Posted on 03/17/2016 2:32:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz today announced the endorsement of Dr. Robert P. George, who has been described by the New York Times as our nation's "most influential conservative Christian thinker."
"I have known Ted for over two decades, since he was my student at Princeton," said Dr. George. "He is among the most brilliant students I have taught and one of the most principled and dedicated public servants I know. But the reason I am recommending Ted to my fellow citizens goes beyond our years of friendship - I am endorsing Ted because he understands the Constitution and has spent his entire career defending it. No one has been stronger than Ted in standing up for religious liberty and other fundamental constitutional freedoms. Moreover, he understands and is determined to restore the basic structural principles of the Constitution that our Founding Fathers knew were the true bulwarks protecting liberty: the separation of powers; federalism; the concept of the national government as a government of delegated and enumerated - and thus limited - powers; the understanding of courts as faithful interpreters of law who have no authority to read things into the Constitution that aren't there, or read things out of the Constitution that are.
"In order to protect religious liberty, restore the right of the people to protect innocent human life in all stages and conditions and the institution of marriage as the union of husband and wife, and preserve other key constitutional values, we need a Republican president who has both the record and the judgment to nominate judges and justices who are faithful constitutionalists," George continued. "Ted Cruz will not only devote political capital to ensuring that every nominee will protect our constitutional freedoms, but he will foster a culture, from the top down, that honors the Constitution - the one thing that, despite our differences, binds us all together as Americans."
Dr. George, an eminent scholar and teacher of constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, and philosophy of law, holds Princeton University's celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. He has served the nation as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the President's Council on Bioethics, and as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is the author of a number of books, including In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism, and co-author of What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.
"I am honored to have Professor George's endorsement," said Cruz. "Professor George has been a preeminent voice defending the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious liberty in the 21st century. I've known Professor George over twenty-five years; he was my thesis advisor in college, and is a friend. He is an intellectual powerhouse who never cowers to liberal academia, and he speaks the truth with a clarity and conviction that moves hearts and minds. Professor George is a man of faith. He represents the vibrancy of thought in Christianity, and I've been grateful to fight alongside him for years in defending our God-given rights. We are delighted to have his leadership as we continue to make this election a referendum on our constitutional liberties."
Last week Dr. George, along with more than 30 other Catholic leaders, authored An Appeal to our Fellow Catholics, an article in National Review Online urging Catholics and "all men and women of goodwill" to support a "a genuinely reformist candidate" and to oppose a Trump candidacy, stating that "Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States."
Dr. George is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, and the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He holds honorary doctorates in law, letters, ethics, science, divinity, humane letters, civil law, and juridical science.
I don’t particularly like Cruz, and had some of the younger and more interesting candidates made it all the way, I’d be more than happy to support them. However, Cruz is a strict constructionist of the Constitution and actually thinks about what he says and can back up his statements. He’s not a loose cannon who says whatever rolls up on the Magic 8-Ball of his mind at that particular moment and he thinks will be popular with his followers.
Good luck with pushing Cruz. It’s working wonders the last couple months you’ve been posting.
What gets me is that you all are backing the candidate who is “crushing” all the completion, so why are you so insecure? Why attack Cruz people day and night if Trump is so far above everyone else? Why not just sit back and gloat? But that’s not at all what you’re doing. Do you think going after Cruz and his supporters 24/7 helps Trump?
Never heard of him,I guess because I’m a Baptist.
Ted Cruz getting all the “last resort” endorsements. LOL
From my perspective, Cruz CAN NOT get enough delegates to win the nomination.
So, what is he thinking?
In a brokered convention, do you think the GOP establishment is going to nominate him on the 2nd, 3rd or umpteenth ballot?
Nominate the guy who came in second behind Donald Trump? NO WAY.
So the GOP Establishment tries to run roughshod on the voters and select “THEIR” candidate. possibly Mitt Romney, or Ryan.
So, CRUZ gets shut out entirely, not even a VP slot.
Cruz, screw your head back on. Join forces with Trump and ask for a place in his administration (maybe Supreme Court Justice).
Right now, with the way you are going, it’s political suicide.
The sooner you do this, the sooner you get a nice slot for yourself, who knows maybe even VP under Trump. Tick tock, tick tock...
I am me, not you all. I have never posted anything about this primary season to you. I originally backed Cruz. It’s in my posting history. Cruz could stop Trump from getting 1237, and who knows what we’ll get then.
No clue what BOL is.
Big ole Laugh
Except he steals ideas - like the wall and limited immigration - from the loose cannon who you say says whatever rolls up on the Magic 8 Ball of his mind, whatever the hell that means.
One thing he has never deviated from: stopping muslim immigration, stopping the migration from south America and being tough of crime. Most Trump supporters agree that if he can do half of the things he promises, he’ll be a successful president.
I am a life-long Catholic, a senior citizen, and an active church-goer. Somehow, I have never heard of this guy, Robert George.
PS All of my Catholic friends are Trump supporters but then none of us appreciate the fat guy living in a Vatican hotel, nor far too many of the US Bishops and Archbishops.
Some very good questions........and I notice NO ONE answered them.
I think the BORG have invaded Earth and are out to "assimilate" anyone that isn't part of the collective. LOL
Have you read any of his books?
Have you?
I don’t give a flip what the academe have to tell me about politics anymore.
A Catholic layman, husband, father, philosopher, he also stands head and shoulders over most of the Roman Curia intellectually and in fidelity to the truths of the Christian Faith.
If Roman Conclaves were made of Catholics like him, there would be no pope like Francis.
Yes.
The Clash of Orthodoxies is one I’d highly recommend.
This notion that everyone in “academe” is automatically a liberal and an enemy and must be dismissed because of who they are— their education and status—as opposed to what they actually say— is just ignorant. That’s like the Red Guards—spitting on “the rich” “the bourgeoisie” “the white privileged” while foolishly romanticizing the notions of the “oppressed” and the “noble savage.” It ain’t all “this” or all “that.”
Robert George is a brilliant—and conservative Catholic—academic. He’s one of a dying breed, in the tradition of G.K. Chesterton. We need more like him—and far fewer Melissa Clicks—in our universities.
That’s why it’s disheartening when posters on a putative “conservative” website announce they’ve never heard of him, and don’t want to.
Half the stuff posted on FR is by and about liberals, and is intended, presumably, to be held up to ridicule while at the same time we learn something from them.
But what’s scary is when we don’t seem to learn anything from the enemy, but instead absorb and internalize the enemy’s ideology and methodology to the point that we’re allowing ourselves to be co-opted and conscripted into their ranks without even realizing what’s happening to us.
P.S. Just taking a moment to focus on the titles of several of his other books could be worthwhile. They’re listed in the OP.
Did you even read that?
Who's got the Cruz PING list!!???
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