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.
It’s time to get as dirty as the Left to get this guy the victory we all need.
After this week in IN and AR, when it became even more apparent that what is transpiring is not just the persecution of Christians, but the attempted seizure of power, it’s on.
I am in.
Ted should simply run on a platform of returning sanity to America. That will resonate with a vast majority of Americans.
Ah, there you are, you little dickens. That five minutes you watched was too Jewish for you, I guess, therefore it was definitely going to be too Catholic for you. Tough swallow, huh?
What do you mean? Where was he appearing smug, was it in the ads or elsewhere? I haven’t seen him since the roll out at the university, except in an interview or two. I didn’t think about him as smug in his announcement at all. His style is awesome in interviews. He seemed very patient and THOROUGHLY Unintimidated by the Lefty feminazi types, so I’m curious and surprised by your impression. I recorded the Easter program for later, so haven’t seen the ads.
I'll say. Such over-the-top drama. All lot of 'journalism' these days might as well be Victorian fiction.
I watched it for 5 minutes and changes the channel.
Wow - you question his judgement for getting the most bang for the buck by airing ads during shows that are apt to have a high amount of viewers-and you claim he's "pinning his name to the content of the show, which you were able to tag as "heretical garbage" after a whole 5 minutes of viewing. No wonder conservatism is losing out.
In the ad. I thought his announcement speech was remarkable.
“Senator Ted Cruz has made it very clear that he is willing to mix religion and politics,”
T the left started the War on Christians, and Cruz will help end it.
” Looks like the Walker/Bush-bots are out in force,”
They will be around for the run. I’m sure Rove & Co., and the CoC has operatives signing up as I post this.
I did too, gamecock. Reducing Jesus Christ to his mortal, historical dimension is a scandalous perversion of the fullness of His divinity. It is a misrepresentation of God.
FWIW.
Of course it's risible to speculate that Cruz wants to establish a theocracy. But if he doesn't tred carefully, the Mob will be inflamed and encouraged to believe he really does (by the usual suspects, of course).
Clueless people can easily be manipulated.
**Clueless people can easily be manipulated.**
True. I am for Cruz, but this is absurd. There are better ways to get his message out.
Indeed. But of course, I’m behind Cruz! Thank you for your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
My point is.... that Cruz can look/act/be as “smug” as he wants. Don’t let that bother you.
I am not a party voter. I am not an issues voter. I am a character voter. And my sense of Cruz is that he definitely measures up.
However, I also like Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, and Ben Carson. I think they measure up, too. Of these four men (I'm including Cruz here), only one has executive experience (Gov. Walker); two are freshman senators (like the last time — ouch!!!); and one has never held public office of any kind (Dr. Carson).
It's too early to see how this all turns out — there are just so many candidates. (Certain of whom I wish would just "go away" — e.g., Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump. That's not to say I'm not a great admirer of Gov. Huckabee. I am.)
I have mixed feelings about Rand Paul, but could vote for him if he wins the nomination. I really like Carly Fiorina, and hope she runs. I don't think she can be elected president, but might be a fine choice for Veep. Where I think she can be particularly valuable is on the debate circuit. As a woman, she can speak of HRC in frank terms and get away with it in a way that no man can.
It'll be interesting!!! Get out the popcorn....
I read “Killing Jesus” and thought it OK for the most part. I wouldn’t expect the producers of O’Reilly’s book to have been given much leeway in creative interpretation, so my guess is that the movie, which I haven’t seen, fleshes out O’Reilly’s “historic Jesus” a bit more.
The normal pablum from unknowing writers was in it: age of oral transmission always gets my goat. Here we have written documents preserved around the world, scribes, and amanuenses mentioned throughout the bible itself, and somehow they come up with the oral transmission garbage. Even when Luke provides direct evidence against it at the beginning of his gospel.
I DVRd the movie, so I’ll watch it when I get time.
Of those politicians in you list my order of priority goes:
Cruz
Walker
Rubio
I just don’t consider Carson to be prime time ready. Regardless of his recently liberal positions, Bush repels the anti-dynastic in me (as does Hillary, Kennedy.)
I still like Perry. I also like Martinez over Fiorina when it comes to a female. Huckabee isn’t really on my list. Trump is a sideshow. Christie is dead in the water.
Cruz is for me the right guy for the times and the job. It isn’t just that he seems to be a fighter, and principled, and a Christian, but that he seems clear-eyed and clear-headed in a way others do not. He is a first-term senator but he pre-senate record is pretty impressive. And asked to choose between someone with experience who doesn’t get it, and won’t fight, versus someone who does get it and does fight, its an easy choice.
I like Walker; he has proven himself to be rather fearless. Not as clear on principle, but still principled. And willing to fight all day long and as long as it takes. You have to like a guy like that.
Rubio says the right things but does not strike me as having any toughness about him. He’s young yet. He is not a fighter; he is a careerist.
Carson is a good speaker, likable, he has good instincts about certain things, but he is not presidential material. He is not clear on the 2nd Amendment; he hasn’t spent much time thinking about foreign policy. That could all be changed if he served a couple of terms in congress.
Huck strikes me as a good person. But I haven’t forgotten how he attacked anyone wanting to secure the border as “unchristian”. He has changed his position in recent years but I know where his instincts are on the subject. Thats not the unforgivable sin by itself, though; my views on the border have certainly evolved as I have grown older. I suppose I should grant that others may also have changed their views over the last couple of decades.
But still.
I like Perry on several levels, though he has made me nervous about a few things. But he strikes me as a good man. He isn’t as clear on principle as he should be but he is probably more clear than many. And he will fight.
Jeb is a no go. At one time I thought he’d make a fine president, he was by all accounts a good governor. But after Terry Schiavo died I thought to myself, Grace has just left him. He’ll never be president. Later when he attacked the Arizona governor who was trying to enforce immigration law, I thought, this guy has lost his way. And more recently when he attacked conservatives in general I had to realize that, on policy at least, he and Hillary are twins almost.
So if he is the nominee he’ll have to win without my vote.
So my list is Cruz with Walker as VP. Followed by Cruz with Perry as VP. Or Cruz with Palin as VP. Or Cruz with anyone from the phone book picked at random for VP.
I forgot Rand Paul.
I like the guy. But he is all over the map, he has tried to kiss up to McConnell. He is weak on Israel and completely unreliable on the border.
He’s probably make a great Secretary of Treasury if we could turn him loose on the Fed. Or let him reorganize the IRS, for that matter. That would be a joy to see.
I so agree.
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