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.
Ha....."Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s....
...and he showed the coin with Caeser's image on it....
And Tom Cruz said..."Verily...and I say to you...the coin of the real is inscribed "In God We Trust"
“Tom Cruz?” Hahahahaha!
Like I posted on another thread. . . .
Matthew 10:32-33
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven
WIN OR LOSE, TED GETS IT. MAY WE ALL BE SO BOLD!
Just saw the ad. 30 second spot.
Go Ted, go!
This thread has no room for somebody synonymous with an acidic solution a female might use to cleanse on a warm evening, and the bag that comes with it.
Killing Jesus was/is on tonight, so some ads have run. Great ad buy.. the left is dreading this as they have zero inroads into the Christian vote.
What was the main theme of the ad, thanks in advance?
It appeared to me to be an introductory ad, also proclaiming faith and how it brought his family together.
I am crushed. You have destroyed me. I think I will curl up in a little ball and cry myself to sleep.
Love it. He’s doing Reagan’s bold colors thing.
Cruz ad:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/03/this-is-our-fight-heres-ted-cruzs-first-campaign-ad/
Thank you!
2ndDVV: is there an update of that donations graphic for Cruz, the one you first posted last week? The one that showed a huge donor base in SoCal? Thank you in advance, too!
Politically correct also.
I noticed all the powerful people are shown as white tyrannical thugs, and the poor opressed innocents are black, or people of color other than white.
How is it ? Jesus here is portrayed as ethic person of color ? When his very cozen was portrayed as white ?
A lot of things in this movie is not in the bible, is this movie from one of the newer translations of the bible ? The PC translation of the bible ?
I haven’t seen one since then, but I’ll keep an eye out.
So exactly what was the prominent ethnicity of the Ruling Romans during those times?
My goodness. Hyperbole by another card carrying member of the ‘liberal’ machine.
I honestly believe I am in wonderland. The fight for this country is on and I pray for those like Senator Cruz who are willing to stand up for our constitution.
Roman, but Chelsie Grammer as King Herod in this movie and his son was white.
The Pharisees were portrayed as white, but the poor woman caught in adultery was a person of color.
Real = realm
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