[Isara]

Ted Cruz has spent a lifetime fighting to defend the Constitution — our nation’s founding document and the supreme law of the land — which was crafted by our founding fathers to act as chains to bind the mischief of government and to protect the liberties endowed to us by our Creator.

Religious Liberty

• Defended Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties against Obamacare’s contraception mandate.
• Led the way on several cases including a U.S. Supreme Court case that preserved the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Successfully defended the words “under God” in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance and Texas schools’ moment of silence law in federal district court.
• Galvanized national support for Houston pastors who had been subpoenaed by the City of Houston to provide the content of their sermons forcing the City to back down.
• Supported the right of students to display banners containing religious content at school sporting events.
• Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument, winning a 5-4 landmark decision before the U.S. Supreme Court, setting an important national precedent for the right to display similar monuments.
• Fought to help the Boy Scouts of America to reverse a district court ruling barring them from leasing a public park.

Second Amendment

• Played a crucial role in preventing federal legislation to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
• Authored legislation to strengthen the Second Amendment rights of Americans by allowing interstate firearms sales.
• Led 31 states in District of Columbia v. Heller where the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on firearms in a 5-4 landmark decision.
  • Honored by the National Rifle Association with a 2008 resolution for his leadership in the Heller case, which noted that his “efforts made this victory for the American people possible.”
  • Awarded the NRA’s 2010 Carter-Knight Freedom Fund, which “rewards exemplary activities in the support and protection of the right to Keep and Bear Arms” for his work in the Heller and McDonald cases.
• Argued against unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• Recognized by NRA executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre who observed, “Ted Cruz is one of our nation’s leading defenders of the Second Amendment. For over a decade, Ted has fought tirelessly to defend our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and his leadership was absolutely critical to our major victories before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

U.S. Sovereignty

• Fought and won a landmark ruling for U.S. sovereignty in Medellin v. Texas at the U.S. Supreme Court against 90 foreign nations and the President to ensure the supremacy of U.S. legal system against encroachment by international treaties and rulings of the “World Court.”
• Cosponsored a resolution urging the president not to sign the UN Arms Treaty, which would have subordinated the Second Amendments rights of American citizens to global interests.

Government Overreach

• Called for a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting of conservatives by the IRS.

[cripplecreek]

Ted Cruz has a strong pro 10th amendment streak which is attractive to libertarians as well as his anti regulatory, anti subsidy and anti tax stances.

It helps that he’s far more restrained about war than the neocons.

[Olog-hai]

Let’s get this straight right out of the gate, there will only ever be one Dr. Ron Paul. The former Texas Congressman is the undisputed contemporary Godfather of Liberty …

Yeah. Don Black still thinks so too.

[American Constitutionalist]

Without the fruityness.

[Bulldaddy]

There will only ever be one Dr. Ron Paul.

Thank God.

[Always A Marine]

Ted Cruz loves and respects the Constitution; that is why I support him.

[celmak]

Great post!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Through his 2008 and 2012 Presidential campaigns, Dr. Paul managed to build a network of philosophical protégés second to no one in modern politics. Through each and every segment of his speeches and debate performances, he was able to weave consistently tough the myriad of complex issues facing our world today.

YEAH BUT HE'S A FRICKIN' KOOK, A NUTCASE! < /Rabid FReepers >

[Brian Griffin]

Ted Cruz has the values I like and he has the will and the skill to fight for them.

He’s my choice to be the next President, without reservation.

[TBP]

Thank you — excellent points. Waht other candidate has such a record?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ron Paul and his Birchite “palaeos” would never support Ted Cruz because Cruz is pro-Israel. Paul and his followers hate Israel above everything else and blame it for all the evil in the world.