My Morning in Iowa with Ted Cruz

I've had the great pleasure of being a part of the Ted Cruz campaign organization for several months. I've had grassroots meetings with the Senator and have now had the chance to meet his wife, Heidi too. I've also made new friends. It is easy to make new friends when you are working toward a common goal and have similar ideologies. Liberty is a great rally point.

Wednesday morning, at a small hotel in Kalona, IA, I had the chance to see the loyal support that Senator Cruz has developed. This little place was packed with over 100 people and a gaggle of local and national media types(I didn't want to confuse them with the actual people). We were well over the stated capacity of this place yet no one complained (a few people from the local volunteer fire department were there). The fresh cinnamon rolls were a hit. The hosts of the event were as impressive as the candidate himself. Marlin and Becky Bontrager and their family (ten children, 5 of voting age) are huge supporters of Senator Cruz. I can speak to this family because I've had a chance to attend church with them and I also spent a Sunday afternoon at their house for a home cooked dinner and an afternoon of discussing faith and politics. The Cruz campaign couldn't have a better group of advocates.

I've also had the pleasure of getting to know the Iowa Campaign Manager, Bryan English and several of the other staff members that work out of the office in Urbandale, IA. They are great people. I also need to say hello to Lyndsey and Blue (yes, that's his given name) at the office. These two young people from Texas are great team members and great assets for the campaign. I do look forward to them enduring an Iowa winter. Blue is already wearing a coat all the time and it has only been below freezing once.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this campaign is a labor of love for everyone involved. The support continues to grow. As the Senator was leaving Kalona, an elderly woman approached me because I was wearing a campaign T-shirt and asked where she could send her campaign donation. She said that she hadn't donated to a campaign since 1984. I gave her the address in Houston and found an envelope for her. This is just one anecdotal piece of evidence that I've seen for the momentum being gathered by this campaign.

I've seen the way that the Senator interacts with the people at his campaign stops. He is incredibly sincere in his concern for the individual voters. He doesn't pander to identity groups. He speaks to ideas and principles. I challenge you find a more consistent candidate that hasn't just become a conservative since declaring their candidacy for president. He does make it known that he is working to bring together a coalition of disaffected voters that have been cast aside by the Republican party. There are over 54 million Evangelical Christians in the country and many have not voted for several election cycles at the national level because of the disdain showed to them by the Republican establishment and the Democrat party en masse. These voters are being awakened. I was announced as a guest of the Bontrager family when I attended church at the Marion Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa and the pastor specifically said that I was working with one the of the presidential campaigns and that if I were asked about it, the folks there would find I was with the right guy. Amen!

Ted has also made huge strides by bringing in many of the former Ron Paul voters in the early states. Many of Ron Paul's liberty-minded supporters in Iowa and across the nation have joined with Senator Cruz because they see a man that will do what he says he will do once elected.

I urge all of you to support the Cruz campaign. A better man has not run for this office in years. The contrasts in our current president and Senator Cruz are marked. The difference between Ted and his fellow Republican challengers are also quite stark. He has the most money of all the Republican challengers outside of the self funded (somewhat speciously) guy with bad hair, yet he is an incredibly good steward of the funds he has been blessed with. He flies coach, stays in inexpensive hotels and would rather spend those funds meeting the people that will help elect him instead of paying political leeches that would lead him astray. Let's all help elect a good man that will help reignite the fires of liberty that have been tamped out by overbearing and overarching government.

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Would You Kill a Seven Pound Baby in the Womb? Me Neither.

Abortion. The leftists' most holy sacrament. If you don't believe me, read a quote from the transcript of an interview that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave to Fox News' Megyn Kelly earlier in the week, “So, from my perspective, from my party’s perspective, we do not support rolling back the protection that the Constitutional right to make your own reproductive choices established in Roe versus Wade has given to women”. Translation, abortion is the Democrat keystone issue. This quote is in reference to Senator Rand Paul turning the tables on the leftist media when they asked him what his position on abortion was. He then asked the local reporter to ask DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she was OK with aborting a seven pound, nearly full term baby. It actually worked. Mrs Schultz has been asked the question by several networks and has done nothing but show how much the issue of abortion means to her and her uber left leaning base. Dr Paul has turned the tables and has moved the needle on the debate more than any right leaning politician in recent memory. Why shouldn't those that support what amounts to murder of unborn children be made to answer for it?

One thing is clear, the abortion loving left is a known group of science deniers. A new life is created when a fertilized egg attaches to the wall in the mother's womb. The same people that will protect every animal life, I'm looking at you Delta Smelt lovers out there, will not afford the same courtesy to that of unborn human children. A CNN poll from 2014 showed that a strong majority (58%) of people surveyed either said that abortion should be completely illegal or illegal in most circumstances. A Marist poll released in January of 2015 shows that 84% of those surveyed believe that abortions should be illegal in most cases, especially after three months gestation. Only 9% favored completely unrestricted abortion. These number include people that call themselves pro-choice and pro-life. The number has been trending toward the side of life for a number of years now. 12 states have now passed pain-capable bans on abortion after five months of gestation. Mrs Schultz is on the wrong side of this issue. The great thing all of her interviews have done is to make sure the voting public now have her on record. She supports killing children up until the day they are born.

The Republicans should recognize this as an issue where they are on the right side and the Democrat party is on the wrong side.  Senator Ted Cruz, when asked by David Brody in a March interview with CBN News, if he would compromise with those across the aisle, said that conservatives should follow Ronald Reagan's lead. “Reagan said what do you do if they offer you half a loaf? Answer: you take it. And then you come back for more”. Republicans need to treat the issue of protecting innocent life in Reagan's half a loaf manner. Keep asking for more.

This issue is near and dear to me. As the uncle of a little boy who was born at 30 weeks gestation, most elected Democrats would have been fine with a baby of his gestational age being aborted. He is now almost nine months old and starting to eat solid foods. He also enjoys chewing on everything as if his life depended on it. My nephew was barely over three pounds at birth, barely bigger than my brother-in-law's hand. He is now the most special thing to happen to my family in years. He is the light in my sister's eyes and he knows, already, just how to push her buttons. 

Those of us appreciate every new life need to make our voices heard. Let pro-life candidates know that they have our support. Make sure that those who seek to allow babies to be killed up until they are born hear our righteous anger. We, as pro-life voters, need to make our voices heard. Make our opponents understand that they are on the wrong side of this issue. I, for one, am not afraid of people that advocate killing innocent babies. You shouldn't be afraid either.

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