Posted on 04/03/2015 5:34:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend. The GOP presidential hopeful bought air time during FOX News’ “Killing Jesus” program, which is adapted from Bill O’Reilly’s book by the same title. Cruz also purchased advertising time to run campaign commercials during NBC’s ”A.D.: The Bible Continues”, on Easter Sunday. The NBC ads will run in the targeted early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
In the first week after Cruz formally announced his entry into the 2016 presidential race, the Texas Senator has raised about four million dollars in campaign contributions. Senator Cruz announced his candidacy at Liberty University, a religious college founded by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell.
By running campaign ads during Easter Weekend programming that targets Christian viewers, Cruz is continuing his efforts to court Right-wing evangelical voters. The Cruz campaign expects a number of Christian conservatives will tune into Easter weekend, Jesus-themed programs. According to The Washington Post, one Cruz adviser stated, ”for the impact, it’s crazy not to buy this”.
Senator Cruz is competing with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, for the hardcore Christian conservative vote. A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released on April 1, 2015, finds Ted Cruz ahead of both Huckabee and Carson nationally. The poll found Cruz in the top tier of candidates with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Although the poll did not survey religious affiliation, it did find that Cruz was the most popular candidate with “very conservative” voters. With that demographic, Cruz led with 33 percent support, to 25 percent for Scott Walker, and 12 percent for Ben Carson. Jeb Bush, who is deeply distrusted by hard-line Christian conservatives, garnered just 4 percent of support from “very conservative” voters.
Senator Ted Cruz has made it very clear that he is willing to mix religion and politics, in order to propel his candidacy. His campaign will run ads on Easter Weekend in an explicit attempt to target Christian conservative voters. Whether his appeal will be successful or not remains to be seen. However, given the Religious Right’s willingness to support the most extreme Republican candidates, Cruz’s strategy probably makes sense politically, at least for the primary campaign.
His willingness to marry politics to religion, however, may prove more double-edged in a general election. Voters who believe in the separation between religion and the state, are likely to be turned off by Cruz’s implicit willingness to turn the United States into a theocracy.
Yeah right. ‘...his willingness to turn the United States into a theocracy.’
[Voters who believe in the separation between religion and the state, are likely to be turned off by Cruz’s implicit willingness to turn the United States into a theocracy.]
MSM?
TED CRUZ - “One Nation Under God” - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
I question his judgement as far as pinning his name to this heretical garbage.
I watched it for 5 minutes and changes the channel.
No, but some liberals I know say that, if elected, Cruz will round up all the atheists and agnostics and inter them in concentration camps.
The godless libs are having a cow.
The media are not really delving into what Supreme Leaders are, in support of their Supreme Being getting a ‘deal’ finalized with a Theocracy, well unless it has to do with a suddenly highly popular Republican Presidential Candidate...
Ping to the article. He’s trying to rebuild the Reagan coalition.
These writers are so brainwashed.
It's as if they believe Christians really shouldn't be allowed to vote. A Christian voting is somehow a first amendment violation, but forcing a Christian to pay for an abortion against his religion is just fine and dandy.
Ted Cruz is by far my first choice but he needs to find a way to not appear so smug. I can see how that irritates people. He’s smart enough to find a way to do it.
"Believe" is the correct word, since neither the phrase nor the concept appears in the Constitution.
I remember telling that to a liberal co-worker, and her jaw dropped.
Huh?
What?
...that really hurt Obama, didn't it!
Oh, now I get it. You don’t mean his ad, you mean Ted Baxter’s movie. He’s not endorsing the movie, he’s taking advantage of a certain type of viewer.
It probably has hurt Obama but not nearly as much as it should have. What’s your point? Compare Cruz to Obama? They shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.
I am overjoyed that you have no part in Cruz’s decisions on how to spend his money for you are clueless.
That’s not smugness. That’s confidence.
I am a saved Christian. You are a Catholic. Your opinion is worthless.
I’m a Protestant, same as you I gather, but that was uncalled for.
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