Conservative Values

The tenth annual Values Voter Summit was held last month in Washington, D.C. About 2,700 religious conservatives registered to attend the event.

The Summit was created in 2006 “to provide a forum to help inform and mobilize citizens across America to preserve the bedrock values of traditional marriage, religious liberty, sanctity of life and limited government that make our nation strong.” CNN described it as “one of the conservative movement’s marquee annual events” and Sean Hannity called it “the premier conservative event now in the country.” This year’s event featured old guard conservatives like Bill Bennett, Gary Bauer, and Oliver North as well as current Republican presidential candidates Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump.

For the third straight year, Ted Cruz won the Values Voters Summit presidential straw poll. Of the 1,161 conference attendees voting, he received 408 votes, or 35 percent. The complete results are as follows:

Funny that comrade Bernie received more votes than either Chris Christie or Lindsey Graham.weapons. (Cheers, applause.) And if the ayatollah doesn’t understand that, we may have to help introduce him to his 72 virgins. (Cheers, applause.)

Cruz also maintained in his speech that after he is elected president: “We will rebuild our military. We will honor the commitments made to our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines. (Cheers, applause.).”

Ted Cruz may be one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate, he may be pro-life, he may be intelligent, he may have conservative social values, he may be for limited government, he may be for the Constitution, he may be a great father, he may be a great husband, he may be for less government regulation, he may be for the free market, he may be good on “so many issues,” he may even be a nice guy—but he is a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, incorrigible, bloodthirsty warmonger and militarist. He is the Sean Hannity of the Senate.

So, what does this say about the 35 percent of conservatives at the Values Voters Summit who want Ted Cruz to be president? Either they hold the same conservative values as Ted Cruz when it comes to the military and foreign policy or they don’t think these things are important. Perhaps they just don’t even care.

Cursed be conservative values.