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Washington
Times
CPAC 2013: Ted
Cruz urges conservatives to
stand up for the U.S. Constitution
By Seth McLaughlin
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Additional
CPAC links posted below…
Sen. Ted
Cruz of Texas closed out the annual
Conservative Political Action Conference by calling on the thousands of
people
in attendance to join him in standing up for the U.S. Constitution.
Mr.
Cruz also poked fun at Sen. John McCain of
Arizona, who labeled him and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky as “wacko
birds” because
of the outspoken brand of politics they’ve brought to Capitol Hill.
“I
have to admit when Rand and I first heard
that we thought it was a new kind of drone, ” Mr. Cruz said. “But if
standing
for liberty and staring for the Constitution and standing for liberty
makes me
a wacko bird, then count me a proud wacko bird.”
Mr. Cruz’s
closing remarks — in particular his
jab at Mr. McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee — marked a fitting
end to
the three-day conference, which was billed as “America’s Future: The
Next
Generation of Conservatives — New Challenges, Timeless Principles.”
The event
showcased some of the movement’s
up-and-coming leaders, including Mr. Paul, as well as Sen. Marco Rubio,
and
Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
And it
provided the hordes of people who
converged on the Gaylord National Hotel just outside the Washington
Beltway to
regroup from last year’s election, when President Obama won a second
term and
Democrats captured seats in the House and Senate.
Mr. Cruz,
though, won his seat in Texas after
knocking off the pick of the GOP establishment in the Lone Star State.
And he has
been no shrinking violent since
being sworn into the Senate earlier this year. He grilled former
Republican
Sen. Chuck Hagel during his nomination hearing to be the next secretary
of
defense over his views on Israel and teamed up with Mr. Paul in putting
forward
a proposal to prohibit the use of drones to kill U. St. citizens on
American
soil.
He also
introduced a proposal to defund Mr.
Obama’s health care law, which died in the Senate last week despite
support
from every Republican.
Taken
together, the moves have bolstered Mr.
Cruz’s standing in the eyes of grass roots conservative and tea
partyers, and
some political onlookers say that he could very well run for the GOP
presidential nomination in 2016.
Read the
rest of the article at the Washington
Times
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