The candidacy of Senator Ted Cruz has been remarkable, though overshadowed by the rise of populism and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s server scandals, and the shockingly successful socialist candidacy of a Vermont Independent. As we move into the second half of the primary season, I wanted to write one last argument in favor of the Texas Senator, laying out the case for why Ted Cruz is the best candidate left to lead America forward.
Ted Cruz is a strict constitutionalist. Republican, Democrat, or Independent, Senator Cruz will look out for your Constitutional Rights. While many are turned off by Cruz’s seeming televangelist flavor, it is important to understand that as President, Senator Cruz would protect the religious liberty of Muslims, Atheists, Christians, Hindus, Pagans, and Jews. Yes, he is a Christian and, yes, he likes to speak about his faith, as any Christian is want to do; but that does not mean that he believes in legislating faith. He does not. He’s a Constitutionalist through and through.
Ted Cruz, like most Americans, is concerned with ending the corruption of both political establishments, the federal bureaucracy, and the crony-capitalism which has become entrenched on Wall Street and K Street. Ted Cruz does not support lobbyists. Cruz campaigned against Ethanol Subsidies, in Iowa of all places, and won. Cruz campaigned against oil subsidies in Texas and won. Senator Cruz has spoken at great length and consistently for years about the cronyism and corruption in Washington D.C. and has begged the American People to rise up against it. Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid despise Ted Cruz – could there be a better endorsement?
Ted Cruz grew up ambitious and graduated from Princeton University, catapulting him into the caucuses of America’s elites, though he never befriended them. Senator Cruz worked on President George W. Bush’s 1999 campaign, but never sold out in order to fit in. George W. Bush firmly believes that Ted Cruz is the biggest threat to the GOP Establishment (again, a better endorsement?). From 2003 to 2008, Ted Cruz served as Solicitor General in Texas, arguing 9 cases before the Supreme Court and winning a majority. In each case, Ted Cruz was fighting for our liberty, individual sovereignty, and constitutional rights. Still, he never sold out.
In 2012, Ted Cruz took on the wealthy Republican establishment candidate for Senate and won; not by making deals with powerful special interests, but by opposing them. Against all odds, Ted Cruz won, and immediately began doing everything he promised he would do for the citizens of Texas. Ted Cruz won the Texas Republican Presidential Primary in a landslide, because Texans understand just how principled and committed Senator Cruz is to a core constitutional philosophy.
I understand that a lot of people don’t like Ted Cruz – they don’t like his personality, or how he speaks, or how he looks, or even how aggressive he is in taking on the elites in his own party. I understand wanting to vote for a candidate you could have a beer with (in the case of George W. Bush or Bill Jefferson Clinton) and I understanding voting for something historic, like the first African-American President.
What I don’t understand, is after nearly 16 years of out of control federal expansion, spending, and debt, how any American could support one of these other candidates who seem entirely focused on even more expansion, more spending, and more debt. Hillary, Donald, and Bernie all promise beautiful slogans, but they are also promising more of the same. Forget the slogans. Look at their records. (I will say, Bernie Sanders is the least establishment of the three).
Democrat, Republican, or Independent – aren’t you tired of all this corruption and government and regulation and this enormous debt which hangs like a cloud over your children and grandchildren? There is only one candidate still running for President that is even remotely interested in addressing it – and that’s Senator Ted Cruz. You don’t have to like Ted Cruz or want to share a beer with him in order to vote for him.
Here is some unsolicited advice: Don’t vote for candidates. Vote for principles. Don’t vote for political promises. Vote for what a candidate has actually accomplished – their record. Don’t vote to make your family and friends happy. Vote to secure the constitutional rights and liberties of your friends and family, whether that vote makes them happy or not.
I understand why this election is all about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a celebrity and a firebrand. He brings in the ratings, the controversy, and the crazies (on both sides). The media loves him and loves to hate him. He’s all anyone is talking about, writing about, or complaining about at work.
What I don’t understand is why so many Democrats and Republicans support him, when he has no political record or philosophy, outside of the fact that when he needs something, he’s purchased politicians who would make sure he got it. I truly do not understand how Democrats or Republicans could side with Trump over Senator Ted Cruz – when we all know that Ted Cruz will fight for American Citizens against both establishments and the corruption on both sides (including the donor class, Wall Street, K Street – i.e. all of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s friends).
