{"id":1112,"date":"2012-05-18T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:24:25","slug":"ted-cruz-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/ted-cruz-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Ted Cruz interviewed on Mark Levin&#8217;s radio show the other day. Was I impressed! I sent him some money.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz is a constitutional and social conservative who is running for the U.S. Senate against Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who is a quintessential establishment Republican and who is endorsed by Rick Perry. One more reason not to trust Rick Perry. Ted is endorsed by Mark Levin, whose opinions I greatly respect, by the Club for Growth, by Senator Jim Demint, who runs the Senate Conservatives fund and whom I also greatly respect, and Sarah Palin. And he is incredibly bright and articulate and an experienced constitutional lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>I have received several solicitations for donations from the Republican Party recently. I have been telling the person on the phone I prefer to give to individual candidates. The next time I get one of those calls I&#8217;m going to be more frank and tell them that I don&#8217;t like it when the party gets behind these moderate and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dewhurstfortexas.com\/latest-news\/dewhurst-texas-announces-endorsements-six-former-dallas-gop-chairmen\" target=\"_blank\">liberal candidates like Dewhurst<\/a>, or like when Mitch McConnell undermined Joe Miller after he won the Republican nomination for Senate against moderate Lisa Murkowski.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz for Senate<\/a>. 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Was I impressed! I sent him some money. Ted Cruz is a constitutional and social conservative who is running for the U.S. Senate against Texas Lt. 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