Why Ted Cruz Fights

Amanda Muñoz | Dec 01, 2013

This piece, entitled “The People’s Player,” is featured in the December 2013 issue of Townhall Magazine.

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“There’s nothing more heartbreaking than walking out on Monday morning to get on a plane to Washington, and having both girls grab my legs and say, ‘Don’t go, Daddy.’ That’s difficult.”

It’s the first time this morning GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s face drops, as he chats with Townhall during an exclusive interview. Photos of smiling Caroline, 5, and Catherine, 2, flash in the background of his screen saver. His wife, Heidi, and their two daughters remain at the family home in Houston; and Cruz commutes to and from Washington, D.C., each week, leaving Mondays after dropping the girls off at school and typically returning on a Thursday night flight.

There’s a long pause.

“It’s incredibly difficult to be away from Heidi and the girls; but at the same time, they are a big part of why I’m doing this,” Cruz continues. “In 20 years, I don’t want to look my daughters in the eye and say we allowed freedom to slip away in America, and I didn’t do anything to stop it.”

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“It’s incredibly difficult to be away from Heidi and the girls; but at the same time, they are a big part of why I’m doing this,” Cruz continues. “In 20 years, I don’t want to look my daughters in the eye and say we allowed freedom to slip away in America, and I didn’t do anything to stop it.”(emphasis Rev's)

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I believe this statement by Senator Cruz is his genuine motivation for the stand that he has taken.

His words are a Reaganenque echo of a conservative ethos from the 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech.

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here.
We did all that could be done." - Ronald Reagan

RINO bipartisanship, MSM political image and Beltway dinner invitations be damned. Ted Cruz has purposed in his heart that the future of our progeny and our Country are paramount.