Posted on Feb 19, 2016
Senator Ted Cruz here, what questions do you have for me? (Answering your questions on Feb 26th!)
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From RP Staff:
*Senator Cruz will be joining us for a live Q&A on Friday, 2/26 at 1:00pm EST. Post your questions below in advance of the Q&A. Questions with the most up votes will be answered first. Please be upfront and to the point with your questions. RP Staff will be monitoring this discussion.*
From Senator Ted Cruz:
America now faces a momentous decision. Almost a decade of irresponsible defense cuts has slashed the number of combat personnel, seriously degraded their combat readiness, and shrunk the size of our military below any reasonable standard. If America continues to lead from behind, we will lose the ability to guarantee our safety at home and abroad.
Our all-volunteer force deserves better. They deserve a leader who will provide them with the finest weapons systems and the best training. They deserve the full and unapologetic support of their Commander-in-Chief, not a minimal commitment and overly restrictive Rules of Engagement.
Furthermore, Americans make up the finest military professionals and veterans in the world, and they deserve an investment in their careers, their health, and their families. We must honor of our military members, families, and veterans by ensuring they receive the respect and care they have earned.
Under focused, new leadership, America can, and will, rebuild our military and take care of our veterans.
The financing and the details of my plan: https://www.tedcruz.org/american-resolve/
*Senator Cruz will be joining us for a live Q&A on Friday, 2/26 at 1:00pm EST. Post your questions below in advance of the Q&A. Questions with the most up votes will be answered first. Please be upfront and to the point with your questions. RP Staff will be monitoring this discussion.*
From Senator Ted Cruz:
America now faces a momentous decision. Almost a decade of irresponsible defense cuts has slashed the number of combat personnel, seriously degraded their combat readiness, and shrunk the size of our military below any reasonable standard. If America continues to lead from behind, we will lose the ability to guarantee our safety at home and abroad.
Our all-volunteer force deserves better. They deserve a leader who will provide them with the finest weapons systems and the best training. They deserve the full and unapologetic support of their Commander-in-Chief, not a minimal commitment and overly restrictive Rules of Engagement.
Furthermore, Americans make up the finest military professionals and veterans in the world, and they deserve an investment in their careers, their health, and their families. We must honor of our military members, families, and veterans by ensuring they receive the respect and care they have earned.
Under focused, new leadership, America can, and will, rebuild our military and take care of our veterans.
The financing and the details of my plan: https://www.tedcruz.org/american-resolve/
Election 2016
Ted Cruz
Office of the President (POTUS)
Q&A
Posted 8 y ago
Responses: 340
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Do you view it as a problem that none of the current presidential front-runners have served in the military? Do you think that experience would have been valuable to you?
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Senator Cruz....
1. It is not enough to appoint Constitutional Conservatives to the US Supreme Court, as you well know the Democrats and liberal progressives have been appoint "activist jurists" on the federal benches for years. Currently there has been little to no firewall between the SCOUS and those assaulting our God given rights and liberties. How are you going to reverse that trend? How aggressively are you going to "clean house?"
2. On a related issue, the most tempting gun free zones for terrorists and other criminals have been military bases, recruiting stations and reserve centers. The attacks in Fort Hood and recently on the USN Reserve Center and Recruiting station in Chattanooga, TN is just the latest example. DOD military and civilians are targets and are being targeted. Bottom Line: Will you lift the ban on Personally Owned Weapons (POW) so long as the individual is licensed and gone through a defensive handgun course?
3. Finally, if elected would you let the FBI and DOJ prosecute Hillary Clinton to the extent that Gen Petrous was?
1. It is not enough to appoint Constitutional Conservatives to the US Supreme Court, as you well know the Democrats and liberal progressives have been appoint "activist jurists" on the federal benches for years. Currently there has been little to no firewall between the SCOUS and those assaulting our God given rights and liberties. How are you going to reverse that trend? How aggressively are you going to "clean house?"
2. On a related issue, the most tempting gun free zones for terrorists and other criminals have been military bases, recruiting stations and reserve centers. The attacks in Fort Hood and recently on the USN Reserve Center and Recruiting station in Chattanooga, TN is just the latest example. DOD military and civilians are targets and are being targeted. Bottom Line: Will you lift the ban on Personally Owned Weapons (POW) so long as the individual is licensed and gone through a defensive handgun course?
3. Finally, if elected would you let the FBI and DOJ prosecute Hillary Clinton to the extent that Gen Petrous was?
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The following is a quote from your visit to Liberty University last March, “Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting, they’re staying home. Imagine instead, millions of people of faith across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.” Your implication appears to be that in doing so, it would ensure Christian values would then be the law of the land if they were to vote for you. Would you be equally comfortable with that statement were those values to belong to a Muslim majority? A Mormon majority? A Jewish majority? Do you or do you not believe in the free exercise of religion clause in the first amendment, and if so, how do you ensure minority religions who share a different set of values are not prohibited from that free exercise of their religion by the imposition of Christian values you propose to protect? Are you not, in effect, ignoring the establishment clause and promoting a "preferred" religion through that action?
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LCDR (Join to see)
Just a one liner, but this is probably the toughest question I've seen on this site.
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Why is the GOP fighting each other and not doing everything they can to decimate the two democrat clown/criminal?
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The last time a Republican was President of the United States, he left office with two extremely unpopular overseas wars, one of the worst economic crises in American history, and a job approval rating of 22%. Yet debate after debate all I hear from the Republican candidates is how the country is worse off *now* than it was eight years ago. Can you cite anything that shows America was objectively, statistically healthier in 2009 than it is today? And if you can't, why should you or any member of your party be entrusted with running the Executive Branch?
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PO2 Lisa Thomas
He wouldn't draft women. "Listen, we have had enough with political correctness, especially in the military. Political correctness is dangerous. And the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think is wrong. It is immoral and if I’m president we ain’t doing it."
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Sir, my understanding is that you wish to privatize our VA. I sternly disagree with his approach and being the voice of the people are you willing to redirect your stance and, as we do in the military, what is your contingency?
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Senator Cruz, In your church you are an "anointed King" and you are supposed to bring 7 aspects of American society under control of the Church, and then impose the transfer of wealth from the wicked to others. What aspects of American society are to be taken over, and who are the wicked, and who will be receiving their wealth?
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