Texas Sen.-elect Ted Cruz advised the Republican Party to rebrand itself under a banner of “Opportunity Conservatism” during a sweeping speech Thursday night that will only stoke speculation about a 2016 presidential run.
Speaking before the conservative American Principles Project dinner at a downtown Washington hotel, Cruz said the GOP’s thumping in the 2012 elections was more the result of poor messaging and communication than the wrong ideology.
“Why did we lose? It wasn’t as the media would tell you: because the American people embraced big government, Barack Obama’s spending and debt and taxes. … That wasn’t what happened. I’m going to suggest to you a very simple reason why we lost the election: We didn’t win the argument,” Cruz said before pointedly lowering his voice. “We didn’t even make the argument.”
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.
“We need to embrace what I call ‘Opportunity Conservatism.’ 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,” he said.
Read More at politico.com. By David Catanese.
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Whoooooa, big feller. You ain’t natural born, having come from Canada, via Cuban parents.
Thank you for adding this! He and Rubio are not natural born citizens and they seem to be the darlings of the Conservatives.
You said what I was gonna say…However, if the RNC can’t come up with another RINO, he just might be the nominee! The fact that he’s not a NBC but is accepted shows that America is no longer operating under the rule of law or the Law of Nations; we aren’t a Republic any longer or a sovereign nation, we are the United States of the World! If the Demos did it with Barry, (or in his case, a dual citizen and complete fraud operating under an assumed name), the Repubs will foist a non-NBC on us again.
Cruz’s message is a loser too–the people who voted for Barry don’t need “opportunity conservativism”; they don’t (don’t think they) need opportunity and don’t understand fiscal conservativism.
We all need survival training. The government won’t supply it or justice until we rise up and take
our country back!
I would vote for you Ted Cruz in a heartbeat. I hope you and Marco Rubio run in 2016.
We now have one party rule…good luck with electing even a RINO!