Ted Cruz Puts Tim Kaine On BLAST For Equating America With Theocratic Iran

Tim Kaine may have thought he was taking a swipe at those pesky Christians, it has become fashionable to hate in Democrat circles, but the former Veep candidate should go home and re-read our founding documents.

In Senate hearings yesterday, Tim Kaine found it ‘troubling’ that there are actually some people out there who believe that rights are not granted to the hoi polloi from on high by elected officials, but that they have intrinsic rights that can be reasoned and understood by way of something called Natural Law.

Our rights don’t come from government or the DNC.

They come from God. @timkaine, I suggest the Dems go back and read the words of our Founding Fathers. pic.twitter.com/QRmhTcbbOH

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 3, 2025

The left’s objection to the very foundations of the American form of government is not a new development. We go all the way back to halcyon days of President George HW Bush, when Joe Biden didn’t have the excuse of age and infirmity to fall back on for the poor functioning of his mental faculties, where he planted a similar flag in opposition to Natural Law in the context of the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Here’s a clip with Joe Biden attempting to sound profound, together Justice Thomas’s hilarious reflections on Biden’s pontifications.

Today was payback;
Clarence Thomas.
“Joe Biden doesn’t even know what he is even talking about”. pic.twitter.com/1rsAiilvLR

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) June 30, 2023

What’s notable, but sadly not astonishing, is that Tim Kaine and Joe Biden were both chosen to serve as Vice Presidents, with Joe going on to become a figurehead sock puppet for four years after that. Neither man understood natural law. They rose to the tippy-top of their party’s politics, and even the nation’s politics, without the vaguest understanding of what it REALLY meant to be an American.

Either Natural Law is legitimate, or both the War of Independence and the documents that flowed from the resolution of that war — including both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — are have zero moral legitimacy. There are certain hard-left revolutionary movements that are itching for America to adopt that view so they can burn it all down and start over. Have you looked at Portland lately?

But Dems are now abandoning the moral logic that went on to build the world’s most successful Constitution, which has survived well over 200 years, and was immortalized by Thomas Jefferson.

Without the moral logic of Natural Law, how are any of the following words possible? The first paragraph, sets reasonable boundaries for self-determination in calling for an orderly rejection of the status quo that can be defended by force of arms if necessary. The second paragraph enumerates the natural rights violated by unjust laws and an unjust government.  This letter is an assertion of a free people’s right to revoke the consent of the governed.

How fitting that the party that just finished four years of unjust mandates and coercive silencing of speech rejects the notion that a free people can demand a restrained government.

But let us return to the words that began it all, nearly 250 years ago, of which the opening lines are as follows:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

They were making a legal case against a king who, by unjust rule, had forfeited his right to rule his people.

That’s Natural Law. The role of Government itself, as serving the greater task of preserving such rights as ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’, is defined by the Declaration itself.

Kaine, and others like him, have it exactly backwards.