RedState is a site that is a daily read for me. OK, I have to admit, multiple times a day and I link to the writers there a lot. Anyways, this weekend is the 2015 RedState Gathering down in Atlanta and a number of the present Republican Prez Wannabees were invited to speak to that community. Maybe, maybe, one of these days I may get to go but since one of those days isn’t this year, I’ll settle for video:
A couple of other posts had some info as well:
Washington Examiner (emphasis mine)
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thinks if the activists attending the RedState Gathering stand together, the “primaries are effectively over.”Cruz drew a standing-room-only crowd on Saturday morning and continued his verbal onslaught against GOP leadership. On stage, Cruz criticized moderate Republicans and called out former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
“It is amazing what happens on the campaign trail,” Cruz told the crowd of RedState activists. “Have you noticed that they run as us? By the way they say if you’re actually us, you’re not electable. But yet when they’re running they understand their message doesn’t sell.”
Daily Signal (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Sen. Ted Cruz told a group of conservative activists the first actions he would take should he be elected president during a speech today. Speaking at the Red State Gathering, Cruz said that there are five policies he would implement on his first day in the Oval Office.
The first action would be to “rescind every illegal executive action taken by Barack Obama,” including his “executive amnesty.” Next, he would “instruct the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood” and to prosecute any criminal conduct uncovered.
Then he would instruct the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service to “cease persecuting” individuals seeking to practice their faith in their workplace. The Little Sisters of the Poor, he said, “would receive a letter in the mail that their case has been dismissed.” He said they would also receive “an invitation to the White House to tell their story to the world.”
Is this next part the Cruz version of using Alinsky against its most successful acolyte?
Then he would “end the catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal.” Cruz argued that by lifting economic sanctions on Iran, the Obama administration had become “the leading global financier of radical Islamic terrorism.”
Finally, he would “begin the process to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.” Moving the embassy to Israel’s “eternal capital,” he said, would send “a message to the world that we stand with our allies.”
Cruz also condemned House and Senate leadership for seeking “show votes,” and failing to fight cronyism, corporate welfare and allowing the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.
