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GOA Endorses Ted Cruz


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Dear Kevin,

 

Its easy to forget the cold, dark days of winter, 2013.

 

The horrific tragedy of Newtown had touched the hearts of the nation, and every news outlet -- every one -- was blaming the Second Amendment community for what happened there.

 

GOA was receiving death threats -- not only against us, but against our children. Even Fox News was opining that the battle against Bloombergs gun control was hopeless, as every news outlet spent every hour of the day predicting that our organization -- and the gun manufacturers lobby [sic] in general -- would be absolutely and totally destroyed.

 

It was in this context that Senator Ted Cruz agreed to lead a team of senators to defeat every word -- EVERY WORD -- of Bloomberg/Obama gun control.

 

Working with us, Cruz implemented a brilliant strategy which used the complex rules of parliamentary procedure to send Barack Obama and Harry Reid running with their tails between their legs.

 

And the Cruz/GOA victory emboldened gun owners to take the Senate away from the anti-gun crazies in 2014 and return it to pro-Second Amendment principles.

 

Make no mistake: Had Ted Cruz not done what he did, the gun rights community would have been completely demoralized and defeated.

 

We would have been unable to achieve the electoral victories that we won in 2014, and instead, we would have been fighting desperately to fend off the succession of follow-up gun control measures that Bloomberg and Obama promised.

 

But thats not the way history unfolded.

 

Because of Cruz, the efforts to enact gun registration and gun and magazine bans were stopped in the Senate.

 

And with Gun Owners of America supporting Cruz strategy, the liberal media blasted GOA for helping him defeat gun control in the Senate:

 

* Democrats Blame Gun Owners of America for Gun Control Setback. -- TPM, April 8, 2013

 

* The group [GOA] has already been successful in both freezing senators, particularly Republicans, who have appeared to be on the fence about supporting bills to expand background checks. -- New York Times, April 3, 2013

 

* When Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, backed away from bipartisan talks to expand background checks earlier this year, he did so after Gun Owners of America and its members flooded the senator's office with e-mails and phone calls. --Slate, April 4, 2013

 

But that's not all.

 

Cruz rapidly followed up our victory over gun control by leading the effort to kill Marco Rubios anti-gun Gang of Eight amnesty bill.

 

Cruz did that by arranging to have the Senate-passed bill blue-slipped in the House as an unconstitutional Senate-initiated revenue measure.

 

Furthermore, Cruz put a hold on the Senate calendar to prevent Harry Reid from secretly trying to stick the unconstitutional Senate measure onto a minor House-initiated revenue bill.

 

Had Cruz not implemented our successful strategy, up to 11,000,000 new anti-gun voters would have turned the entire country into an anti-gun utopia comparable to California.

 

Of course, none of this was a surprise to us. Cruz had helped argue the Heller case. And as a result of Cruz advocacy and the arguments of other top Second Amendment attorneys, the Supreme Court has now recognized this fundamental truth: The Second Amendment is a God-given individual right applicable to all Americans.

 

Marco Rubio is a good-hearted articulate young man who, as he gains more experience, could have a great future in the Republican Party.

 

But his inexperience in negotiating with Senator Chuck Schumer over the Gang of Eight amnesty bill almost cost us EVERYTHING. Had Marco succeeded in giving a path to citizenship for 11,000,000 anti-gun voters, we would have been on a glide-path that ultimately would have made our battle for gun rights hopeless.

 

Help GOA elect strong pro-gun candidates who are like Ted Cruz.

 

Similarly, many of our good-hearted friends have been inspired by Donald Trumps willingness to stand up to the feckless Republican establishment.

 

But, if he were to gain the nomination, we just dont know where Trump would be on the Second Amendment.

 

In his autobiography, Trump endorsed the semi-auto ban and a longer waiting period on firearms purchases. And, caught unaware by a questioner, he endorsed Chuck Schumers plan to take away guns from anyone Barack Obama chose to put on a secret list -- which suggests he doesn't understand some of the seminal issues which face us.

 

And now Trump is bragging about the deals heck make specifically with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Thats REALLY SCARY.

 

So, in short, thats why we believe Ted Cruz is the ONLY REAL CHOICE for gun owners.

 

In head-on-heads, Cruz does well against Hillary Clinton -- unlike the incendiary Trump. Thus, he has a better chance of uniting the base and winning the election -- rather than going down in a burst of flames.

 

And, when he arrives at the White House on January 20, the entire wretched legacy of Barack Obama will be repealed -- on Day 1.

 

For this reason, Gun Owners of America urges you, in the strongest possible terms, to support Ted Cruz for president tomorrow.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tim Macy

Chairman

Gun Owners of America

I will be voting for Ted Cruz on Tuesday, I hope you all do as well.

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I think if anything, Cruz helped prevent a sour-grapes nullification of the election by Gore and the Democrats bent on the destruction of the Constitution.

Every court challenge and every ballot count, as I recall, were in support of a fair and honest election of GW Bush over Gore.

Bush wasn't perfect by any means but he was much better than Gore would've been.

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Everybody makes dumb mistakes and I thought his blaming Trump for the riots was stupid.

However, that's a severely minor foible compared to the HUGE mistake we'd be making in electing Hillary or Bernie and I'm of the opinion that having Trump as the Republican nominee would hand one of them the victory.

Consider instead, who's had the conservative agenda's back for the longest out of the six remaining candidates? Without question you have to say Cruz.

Are any of the other five better qualified to be Commander in Chief? To select Supreme Court Justices, To take the fight to the bureaucracy? To do what he or she says?

 

Ted has established a history of telling the truth, saying what he'll do to fix the problems, and then doing what he says.

 

Rubio and Kasich are establishment tools, the kind that have led us into the current mess we're in. Hillary and Bernie? That's just four more years of Obama or even worse.

Trump? Until just a very few years ago he was promoting a traditional liberal democratic agenda and supporting Hillary and Obama. Now suddenly he's seen the light? Sorry, I need to see more consistency before I'll buy the conversion.

 

For those of you who say Ted is too far to the right, did you say the same thing about Obama when he was elected? Did you vote for him then?

Our problem is that we've moved so far to the left that we now find ourselves needing an extreme right candidate just to bring us back to the center. A centrist/moderate can never do more than slide us slightly less left, or hold us where we are. We need much more than that at this point in our history.

 

It's Cruz for me despite any 'rat-faced', 'unlikeable', or other undesirable qualities he might have. As far as him holding up a Bible and then lying? I'm not aware of any intentional lies he's told and every candidate has mispoken on at least one occasion in their race.

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In the wake of the Ben Carson incident The fact that Ted Cruz was not willing to scapegoat his campaign aides and only fired one when he blatantly lied maliciously about Rubio. This fact would indicate that he is likely to treat subordinates justly rather than to scapegoat someone for a mistake due to misreading a headline compounded by not seeing Ben Carson's Twitter feed.

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What got me is that Cruz claims he "won" Heller. That's a bit of a stretch. But I did vote for him because I'm not a huge Trump fan and Rubio....well let's just say I didn't like any of my options heh.

 

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In the wake of the Ben Carson incident The fact that Ted Cruz was not willing to scapegoat his campaign aides and only fired one when he blatantly lied maliciously about Rubio. This fact would indicate that he is likely to treat subordinates justly rather than to scapegoat someone for a mistake due to misreading a headline compounded by not seeing Ben Carson's Twitter feed.

 

Carson was a loser anyway, he supports Cook County / Chicago styled gun control.

 

And what is with all the R&R he was taking.

 

He took time off in November and December which killed his campaign, the again after Iowa and other elections more R&R.

 

R&R does not win elections.

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