Ted Cruz's New National Security Team Includes Establishment Insider Elliott Abrams

In a statement released on March 17, the campaign of presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced “a high-profile national security coalition that will advise Cruz (shown) on foreign policy issues.” The announcement spotlighted three members of the team — former Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.), former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, and former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams.Of these, Abrams is the most problematic for constitutional conservatives, who are Cruz’s staunchest supporters, since Abrams is the very personification of the “Washington establishment” that Cruz has frequently condemned.The biographical information for Abrams offered in the Cruz announcement notes:Elliott Abrams was an assistant...