Ted Cruz not Acceptable. Against Pursuit of Happiness

Cruz's Positions Would Tilt G.O.P. Sharply to Right makes many compelling points for Libertarian support of Ted Cruz, primarily his youth with study of Madison, The Constitution and F. A. Hayek.  So what's not to like?  Georgetown Constitution Law Professor Randy Barnett put forth in his Cato University lectures last summer the proposition that it is the individual inalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence that drives our Constitution, a form of government expressly written and ratified to nurture and protect these rights.  Ted argues for strict reading of the Constitution with which there is Libertarian agreement but he goes wrong by ignoring the driving force of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From his study of 9th and 10th amendments he understand that rights are not delineated, spelled out.  He argues that the Constitution gives a State the ability to write a law against LBGT marriage very much in the same vein as a law prohibiting inter-racial marriage or even slavery before the 14th Amendment. A Libertarian on the other hand would not  gp down that road by supporting an ideologue that would restrict an individual's right to the pursuit of happiness.