{"id":177211,"date":"2021-02-26T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177211"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:29:30","slug":"cruz-gives-impassioned-speech-urging-conservatives-to-take-key-steps-to-win-back-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-gives-impassioned-speech-urging-conservatives-to-take-key-steps-to-win-back-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Gives Impassioned Speech Urging Conservatives To Take Key Steps To Win Back Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcruz-gives-impassioned-speech-urging-conservatives-to-take-key-steps-to-win-back-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TC1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave an impassioned speech on Friday at CPAC in which he warned of the dangers of leftism and mocked his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gathered in dark times. We\u2019re gathered at a time where the hard left \u2013 where the socialists control the levers of government. Where they control the White House, where they control every executive branch, where they control both houses of Congress. Bernie is wearing mittens and AOC is telling us she was \u2018murdered,&#8217;\u201d Cruz said, in reference to the Democratic congresswoman claiming Cruz \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fact-check-did-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-deny-claiming-ted-cruz-almost-had-her-murdered-1568056\">almost had me murdered<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0\u201cAnd the media desperately, desperately, desperately wants to see a Republican civil war,\u201d he continued. \u201cLiberty is under assault. And what are we going to do? I\u2019ll tell you, we will fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said that the key for Republicans and conservatives to win the battle against the tyrannical political left was to do two things: \u201cdefend liberty\u201d and \u201chave fun.\u201d He went on to unpack both points at length.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to close with these words of encouragement, these are dark days and the media tells us this is the new Galactic Empire forever and a thousand years,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cBut already, Joe Biden and the radicals in his administration, they are already overshooting, they are already going too far. Their policies don\u2019t work. They are disasters. They are bad. They are destroying jobs. They are stripping our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there is a natural pendulum to politics. And the country will come back to sanity,\u201d Cruz continued. \u201cAnd mark my words 2022 is going to be a fantastic election year and so is 2024 as we stand together and defend liberty, defend the Constitution, defend the Bill of Rights of every American. In the immortal words of William Wallace. Freedom!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): What an amazing array of speakers here at CPAC. For a second there, I thought, we\u2019re in Des Moines. That one took people a minute. We are gathered in dark times. We\u2019re gathered at a time where the hard left \u2013 where the socialists control the levers of government. Where they control the White House, where they control every executive branch, where they control both houses of Congress. Bernie is wearing mittens and AOC is telling us she was \u2018murdered.\u2019 And the media desperately, desperately, desperately wants to see a Republican civil war. Liberty is under assault. And what are we going to do? I\u2019ll tell you, we will fight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to William Wallace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And let me tell you. The media here looks at the men and women gathered here, at the young people gathered here, as dangerous radicals. This is the rebel alliance. And Vader and the Emperor, and let\u2019s be clear, they\u2019re not your father, are terrified of the rebels who are here, and I\u2019m proud to tell you, Gina Carano is standing with us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So what do we do, what do we do at a time where the hard left is resurgent? Two very simple things, number one, we defend liberty. Look, are there tensions in our party? Sure, because we believe in diversity, we believe in individuality, different people have different views. \u2026 We don\u2019t believe in uniformity, but I\u2019ll tell you what can unite conservatives and libertarians and those who value the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is a love of liberty. And the left, they tell you who they are. Particularly in a global pandemic, as Rahm Emanuel said,\u2019 you never want to waste a good crisis\u2019 and whoo boy these guys don\u2019t want to waste it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You see statists in California putting 37 tons of sand in a skate park, because ain\u2019t nobody having fun while the socialists are in charge. We see Bill de Blasio in New York sending people in to shut down parks and to throw young Orthodox Jewish kids out of the park because, God forbid, children have fun. We see leftists across the country shutting down churches. California, they\u2019ve helpfully explained, you can go out and protest, you can scream and yell \u2018abolish the police,\u2019 and this virus, magically, no one will get infected. You can French kiss the guy next to you yelling, \u2018abolish the police\u2019 and no one will get infected. But if you go to church and say Amazing Grace \u2013 everyone\u2019s going to die.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By the way, how many of you all have eaten at a restaurant in the last six months? Can I just stop and say how strange the rules are right now? I want to understand how this virus works. So when you walk in, you\u2019ve got to put your mask on. Sadly, I\u2019ve got two. You walk in, you got to put your mask on. You sit down, you take your mask off. See, apparently the virus is actually connected elevation. Now remember, this is all about science, it\u2019s actually it may not be elevation, I think it\u2019s that there are hormones that are released in your thighs when you\u2019re sitting so you can sit at the table and there\u2019s no virus being transmitted. But if you stand up, put the mask on!