First Hispanic for President
Posted on 03/23/2015 2:45:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
With the announcement of Ted Cruz's candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination and his speech at the convocation of the ultra-conservative Liberty University, the country finds itself jilted to the right on the ideological spectrum. Ted Cruz is quite the curious ideological torchbearer precisely because he is Latino.
The general assumption in politics is that growing Hispanic Latino participation in politics will only mean an ideological shift to the left. This makes Ted Cruz' candidacy a welcome reminder that Latino candidates won't, for good or bad, necessarily stray from traditional American politics any time soon.
The son of Cuban immigrants and born in Canada, Ted Cruz is a marked contrast to recent Christian-based candidates such as Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. This time, the Christian conservative standard bearer not only comes with intellectual heft, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, but from a foreign country.
Mr. Cruz is a throwback to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority evangelical movement, which began in the 1970's, but grew in earnest in the 1990's. Mr. Falwell founded Liberty University, and Cruz' sermon on Falwell's mount was a call to arms for evangelicals across the country.
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Fast forward and we are now faced with an ultra-conservative Latino with degrees from two of the most sophisticated universities in the world. Conservatives should not have been worried about Hispanics, Latinos are happily ensconced in our American political system.
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Demoncrats won’t vote for anyone that does not look like anyone on the currency.
Cruz will be on Hannity tonight for the full hour.
Demoncrats won’t vote for anyone that does not look like anyone on the currency.
Just checked wikipedia and it says that his mom is 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Italian. She was born in Wilmington, DE.
Good grief! Irish-Cuban with a twist of Italian! No wonder he’s such a fighter!
It’s a shame that many Latinos are racist enough to vote for Cruz just because he’s Cuban, and that others will vote against him just because the media have told them that republicans are bad people. The most useful thing we can do in the next generation is work to eliminate both kinds of prejudice. I look forward to a world in which we will judge the next Ted Cruz by the content of his character and not the color of his skin (a concept that democrats pretend would be racist).
This is just the opening salvo of misinformation from NBC. Brace yourselves because this is just the beginning. Soon it will be our turn to call Democrats, “birthers”. They ran a guy with no credible history or documentation and trashed anyone who wanted answers.
He’s from a foreign country. Run, people! A foreigner! Oooh, and a “throwback” too!
Hehe!
Drive By media at work. Looking forward to seeing their shocked face. GO TED!!
Romney will endorse amnesty pimp and loser Jeb Bush and McCain will endorse his butt buddy and fellow loser Linda Grahamnesty.
She was a US Citizen from Delaware.
Our strength is no liberal wants to say anything to Cruz’ face, they’ve witnessed what a shredding he returns to them.
First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.
I just look forward to the day when the media looks like this when Cruz sweeps the nation:
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Thought she was born in Delaware.
:: snort ::
Yeah, the Leftist schemers and plotters are indeed "faced" with that. Lean back, take a sip of whiskey and listen to their heads exploding! LOL!
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