During Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate, three of the candidates were asked about the Pentagon’s call that women be required to sign up for the draft through Selective Service.
They all voiced their approval of the plan. However, a number of Christian voters were unhappy other candidates—particularly Ted Cruz—didn’t get a chance to answer the question. So, during a town hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on Sunday afternoon, he answered it anyway.
“We have had enough with political correctness, especially in the military. Political correctness is dangerous,” he said. “And the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think, is wrong. It is immoral.”
His campaign followed up with a complete policy statement a short time later:
“It was striking that three different people on that [debate] stage came out in support of drafting women into combat in the military. And I have to admit as I was sitting there listening to that conversation, my reaction was: ‘Are you guys nuts?’
“Listen, we have had enough with political correctness, especially in the military. Political correctness is dangerous. And the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think is wrong. It is immoral, and if I’m president, we ain’t doing it.
I’m the father of two little girls, I love those girls with all of my heart, they are capable of doing anything in their heart’s desire, but the idea that their government would forcibly put them in a foxhole with a 220-pound psychopath trying to kill them doesn’t make any sense at all. It is yet one more sign of this politically correct world, where we forget common sense.
“We got to get back to common sense. We’ve got to get back to a president that says, ‘No, that doesn’t make any sense.'”
