I was having dinner with a group of senior citizens the other day and it was the funniest thing. They were talking about Cruz and complainig about Obama's birth certificate in the same breath. It struck me as odd that this demographic was interested in Cruz. So it was easy making short work of Cruz and I suppose they'll all be in Church on Sunday passing that along so it's kind of a bonus.

Eventually we started discussing Dennis K and Ron Paul. Which was also rather interesting.

[FSP-Rebel]

Cruz has the ability to shore up Rand's general election appeal amongst varying conservative bases (as his running mate) that might raise eyebrows as they see Rand being labeled as to the left of "fill in the dem nominee" on foreign policy and civil liberties (at home and abroad). Rand is putting in the work to appeal to minorities in a way no other brand of republicanism can nor will and polls will reflect that prior to and during the primary season and he'll already be an indisputable top tier candidate right out of the gate. A Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum combo would split the socons in IA paving the way for Rand to run away w/ it as he takes a healthy % of all republican sects which will set him up for a battle to go toe-toe w/ Christie in NH, then onward south w/ some sort of decent momentum if not the full bag. When we get some of the McConnell friendly money on top of what we can put together in terms of money and enthusiasm, we'll own the show and one of the socons will have to drop and some of their herd will add to our growing block. Eventually, Cruz and allies will come our way as the season drags on and this is why we shouldn't be putting a target on his back nor badmouthing those who tend to glorify him. Tear him up based on conjecture and his minions will flock elsewhere and we'll just be stuck in our little but growing corner of the GOP. #StandWithRandTedMike and grow it during the off season.

[twomp]

Cruz has the ability to shore up Rand's general election appeal amongst varying conservative bases (as his running mate) that might raise eyebrows as they see Rand being labeled as to the left of "fill in the dem nominee" on foreign policy and civil liberties (at home and abroad). Rand is putting in the work to appeal to minorities in a way no other brand of republicanism can nor will and polls will reflect that prior to and during the primary season and he'll already be an indisputable top tier candidate right out of the gate. A Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum combo would split the socons in IA paving the way for Rand to run away w/ it as he takes a healthy % of all republican sects which will set him up for a battle to go toe-toe w/ Christie in NH, then onward south w/ some sort of decent momentum if not the full bag. When we get some of the McConnell friendly money on top of what we can put together in terms of money and enthusiasm, we'll own the show and one of the socons will have to drop and some of their herd will add to our growing block. Eventually, Cruz and allies will come our way as the season drags on and this is why we shouldn't be putting a target on his back nor badmouthing those who tend to glorify him. Tear him up based on conjecture and his minions will flock elsewhere and we'll just be stuck in our little but growing corner of the GOP. #StandWithRandTedMike and grow it during the off season.

I'd rather wait and have his minions die off then support someone who wants to send our country towards another war. I have principles.

[enhanced_deficit]

Amazing achievement for true believer and foreign policy hawk.

I suspect Ted Cruz will also win "Christian Zionist of the Year" award this year as his "great guy" buddy Pastor John Hagee of CUFI has been winning thathonor for too long. It is time.

http://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Sen-Cruz-Monday-Night.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=20RMqimehq453M&tbnid=qzvL24RMR6eiCM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jta.org%2F2013%2F07%2F26%2Fne ws-opinion%2Fpolitics%2Fat-cufi-faith-hagee-substance-pols-and-plenty-of-show-glenn-beck&ei=wq7HUqmMDY60kAf03YDIAw&bvm=bv.58187178,d.eW0&psig=AFQjCNF6czkoTj8A2UHSW-jkpl9TBq0Nzw&ust=1388904491923187)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ec-kZGKnQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ec-kZGKnQ8

[twomp]

Amazing achievement for true believer and foreign policy hawk.

I suspect Ted Cruz will also win "Christian Zionist of the Year" award this year as his "great guy" buddy Pastor John Hagee of CUFI has been winning thathonor for too long. It is time.



http://dt.ecumenicalnews.com/en/full/3110/u-s-senator-ted-cruz.jpg?w=820&h=504&l=50&t=40

[AngryCanadian]

John Hagee Is an Radical.

[enhanced_deficit]

http://dt.ecumenicalnews.com/en/full/3110/u-s-senator-ted-cruz.jpg?w=820&h=504&l=50&t=40

Was Ted Cruz praying for freedom for Palestinian Christians or Gaza children in this moving gesture? Or for supporting war against regime that ptotect Syrian Christians?