Ted Cruz Tells BlogBashers: “Y’all Are On The Front Lines Of Taking This County Back” (video)

Thursday night, The National Bloggers Club sponsored a BlogBash, “the largest gathering of right of center bloggers, and online opinion leaders”  for the conservative bloggers in Washington DC for CPAC. Hundreds of bloggers filled Bobby McKey’s Dueling Piano Bar for a fun filled night.  Fellow Texan Melissa Clouthier ( @Melissatweets ) introduced the Senate’s rising star, Senator Ted Cruz:

“You represent power and you represent democracy,” Cruz told assembled bloggers, “You scare the hell out of Washington.”

Blog Award Winners For CPAC 2013:

2012 Blogger of the Year

Lachlan Markay, Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog

Bloggers’ Choice: Non-Profit Blogger of the Year

Sean Hackbarth, Chamber’s FreeEnterprise.com

 Best Activism Post of 2012

Dana Loesch, Donors offers $$ For Info Leading To Arrest Of Union Thug

Best Investigative Post of 2012

Robert Stacy McCain, ‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection

Bloggers’ Choice: Movie of the Year

Hating Breitbart

Best In Show: Podcast

Fingers Malloy (Podcast)

Best In Show: Twitter

David Burge (@IowaHawkBlog)

Best In Show: Video

Scottie Hughes – “DNC County Chairman: Christians Want Jewish People to Die”

Friends of Bloggers Award

Erik Telford

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Twitchy: ‘God bless bloggers’: Sen. Ted Cruz wows BlogBash, toasts Andrew Breitbart