As Bryan Preston and Stephen Kruiser noted last week, the liberal media has mounted a campaign to destroy Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He’s a high priority target because he goes against everything the media has said about the Tea Party, and conservatism in general. For all the talk about the Tea Party’s anti-intellectualism, Cruz received his B.A. at Princeton University, and his Juris Doctor at Harvard University. He also clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. As George Will wrote back in June of 2011,
By the time Ted Cruz was 13, he was winning speech contests sponsored by a Houston free-enterprise group that gave contestants assigned readings by Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. In his early teens he traveled around Texas and out of state giving speeches. At Princeton, he finished first in the 1992 U.S. National Debate Championship and North American Debate Championship.
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.
He embodies the ambitious spirit that drives Americans in their quest for success. That’s an emancipatory mindset that threatens the Democratic dependency agenda, and the narrative their allies in the liberal media are pushing daily. The latest salvo against Cruz came from the New York Times, which went “birther” on the freshman senator.
This attack depraved could be a sign that liberals are scared of Cruz. Why bring up Canada if you weren’t trying to disqualify him for the presidency since Hillary Clinton’s intentions are dubious at best? Then again, it’s how the media normally acts towards conservatives. They still need to point out -– falsely -– that being a minority and a Tea Party supporter are “mutually exclusive,” which is what Tony Lee and Stephen K. Bannon mentioned in their Breitbart post yesterday.
The Washington Post and Politico joined the times in assailing Cruz this week for similar reasons.
The Times did a thorough review of the freshman senator’s stunning seven-week run:
- leading the charge on the destruction of Chuck Hagel’s bona fides as Secretary of Defense;
- one of only three Republicans to vote against John Kerry because of his longstanding less-than-vigorous defense of U.S. national security issues;
- one of only 34 that voted against raising the debt ceiling;
- one of only 22 who voted against the Violence Against Women Act;
- one of only 36 who voted against the pork-ladened Hurricane Sandy financial aid package;
- one of only 19 who voted against arming the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Cairo;
- called out Rahm Emanuel;
- confronted Chuck Schumer on national TV;
- enraged Senators Boxer and McCaskill enough for them to label him as a “McCarthyite”
That, ladies and gentleman, is how you fight.
Jonathan Weisman, the author of the piece, brings out all the old adages about “taking confrontational Tea Party sensibilities to new heights- — or lows — before rolling out Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for the obligatory beat-down of conservatives. The Times also quotes McCain’s sidekick, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has to watch his right flank because he faces a potential primary in 2014, who tells the publication some of Cruz’s comments regarding Hagel were “out of bounds.”
In what is known as a “tell” in the media parlor game, Weissman and the Times commit an unforgivable error by referring to Cruz as “Canadian-born” without mentioning he was born to a mother who was a U.S. citizen, which most likely makes Cruz “natural born” and eligible to run for the nation’s highest office. Yes, just when the Texan shows some “muzzle velocity” toward 2016, the Times goes birther.
They also mentioned the NYT’s Frank Bruni, who called Cruz a “nasty newcomer,” who will bring “Republicans nothing but grief.”
Bannon and Lee added:
This is the same Bruni who, in a bizarre column last week he compared politicians to imagined colognes, accused Cruz of “haranguing” nominees and having an “aggrieved voice and censorious visage.” As for Cruz’s cologne, Bruni felt it should be “Cruz Control,” which he said was “showy” and “tailor-made for preening, with a top note of sandalwood, a middle note of tonka bean and a base of self-righteousness.”
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…the Canadian-born-to-a-US-citizen junior senator from Texas is making all the right enemies in an era when Republicans come to Washington and seek to immediately kowtow to the mainstream media and “courtly” establishment Republicans loathed by the conservative base and those living outside Washington, D.C.’s “boomtown.”
As Cruz has indicated in past interviews, he is doing something right by finding enemies at the New York Times and the Washington Post less than two months after coming to Washington, D.C. And this should delight the conservative movement that always fears its elected officials will come to Washington to change it and instead get changed by it.
If Senators Boxer and McCaskill are calling you “McCarthyite,” you’re doing something right.
In Texas, Cruz’s success also explains why Democrats have been scrambling to hype San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as The Next Big Thing, to the point Castro delivered the keynote at the DNC Convention. By not fading into the woodwork in Washington after winning election, Cruz has made himself not just the highest office holder of any Hispanic in the history of Texas, but also the highest-profile Hispanic office holder in the state’s history, at a time when Democrats are counting on demographic shifts to turn Texas Blue again by 2020.
They need to de-legitimize Cruz to make it unpalatable for Hispanics in the state to vote Republican. Part of that also has been to remind state voters that Cruz’s heritage is from Cuba, not Mexico, in the same way the Times made that Canadian reference, though for the Dems when the pol you’re trying to promote as your “Man of the Future” is named Castro, pushing the other guy’s Cuban linage probably isn’t going to be that effective a strategy.
(Julian’s success in the Alamo City the past few years has basically been to get the hell out of the way — San Antonio has passed Dallas both in population and in the total amount of retail sales and sales tax collection in recent years, but a good deal of that is due to the city being the anchor of the Eagle Ford shale play, which in centered in the counties south of Interstate 10 and north of Laredo. Thanks to Texas’ policies on drilling, Castro’s political career has been given a huge boost by hydrological fracking … which, if Republicans are smart, they’ll keep reminding people of, and force Castro to defend fracking and the hundreds of thousands of jobs its created. It won’t controversial in Texas, but forcing him to defend the process will make him far less palatable on the national level to the Democrats’ bi-coastal environmental activists.)
It is good to see a U.S politician with a moral core. Something that is seldom seen in the United States nowadays. The Western World surely needs statesmen of the highest rank that has maturity and brains to take on the “I feel your pain” political hacks that has become to common in the West today.
