Exactly what is Cruz's record? Voting for TPA? Increase in H1Bs by 500%? Cozying up with Graham and Romney and Goldman Sachs? He has only been in the senate for a few years and the last few months, he has been absent. The only record Cruz has is what he says he says he is going to do. In other words, a lot of talk. The only action that he has taken to advance conservatism is shutting down the government over health care. Since he was so despised by his colleagues, that quickly ended with him being disliked even more.
He has a near 100% conservative record. Don’t take my word, look it up for yourself. Besides, you would probably call me a liar.
Cruz scored 95 percent on the National Taxpayers Union’s 2013 scorecard, ranking the Texas senator third out of 100 senators. That was even slightly higher than Paul, who scored 94 percent and ranked sixth that year. Both received an “A.” (NTU has no 2014 scorecard on its website.)
Cruz did even better in the American Conservative Union ratings. Cruz got a perfect score in 2014 and 2013 and has a lifetime rating of 100 percent over his first two years in the Senate. Rand Paul scored 96 percent in both years and has a lifetime score of 98 percent over four years.
By these measures, Cruz — who helped engineer a government shutdown in 2013 in a failed effort to defund the Affordable Care Act — has a conservative voting record, contrary to what the ad says. Whether it is sufficiently conservative or too conservative we leave for others to decide.