Posted on 05/11/2015 5:38:59 PM PDT by VinL
...What first struck me about the interview was not so much the objectively asinine questions Halperin asked but his obvious motive and attitude in asking them. Aside from a few throwaways, all of his questions were aimed at exposing Cruz as an inauthentic Hispanic. And as insulting as that is, there is something more noteworthy about it that some are missing in all the hubbub about the interview.
Halperin’s unstated premise underlying his questions is that one cannot have a bona fide Hispanic heritage if he doesn’t continue to bathe himself in the Hispanic culture and view American politics from a Hispanic prism. If you are ethnically Hispanic but have assimilated into American culture and embrace the American idea of government, you ought not be entitled to lay claim to your ethnicity or to receive support from the Hispanic community. Halperin and his liberal friends apply the same standards to assess African-American candidacies.
Cruz showed extraordinary class and restraint in fielding these boorish questions, but what was even more gratifying to me was that in his answers, he implicitly, though emphatically, rejected Halperin’s assumptions, making clear that though he is proud of his ethnicity and considers his Cuban-American father his hero, he is a full-blooded American, proud of the Constitution and the liberties it protects.
At every turn, Halperin was trying to discredit Cruz as a Hispanic by trying to trap him into revealing...
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"Democrats and liberals are genuinely afraid of Ted Cruz because he is a class act, poised and unflappably enthusiastic about the American dream and will pursue an agenda to reverse Obama’s “transformational changes” and restore opportunity for all Americans, irrespective of race, creed, color, ethnicity, gender or religion."
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Gop-e, too!
Would Halperin ask Obama if he likes watermelon and fried chicken to see if he s a “genuine” black man?
Hopefully Ted will have the LSM crying for mercy before it’s over.
VERY good point!
Watch Halpren, he seemed more and more unhappy as the interview progressed.
Gop-e, too!
The RNC/GOP is the more serious obstacle for Ted Cruz.
If he can be nominated, he will win.
The Cheap Labor Express will spare no expense to get their amnesty candidate.
Would Halperin ask Obama if he likes watermelon and fried chicken to see if he s a “genuine” black man?
Heck, all the media would have had to do would be to ask Obama if he had any black people in his life before age 10! He did not! Then ask about the ONE black person in his life from age 10-18! PLEASE!! It was his communist, bisexual, pedophile mentor, Frank Marshall Davis!!!!!!!
Talk about inauthentic. Obama had a pure white upbringing with some Muslim Asian thrown in. And the only black man he had anything to do with HATED AMERICA and raped the young lad repeatedly. But no one save Sean Hannity ever mentioned old Frank in 2007.
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We have NEVER seen this extent of poise and unflappability against an unfriendly media in a bono fide conservative as we are seeing in Ted Cruz. Ted is uncommonly professional and deft.
No platitudes, no attitude, just mortal combat made to look effortless, even easy.
We don’t have to hold our breath with Ted, worried and wondering, will he hold up or will he know the answer, do we?
Gad, what a relief! I believe this is not the type of talent to be run off, couched, or otherwise banished to the hills by anybody. Ever.
Sure did, you’re right.
“We have NEVER seen..”
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And that’s a fact, Rita, pure and simple. And what makes it most exciting is that “this is it”. If Cruz can’t make the argument for constitutional conservatism and the Founders’ concept of federalism, then, it can no longer be made.
Ted Cruz Ping! Bump
Can’t wait for Ted to tear ‘em up in the debates. He’ll take on all comers.
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