Posted on 04/02/2015 4:34:55 PM PDT by VinL
Corporate support for same-sex rights presents Cruz a chance to blast two movement conservative enemies at once.
Credit Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with this: He’s doing what he can to lock down first-mover advantage in the Republican presidential sweepstakes.
Last week, he was first in what promises to be a crowded GOP field to officially announce his White House bid. Yesterday, he launched what Politico has already termed the backlash to the corporate backlash to Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” law.
Addressing a crowd of 300 in Sioux City, Iowa, Cruz laced into the big business leaders who have jumped into the national firestorm over the law to help rally the opposition.
“The Fortune 500 is running shamelessly to endorse the radical gay marriage agenda over religious liberty to say: ‘We will persecute a Christian pastor, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi,'” Cruz said. “Any person of faith is subject to persecution if they dare disagree, if their religious faith parts way from their political commitment to gay marriage.”
Cruz didn’t go on to name names. Perhaps it would have taken too long. In a surprising break from the practice of steering clear of hot-button social debates, a sprawling roster of major companies have piled into the melee over the Indiana law — among them, Angie’s List, Anthem WLP , Apple AAPL , Eli Lilly, Gap GPS , Marriott International MAR , Microsoft MSFT , Nascar, Nike NKE 0.11% , Salesforce CRM 0.91% , and Wal-Mart WMT 0.02% — registering their objections to a statute they contend sanctions discrimination against gays and lesbians. The attention has concentrated enough pressure on Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) that he pledged on Tuesday to seek a sort of legislative fix-it, clarifying the intent of the law, officially the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. But that same blowback also presents an opportunity for a certain type of Republican with national ambitions — one that Cruz was arguably wise to seize.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the field’s centrist heavy, has already backpedaled his original support for Pence’s gambit. But Cruz is running to carry the movement conservative banner in the Republican presidential primary. And the corporate intrusion into the Indiana debate makes for an alignment of two movement conservative bogeymen that’s rarer than a lunar eclipse. As the Pew Research Center’s Political Typology study found last year, GOP base voters it termed “steadfast conservatives” believe overwhelmingly — by 74% — that homosexuality should be discouraged by society. That same group harbors a deep skepticism of concentrated corporate might, with nearly half reporting that our economic system unfairly advantages entrenched interests.
It may sound odd at first blush to hear a Republican attacking the Fortune 500 — with relish. But given the makeup of the GOP primary electorate, a fight that elicits unprecedented support for same-sex rights from the biggest corporate interests offers a candidate like Cruz an opening he couldn’t have scripted better himself
Cruz had better have one heckuva grassroots funding machine. He’s gonna need it.
Cruz is 100% correct. In Russia, approved and influential oligarchs get involved in politics to support statist/governing party social and economic goals
In the USA - approved oligarchs get involved in politics to support statist/governing party social and economic goals
He’s got better than that, Skeets. He’s a man of Destiny.
He already got funds from me! I believe his total is already up to $8 million. Not bad in one week.
It’s time for Cruz to come out strongly against these companies that are “too big to fail”
ANY company that is to big to fail, is TOO BIG! (and should be broken up)
This pretty much sums up why I find Ted Cruz virtually the only choice I’d consider for 2016.
Of course they do not give a damn! Their objective is to destroy the US Constitution and remove all National boundaries and make themselves into gods.
Cruz is going to pull in voters who skew Democrat, who always assumed Republican politicians have (F500) after their names. Many of these same Dems will be those made uneasy by the DNC’s Perversion-Treason Agenda, but who didn’t realize they had enough reasons to safely leave the hive.
FYI- As to Sen. Cruz advertising on Easter weekend-
“The Republican senator’s programming choice for the ads, along with the Easter weekend timing, underscore his commitment to wooing voters of faith ...
Cruz (R-Tex.) has reserved time during “Killing Jesus,” a documentary-style adaptation of Bill O’Reilly’s book that will run four times this weekend on Fox News. The program first aired on the National Geographic Channel, where it nabbed 3.7 million viewers.
The campaign has also purchased ads statewide in the early-voting states of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina during NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues” on Easter Sunday. “
Just thinking the same thing.
After you are elected, go after specific problems in the corporations, but also give them tax parity with other nations.
It’s a give and take game, and the U. S. can benefit from altered corporate problems going both ways.
To do this now simply cuts off any funding he could have had from this group and further alienates them from cooperating in the future.
While he may have thought this would garner support, I think it was short-sighted. I do think corporations need to be cleaned up a bit.
My first priority would be to bring back jobs to the United States through tax incentives, part of what needs to be addressed anyway, but why not use jobs as leverage while you’re at it?
They feel that they don't need to worry about their businesses when they come out as left wing nut jobs.
Obama and Mitt raised about $1 billion apiece for 2012, IIRC.
Go, Cruz. GO!!
Corporate America wants corporate welfare assurances the government will not sue them.
They are stupid because now corporations and companies will have to follow what their employees demand in term of fair treatment. It was about people vs. what businesses could be immune from, and business lost to trial lawyers in this.
They will pay dearly for this.
Crony capitalism is the enemy of this republic.....fortune 500 companies live crony capitalism.
Cruz is absolutely right - what recent court cases have done is declared that gays have the right of criminal review of all religious beliefs.
Got that?
Anyone who obeys any religious beliefs that do not accept, support, promote and literally obey the desires of homosexuals can now be criminally charged and imprisoned and sued into total destruction. That is now the CORPORATE LAW in America.
The solution, therefore, is for Christians to DIS-incorporate.
That way they will not be held to the tyranny of corporate law - law that DID NOT EXIST in 1776 or 1789.
And no, they will not be made liable and sued without corporate protection, because those lawsuit laws only apply to corporations. Corporate law is like mob protection money - you pay the mob protection money so the mob itself doesn’t destroy you. Same with incorporation - you incorporate so you can’t be sued under corporate laws.
But now, incorporation means you agree to let homosexuals decide what your faith in God will be, on penalty of ruin and imprisonment.
So disincorporate, and the CORPORATE gay lobby and their corporate courts are disarmed.
This isn’t a theory anymore - court rulings have made this a fact.
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:41. God is in charge. We should trust Him.
Pence caved so badly that the bill that was supposed to protect religious liberty has been perverted to one that makes homosexuals a protected class.
If Cruz would lead a boycott on Wal-Mart....I would follow. Lead Ted! Talk is cheap....lead Ted!
We shall see how it plays out.
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