Cruz: Republicans are not the “condom police”

Republican U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor Jeb Bush (L) speaks as U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (2nd L), businessman Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson (R) listen during the debate held by Fox Business Network for the top 2016 U.S. Republican presidential candidates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 10, 2015. “If Osama bin Laden was calling someone in the United States, we would want to know that because I promise you his wasn’t his stockbroker he was calling”.

Catherine Lane/Catherine Lane via iStock Pile of condoms.

Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday, Trump said, “When you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security”. “50 cents in and voila!” “Anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, yet it’s an utterly made-up nonsense issue”, Cruz stated to the almost 300 people within the room.

Cruz said Clinton is running as the “condom police” to distract from other policies and “scare” voters. At the Iowa event, the senator said he’s never met “any conservative who wants to ban contraceptives” – Cruz might want to chat with Rick Santorum – but the Texan’s focus was exclusively on condoms.

“I think what we’re struggling with as a country is how to protect Americans and also protect Americans, but also protect their individual liberties and their privacy expectations”, he added.

Unlike Rubio, Cruz said has refrained from going after Trump. Cruz asked. “You go, ‘Ah, ha!”

The answer, of course, is that there are other forms of contraception, and women’s access to them would be curtailed by the GOP agenda. “And I actually think the men and women in this room have something powerful to say about it”.

“Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth”. “Rubio hasn’t actualized that support, while Cruz is gaining support in Iowa, which is what he needs to do if he is going to make his move”.

Ever since the shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, Democrats have been seizing the political opportunities presented by the tragedy and seeking to steer the national conversation away from things like terrorism and immigration and back to their comfort zone of abortion and “women’s health”.

Since then, Cruz has stoked Tea Party support while irritating Democrats and fellow Republicans, notably when his push to defund the Affordable Care Act led to a two-week-long shutdown of the federal government in 2013.

When asked in July about whether he would champion a budget showdown over pulling funds from Planned Parenthood, Cruz said, “I would support any and all legislative efforts to defund Planned Parenthood”.