"As Goeglein
recounts, in 1999 while working as a Bush for President campaign aide, Ted Cruz
helped broker a deal with one of the top architects of the religious right -
Paul Weyrich - who Cruz appears to at the time been a personal friend of. The
deal Cruz brokered enabled the Bush campaign to lock down the Christian
conservative vote and so edge out other contenders for the nomination,
including Senator John McCain.
"The fact
that Ted Cruz, then only 29 years old, helped swing the 2000 election, because
he was a personal friend to Paul Weyrich - a titan of the new right and
religious right who helped create much of the early infrastructure that powers
the current conservative movement - including the Moral Majority, the Heritage
Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is
astonishing. Cruz also served on the elite team of lawyers fighting the legal
battle that revolved around the disputed Florida vote recount in the 2000
election."
