{"id":16615,"date":"2012-11-30T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2012-11-30T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:06:42","slug":"texas%e2%80%99-ted-cruz-in-the-mix-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16615\/texas%e2%80%99-ted-cruz-in-the-mix-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 Ted Cruz in the Mix for 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/11\/ted-cruz-speech-stokes-2016-speculation-84436.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> excerpts some of an intriguing speech by U.S. Senator-Elect Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a conservative audience last night in Washington, D.C.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the 41-year-old Cuban-American warned that Republicans need not abandon their principles in order to rebound electorally, he did suggest the party should retool its rhetoric on economic and cultural issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to embrace what I call \u2018Opportunity Conservatism.\u2019 We need to conceptualize, we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While he conceded the party\u2019s harsh tone on immigration was undoubtedly a factor, Cruz cited Mitt Romney\u2019s infamous \u201c47 percent\u201d comment as the main reason the president performed so well with Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think far more important was 47 percent. \u2026 Republicans nationally, the story we conveyed was that 47 percent are stuck in a static world. We don\u2019t have to worry about you, what that clip famously said. I cannot think of an idea more antithetic to the American principle,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe embraced in that comment, and in the narrative we made to this country, the Democrat notion that there is a fixed and static pie. \u2026 The rich are the rich, the poor are the poor, and all that matters is redistributing from one to the other. The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything,\u201d he added to cheers from the audience. \u201cWe did an incredibly poor job at articulating the message of opportunity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Cruz jumps into the 2016 presidential contest with other possibilities like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan, the GOP \u2013 and the conservative movement that animates it \u2013 will be better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico excerpts some of an intriguing speech by U.S. Senator-Elect Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a conservative audience last night in Washington, D.C.: While the 41-year-old Cuban-American warned that Republicans need not abandon their principles in order to rebound electorally, he did suggest the party should retool its rhetoric on economic and cultural issues. \u201cWe need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,3116,2890,561],"class_list":["post-16615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-opportunity","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16618,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions\/16618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}