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Rush Limbaugh is right: Ted Cruz is most-principled candidate

It seems to me the only principled reason to be a Republican would be to stop, thwart and defeat Leftist ideas you’re opposed to. Therefore, what better standard by which to judge Republican presidential candidates than by who is the most committed to actually defeating the opposition?

And who might that candidate be in 2016? Well, according to the man from whom much of today’s conservative multimedia empire originates, that candidate is Ted Cruz.

“If you’re looking for the Republican candidate who is the most steadfastly opposed to liberalism, whose agenda is oriented towards stopping it, thwarting it, and defeating it – it’s Ted Cruz,” Mr. Limbaugh recently said on his popular radio program.

Let the record show that as usual, Rush is right.

In fact, I challenge anybody reading this to make an objective case there is a more principled candidate in the race than Mr. Cruz — because you can’t. I also work for an organization called Conservative Review, which gives regularly scheduled proctology exams to the records of politicians by charting how they vote on a full spectrum of conservative issues via our “liberty scorecard.” Mr. Cruz currently has our second-highest score at 96 percent, which is second only to Mike Lee.

Except Mr. Cruz does not just settle for voting the right way when it’s all said and done, but he fights back on our behalf against the corruption infesting Washington as well as the “losership” of the Republican Party.

For example, while campaign rivals like Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee were urging Republicans to cave and fund Obamacare two years ago, Mr. Cruz fought to try and stop it from ever seeing the light of day. While Marco Rubio was becoming the poster-child for the “gang of eight” amnesty scam, Mr. Cruz helped to lead the fight to kill it. While Rand Paul and others were endorsing the very GOP corporatist shills in contested primaries that are betraying us now, Mr. Cruz tried to defeat them.

To this day, he remains the only GOP presidential candidate to speak out against the heinous race-baiting the party used to stop Chris McDaniel from beating moderate incumbent Thad Cochran in a U.S. Senate primary last year. This is why Mr. McDaniel is now coordinating Mr. Cruz’s presidential campaign in his home state of Mississippi.

Here is the bottom line: If someone doesn’t have a proven history of fighting the corruption in Washington before getting elected, that probably means they’re unlikely to do it after they reach the White House.

Mr. Cruz’s willingness to fight is why activists see him as one of our own. He’s the only candidate ever to win the Values Voters Summit straw poll of social conservatives three years in a row. He also won the Freedom Works straw poll of limited government conservatives earlier this year by almost 30 points over his next-closest competitor. He was the only candidate endorsed by Gun Owners of America as well.

Mr. Cruz also doesn’t pander to lobbyists. Like when he came to my home state of Iowa and openly opposed the government-mandated Renewable Fuel Standard. He hasn’t given up on the institution of marriage, and is one of just four candidates to sign the National Organization for Marriage pledge.

Nor does Mr. Cruz bow to the canard of judicial fiat. While others who had previously spent their entire political careers doing so were suddenly giving speeches quoting the Founding Fathers, Mr. Cruz was filing legislation in Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over marriage. He also urged states that were not a party to the Obergefell opinion to ignore it. Furthermore, Mr. Cruz has vowed as president to nullify any federal government intrusions upon religious liberty as a result of Obergefell.

As a former litigator himself, Mr. Cruz won numerous landmark federal/Supreme Court cases on some of today’s most important constitutional issues, such as national sovereignty, the Second Amendment and religious liberty. No other candidate can say that.

In fact, no other candidate has the proven record of fighting liberalism – from both Democrats and Republicans – Mr. Cruz has. No one running in this field can top this resume (or anyone running in the last several cycles for that matter).

He is the most principled candidate in the race, just as Mr. Limbaugh said.

We have a whole field right now made up mostly of campaign conservatives. They are people who promise to take us to the moon and back, and who take uber-principled positions the likes of which they’ve scoffed at before. For example, if a candidate didn’t support the fight to stop the most pro-abortion legislation in American history in the form of Obamacare, should we now trust that they’ll have the courage of conviction to take on the whole abortion industry just because they say they will on the campaign trail?

Conservatives should be asking themselves this question: Based on their proven records, which of these candidates is the most likely to follow through on what they’re saying once elected?

That’s why I am supporting Mr. Cruz. He’s done everything we’ve ever asked a Republican to do, and he’s also built one of the best organized and best funded campaigns in the race. Unlike previous conservatives who ran for president in recent cycles, Mr. Cruz has the resources to truly run a national campaign.

It’s time for the rest of the conservative movement to give Mr. Cruz the recognition and support he has earned. We need not lament a lack of principle or resources. Mr. Cruz has met both thresholds.

It is time for our movement to decide if it is still capable of moving ideas and advancing policy, or if we are just an industry that sells a lot of books and tickets to a lot of conferences. The future of the country is at stake. This is no time for flirting with insiders pretending to be outsiders, or with nice guy candidates we all know have no chance because they haven’t laid the groundwork it takes to compete. This is the moment to finally put the full weight of our movement behind a worthy champion.

Someone who has proven they will fight for us. That someone is Ted Cruz.

Unimportant people like me see it. Very important people like Rush Limbaugh see it. Now it’s time for the conservative movement to see it, too.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...imbaugh-right-ted-cruz-most-prin/?page=2

Still sending him money, hope he pulls it off.

I agree. Only downside I know of to Cruz is his polling. Well, that and he's a lawyer. But nobody is perfect.

wow thought sure it was gonna be about Hillary.


figure she was the "most" principled


as she seems to be willing to change her principles on a dime to achieve whatever power she can grab.

