Sen. Ted Cruz revs up Iowa conservatives, vowing end to IRS and Obamacare

[TexasTowelie]

AMES, Iowa – Sen. Ted Cruz spent the afternoon in Iowa, revving up a crowd of conservative activists in his second visit in two weeks. He asked them, as he often does, to text him their cell phone numbers – the modern way to build list of donors and volunteers.

But don’t jump to any conclusions about 2016 ambitions, he said.

Texas has been hot this week so he was glad for the chance to get away, he joked, demurring when asked whether he’s eyeing the White House.

“I am traveling the country working to build a grassroots army and the biggest fight facing Congress right now is the fight to defund Obamacare,” he said, adding, “My focus here today, my focus every day in the Senate, is on standing up and fighting for conservative principles.”

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/08/sen-ted-cruz-revs-up-iowa-conservatives-vowing-end-to-irs-and-obamacare.html/ .

[Thinkingabout]

1. Crazy Cruz just keeps on giving his crazy lines. I wonder if he realizes if he shuts down the IRS

He will not get paid and he will not get a pension, DUH. This is information libertarians run on, no spending but manage to tack on as much as possible to take home.

[Just Saying]

2. Is it worse that Ted Cruz spews this nonsense

Or that idiots applaud him for it?

What color is the sky in their world?

[MiniMe]

3. Cruz was born in Canada

Where are the birthers when you need them?

[Jamaal510]

9. IOKIYAR

[MrModerate]

4. I loved this line from one attendee:

She’d love to see Cruz run for president, unless Mike Huckabee runs again. “I don’t think we need both of them,” she said.

[TexasTowelie]

5. It's unfortunate that the attendee didn't say,

"I don't think we need either of them."

[giftedgirl77]

6. Enh let him win the RNC nomination

then about a month later tell them the nutter butter is ineligible to run & thus they forfeit the election. When the rupubs start to argue just tell them nope, there's no backsies, & maybe next time they will make better decisions.

Fuck'em if they want to play silly ass games, just start making shit up. Hell they won't know what to do other than run to Faux News and whine.

[Sunlei]

7. why won't Ted Cruz stop property tax?

[warrior1]

8. he's a charlatan

but republican voters loved being lied too

[TexasTowelie]

10. Here is a great response that I saw in the comments of the Austin American-Statesman:

Raffy Jr. is our unnaturally born junior U.S. senator, the Canadian anchor baby of (a) a pregnant woman who wanted free health care for her and her baby, and (b) a broke Castro revolutionary from Cuba. After getting Junior born and paid for by the Canadians, Junior's dad became an illegal immigrant in America for a generation, until his son decided to become part of the 47 percent who depend on government.

Junior's incessant attack on the Affordable Care Act, passed by both the House and the Senate, is comically part of the confused junior senator's "shadow self," the Jungian concept of how we often hate what is essential to who we are. But for government health care, Junior would have been born in a remote Calgary trailer house with his Communist padre delivering him.

In this way, Junior is a lot like his former boss, Gregory Wayne Abbott. GWA, also part of the 47 percent, is nonetheless wealthy, having made his fortune by jogging through the richest neighborhood in Texas during a lightning storm as a young man, getting close enough to the ancient live oaks to catch a falling branch. Gregory Wayne's trial lawyer, pre-tort-reform, collected an eight-figure settlement for his young client with dollar signs in his eyes. Once he got his, GWA promptly turned his attention to precluding you from getting yours, making tort reform his oddball big issue.

Texas Republicans have re-defined the term hypocritical, but instant karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head. You better get yourself together, pretty soon you're gonna be dead.

[Blue Idaho]

11. Home Run!

What an amazing piece of writing - thanks for posting!