“Oh, stuff it. I’m quite familiar with his record.”
For everyone who is not as familiar as perfect_rovian_storm with what Cruz actually stands for politically, here is an unbiased summary of his statements and record on four key issues (no cherry picking, just http://www.ontheissues.org/Ted_Cruz.htm verbatim)
Abortion:
- Planned Parenthood sells body parts of unborn human beings. (Sep 2015)
- Allow vote to end Planned Parenthood’s funding. (Aug 2015)
- Prosecute Planned Parenthood for criminal violations. (Aug 2015)
- Ban taxpayer funding of abortion & partial birth abortion. (Mar 2015)
- Companies can deny insuring birth control. (Apr 2012)
- Protect innocent human life with partial-birth ban. (Jul 2011)
- Opposes public abortion funding. (Oct 2012)
- Opposes churches providing birth control. (Oct 2012)
Education:
- Race-to-the-Top is blackmail against the states. (Mar 2016)
- Abolish the U.S. Department of Education. (Apr 2015)
- The rich already have school choice; give it to the poor. (Apr 2015)
- Supports ending racial preferences for college admissions. (Apr 2015)
- Right to education: public, private, charter, or homeschool. (Mar 2015)
- We should thank parents who homeschool. (Mar 2015)
- Local control of education instead of Common Core. (Mar 2015)
- Facilitate school choice for poor Americans. (Jan 2014)
- Education decisions best made at local level. (Jun 2012)
- Denounce the Common Core State Standards. (Feb 2014)
- Block funding for Common Core; it’s too heavy-handed. (Apr 2014)
Gun control:
- Lack of individual right to guns leads to confiscation. (Jan 2016)
- Obama is coming for our guns. (Oct 2015)
- 2nd Amendment is ultimate check against government tyranny. (Jun 2015)
- Opposes unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions. (Jul 2011)
- Voted NO on banning high-capacity magazines of over 10 bullets. (Apr 2013)
- Opposes restricting the Second Amendment. (Oct 2012)
- Oppose the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. (Sep 2013)
Immigration:
- Bar refugees from terrorist-ridden regions. (Mar 2016)
- Children deported with parents can come back, if citizens. (Feb 2016)
- I led the fight to defeat the Reid-Schumer amnesty bill. (Feb 2016)
- FactCheck: Yes, Bill Clinton deported 12M illegal aliens. (Dec 2015)
- Build a wall instead of massive amnesty plan. (Dec 2015)
- Enforce the law against millions of illegals currently here. (Dec 2015)
- Illegals are an economic calamity for low-wage Americans. (Nov 2015)
- Support Kate’s Law: oppose our leaders who won’t enforce. (Aug 2015)
- Path to citizenship is profoundly unfair to legal immigrants. (Feb 2015)
- End Obama’s illegal amnesty via Congress’ checks & balances. (Nov 2014)
- Defund amnesty; and refuse any nominees until rescinded. (Nov 2014)
- No path to citizenship for 1.65 million illegals in Texas. (Oct 2012)
- Give police more power to ask about immigration status. (Jun 2012)
- Boots on the ground, plus a wall. (Apr 2012)
- Triple the size of the Border Patrol. (Mar 2012)
- Strengthen border security and increase enforcement. (Jul 2011)
I’ll be voting Trump because I want a non-establishment first round victory at the convention, and Cruz cannot earn that victory, but Cruz would be an excellent President, Vice President, or Supreme Court Justice. I’m trying with incomplete success to discourage the personal attacks against Trump, Cruz, and their supporters because I want a conservative victory in November. Alienating even a few percent of voters will lead to a Hillary presidency. Even if I enjoyed personal attacks (I don’t), I would deny myself the pleasure to avoid a national disaster of that magnitude.
Wow, you can copy and paste from ‘issues’ websites. Dazzling.