The Importance of Ted Cruz
As the election season draws to a close, one thing is increasingly clear: The Democrats are targeting Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
And it’s time to rally for Ted.
The race between Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred is, according to polls, close, with Cruz in the lead.
But the real question here is: Why do the Democrats and Washington’s elites so despise Cruz? As his website makes plain, Cruz has been nothing if not devoted to serving his state. The site notes:
From the oil fields of West Texas, to the farm lands of the Panhandle, to the United States’ southern border and into space, Ted Cruz has been Texas’ leading fighter for over a decade. Since day one, creating jobs, defending freedom, and ensuring security have been Ted’s priorities. Ted has a proven record of standing up to any politician or special interest group to defend the Lone Star State. Delivering meaningful, bipartisan wins for Texas commerce and transportation, NASA, and more, Ted has worked for every Texan to keep Texas, Texas.
But there’s more going on here than Cruz simply doing his job for Texas, and doing it well.
The real problem that is driving Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer crazy is that in addition to taking care of Texas, Ted Cruz is a seriously serious — and smart — conservative. And left-wing New Yorker Schumer and his allies cannot abide a seriously smart, decidedly principled, and more than capable conservative.
Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor) headlines this:
Sen. Cruz to Newsmax: My Senate Race Is Schumer’s No. 1 Target
The story reports:
The No. 1 target this election cycle for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Cruz told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“You look at my last [reelection] in 2018, that race was the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history at the time, and we were outspent 3-to-1, and we ended up barely winning,” Cruz told “Finnerty.” “We won by less than 3 points.
“This time around, Chuck Schumer has been explicit. I’m his No. 1 target in the country, and the Democrats are spending over $100 million trying to beat me.”
One can bet that the reason for the Schumer animus and all the Democrat foaming over Cruz is because of things like this, as noted on his website:
• Cruz fought for “religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.”
• Because Cruz has “authored and joined numerous amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court that defend religious liberty for all — whether it be a Christian wedding, cake artist, a football coach, or even a preschool.”
• Because Cruz “successfully required the Defense Department Inspector General to investigate whether the military was protecting the religious liberty rights of service members and chaplains.”
• Because Cruz is “currently leading a massive investigation of Big Tech for their biased censorship policies.”
• Because Cruz “secured passage of his resolution condemning all forms of antisemitism and recognizing it as a unique form of hate.”
• Because Cruz “successfully pressured the City of Houston to withdraw its subpoenas requiring pastors to submit sermons for review.”
• Because he “co-introduced the Recreational Lands Defense Act to restore Second Amendment rights on federal lands.”
There’s more. Oh, so much more. But the central fact is that Ted Cruz is the role model for exactly what a great United States senator should be.
He is someone who not only takes care of his constituents, but also takes great care of the Constitution and the freedoms that America’s founding document was designed to protect.
Senators usually know how to serve their constituents. But it is the rare senator who goes out of his way to take care of the Constitution and the freedoms it was designed to protect.
And it is precisely because Ted Cruz is such a staunch defender of the Constitution that he is targeted by Schumer and others on the left for whom the Constitution is seen as an obstruction, a roadblock to whatever power-driven ambition they have for the federal government to suppress the rights and freedoms of Americans.
In short, there is a reason why the Left cannot abide Ted Cruz and have made him a target.
Which makes it all the more important to rally for Ted Cruz this election.
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