“Liberty is under assault.”Īfter opening his address by joking that “by virtue of your being here today, tomorrow, each and every one of you is going to be audited by the IRS,” Cruz said Republican “got walloped” in the 2006, 20 elections because they followed the advice of “DC consultants” who “say if you stand for principle, you lose elections.” He joked, “Of course, all of us remember President Dole and President McCain and President Romney.” While he respected those failed candidates, said Cruz, “When you don’t stand for principle, Democrats celebrate.”Ĭruz then turned to how the GOP can attract young people, saying that despite lacking a “young, rugged, James Dean, rebel-without-a-cause” look, the best Republican examples of youth appeal were Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul. “We are at the edge of a cliff,” Cruz told the crowd. In an energetic and well-received address kicking off CPAC 2014, Texas senator and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz took shots at “consultants” and Barney Frank, decried that under Obama “the people of Ukraine have seen Russian tanks move into their sovereign land,” and urged the abolition of the IRS, the institution of a flat tax, and the repeal of “every single word of Obamacare.”
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