Thursday, June 16, 2011

Ted Cruz for Senate

If you can vote in Texas, support Ted Cruz for the US Senate.  If you can't (& God knows I wish I still could), then support him as best you can.


He has the endorsement, among others, of the great political commentator George Will, who lays out impressive credentials of an impeccable life.  Here's just a tidbit:
Before he earned a Harvard law degree magna cum laude (and helped found the Harvard Latino Law Review) and clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Cruz’s senior thesis at Princeton . . . was on the Constitution’s Ninth and 10th amendments. Then as now, Cruz argued that these amendments, properly construed, would buttress the principle that powers not enumerated are not possessed by the federal government. . . .   
As Texas’s solicitor general from 2003 to 2008, Cruz submitted 70 briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has, so far, argued nine cases there. He favors school choice and personal investment accounts for a portion of individuals’ Social Security taxes. He supports the latter idea with a bow to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who said such accounts enable the doorman to build wealth the way the people in the penthouse do.  
Regarding immigration, Cruz, 40, demands secure borders and opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants but echoes Ronald Reagan’s praise of legal immigrants as “Americans by choice,” people who are “crazy enough” to risk everything in the fundamentally entrepreneurial act of immigrating. He believes Hispanics are — by reasons of faith, industriousness and patriotism — natural Republicans. He says the military enlistment rate is higher among them than among any other demographic, and he says an Austin businessman observed, “When was the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?”
 You really have to read the whole thing.

If you like Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), you'll love Ted Cruz.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, again, for providing needed information. Have contributed to his campaign through his web site. Am proud to add his name to that of Lt. Col. Allen West of Florida.

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  2. Allen West, indeed - absolutely super guy. Another one of the pantheon of up & coming statesmen we need to elect & retain.

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