This is surprising. Cruz is Bible-thumping in nearly every appearance. On Hannity last night Cruz quoted scripture — TWICE — to make his points. I guess the cornholes in Iowa aren’t as gullible as I thought. They sure fell for The Huckster’s Elmer Gantry act in 2008.
“This is surprising. Cruz is Bible-thumping in nearly every appearance. On Hannity last night Cruz quoted scripture — TWICE — to make his points. I guess the cornholes in Iowa aren’t as gullible as I thought. “
Voters are realizing that there more tangible and critical qualities to a candidate than religious prothletising and Scripture recitation.
It seems to be the old GW Bush cheerleaders who push Cruz, and with good reason. His advisers are Bush and Clinton White House people...neocons.
[snip] The chairman of Cruz’s foreign policy team is
Chad Sweet. Chad Sweet is the Former Directorate of Operations for the CIA, the Former Chief of Staff for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Chertoff Group. Chad Sweet went into the world of big banking — from Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley to VP with Goldman Sachs. (The same post Mrs Heidi Cruz holds) He would then work for the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush Administration.
A key member of the Cruz foreign policy team would support dragnet surveillance of Americans given that one of the principals of the Chertoff Group is General Michael Hayden, director of the NSA until 2005.
Ted Cruz’s NeoCon inner circle includes, Cruz’s foreign policy advisor, James Woolsey, a player who would be drafted in the first round by any neocon fantasy team owner.
Woolsey was a national security specialist and former Director of the CIA under the Clinton administration.
Ted Cruz’s NeoCon inner circle includes his choice of Elliot Abrams to help craft his foreign policy. Like his colleagues on Cruz’s council, Abrams is a leader in the NeoCon world, and leader of what is perhaps the most powerful and pernicious group in the NeoCon network, the grand daddy of all the NeoCon GLOBALIST Organizations: the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
While Cruz pooh poohs the idea that he has ties to the Council on Foreign Relations, just because his wife Heidi Cruz was a member and co-authored the Blue Print for the creation of the North American Union. Who does he select as his foreign policy adviser but the HEAD of the Council on Foreign Relations!
http://lettersfromthegulag.blogspot.com/2015/10/ted-cruzs-neocon-bonafides.html
They sure fell for The Huckster’s Elmer Gantry act in 2008.Cruz is Elmer Gantry 2016.
“Burn me once, shame on me; Burn me twice, shame on you!”
Huckabee and Santorum were good, but lost...now here comes Cruz, same thing....ahhh hold on a minute, didn’t I hear that before????
The evangelicals in Iowa vote the way they are told to vote.
Not many independent thinkers among them.
They vote in bloc for whomever they are told to vote for.
“Cruz is Bible-thumping in nearly every appearance. On Hannity last night Cruz quoted scripture — TWICE — to make his points.”
I’m one of the ones that is supposed to appeal to. It doesn’t. It comes across as ‘that’ guy, the never resting religious social climber, who decries the failings of the world while always relentlessly climbing its ladders. Some of us got jaded with that back in the 1980’s, when evangelical churches were actually vibrant and effective in shaping the culture. That has been a while.
Express the principles, don’t play the jargon cards.
You progressives recoil at the prospect of a Christian candidate, don't you? No doubt you agree with the recent description here of Cruz as the "Christian Taliban."
As Cruz said last night on Fox, a few weeks ago they were all attacking Trump, and now they're all over him, which indicates something has changed.
I love it.