Ted Cruz actually said...

Does the Department believe the First Amendment protects a right to anonymous speech?

I think there is none more central to the core purposes of the First Amendment than political speech, than the ability of every American to ...

But I am here to tell you that our primary purpose is to ensure that our campaign contribution limits are robustly enforced.

And that standard should obviously apply across the board, regardless of the partisan affiliation of the speaker or the person being praised...