THE CASE FOR CRUZ

As is usual in politics, not everyone agrees on anything. Even in Utah, you have people who don’t like Ted Cruz and wish and hope that someone else wins the nomination. I can respect that – although I’ve admired Ted Cruz for years, for a long time I bought into enough of the media caricature of the man to believe he had little chance of ever becoming our nominee, much less winning the Presidency.

But the more I learn about Ted Cruz, the more I love the man and what he stands for – and the more I realize I was wrong about his chances. In short, I under-estimated Ted Cruz. If you love the Constitution and are not yet a Ted Cruz fan, I hope you’ll take a minute to consider a few reasons you might want to reconsider.

1) The media rap against Cruz is that he can’t get along with others. Well, if that’s true, then how has he put together the best ground game of any of the Presidential candidates? How has this man who is so off-putting persuaded so many grass-roots activists in every state to back him and not these supposedly superior candidates? Let’s face it – the truth you won’t hear in the “no-longer-objective” media is that Cruz is a true leader. None of the Senators like him because he upset their rotten apple cart. So even IF (big IF) he’s not a people person, he’s definitely a “We the People person.”

2) The polls and the media are saying that Cruz “can’t beat Hillary.” Polls are notoriously wrong. The media is notoriously biased – even corrupt. And yet you want me to believe both and blindly accept the lie that Cruz can’t beat a woman who has been scandal-ridden for her entire 25 years on the national scene, is only walking free today because the latest investigation isn’t completed and the media and current administration are totally corrupt? The polls are all “pre-debate” and are essentially as meaningless as the pre-debate polls showing Reagan losing to Carter in a landslide. And the media won’t be able to cover up the FBI findings or the fight that is about to break out between the FBI and the Obama Administration.

3) Cruz is “off-the-charts brilliant” according to eminent liberal legal scholar Alan Derschowitz, who was one of Cruz’s professors at Harvard. I don’t hear any liberals saying that about Hillary Clinton – who is off-the-charts stupid to have set up her own server in defiance of law, national security, and even common sense. So when someone tells you that Clinton will beat Cruz in the general election, don’t believe them.

4) After Obama, what kind of President do we need?
a) One who will rush into all of the yawning chasms of raw Presidential power that Obama has opened?
b) One who will maintain the status quo and go along to get along?
c) Or one who understands the threat to the Constitutional system of checks and balances and has the character and ability necessary to repair the breaches?

5) In a Republican field that has been essentially divided into three parts (Trump, anti-establishment candidates, and establishment candidates), Cruz has established himself as the only viable anti-establishment candidate not named Trump, and has soundly defeated all of the supposedly “more electable” establishment candidates.
How can anyone who loves the idea of “We the People” then even begin to argue that all of the Republican voters are making such a gigantic mistake that we need to defy their anti-establishment fervor this year and nominate someone supposedly but not apparently “more electable” at the convention?

The choice is clear: the nominee must be either Trump or Cruz. And Trump has yet to get a majority in ANY state. Well over 60% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of him. The only way Trump can win is for the “establishment” share of that 60% to continue to fail to recognize that the only way Trump can win is for them to vote for Trump over Cruz or continue to cling to the fantasy that a white knight from the establishment can rescue them from the will of We the People who have so clearly established the choice as either Trump or Cruz.

I urge all of you who are clinging to the hope that some other candidate will emerge at the convention who will “rescue us” from both Trump AND Cruz to recognize that you are instead condemning us to a nation in which We the People has been marginalized and rendered utterly powerless.

Please join me in fighting for Cruz – he’s our only hope and perhaps our last chance to preserve what’s left of our Constitutional rights and system of government.

Dave Whittle – SP04 Precinct Chair / Ballot #324, National Delegate Congressional District 3