No one else is bringing this kind of comprehensive package to the table

Everyone, from disinterested observers to foaming-at-the-mouth Freedom-Haters to oh-so-savvy number-crunching wonks on "our side" will react to this with the expected "It's impossible to put a figure like that into the final arena of modern presidential politics" assessment.



Here's what's wrong with their assessment: They assume that post-modern post-American society is so far gone with its relativism, its prioritization of "fairness" over liberty, its utter lack of understanding of the role history has handed America, that it will immediately dismiss this great man as cartoonish and marginal.



They are wrong.  We on the Right venerate our beloved spokespeople a little differently from the way it's done on the Left.  On the Left, they lionize the likes of the Most Equal Comrade or the H-Word Creature based on identity politics and the basic leftist affinity for anybody who talks a good game about wealth redistribution or a new "enlightened" arrangement of the world stage.  And inevitably the bloom comes off the rose of someone adored on such a basis.



We scream and pump our fists over our heroes based on their adherence to time-honored truths about human nature and the human creature's relationship to almighty God.  We receive as nectar from the fountain of common sense and wisdom clearly thought-out and courageously expressed words of our spokespeople, because we truly love human freedom.  It's our own sovereignty, and everybody's that gets us fired up.



Ted Cruz is my first choice for a 2016 presidential candidate for the same reason Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Allen West, Michelle Malkin and John Bolton occupy my pantheon of heroes.  Yes, all these figures are ridiculed with a regularity and viciousness that would sear the senses of self-worth of beings of any less stoutness.  But these people understand what's really important in this universe.  Their cause is mine, and there's not a poll or opinion piece or Facebook exchange that could ever change that.