If you are a Marxist or a Socialist or a liberal populist, I understand your loyalty and enthusiasm for Senator Bernie Sanders. He’s the real deal. He’s not a pretend-socialist. If that kind of Government is what you’re into – then he’s your guy.
What I don’t understand is why so many Democrats and Republicans support him, when he has no political record or philosophy, outside of the fact that when he needs something, he’s purchased politicians who would make sure he got it. I truly do not understand how Democrats or Republicans could side with Trump over Senator Ted Cruz – when we all know that Ted Cruz will fight for American Citizens against both establishments and the corruption on both sides (including the donor class, Wall Street, K Street – i.e. all of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s friends).
If you are a Marxist or a Socialist or a liberal populist, I understand your loyalty and enthusiasm for Senator Bernie Sanders. He’s the real deal. He’s not a pretend-socialist. If that kind of Government is what you’re into – then he’s your guy.
But if not – then you have a clear choice before you. Ted Cruz has kept every promise he made to the people of Texas and he will keep every promise he made to the people of the United States of America. Republicans should rally around this and be excited by this. Democrats, on the other hand, while I know that ideologically you have no affection for many of the promises that Ted Cruz has made, I can tell you that he will do more to tackle Wall Street corruption than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. I can tell you that if you don’t want your children to be saddled with debt because of Corporate Welfare (billions of dollars for billionaires), then it’s Ted Cruz, not Hillary Clinton, you ought to be supporting. I can tell you that Senator Ted Cruz will not infringe upon your political, civil, or economic liberties – that he’d scale back expensive regulations which make it impossible for you to move from the lower-middle to upper-middle class.
Maybe he seems like too much of a preacher. Well, his dad is a preacher and we all take after our folks in one way or another. So stop looking at the way in which Senator Cruz comes off when he’s on stage and look, instead, at his voting record, at his record before the Supreme Court, and at the tremendous support he has in the State where the citizens know him best.
I’m asking, one last time, for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to take a look at Senator Ted Cruz for President – because I believe he is the only candidate that will begin to walk Washington D.C. back from the brink of corruption and fiscal catastrophe.
While I have campaigned for Senator Ted Cruz – I agree with Ted Cruz that these #NEVERTRUMP or Let’s Steal The Nomination At The Convention strategies are wrong and damaging to the Republican Party and the country at large. Now that we’re down to four candidates (to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders) and after all this media obsession over the celebrity of Donald Trump, I believe that Ted Cruz has the best path to the nomination and the 1237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright.
Democrats – I know you like President Obama. He’s told you exactly what you wanted to hear for nearly eight years. That said, the top 1% is wealthier than at any other time in American History, Wall Street is thriving (at your expense), and the lobbyists in Washington D.C. are rolling in your hard earned tax dollars. Truly, I don’t even think President Obama likes these people – but still, look at the result. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, spends all her time with these people. Do you really believe she’s going to look after you? Deep down, I know you do not.
I understand that most of you are voting for Bernie Sanders, but should Hillary Clinton and your Democrat Party Super Delegates steal the election ensuring a Sanders’ defeat, I hope you will consider voting for Senator Ted Cruz.
Donald Trump supporters – I know you believe he’s as smart as he says he is, that his hands are of the correct Ron Jeremy proportion, and that his business acumen will translate into presidential acumen. Understand, however, that Donald Trump and his companies could never have survived without political favors. He’s said this time and again. Subsidies, eminent domain, and favors are why he contributed to these establishments of both parties. If Trump fails to win the Republican Nomination for President, I hope that you will throw your full support behind Senator Ted Cruz, a real conservative and a great American – and the only candidate who will take on the crony-capitalism which has corrupted our government over these last many years.
Also published on PendletonPenn.com
77 comments
There is not a Dem in the world that would vote for Ted Cruz. At least the fascistic Trump has some crossover appeal.
If I wanted the candidate that the Democrats would choose, I’d vote for Hillary.
What I meant was Cruz has ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE of becoming prez. Bernie Sanders is most any Democrat’s wet dream. But we want to win to preserve OUR status quo, so Hillary wins in the end. Your party should have been doing the same thing. Ah well, a victory in 2016 will be just as pleasant as were the ones in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008. and 2012. Too bad the Supremes stepped on 2000 in the end.
Good Idea!!! We’ll gladly accept your support. You won’t be the first GOP voting Democratic this fall.
That was a statement of probability rather than support.
