I remember vividly an episode of the original Star Trek television series entitled “Errand of Mercy”, in which the USS Enterprise receives coded orders that revealed negotiations with the Klingon Kingdom have all but disintegrated. Thus, the Enterprise is ordered down to Organia, a tranquil planet in Klingon-coveted territory (a sort of Cosmic Kashmir), in order to prevent the Klingons from obtaining it for their own sinister purposes, primarily as a war base.

En route, the Enterprise receives Klingon fire, but returns it hundredfold, destroying its attacker while the Enterprise sustains only nominal damage. Later, Lt. Uhura receives a message from Star-fleet Command: “War with the Klingons has begun”, and Captain Kirk, having already shifted into warrior mode, demonstrates great tenacity to reach Organia "before the hammer falls."

The Captain has his orders (and his conscience); to do whatever necessary in order to protect the culture from the strong arm rule of a malevolent dictatorship for purposes of control, and extinction of those who refuse to comply, but in a short time finds himself in a position where he is pressured to lay aside his common sense, his ideology, and his razor-honed skills as a Star-ship Commander; and for a necessary and calculated time, coerced to play a game of “mental chess” with Gov. Zor. But the Captain will later go on to “back Zor’s king into a corner” and declare, Checkmate!

Upon filling in the Organian representatives with the certain likelihood of their demise should they ultimately fail to fathom the severity of the situation, and continually being met with staunch, but measured resistance to “their brand” of engagement, he decrees to the Organian Council of Elders—to Chairman Ayelborne specifically—“I’m a soldier, not a diplomat, I can only tell you the truth.”

And as Governor Kor, a short time later inquired—when the Captain in his UN-Organian humanity protested the antagonizing of his First Officer—“Have we a ram among the sheep?” the Captain had silently, but nevertheless positively, answered, “You better know it!” Kor had now determined that there was a bone-fide fighter in his presence, one who would not go down quietly; one whose fire would not be easily extinguished.

This is exactly what we have in Senator Cruz!

The “freshman” Senator did not cross the Potomac to go-a-politicking; he came for a just fight, a clean and dignified fight, but a fight just the same. He did not come to Washington to learn how to best cut deals, or to buddy-up with the establishment, he arrived for reformation. He did not come to learn from the “seniors”, he came to teach, or rather, re-teach what has been forgotten!

Senator Cruz will enlighten you to truth and will allow you to determine your own fate should the truth fall upon deaf ears, if you so choose, but he’ll be damned if he allow you to take the whole country down with you in the process. In this sense, he has been the rightful receiver of Rep. Dr. Paul’s baton, and not his son. Yes, the one who endorsed Mr. Romney before his father had officially withdrawn from the race; yes, the one who voted to confirm Mr. Hagel for Secretary of Defense; yes, the very one who proclaimed to illegal immigrants that “we will find a place for you;” yes, the one who recently declared that he wasn’t sure if he’ll support the new Gang of Eight immigration bill or not. And speaking of illegal immigration…

…like Mr. Brown of Massachusetts a few years before, who “used” the Tea Party for political expediency, Mr. Rubio has proven to also be a “user” and a compromiser. Where was Mr. Rubio to be found during Senator’s Paul and Cruz 13 hour drone protest? And while giving due credit to the freshman Senator from Kentucky for this effort, be reminded that it was Senator Cruz who held Holder’s feet to the fire, and pinned him against the wall, where (like out of an episode of Perry Mason), Holder couldn’t take it anymore; he couldn’t allow the obvious conclusions to be drawn without an answer, and at last, finally admitted—that to which he had been dancing around—with the heart rate of a hummingbird, that it was not Constitutional to target Americans with drones on American soil.

Ah yes, the phrase “intellectual conservative” thought to be an oxymoron, must now be shelved with the arrival of Mr. Cruz. A masterful debater at Princeton University and a legal boy-wonder at Harvard Law School; according to Mr. Alan Dershowitz, (high profile practicing attorney, author, and long time professor of law at Harvard Law School), Mr. Cruz is “off the charts brilliant!” And as Solicitor General in the State of Texas, he went on to prove just that; he was a winning litigator, and at the Supreme level!
As for Rubio and perhaps Paul, they may take their place in the ranks among Christie, Bush (Jeb, that is), and Portman in the primaries, but those of us who believe in original liberty, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, as envisioned by the Founders, will simply remain on our couches yet another election (as we did with the squishes McCain and Romney), and on our couches we’ll remain until the RNC is granted an epiphany.

James Carville, political pundit, promoter, and part-time prognosticator who has proven that he knows a “winner” when he sees one… recently made some interesting statements on Fox News regarding Senator Cruz that I believe warrant attention, first and foremost that “Ted Cruz is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in 30 years.” When other names came up for discussion on the panel (i.e. Rubio and Paul), Carville added that “Ted Cruz is going to eat their lunch…I’m telling you, he’s more talented than all these other guys.” But perhaps the most profound of all his statements was this: “I further think that he’s going to run for President and he is going to create something…he touches every button, and this guy has no fear...”

Friends, the Klingons of our day (nuance purposely injected) can be and will be defeated; America is so much better than this, we have simply been waiting for a champion in the tradition of Adams, Madison, and Roosevelt (Theodore, that is), and yes, I’ll go ahead and say it, Reagan! All indications point to Senator Cruz as this champion. If we’ll get busy, and back this horse with our time and our minds; our muscle and our breath, then we may very well be hearing our Captain Kirk declaring with a definite and final tone in 16—Checkmate!