I don't think Ron ever endorsed or voted for the GOP nominee. He did however vote for Gingrich for speaker of the house and also endorsed all of the incumbents in Texas.
I don't think Ron ever endorsed or voted for the GOP nominee. He did however vote for Gingrich for speaker of the house and also endorsed all of the incumbents in Texas.
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My initial reaction to this news was to start rethinking my support for Amash, as it seemed like an unforced show of support at a time when it could actually effect the outcome (as opposed to the usual pro forma endorsement). So I have, and I've come to the conclusion that I trust Amash enough to assume that he had some good practical reason for doing this; that he reasonably expects this move to advance the cause in some way (helping him get reelected, giving him more influence on the House, etc).
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Unless Rand or some other preferable candidate were still in the race, I don't see even a potential downside to endorsing Cruz against Trump and Rubio. When Rand was in the race, Amash endorsed and wholeheartedly supported him.
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No one else in Congress helped Justin out more than Cruz did in 2014. Rand endorsed him too of course, but Cruz has wider appeal with regular grassroots conservatives and he made ads for him. That doesn't mean everyone here should vote for Cruz. It just means Justin has a very good reason for returning the endorsement favor to Cruz.
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I don't like to see the line blurred between the real libertarians/conservatives (like Amash) and the fake ones trying to co-pt this movement (like Cruz).
The only way to prevent co-optation is to clearly ID the infiltrators as infiltrators.
Endorsing them has the opposite effect.
...in a sense, it would be better to endorse an overt establishment guy, since there's no confusion about which side he's on.
So that's the downside, but as I said I'm going to assume that Amash had a good reason to do this, that he saw it as a net positive for the movement.
I'm at peace with it.
How is Cruz trying to co-opt the movement? Like Justin said in his statement, Cruz has never claimed to be a libertarian.
I have to feel sorta sorry for Ted Cruz! Some of the voters do not have Justin Amash's insights!
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/270881-pollster-asks-floridians-if-cruz-is-the-zodiac-killer
This is from THE HILL, not THE ONION!!! 
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Whether he calls himself a libertarian or not is irrelevant.
He's been campaigning as if he's taking up Ron's mantle. There are many speeches to this effect.
Bottom line: if he cared about the movement to reduce the size and scope of government, he wouldn't have announced his candidacy after Rand was already running.
He is a whore, who either doesn't care about liberty at all, or who cares about it much less than self-aggrandizement.
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No, just that he is 'the intellectual and political heir to your father's 2012 campaign, and the liberty movement'.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3o_vzvEVA7Y
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Justin Amash endorses Ted Cruz
Justin Amash:
"As a libertarian Republican, I have spent several months promoting the candidacy of my friend Senator Rand Paul, who is, in my view, the most passionate defender of our rights on the national stage today. Since his departure from the presidential race, I’ve been asked many times: what now?
It’s easy to withdraw from politics when the positions and priorities of the candidates do not precisely mirror our own. But we owe it to our beliefs to find constitutional conservative political allies who not only respect our philosophy but also fight for our views to be heard.
We have found such an ally in Senator Ted Cruz.
Ted is not a libertarian and doesn’t claim to be. But he is a principled defender of the Constitution, a brilliant strategist and debater who can defeat the Democratic nominee in the general election, and the only remaining candidate I trust to take on what he correctly calls the Washington Cartel.
The recent passing of Justice Antonin Scalia reminds us of the importance of electing a president committed to nominating justices to the Supreme Court who will uphold the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Because the Court has not lost a conservative in many years, this selection may become the most influential act of the next president. Replacing Justice Scalia with a poorly chosen justice could alter our country’s identity on critical issues such as education, health care, criminal justice, privacy, and even the very meaning of the Constitution.
In this regard, history has given us a uniquely qualified candidate—Ted Cruz served as a Supreme Court clerk (an extraordinarily selective job held each year by fewer than 40 lawyers who work directly with the justices to shape the Court’s opinions) and has the rare distinction of having argued many cases before the Supreme Court. The importance of these credentials cannot be overstated in the current context.
But the Supreme Court is not the only thing at stake. Our entire constitutional system is under threat.
An effective president for the people is going to face massive fights with the lobbyist class and Washington elites. It is not enough for a president to have smart advisers and well-rehearsed lines. Whether or not we agree on every issue, libertarian and conservative Republicans must choose a president who has the courage to stand up for the American people in the face of relentless attacks. Ted has shown that he is a true leader who can defend the principles of our constitutional republic, takes libertarian ideas seriously (even when he disagrees), and will not back down from the battles that must be fought.
Since Ted arrived in the Senate, he has stood shoulder to shoulder with the House Freedom Caucus, of which I am a member. Ted has consistently led the fight in the Senate against the Washington Cartel’s trillion-dollar omnibus spending bills. And while his Senate colleague Marco Rubio pays lip service to inclusivity while actually advocating unwelcoming and unpopular GOP positions from past decades, Ted Cruz recognizes that we grow the Republican Party by embracing new approaches that genuinely reflect our support for limited, constitutional government.
Take, for instance, Ted’s opposition to cronyism and corporate welfare. Unlike his competitors, Ted understands that when we allow the government to pick winners and losers, the American people lose. He isn’t afraid to challenge the rampant corruption in Washington, and he isn’t afraid to champion economic freedom. Ted won the Iowa caucuses with a principled stand against subsidies, even though pundits warned that no one could win the state without pandering to the ethanol lobby.