I would like to hear Cruz give the specific details of why he strongly supported TPP before deciding against supporting it and I'd like him to give a specific rundown of the lies that he accused McConnell of.

Not that I doubt McConnell lied. But if Cruz is going to make the statement, he should get specific about it.

Oh Cruz is principled all right...principled to let Israel tell him what to do.

IMO he's a borderline sociopath in that regard and a total Shabbos goy.

I want a potus that represents ME and my nation, and not some Jews half way around the world.

Ted Cruz is playing a slow and steady campaign, but for the firebrand Texas senator, that doesn’t translate into being quiet. 

In the past week alone, he has stolen supporters from fellow Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (Ky.), won the rousing support of evangelicals and had to be shut down by Senate leaders for trying to complicate efforts on a short-term funding extension with a protest vote against Planned Parenthood funding.  

That reflects Cruz's efforts to try to emerge as the consensus anti-establishment candidate if and when the top three outsider candidates, and his biggest rivals, peter out. 

Rolling out Libertarian supporters who previously backed Sen. Paul's father in his presidential bids is part of Cruz's aim to go after his rivals on their home field.  

“Our theory has always been that you need to crush your bracket first in order to advance,” Rick Tyler, a Cruz spokesperson, said, comparing the primary slog to the annual college basketball tournament.

"We don't want to break out. ... We are moving slow and steady." 

Tyler sees the GOP primary electorate as four distinct “brackets” of voters — libertarian, evangelical, Tea Party, and establishment candidates — and it’s clear that Cruz continues to make a play for all but the latter. 
Cruz’s “Liberty Leaders for Cruz” coalition is made up of mostly former Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) supporters, a direct affront to Sen. Rand Paul. 

And the attack has come as Paul’s support has waned in the polls and amid reports that he’s shifted some emphasis toward fundraising for his Senate reelection.
 
Cruz’s endorsements prompted a major rebuke from Paul on Fox News Radio on Tuesday, where he bashed Cruz’s legislative record and said that his “lack of personal relationships” have contributed to a downfall in the Senate.

Cruz has already made a strong play for the evangelical and Tea Party blocs — jumping into the race as a Tea Party favorite, he immediately made a play for Christian conservative voters with an announcement from the evangelical Liberty University. 

Indicative of the fruits of that play, a strong win at last weekend’s Values Voter Summit straw poll, with almost double the support of second-place finisher Ben Carson and more than double the support for former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.).  
GOP strategists say he’s in a solid position to be the first choice of other candidates' supporters once their favorite drops out.
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Cruz is our last chance to turn this country around. NOT because of who Cruz is, but because of who WE are.

If there are not enough of "US" to get behind the candidate who is clearly better than the field, then the Media, both Right and Left, will be in charge from now on.

His "delivery style" was good enough for the SCOTUS Justices [and they hear only the best] in the cases he argued before them, but not good enough for the campfire.

The "Media" is doing its job.

Fixed it for you for what your post reads like. Jesus, there are some sick people on these forums...

The good news about Cruz is that his fund raising in solid and he's got a lot of money in the bank. He'll still be there when this gets down to 4 candidates and then hopefully his message on Constitution, rule of law and individual liberty will speak volumes.

I'm not sick, I just don't want a potus to kiss the ass of any other nation...be it Israel or be it Sweden.

I can tell you've been 'conditioned' very well.

I think he's already screwed the pooch on that possibility.

Cruz identified himself as an establishment candidate when he made a trip to Israel with McConnell during his first week in Congress.

His strong cheerleading for TPP also needs a good explanation.

In any event, the former supporters of Ron Paul represent the protest vote against the establishment GOP.

Cruz is going to have a hard time convincing them that he's an anti establishment candidate.

This:

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews....nnell-first-official-overseas-trip.html/

and this:

http://netrightdaily.com/2015/04/ted-cruz-joins-the-establishment/

3 candidates who could hold their own with Cruz in a 4 way debate.
Rubio, Fiorina and Christie.

I'm talking strictly about debating skills based on their debates and interviews this last couple of months.

Their records of achievement is a whole different matter. But these guys have been sharp on screen.

I have much admiration and regard for Ted Cruz. I like him. Most of the article is valid and he has a great future in government. He serves us well.

At the same time, I do not feel that he is the best candidate for President in terms of "moving ideas and advancing policy." He is too loyal to conservative issues to be the leader that we need at this time –– or to attract the cross-party votes necessary to win. Even if he won, he would have trouble in getting anything done.

For lack of another, I still think that Trump fills that bill, warts and all.

His principles are fine in my book, I like that he is a successful businessman and, as such, he understands the economy is ways that no politician ever can.

Look at his tax reform plan, which is fantastic. For example, getting much of the $1.2 trillion or so sheltered abroad by American companies repatriated to the US would be hugely beneficial. That is their own money, they earned it, and it is stuck abroad so that it is not sacrificed to the spendthrift federal government and wasted on foolish policies. No other American politician has suggested an acceptable way to induce them to bring it in. That is just one way he is smarter –– street smarter –– than the others.

All 3 represent the "more war in the Middle East" wing of the GOP.

Trump 1st in national polls Canadian CRUZ 6th place in mid single digits

Trump 1st in TEXAS polls Canadian Cruz 2Nd place 5% back of TRUMP.

Read 'em & weep.

If someone wants a "more war" candidate, they really should go with Hillary.

And what can we extrapolate from that? Who they've been bought by, that's what.

I'm weary of the whole dynamic. Time to start gettin' real.

What part of "I'm talking strictly about debating skills based on their debates and interviews this last couple of months" did you not understand?

No way could Trump go one-on-one with any of the four named debaters.