I have not made this decision lightly. I have thought long and hard about who is best suited to lead America. My thoughts on the nature and demands of the presidency have been informed by the history I have lived, and the history I have read. And I have decided that Ted Cruz has what it takes to be President of the United States, and to be a good one.
At present, we have five options between the Democrats and Republicans. All of the other four are fundamentally, and fatally, flawed candidates, and would bring ruin to us all.
On the Democratic side, we have Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, whose loyalty to the Democratic party run only as deep as the duration of his presidential run. His plans for free college, free healthcare, free everything, represent the apotheosis of our contemporary "gimmie-gimmie" culture. In his quest to make us Sweden, he would bankrupt us and turn us into Zimbabwe. He fails to take seriously that our present is not our own -- it is inherited from our parents, and borrowed from our future. America is not for sale for thirty pieces of silver. Despite his rhetoric, he has demonstrated by his appeals toward individual selfishness and class warfare that he is the most cynical of the candidates.
We also have Hillary Clinton, who has more baggage than an international airport. Her husband took credit for an economic boom inspired by the conservative budgets and tax policies pushed through by a Republican Congress. Despite his claims to humanitarianism, as president, he ignored a genocide in Rwanda, and exacerbated ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia. I won't even get into his personal character--that is a matter of public record. Don't believe for a second that his fumbling, corrupt hands would be idle during the presidency of his wife. As to Hillary -- she presided over the Obama State Department, and it is on her doorstep we leave the wreckage of Syria and Iraq, the nightmarish metastasizing of Islamic State, the expansion of Russia, the chaos of Yemen, and, yes, the assault on our Western allies. She is uniquely characterized by horrible judgment, changing her views more times than people change their socks. Bernie would simply bankrupt America -- Hillary would continue Obama's strategy destroy American power and sacrificing our allies for promises from nations who demonstrate neither trustworthiness nor stability.
And what of the other Republican? John Kasich? A man whose sheer ambition and arrogance has kept him in this race, even though he has won only one state, even though he has no chance at a nomination? John Kasich, who may make a deal with the devil himself for a vice-presidential spot to satiate his pride? John Kasich, whose endless pretense of bonhommie tries and fails to conceal his general grouchiness, poor temperament, and provincial small-mindedness -- none of which makes him capable of handling the job of the Presidency.
Donald Trump is no Republican. He is a creature of the media. They love him because he makes them money. He loves them because he's a narcissistic buffoon. His views are a mishmash of convenience and drug-addled somnambulence. He is the most depraved man to ever seek the presidency. It is only out of desperation that so many have turned to him -- as if to say, "We exist! Hear our voices!"
Ted Cruz hears their voices. He understands their suffering in this fake economic recovery, which has benefited the celebrities like Trump, but left behind decent, hardworking people. He understands that people are tired and angry about the desecration of American promise. He shares their anger at the academic-media-entertainment complex, who tell us constantly, be ashamed, apologize, and you deserve nothing.
They push a narrative of American weakness and attack values that have kept America safe and whole for centuries. They expect us to abandon what is good and true about our unique nation and change in response to the whims of celebrities, so-called-activists, and other braying asses, who are absent and silent when America is attacked and our citizens slaughtered. Finding no strength of their own, they seek to make the rest of us weak, and I'm sorry to say they have partially succeeded.
Ted Cruz is not afraid to ask Americans to sacrifice. He knows that, while many of our countrymen seek only handouts and attention, there are many of us, a moral majority, who know that this country is worth personal sacrifice. He is not afraid of asking us to be adults, to make hard choices needed to manage our deficits. He has fought these battles, sometimes alone in the Senate, and earned the scorn of the political class he threatens.
He is highly intelligent. He has the energy of youth, and the wisdom of a close student of history. He will not flinch to defend our country from enemies foreign or domestic. He will restore the values of our faith, in our government and in our God, to the center of American life. He is the last, best hope for a world spiraling out of control.
I ask all right-thinking Americans, all Americans who love their country, who believe that our lives are a gift from the Almighty, who believe that salvation requires sacrifice, who believe that we must fight today, tomorrow, every day for a better future, to fight for Ted Cruz. He's been fighting for you. He's been fighting for us all.
America is ours. Fight for it.
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