In a kind & gentle way...i amshamed of you. As an avid American history buff....I certainly know who “Nathan Bedford” was. He was a great Confederate, son-of-the-South, leader, a man outside the box at all times, and he drove the Union Army insane with his “horse raider” attacks which were always smashingly successful.
That you would admire and even support Ted Cruz who has fallen prey to the entire GOP Establishment is hard to believe. Bedford would have told Mitt Romney, etc., to take a hike...period.
In the Revolution, the Southern Campaign was in total disarray, with the Colonials in full retreat.....Cornwallis had whipped them handily in Charleston & just about had taken all of North & South Carolina and the British were headed to finally defeating Washington. But.......Washington, stuck in New York dispatched General Greene, Greene chose to activate General Daniel Morgan out-of-retirement, and upon arrivng in the Southern Campaign, immediately split his small army, sending Morgan into South Carolina to harass Cornwallis, while he annoyed the British in North Carolina.
Hence, the Battle of Cow Pens, where Morgan was badly outnumbered by the British forces. The Southern boys (Militia Volunteers from North & South Carolina & Virgina) joined Morgan by the hundreds) giving Morgan the manpower he needed. The entire story of the Morgan Southern campaign is fantastic to read. Morgan was like Donald J. Trump, a leader and decision maker blessed with great intuition & immense talent. Ted Cruz has led nothing but himself in his entire life....never hired one person, never worked in the private sector, never signed someone Else’s paycheck, has been led by the nose, by the GOP Establishment, and will thrown on the garbage heap, as soon as the GOP (E) has him serve his purpose. Sad....that so many great, good, folks, cannot see the forest for the trees!!! GO DONALD J. TRUMP!!!