Assuming for the sake of argument that roughly half the people in the United States are conservative, I have roughly 150 million people that I could theoretically vote for before I would ever have to vote for a Democrat. If those 150 million were somehow unavailable, I would write in my cat.
Hell, I would vote for your pussy before I would vote for Hillary.
I like the term “demagogue”; Huey Long, George Wallace, Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy, David Duke, Donald Trump.
The Trump disaster is immanent.
Not yet it’s not.
Ted and Donald are moron magnets!
Too late to vote for Cruz. Trump won in Virginia. Unless we’ve moved to Utah that is.
less than 40% of Virginia voted for Trump (and a lot of those were Democrats)… that is not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Trump will lose to Hilary, Sad, but true. So the Clinton catastrophe will continue. Where are the Klingons when you need them?
hmm, balanced budgets and a booming economy just sucked so bad!!! No major sacrifices of US Soldiers. Jesus, Bill Clinton’s presidency just was awful.
Sadly, the morons in America keep electing morons. The cretins don’t have a clue so they are attracted to loquacious glib cretins who don’t have a clue either. These moron magnets have ruined America. I wish more people would vote green and really save our a*s.
See Trump and Cruz.
I don’t believe any poll that says Trump loses to Hillary in a general election. I believe that’s what they WANT us to think. Trump is bringing in record numbers of enthusiastic supporters, including many former democrats. It’s delusional to believe that this isn’t so. Why are all the Soros-sponsored “spontaneous” “Democracy” protests breaking out? They are all afraid of him. They should be. I believe the #1 path to winning is a Trump/Cruz ticket. Carson for HHS, Carly for sec. of commerce, Christie for AG, Sheriff Clarke for Homeland Security. Run as a TEAM AND WIN FOR A CHANGE.
Believe it or don’t… it doesn’t make it any less true. Trump’s unfavorable ratings are consistently around 70% and his very unfavorable ratings hover at or exceed 50%.
If you want to see the reason for that, you need look no further than his completely obnoxious habit of attaching anyone who challenges him; “lying Ted” being only one example (and an untrue one at that). Other examples include inciting his supporters to attack protesters (whether or not the protesters were themselves violent) and cancelling his infant great nephew’s health insurance when the child was gravely ill because of a probate issue with the child’s father.
Donald Trump is not a nice man and almost everyone in the US has seen at least one televised incident that illiterates that.
Yes because what we need, more than anything right now, is a “nice” man. To help us with the “nice” corrupt congress and the “nice” globalists, the “nice” illegal gangbangers coming over a non border and the “nice” muslim refugees coming in by the thousands through our wonderful refugee resettlement scam. We also need a “nice” man, who can talk some sense into China, and Iran, etc. It would be helpful also if the “nice” next president signed the TPP into law so we can import millions more “nice” cheap labor, and give away more jobs and companies to other countries.
Wouldn’t that be, so “nice”?
What we don’t need is another megalomaniac progressive.
Yes and we don’t need to control immigration either!
Yes we do… Cruz has already introduced legislation to put the H1B and H2B programs on hiatus and to reform them.
He has also always planned to secure the border and enforce current law.
Trump, on the other hand, has said on national TV that he wants to increase the use of the visa programs that his businesses benefit from, has said that the illegal aliens here should get to stay (minus “the bad ones”) and has refused to release the “off the record” interview with the NYT where he reportedly walked back his promises on the wall.
Weren’t you the one arguing the position about some drivel about Rubio’s amnesty being the only way to go..
No…no I wasn’t.
how is closing our southern border, controlling refugee/visa immigration, negotiating better trade deals for our country and workers progressive? Trump’s AIPAC speech was amazing. He is very pro-Israel. He is no progressive.
Trump is a crony socialist who supports and has supported socialized medicine, partial birth abortion and corporate welfare of all sorts (ethanol subsidies for instance).
Trump is a progressive.
Never
We he be better serving the Country as a Justice of the SCOTUS than as a Temp?
I still find it very hard to support Cruz because of Ken Cuccinelli .
I hold a response from AG Ken C. stating Va. does not have the Statute authority to persue unlicensed contractors / illegal aliens even though the existance of Statutes 54.1-1100 / Prohibited Acts.
Democrat AG Herring and Democrat Governor McAuliffe see things very differently ,
1 they are not crying for a guest worker program
2 they don’t write letters to DHS for guidance on what to do with the illegal aliens , they are after the licensed contractor BREAKING VA. LAW exploitating them at legal bussinesses expense { Employee Misclassification Task Force }.
