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Ted Cruz is attacking the Fortune 500, and that’s smart politics
Fortune ^ | April 2, 2015 | T.Newmyer

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: Indiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; cruz; election2016; fortune500; homosexualagenda; indiana; mikepence; rfra; ssm; tedcruz; texas; uniparty; walmart
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To: Moorings

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.


21 posted on 04/02/2015 5:09:09 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: skeeter

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.


22 posted on 04/02/2015 5:11:13 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

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.


23 posted on 04/02/2015 5:24:30 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: VinL

TED CRUZ will go down in history as the GREAT REFORMER.

TED CRUZ 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/


24 posted on 04/02/2015 5:26:38 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: skeeter
He performed a trifecta violation of the biblical principles of good leadership:

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:

25 posted on 04/02/2015 5:30:19 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: VinL

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.


26 posted on 04/02/2015 5:31:43 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Theophilus

Please elaborate - I don’t understand.


27 posted on 04/02/2015 5:35:24 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig; All

” Crony capitalism is the enemy of this republic.....fortune 500 companies live crony capitalism.”

Epidemic the past 10-15 years.


28 posted on 04/02/2015 5:40:30 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: skeeter

I agree.


29 posted on 04/02/2015 5:44:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: skeeter

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.


30 posted on 04/02/2015 5:48:43 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: bigbob

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.


31 posted on 04/02/2015 5:54:38 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
Crony capitalism socialism is the enemy of this republic.....fortune 500 companies live crony capitalism socialism .
32 posted on 04/02/2015 5:55:53 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Crony capitalism is just another name for fascism.


33 posted on 04/02/2015 6:15:41 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: VinL; All

You good people just south of us are very fortunate. This Ted Cruz is a very wise man.


34 posted on 04/02/2015 6:16:50 PM PDT by Dartman (Canadian, eh. And proud of it.)
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To: skeeter
--- Cruz had better have one heckuva grassroots funding machine. He’s gonna need it. ---

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.

35 posted on 04/02/2015 6:21:19 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: freedomfiter2

Vampire Economy is a great book.....


36 posted on 04/02/2015 7:55:36 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Hope the holland tunnel gets the makeover I suggested.)
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To: Theophilus
    By attacking his own new law:
  1. He showed he feared men more than God.
  2. He betrayed the truth.
  3. He loved covetousness by selling out.

37 posted on 04/02/2015 8:09:08 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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