Senator Ted Cruz at CPAC: How We Win

good morning god bless sepak no I do have to start with a bit of bad news this morning I'm

sorry to tell you the by virtue of your being here today tomorrow morning each and everyone of you is going to be audited by the IRS so

I appreciate the courage of your convictions you know yesterday Lois Lerner went before Congress and yet again pleaded the fifth and

of course president Obama told bill o'reilly during the Superbowl there's not a smidgen of

corruption with the IRS reminded me of one of my favorite movies you keep on using that word I do not think it means what you think it means somehow

my understanding of smidgen was a little different than his I want to thank you all for being here you are here today at sea pack because you understand the stakes in this country have never been

high you are here because you understand our countries at a crisis point we are at the edge of a craft liberty

is under assault and what I want to talk to you all about this morning is how we we a lot of DC consultants let's

say there's a choice for Republicans to make we can either choose to keep our head down the not rock the boat did

Washington way distilled stand against obamacare don't stand against the debt ceiling don't stand against nothing well

to tell you something that is a false dichotomy you want to lose elections stand for nothing the last four congressional elections %HESITATION six %HESITATION eight ten and twelve three of the four we

follow that strategy %HESITATION six %HESITATION eight and twelve we put our head down we stood for nothing and we got walloped the

one election that was a tremendous election was two thousand ten when Republicans drew a line in the sand we

said we stand unequivocally against obamacare against bankrupting the country and we rent one and historic title

wave I'm an election and then of course all of us remember president dole and president McCain and

president Romney I like those are good men they're decent man but when you don't stand a draw a clear distinction when you don't stand for principle Democrats

celebrate so I'm going to stand here today and let's take for example young people there are young people here today I

got a note by the way everyone should be cheering at that everyone is young in heart if you're at sea packed by definition you are a young person because you believe in the future of America but