Rebel and Designated Driver: Ted Cruz and A Time for Truth

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December 31, 2015

Rebel and Designated Driver: Ted Cruz and A Time for Truth

By Fritz Pettyjohn

A Time for Truth doesn't tell us a lot about Ted Cruz that we didn't know or suspect. But the bare outline he gives of his personal story is enough to get a read on him. As a man, and a politician, he doesn't appear to be that complicated.

 

As a young man, Felito Cruz had the same problem he has today. He had no social grace. He was geeky, a bit of a dork; awkward, contrived. He gave himself a new name -- Ted -- but it didn't help.

 

He stands in awe of his father Rafael, an altogether admirable man, who put his life on the line in attempting to overthrow the Batista regime in Cuba. For his trouble he had his teeth kicked in, his nose broken, and barely avoided the firing squad. A marked man even as a teenager, he fled to the United States, where through the dint of hard work and native intelligence he made a life for himself with his American wife. Dissatisfied, he left her and their children, only to return asking forgiveness. He had found Christ, and was born again.