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
No store is forcing gays to eat chocolate crucifix, and if they do not like the product, they can look elsewhere because capitalism will find the niche for their penis shaped cookies. So that Apple CEO is really an idiot corporate welfarist, a fascist. He is inherently anticapitalist and does not accept that people look elsewhere for technology.
As for illegals, we know Mexicans are corrupt and all too willing to do the dirty jobs and suck dck, litteraly. So corporations like that.
However, I have bad news for them: globalism requires government and a huge expense in police and local armament to prevent getting the wealth from being stolen by government and criminals.
This is a pipe dream. These hyppi CEOs are shrewed, but highly utopian.
Of Cruz can portray them as snobs, antiwar snobs, globalist antiAmerican snobs, racist snobs, heck, homophobic cynical snobs, then it is a win.
These people and their peace deal with iran without the military to keep the world order are living a fantasy. This stuff is not cheap.
And part of the crony capitalism is paying off the pressure groups by folding to their radical agendas, which I see as the same as paying the Dane Geld.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Meanwhile most Americans (who aren’t paying a bit of attention to any of this political stuff) love their Nikes, love their Apple products, and can’t spend enough money at WalMart.
Please elaborate - I don’t understand.
” Crony capitalism is the enemy of this republic.....fortune 500 companies live crony capitalism.”
Epidemic the past 10-15 years.
I agree.
95% of the $4 million dollars he’s raised are from small contributions of $100 or less. A true man of the people. Apple’s Tim Cook the homo, can go pound sand. We are not going to be dictated to by a bunch of overpaid, out of touch, narcissistic Fortune 500 CEO’s.
The fact that you buy Apple products(which are mostly made in communist China) doesn’t mean you agree with Tim Cook on Indiana or gay marriage. It’s like saying you support communist China cause them iPhones and Nike that you buy are made in China.
Crony capitalism is just another name for fascism.
You good people just south of us are very fortunate. This Ted Cruz is a very wise man.
He's running a silent-majority, grassroots campaign. He's all in. And it's going to be a big win.
There are some things that money can't buy. Like integrity.
Not only is he right on the issues, a brilliant mind and a gifted speaker, but he's a brilliant tactician as well.
Vampire Economy is a great book.....
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