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And listen, let\u2019s be clear, this is a dangerous virus. But these collectivist statists, okay, now they\u2019re saying everybody can get immunized, we can have herd immunity everywhere and we\u2019re going to wear masks for the next 300 years. And by the way, not just one, two, three, four, you can\u2019t have too many masks. How much virtue do you want to signal? This is just dumb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, the U.S. capital has giant fences with razor wires and 5,000 National Guards standing out front because the Democrats are convinced that political theater helps them. Let\u2019s be clear, this is not about security at this point. This is about political theater, half the country, the deplorables are dangerous, and they\u2019re going to turn the Capitol into a military outpost in Baghdad just to have their compliant media echo that message.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But do you know what terrifies every one of these statists? The truth. Liberty\u2019s powerful, liberty\u2019s persuasive, liberty is fun. You know, last week. We lost the great Rush Limbaugh. I was so blessed and so fortunate to call Rush friend. And Rush understood the power of liberty. You know, before there was Hannity, before there was Tucker, before there was Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder, before there was Donald Trump. There was Rush Limbaugh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And before there was Section 230, there was something called the Fairness Doctrine, which gave leftists in Washington the power to silence views they didn\u2019t like, we got rid of the Fairness Doctrine and Rush Limbaugh started by going one AM station, and then a second AM station, and then a third and then a fourth and then a fifth and the voice of liberty spread like prairie fire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And let me tell you right now, in Los Angeles, there\u2019s some skater kid who\u2019s 19, who\u2019s told that it\u2019s hip and chic and cool to be a leftist socialist man. Who\u2019s going to hear a message? Wait a second, these guys don\u2019t want me to speak, think, have fun, do what I want to do. The message of liberty is profoundly subversive. The left believes in rigid conformity. We believe in diversity, free speech, you can say whatever you want, no matter how dumb it is, and by the way, in Washington, D.C., we test that proposition. Religious liberty, you can worship however you like on your knees before almighty God. Or you could worship the almighty dollar. Or you can worship, I don\u2019t know, pink Martians. That\u2019s the beauty of freedom. The Second Amendment, oh the left hates the Second Amendment, because they want their people docile and compliant. You know, when we saw riots all across the country, I remember there were reports that riots were going to come into suburban\u2013mostly peaceful, fiery, but mostly peaceful\u2013there were reports riots were going to come into the suburbs. I got to tell you, in Houston where I live, there weren\u2019t any rioters, because let\u2019s be very clear, if there had been they would discover what the state of Texas thinks about the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. So defend liberty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But number two: Have fun. Have fun. You know, so many on the right, they act like they got a stick inserted somewhere it doesn\u2019t belong. Like just lighten up. Especially now the left, they are shrill, they are angry. How many leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb? That\u2019s not funny! Like God bless, who would want to be around these people? You know, Jerry Seinfeld doesn\u2019t tell comedy anymore because any joke that\u2019s funny is canceled. You know, SNL is unwatchable, the late night comedy, they stand up and say we hate Donald Trump. Yeah, no kidding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We didn\u2019t get that the last 9,000 times you told that. You know in 2020,\u00a0The New York Times reported that 60 percent of women named Karen voted for Joe Biden. That\u2019s actually real, you can look it up, the fact checkers, that\u2019s what The New York Times reported and I\u2019m willing to bet 80 percent of the men named Karen voted for Joe Biden. Just have fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, yesterday, John Boehner made some news. He suggested that I do something that was anatomically impossible to which my response was, who\u2019s John Boehner? And you know what? There are a whole lot of voices in Washington, that want to just erase the last four years. Want to go back to the world before, where we had government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists before for the lobbyists, where are the Republicans compelling message was, \u2018Republicans, we waste less.\u2019 And they look at Donald J. Trump and they look at the millions and millions of people inspired, who went to battle fighting alongside President Trump, and they\u2019re terrified. And they want him to go away. Let me tell you this right now, Donald Trump ain\u2019t going anywhere. And the Republican Party is not the party just of the country clubs, the Republican Party is the party of steel workers and construction workers and pipeline workers and taxi cab drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who are working for this country. That is our party and these deplorable are here to stay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every one of you has a platform, every one of you has a voice, the corporate media wants to silence these voices. You have a platform. You know, last year I launched a podcast, \u2018Verdict with Ted Cruz,\u2019 over twenty five million downloads in a year. By the way, please go subscribe \u2018Verdict with Ted Cruz,\u2019 \u2018Verdict with Ted Cruz,\u2019 click on subscribe, five stars, please. But you know what? You have the same platform, you have social media, you have your friends, your neighbors, your family, your classmates, speak out for freedom. Because I\u2019m going to close with these words of encouragement, these are dark days and the media tells us this is the new Galactic Empire forever and a thousand years. But already, Joe Biden and the radicals in his administration, they are already overshooting, they are already going too far. Their policies don\u2019t work. They are disasters. They are bad. They are destroying jobs. They are stripping our freedom. And there is a natural pendulum to politics. And the country will come back to sanity. And mark my words 2022 is going to be a fantastic election year and so is 2024 as we stand together and defend liberty, defend the Constitution, defend the Bill of Rights of every American. In the immortal words of William Wallace. Freedom!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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