We surely need to rediscover those common sense virtues that should be every mans
guiding lights. For example, thrift, prudence, self-restraint, frugality, hard work and devotion to duty. For put it simply to do right for yourself and to serve yourself and the community with kindness and a good heart.
Ted Cruz is a rock star. I love his confidence and utter contempt for the lapdog media smear job. They’ll keep throwing these accusations at him pretending its “breaking news” that he was born in Canada. Let them waste their efforts, and we’ll laugh at them as Cruz’ star rises….
Let us not forget that John McCain was also born on foreign soil, in the Panama Canal Zone. That he was born to American parents, in the military, was not good enough for the Dems. So the Dems took the question “Is John McCain eligible to run for POTUS” to the very halls of the Senate. Why, yes, he was.
As too is Ted Cruz. And if the Dems want to debate that, then every anchor baby in the U.S. will have their “natural born” status questioned and that is not going to play will with Hispanic voters. Not one bit.
You’re right; Cruz is a rock star. But more than that, he is a principaled man who is doing what he was elected to do. And he will do that well.
actually, McCain was born outside of the ‘zone’ in a Panama hospital. The Dems and RINOs declared that McCain was born inside the zone.
The whole point was to avoid the Vattel definitions of Natural Born Citizen. Vattel allowed for military service parents giving full NBC status to the child even if the child is born on foreign soil.
What the Dems and RINOs did with McCain was to make ‘soil’ the ONLY determining factor for NBC status.
Not correct! He was born in a military hospital (Gorgas Army Hospital) which was located inside the “zone”.
sigh…
I can google.. Colon Hospital.. If this is the real deal..
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11110505/JohnMcCain-Birth-Certificate-long-and-short-form-Colon-Panama-1936
But of course like the sneaky rat bastard RINO McCain is..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause#John_McCain
” McCain never released his birth certificate to the press or independent fact-checking organizations, but did show it to Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who wrote “a senior official of the McCain campaign showed me a copy of [McCain's] birth certificate issued by the ‘family hospital’ in the Coco Solo submarine base”.[82] A lawsuit filed by Fred Hollander in 2008 alleged that McCain was actually born in a civilian hospital in Colon City, Panama.”
And I’m supposed to believe a WaPo propagandist?
Anyways, the point is that it doesn’t matter WHERE McCain was born because his parents were ordered to be somewhere besides American soil due to the nature of the job of working for the American Government in a military career.
Vattel exception
McCain was doing his part in helping Obama avoid NBC scrutiny by making his eligibility all about the soil.
nice censorship pjmedia
Perhaps pjmedia could produce McCain’s hidden BC in an official article
but, like I said.. McCain is NBC even if he were born in a non-zone hospital simply because his citizen parents had no choice but to be stationed where his father’s superiors told him to go.
Vattel military exception
nevermind…
I remain firm in my belief that the media–both entertainment and “news”–will only allow an American honor if he is somehow useful to their Progressive cause, and I remain firm in my desire for a “Scotland-style” referendum because of it.
“…born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens…”
In a country being the operative phrase here. Regardless, he will make a great Senate Majority leader someday…or Cabinet Secretary…or Governor.
If you don’t like the Constitution; just change it. That’s the way our Founders intended it to work. If you don’t honor one portion, your enemies will honor none and use you as an example of why they can. Obama is a perfect example of how important this clause is. He is an illegitimate president. We should not follow his example and set in stone the precedent that ignoring the Constitution is now acceptable by all peoples of the United States of America.
BTW, same goes for Rubio.
I say we just look for qualified people regardless of skin color. Quit playing identity politics like Marxists love to do.
Nice quote.
That is in the Constitution where exactly?
If it isn’t well, you know, if you don’t like the Constitution just change it.
And if you try inserting it without going through the amendment process well, you know, if you don’t honor one portion then your enemies will honor none and use you as an example of why they can.
Personally, I’m rooting for Supreme Court Justice.
I am very happy with how Ted Cruz is doing things and am not surprised how the media is behaving. I’m afraid some of the crap Dewhurst tried to use against him in the primary will resurface.
Cruz must be destroyed, because he does not fit the liberal version of Hispanic, whether it be illegal alien or American citizen! Because of this he must be silenced! Remember, in their view, Hispanics and Blacks cannot achieve and lead decent lives without the HELP of the liberal-progressive-socialistic party! It is vital to democrats that this is believed beyond a shadow of a doubt, if not dems fear they will not be able to control federal and state elections! Wake up America! Today’s democrat leaders are leaning precariously toward fascism where Obama (or a central source) will control everything!
Senator Cruz is leading the way in the fight to restore old-fashioned virtues like honesty and common probity to Washington D.C .
Every good American Patriot should look up to him as a good role-model in how to be a good civic-minded citizien of the Republic.
One has to wonder how Bruni would describe the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s antics when addressing Republican nominees. It’s “anything goes” then, I’m sure. Liberals are such hacks. But you have to hand it to them; they never underestimate the stupidity of their base.
is a Stalinist whore.
“…a middle note of tonka bean” in connection with a latino is racist, with the code word “bean” being the giveaway. One can just hear the liberals saying, “Get that beaner out of here!”
One hopes Cruz graduated from those Ivy League dumps before their curricula were trashed by idiots. From about 1980 forward, a degree from the Ivy League is nothing to be proud of.
Ted Cruz, YOUDA MAN!
It might be of interest to note that the founder of the New York Times was one of the founders of the Republican Party.
Explain that, NYT.
The Times was one of the city’s Republican papers until after WWI — if you wanted rabble-rousing liberal populism, you went to one of William Randolph Hearst’s papers. Hearst and the Times swapped positions by the mid-1930s.