As a Free society we write and pass laws , we expect them to be enforced !
I don’t want another Constitutional lawyer to classify bands of illegal aliens as ” bona-fide independent contractors ” , as Ken C. overseen VEC Commissioner Broadway was doing in audits performed under the VECA.
I am sick and tired of the free market principles statement , to me it means NO REGULATION AT ALL , a ” freak market ” that is bought and paid for.
Yes, my Constitutional right the persuit of happiness was obstructed by a ” Constitutional Lawyer ” classifying illegal unlicensed contractors/illegal aliens as ” bona fide “.
I can’t chance that Ken C. my be an appointed Federal AG , then we may have this form of complicity on a National Level !
We need a CEO , to run things properly , to represent the people not the party.
The Constitution is not a blanket of security for illegal Republican Labor !
Comprende Hombre
American Jobs
Defending the
American Dream
Trump in 2016
It is so sad to see people begging and groveling to others to vote for Ted. I was a Cruz supporter for a very long time, until I woke up. My first clue was went he went to the border w/Beck to give out soccer balls and teddy bears to illegals. Cruz and his wife are both establishment so all those that think they are getting a “true conservative” are not. And outside the many reasons to not vote for Ted, I have to ask do you really want the likes of Glenn Beck roaming the halls of our White House being ValJar? It’s all there if you care to look, Cruz will not be able to win the general. He just won’t.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/20/ted-cruz-motive-the-theory-of-everything-currently-political/
theconservativetreehouse.com is not a reliable or unbiased source. Cruz went to the border to bring medical supplies and to highlight the disaster that both Obama and people like Cantor created at the border through the DACA program.
Keep telling yourself that. Cruz is part of the Cantor Cartel. Wake Up! Denial is the most powerful drug of all.
Yes, CTH is in the Trump camp, and at the same time they provide facts, stats, resources and links, unlike other sites we all know that just like to preach their opinions. Big difference, but I wouldn’t expect you to see that light.
Ruby that is not anywhere near a credible statement.
Aahhh, but it is. The problem w/so many here at this site is that they do not do their homework. It’s like fantasy land or something.
I reject tromp on every level imaginable. Ted Cruz is a special candidate and tromp is a big government liberal out of his depth.
#alwayscruz!
LOL! Crazy Cruz and Crazy Beck, what a pair, yes, very special indeed. A snake preacher and a mentally ill legend in his own mind.
No it is not. Not only has Cruz been bucking the establishment since he got to the Senate, he was elected with grassroots support in Texas as he was running against an establishment guy (Dewhurst) that was expected to run away with the election. So if there is any analogy to be drawn with the 7th district in VA, Cruz would be Dave Brat and NOT Eric Cantor.
You are also wrong about theconservativetreehouse… it is our side’s DU and is less reliable than the Free Republic as the screaming headlines that they choose to put on their links have little to nothing to do with actual truth or accuracy.
No, you are wrong AmyH. Cruz isn’t who he presents himself to be, but you continue to believe he is the Savior.
There is only one Savior and he died for my sins over 2000 years ago. I am not looking for another One. Ted Cruz is not the Savior… he is just a politician who has done what he was elected to do.
What he is not is a progressive Democrat who decided to lie that he was a Republican but who still supports state funded health care and abortion on demand. Nor is he the guy who has backed off or flipped on his one signature issue (immigration). That Guy would be Donald Trump.
Blah, blah, blah….
That is a cogent point.
Yep, it is when dealing w/empty air.
Ruby… address the points I made or don’t bother to answer. Blah, blah, blah is no more responsive or mature than “I know you are but what am I”.
Then quit responding
What’s wrong with being a Progressive Democrat? The root word of Progressive is Progress. Who the f–k is against progress? OOOOPS. I forgot what site I am on. PS: The past may be prologue, but it ain’t coming back. Reagan still be dead…Nixon, too.
Explain writing op eds in the Wall Street Journal and pushing TPP with Paul Ryan.
Cruz voted for cloture and that moved TPP forward.
Against the will of the American people.
Cruz was put in office to STOP 6,500 page bills that undermine our sovereignity and jobs of our people. In my book Cruz has made it very clear who he supports, when you get right down to it.
