Standing before a conservative audience at the first annual Iowa Freedom Summit, in an auditorium usually reserved for the Des Moines ballet, the firebrand Senator from Texas distilled the state’s prized leadoff role in the presidential nominating process down to its essence.
“In a Republican primary, every candidate’s going to come in front of you and say I’m the most conservative candidate to ever live,” he said. “‘Gosh-darnit-who-diddly, I’m conservative!’ Well, talk is cheap.”
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Wherever influential Republicans in key states choose to gather and air their grievances about Obama’s America, ambitious governors and Senators and pretenders to the throne will come running to kiss their ring. The quadrennial ritual has begun anew. And so has season 2 of Hambycast.
Welcome to the party, America.
