Ted Cruz on Atlanta's Evening News with Erick Erickson

I am not looking forward to the debate Thursday night and I think we have been engage

in this debate for a long time which is the right direction for the Republican Party to go for conservatives to go as

light we lose I assure you convinced that that twenty sixteen are going to be an election just like nineteen eighty and

that we are going to win by following Reagan's admonition that we paint in bold colors and not pale pastels what

I want to ask you about that because you can be on stage with a lot of guys or a purely on the ends

to it they tend to have dropped the idea it seems like a lot of the Republicans not just some of the guys running against but leadership in Washington have

decided the problem with government is Democrats in charge of it or not government itself well that's exactly right and and there are a lot of folks that

that I think what we need is it more Republicans will capitulate who all along to get along with the broccoli bombers in the Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi world

I don't think that's the right direction for us to get we need to stand for our principles and just once Eric Republicans

should nominate someone who is committed to conservative principles and Barack Obama is too liberal principles amen

one of the lecturers playing to people what you mean by the phrase sure well you know I had have a new book that just came out a couple weeks ago all

the time retreat and and one of the core things in the book a time for truth is that I described the Washington cartel and how it operates now now what is the Washington cartel that's

a term I use for crew and and one of the core things in the book a time for truth is that I described the Washington cartel and how it operates now now what is the Washington cartel that

grow and grow and grow govern and and as conservatives and listen for me I am a Christian first I'm a conservative second I'm a Republican third

I conservatives we keep winning elections and then the people we elect don't stand and fight for our principles and and and

were so frustrated you look at this Republican house Republican Senate you ask what have they done for

conservative values and the sad reality is that they do you see it

centrally the McConnell read leadership well they're both representing the party of Washington the party of grilling Washington just

a week ago now I had a battle with my own party leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor if Washington wanted to reauthorize the export import bank a classic example of

corporate welfare and cronyism where hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer loan guarantee well

anyway handful of giant corporations now if we're going to stand for basic free market principles we gotta stop the

Washington game of picking winners and losers and you know what I stood on the Senate floor and up oppose

this corporate welfare there was just one senator who stood with me senator Mike Lee who stood by my side the

leadership of my party came after us they didn't want to do it they wanted to grow governor but there's also value as you know American you spoke out loudly because

we stood up against the Washington cartel we shined a light on the unwillingness of Republican leadership to