Senator Ted Cruz speaks at CPAC 2015. “We all know that in a campaign, every candidate comes up and tells you, ‘I’m the most conservative guy that’s ever lived,’ that’s just what they say,” Cruz said. “I’m pretty confident you haven’t seen any speakers come up yet to say, ‘I’m a squishy moderate who stands for nothing.’ … Every one of them will say, ‘You betcha, hoo diddly, I’m as conservative as all get-out.’”
“I am convinced 2016 is going to be an election very much like 1980,” Cruz said, ”Washington despised Reagan” just as the entrenched powers in Washington loathe Cruz. Cruz also cited the inspiration of his father, an emigrant from Cuba, who said, ”I’ve seen freedom taken away once, and I’ll die before I let it happen again.”
