Posted on 09/30/2015 1:31:38 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
What is the fundamental reason to select Senator Ted Cruz over a field of other candidates for the Republican presidential candidate?
The answer lies in the constitution -- not in some part of the document, but in the IMPORTANCE of the document.
Senator Cruz has established that he understands this fundamental fact, and relies on it more than any other candidate. And he has the experience and educational background to make that understanding more effectual.
Why is the Constitution so particularly important in this presidential election? Was it not always equally important?
It is more important because America, like many western nations, has had an undeclared social(ist) revolution in recent years, and the Constitution has been shoved aside, either ignored or abrogated by actions of that revolutionary government.
The revolution has a deep foundation, it is sustained by academic and media elites, and most of the Democratic Party. Substantial parts of the Republican Party, while perhaps not as actively revolutionary, have chosen to look away and pretend this has not taken place. Some might say they have aided and abetted the revolution.
A second American revolution is a big deal no matter how you view it, and so to pretend it has not taken place is the ultimate act of denial. It is a big deal because it affects every important area of everday life, from security issues to taxation to the economy, foreign relations (again related to security) and the place of special interest groups in a larger society.
The first revolution had only one special interest group, that being the people of the (then) Thirteen Colonies. We, the people, fought that revolution.
This second revolution is a victory of a coalition of minorities against a placid and ambivalent majority, half of whom are so shamed by guilt trips that they refuse to take any stand whatsoever.
Yet the Constitution remains intact and the only effective foundation for resistance. Some speak of the need of a second American revolution, by which they mean a revolution against the progressives. However, that would be more of a counter-revolution, a restoration of constitutional principles.
The most significant constitutional principle that requires restoration is the separation of powers. In close second place would be the first (and second) amendments. Of equal significance perhaps is a restoration of the balance of powers between branches of government.
The Constitution also requires that the president be entirely loyal to the nation and not be the servant of some foreign power (or religion). Legitimate doubt now exists about whether this current administration is at least in the spiritual sense in violation of that essential principle.
Now the common law is also an extension of any free country's constitution, properly applied, and common law demands that a nation have clear borders, citizenship and military checks and balances. Can anyone truthfully say that America has any of those now?
I believe that America can count on Senator Cruz to restore the legal foundation of at least the executive branch of government, and to have a positive influence on other actors. Perhaps other candidates would be good in these areas too. It is not a case that only one man has any clue about the importance of these principles, perhaps half a dozen are appropriately concerned and able to act. But in each case, they fall short of the high standard set by Senator Cruz.
Foreign policy, relations with Russia and the Islamic world, also require a person of the highest integrity, resolve and vision. There are various sources of wise counsel in those fields, and Senator Cruz will need all of them in the mess left behind by the Obama years.
And if another candidate is to win, then I hope and pray that they will at least have the close co-operation and participation of Senator Cruz to assist them. Perhaps it would be just as effective to have a Trump-Cruz administration, one is challenged to imagine a Vice President Trump, but when given this high level of concern about the future of the nation (and the free world in general), one cannot think of a valid reason to set aside the best available candidate. We made that mistake in 2008, let's not make it again in 2016.
Cruz to victory.
When Cruz was on that Late Night Show he joked about that.
Something to the effect that running a campaign, he has had to shift to asking about money more.
“Hi I’m Ted Cruz. Nice tie. Can you please donate?”
“Hi - welcome. Can you donate $50 today?”
I could not agree more!
2nd Vet knows most about fund raising, but here’s probably why:
“Midnight marks the close of books for the October quarterly financial reports, which cover campaign disbursements and donations from July 1 to Sept. 30. And as is the case right before every big fundraising deadline, staffers and surrogates have been reaching out to supporters with increasing frequency, warning them of what is at stake for their candidate. Their reputation! Their competitive edge! The fate of the entire campaign! Many of the breathless pleas for cash struck notes of near desperation, while others pitched less doom and gloom. “
I’ll glady vote for most any of the GOP candidates over any DEM candidate. I’m voting Cruz in the primary and whoever the GOP candidate is in the general. I hope that’s Cruz, but if not, I refuse to let the dem win without a fight in the general.
You have me wrong, I like Cruz and donate money to him! But he will not be president even if he gets nominated. He doesn’t connect enough with people outside of us hard core politically aware people. Trump does, and a Trump/Cruz ticket is my dream ticket.
For me, it’s even more basic. Ted Cruz has made it clear that he understands that the reason we find ourselves in such dire circumstances is that is that more than a half of a century ago, we began to really turn our backs on God and His ways.
Good, I’m just saying that there is a process, and the game will play out. Cruz has really held his hand close and will go up in the polls when a few more squishes drop out and then people meet that Cruz guy...the one that the media, for some reason calls a ‘firebrand’?... Trump knows.
I have to confess that I don’t know anything about Ted Cruz’s home life. It would be hard not to know about Trump’s home life, and while some aspects of that might be quite “saleable” to many voters, one also has to wonder how things would go with a president who would be downsizing to move into the White House. And while his lovely wife is obviously not an airhead along the lines of any given celebrity one could name and defame, she is also a singularity like Trump himself, somebody entirely unlike anyone who previously found themselves in the role.
So, while many might think that Trump is the natural winner, I have to wonder at what point the voters might start looking more seriously at these natural questions, how would a flamboyant celebrity couple adapt to the sober duties of leading the free world?
Would it be impertinent to ask whether these questions have really had the full airing that they need at this stage where candidates are selected rather than followed into the general election?
By way of complete contrast, I don’t even know if there is a Mrs Cruz or any children — that’s how recently I was impressed by the sheer political question that he seemed to answer with his impressive comments in debates and interviews.
Same goes for most of this crowd and, you really have to wonder, why do prominent politicians feel that it is so necessary to drag their spouses along to various political events? Those people are not going to be sitting in on important policy discussions (Hillary Clinton was obviously a known exception). I really don’t care whether the candidates’ spouses have separate lives that occupy them, or nothing better to do than trot along behind the candidate trying to remember never to frown or look depressed. If my wife ever ran for office, she would tell me to stay way out of sight!! I’m only a normal person.
Oh to live in a country like Poland where a normal person can become a political leader or a pope.
You think Trump will win with a greater landslide than Reagan who won 49 states? And he is 100% guaranteed to win?
And you actually think it's Cruz supporters who are deluding themselves and not you? Lol!
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