CPAC Cruz: Applauds Colorado pot legalization, embodiment of ‘laboratories of democracy’ idea
Firebrand conservative U.S. Senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is not a fan of legal weed, he told Fox News host Sean Hannity at the Conservative Political Action Conference held in a suburb of Washington today, but he celebrated Colorado legalization as a laudable example of states’ rights and experimental democracy.
“Look, I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the ‘laboratories of democracy.’ If the citizens of Colorado decide they want to go down that road, that’s their prerogative. I don’t agree with it, but that’s their right.”
Cruz couldn’t resist prefacing the serious portion of his answer with dope jokes, leading Hannity through an impromptu, stiff routine that had the conservative audience guffawing.
“Well, I was told Colorado provided the brownies here today,” he said, pausing for effect.
“Uh-oh, I just ate them,” said Hannity.
“Look, your viewership is going to go up 20 percent.”
“It’s going to go up a lot.”
“The ‘Magical Mystery Hannity Hour.’”
“Ah, yeah.”
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Cruz’s comments came in a brief question-and-answer session with Hannity after Cruz delivered a speech on how Republicans can win back the presidency in 2016. He blasted likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as a corrupted creature of Washington and contrasted Washington’s interests with the interests of the people. He said Republicans had to run a populist campaign, one that sets out a program to “bring back the miracle of America” by rebuilding the coalition of “conservatives and libertarians and evangelicals and women and young people and hispanics and Reagan Democrats” that swept Reagan into office in 1980 and has proved increasingly fractured in recent years.
CPAC draws thousands of hardcore conservative voters from across the country and marks the unofficial kickoff of the presidential campaigns to win their votes. Cruz has become a favorite at the event.
from The Colorado Independent http://ift.tt/1AP1RK8
via Colorado Marijuana news