Since we left him a week and half ago he has been to New Hampshire once again, spent some time in Washington introducing legislation that would limit the powers of federal courts to overturn defense of marriage amendments to state constitutions (basically arguing that the courts cannot override the people's right to decide the gay marriage question and making it solely a state issue), and hopefully has been taking some time off the campaign trail to get some beef into his diet. He's looked a little peaked these days and the head physician of the Mystery Tour, Doctor Robert (who else!) is thinking maybe the chicken rich diet of life on the trail has left him slightly anemic.
He's also been on the defensive. Apparently at the First in The Nation Leadership Summit he said that he has been "pressing" John McCain to allow legislation that would allow soldiers to carry personal weapons on military bases (which I think is a rather horrible idea -- I get it, I get it, those who defend our rights should in theory be able to exercise that right themselves, but I think it would lead to bad things....), and John McCain in his wry John McCain way said he has done no such thing. So Ted hopped on a Jet to New York for an interview on Fox News to back track his comments. It seems that has buried it.
In recent days he's started playing long ball, addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas Nevada and then hopping on a plane to speak at the Faith and Freedom Forum in Waukee, Iowa. Rick Perry joined him in Vegas but most everyone in the GOP mixer was at the Faith and Freedom Forum, including Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee who are probably less running for president and probably more trying to sell a book. Cruz did say that the Democratic Party was a home for liberal fascism, trying to impose its views on an unwilling populous but I will let other people in the blogosphere chew on that one for a bit.
No word on if he enjoyed any of the night life in Las Vegas, but he could always argue that he just left his hotel to get a sandwich and merely got confused, and ended up somewhere where he shouldn't have been.
He has traveled 13,700 miles, been on the road 23 days, and eaten probably on the order of 17 lbs of catered conference chicken. As of 4/16 46,871 people have donated money to the Ted Cruz campaign by its own reckoning, and he has $3.5 million cash in hand.
It isn't enough. While Hillary Clinton is making videos like this that have actual music and editing and like direction and people and stuff:
Ted Cruz is left making these 30 second snippets from whatever dreary hotel room he happens to be in. Here is the one he posted to his twitter page when he left Las Vegas for Waukee:
God bless him, poor little man.
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