On civil liberties and foreign policy, Ted and I don’t always agree. But he was one of only ten Republican senators to stand up for our rights by supporting Rand Paul’s amendment to kill the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015—also known as CISA—a cyberspying bill that violates the privacy of all Americans. And Ted has been a stalwart defender of our Fifth Amendment right to due process, strongly opposing the government’s asserted power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge or trial.
Like me, Ted believes that the United States must be well defended and respected around the globe. He stands with our troops and will not put them in harm’s way unless necessary to protect our country. Unlike some other Republican candidates, Ted opposed intervening in Libya and voted against arming Syrian rebels, and he will not use our Armed Forces to engage in nation building.
To defend liberty, we must defend our Constitution. I’m supporting Ted because, knowing him personally and having served with him in Congress over the past few years, I trust him as a conservative ally who consistently listens to my perspective and stands firm for what he believes is right."
http://opinion.injo.com/2016/02/253437-trust-ted-cruz/
Justin Amash:
"As a libertarian Republican, I have spent several months promoting the candidacy of my friend Senator Rand Paul, who is, in my view, the most passionate defender of our rights on the national stage today. Since his departure from the presidential race, I’ve been asked many times: what now?
It’s easy to withdraw from politics when the positions and priorities of the candidates do not precisely mirror our own. But we owe it to our beliefs to find constitutional conservative political allies who not only respect our philosophy but also fight for our views to be heard.
We have found such an ally in Senator Ted Cruz.
Ted is not a libertarian and doesn’t claim to be. But he is a principled defender of the Constitution, a brilliant strategist and debater who can defeat the Democratic nominee in the general election, and the only remaining candidate I trust to take on what he correctly calls the Washington Cartel.
The recent passing of Justice Antonin Scalia reminds us of the importance of electing a president committed to nominating justices to the Supreme Court who will uphold the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Because the Court has not lost a conservative in many years, this selection may become the most influential act of the next president. Replacing Justice Scalia with a poorly chosen justice could alter our country’s identity on critical issues such as education, health care, criminal justice, privacy, and even the very meaning of the Constitution.
In this regard, history has given us a uniquely qualified candidate—Ted Cruz served as a Supreme Court clerk (an extraordinarily selective job held each year by fewer than 40 lawyers who work directly with the justices to shape the Court’s opinions) and has the rare distinction of having argued many cases before the Supreme Court. The importance of these credentials cannot be overstated in the current context.
But the Supreme Court is not the only thing at stake. Our entire constitutional system is under threat.
An effective president for the people is going to face massive fights with the lobbyist class and Washington elites. It is not enough for a president to have smart advisers and well-rehearsed lines. Whether or not we agree on every issue, libertarian and conservative Republicans must choose a president who has the courage to stand up for the American people in the face of relentless attacks. Ted has shown that he is a true leader who can defend the principles of our constitutional republic, takes libertarian ideas seriously (even when he disagrees), and will not back down from the battles that must be fought.
Since Ted arrived in the Senate, he has stood shoulder to shoulder with the House Freedom Caucus, of which I am a member. Ted has consistently led the fight in the Senate against the Washington Cartel’s trillion-dollar omnibus spending bills. And while his Senate colleague Marco Rubio pays lip service to inclusivity while actually advocating unwelcoming and unpopular GOP positions from past decades, Ted Cruz recognizes that we grow the Republican Party by embracing new approaches that genuinely reflect our support for limited, constitutional government.
Take, for instance, Ted’s opposition to cronyism and corporate welfare. Unlike his competitors, Ted understands that when we allow the government to pick winners and losers, the American people lose. He isn’t afraid to challenge the rampant corruption in Washington, and he isn’t afraid to champion economic freedom. Ted won the Iowa caucuses with a principled stand against subsidies, even though pundits warned that no one could win the state without pandering to the ethanol lobby.
On civil liberties and foreign policy, Ted and I don’t always agree. But he was one of only ten Republican senators to stand up for our rights by supporting Rand Paul’s amendment to kill the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015—also known as CISA—a cyberspying bill that violates the privacy of all Americans. And Ted has been a stalwart defender of our Fifth Amendment right to due process, strongly opposing the government’s asserted power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge or trial.
Like me, Ted believes that the United States must be well defended and respected around the globe. He stands with our troops and will not put them in harm’s way unless necessary to protect our country. Unlike some other Republican candidates, Ted opposed intervening in Libya and voted against arming Syrian rebels, and he will not use our Armed Forces to engage in nation building.
To defend liberty, we must defend our Constitution. I’m supporting Ted because, knowing him personally and having served with him in Congress over the past few years, I trust him as a conservative ally who consistently listens to my perspective and stands firm for what he believes is right."
http://opinion.injo.com/2016/02/253437-trust-ted-cruz/
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When all that's left are turds..time to flush the toilet not stick your head in it.
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I really hope that people do not try to burn Amash for this like they burnt Rand for McConnell or Romney.
We need not eat our own....even if we disagree with them here or there.
We need not eat our own....even if we disagree with them here or there.
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Liar. You'd be cheering him on if he endorsed Trump.
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LOL! Seriously. Trump is way worse than Cruz.
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