Senator Tim Kaine tried to sound profound at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, but instead he embarrassed himself. He claimed that the idea our rights come from God — not from government — was “troubling” and even compared it to Iran’s theocracy. That’s right, Kaine actually likened Jefferson’s most famous line in the Declaration of Independence to the Ayatollahs. Only a Democrat could twist America’s founding principles into some dystopian sermon about religious tyranny.
Enter Ted Cruz With a History Lesson
Cruz wasn’t having it. The Texas senator reminded Kaine that the very words he called “radical and dangerous” are literally the foundation of this country. Quoting Jefferson, Cruz dropped the hammer: “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.” Case closed. Cruz didn’t just debate Kaine — he nuked his entire argument with the most famous sentence in American history.
When Democrats Forget Their Own History
Kaine’s problem is simple: Democrats worship government as the giver of rights, the provider of benefits, the almighty source of freedom. That’s why his brain short-circuited when someone reminded him that God, not Washington D.C., is the foundation of liberty. His desperate attempt to spin this into a “dangerous theocracy” talking point only proved how far left the Democrats have drifted. Spoiler alert: quoting Jefferson does not equal calling for Sharia law.
Government’s Real Role: Protect, Not Create
This is where Cruz flattened Kaine’s entire premise. Our rights come from God, but government exists to protect those rights. That’s the point. The Constitution and our laws don’t hand us freedom like some gift from a politician — they defend the rights we already have. When the law fails, like when slavery was legal, the moral truth of God-given rights still stands. If you put government in charge of “creating” rights, then those rights vanish the moment government changes its mind. That’s tyranny, and that’s exactly what the Founders wanted to prevent.
The Knockout Blow
By the end of the exchange, Kaine looked like a man who tried to spar with a heavyweight and got knocked out in the first round. Cruz shredded the nonsense, stood on the rock of America’s founding, and reminded everyone that the Democrat Party is more interested in playing identity politics than defending freedom. Jefferson would be proud. Kaine? Not so much.
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