And Cruz was not trying to show up Obama on a humanitarian crisis at the bordder..he gave credibility to the leftists and allowed Beck to use that to trash conservatives as uncaring and heartless.
Furthermore, why is he still hanging around that crazy man?
TPP has not been voted on. TPA was.
TPA made TPP vote possible, hello??
While I agree that this President should not have been given fast track authority, TPP was and is possible with or without TPA.
It is possible but I hope not probable at this point.
I didn’t foresee these disreputable internet sites successfully creating the Trump phenomenon. I’ve noticed an amazing overlap between my friends who are Trump supporters and those who have been for years littering my Facebook feed with links to long discredited conspiracy theories.
When I started working at Virginia Tech in 1987, I was dumbfounded at the things campus liberals and progressives believed. Their positions were always based on so much wrong information and conspiracy-allegation that it was hard to know where to start in a discussion.
Conservative Tree House has been much like this on the right, and it’s a shame. It’s almost impossible to untangle the confusion they’ve created over there, but here is one article that makes a good and very long stab at addressing their many mistakes.
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/watch-debunking-anti-cruz-myths-video/
I had the pleasure and honor of sharing a meal w/Trevor, super smart and nice man. It was Glenn Beck that stole his work, one of my complaints is that Cruz has aligned himself w/Beck, truly a mentally ill man that needs help, here nor there it doesn’t say much about Cruz in my opinion.
I read what was provided at the link, apparently not Trevor’s work, but it has been known for a long time he supports Cruz. I didn’t see any mention of denial about Mercer or Cruz buying personal data. It didn’t change my mind about Cruz. As I have said before, I was an avid Cruz supporter and then decided he isn’t who I thought. There is a whole larger picture going on that it seems people that frequent here either refuse to believe, don’t see, or perhaps just don’t know or understand. So be it. People have to learn on their own and be willing to look at all angles.
Bigots will not support Cruz as long as Trump is in the race. So be it.
Trump will win and will do so easily against Hillary. Cruz is so far behind in the delegate count that he can remain dillusional that he consistently beats Trump but the numbers reflect otherwise.
The polls say Trump loses to Hillary. Trump can’t even get a majority of republicans to vote for him.
The polls? Really? You honestly believe polls?
Yes, and it doesn’t look good for the Republicans if Trump is the candidate. This is what happens when a candidate is unable to control his emotions, insists on employing reckless rhetoric, refuses to educate himself on the issues, and thinks the campaign is all about him. By his outrageous behavior, he has alienated a sizable percentage of his own party. Not a very good starting point for a candidate.
Do you not understand what the “Republicans” have done to our country, and you are worried about Trump? Good Grief.
Republicans hold the Senate and the House, and have an edge in the SCOTUS. With Trump we risk losing all three plus the white house. A very bad bet. Tell your hero to start acting like a sane person. That would really help.
He isn’t my hero, I have my issues w/him, but he hasn’t betrayed me like the GOP has.
He hasn’t betrayed the nation and the world like the GOP has. But he’s trying!
Compared to Reagan and the GOP congresses, Trump might be a breath of fresh air. Probably not though.
Trump and his supporters certainly have liked the polls when he’s been ahead. The polls have been a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy for Trump with low information voters.
Nope you worng
Uh yeah. Predicted Obama’s victory in 2012. And what a wonderful day it was.
Polls had Reagan losing to Carter in 1980 at this point by 15 points. Polls had Rommey beating Zero. Polls are now as biased as the media services that sponsor them.
Guess Trump who’s always loved the polls, isn’t such a big fan now?
Nope you worng.
Cruz is a little over 200 delegate down… that is not an insurmountable difference for an outright win (1237) and is definitely not an insurmountable difference going into a contested convention.
The likelihood that Cruz would win outright from here may be what is forcing Kasich to stay in to prevent it.
Cruz will not get the elderly man SWVA man worried about Social Security , the only Republican they trust is Trump.
The best reason that I know for supporting Cruz is that Trump, with his out-of-sight negatives, would probably LOSE to Hillary.
This is huge. Cruz is the best hope to avert the Trump disaster in November.
And no.
No.
I really hate the term crony-capitalist since there is very little that is capitalistic in such individual’s world view or actions. I think crony-socialist or plutocrat are much more accurately descriptive terms.
And thanks for the article.
Thanks for writing this
Outstanding article and we can only hope for our nation and our party’s sake that he wins.