repealir repelling obamacare not the way to win the election. i think he missed an opportunity. he s good for the base in the room but i think he still has not not doing anything to reject the establishment which he wants to be the republican nominee, he needs to do. george will last night on another cable channel was completely dismissive of his speech. george will is not like the king maker but he represents a school of thought. why was george will on another network? just rhetoric. if you got a choice between impressing tucker or george, george i think is the nominating electorate of the republican party. ted cruz can do fine if he runs playing in that lane but i still think he missed another opportunity to expand. he has broader appeal than he should in that speech to other parts of the electorate. if the big three didn t run, if ryan and bush and christie don t run there is a huge space there
i don t know what. how do you speak without a teleprompter? isn t that funny? everybody is freaking out about that. 18 whole minutes. oh, my god. you do that before you wake up in the morning. then for about three hours after it. exactly. but the cat doesn t really listen to me when i wake up and start talking about obamacare. let me tell you about crimea. this is what we ought to do. back when i was in congress. you know what the cat says? meow! feed me! ted cruz, though, where he was. look. he has been, as we noted, he has been a little edged off the stage since his kind of not having a great fall. rand paul is getting a lot more attention than he has in the republican ranks. this was a good opportunity for ted cruz to stand up in front of people. if he has a chance to becoming the republican nominee these are the kind of people get him there and he delivered a message for those guys. i continue to believe that
republican establishment and obamacare. if you stand for principle, you lose elections. the way to do it, the smart way, the washington way is don t stand against obamacare. don t stand against the debt ceiling. don t stand against nothing! i want to tell you something. that is a false dichotomy. you want to lose elections? stand for nothing and then, of course, all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. look. those are good men. they are decent men but when you don t stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don t stand for principle, democrats celebrate. we need to repeal every single word of obamacare. when millions of americans stood up last fall and said, stop this train wreck, this disaster that
is obamacare that is hurting millions of people, the democrats said the mainstream media said, although i repeat myself, they said this is hopeless. don t you understand? just move on. just accept. you can t do anything to stop this! yes we can. yes, we can. drafed david gregory, how about ted cruz do? he is a terrific speaker and has great poise and great presence and represents a wing of the party that is going to be a purist wing. to me a stage of the debate stage with chris christie. ? he says, christie says we have to focus on winning and not just principle? he s got it wrong. he will represent that wing of the party that under to take on the establishment and defund
the stories speak for itself. the conservative political action conference better known as cpac is under way in washington, d.c. the annual event giving party leaders the chance to talk directly with the conservative base. and yesterday the speakers list was a roster of potential 2016 candidates. ted cruz, one of the crowd favorites was first up, speaking for 18 minutes without a teleprompter. the senator took aim both at the republican establishment and obamacare. they say when you stand for principle, you lose elections. the way you do it, the smart way, the washington way is don t stand against obamacare. don t stand against the debt ceiling. don t stand against nothing. i want to tell you something. that is a false dichotomy. you want to lose elections? stand for nothing. and then, of course, all of us remember president dole.