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Ted Cruz wows Iowans with sermon-style political speech and corny Islam jokes
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| 17:32 EST, 24 January 2015
| David Martosko
Posted on 01/24/2015 2:49:45 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Ted Cruz wows Iowans with sermon-style political speech and corny Islam jokes: Those 9/11 hijackers 'weren't a bunch of ticked off Presbyterians'
- At the Iowa Freedom Summit, he boomed a Reaganesque sermon complete with scripture references and an altar call just send a text message
- Cruz had spent all week in Washington, he told a Des moines crowd, 'So it's great to be back in America'
- He said the US should close the IRS and post all 110,000 employees on its southern border an army of tax agents to scare illegal immigrants
- His biggest applause line was a call to strip U.S. citizenship from Americans who 'take up arms with ISIS'
- Cruz's father is a controversial preacher who advocated sending Barack Obama 'back to Kenya' and said gay marriage is about abolishing God from the public arena
Ted Cruz is running for president, unless he's engaged in a method-acting experiment to prepare for a movie role as a senator who's running for president by channeling his preacher father.
At the Iowa Freedom Summit, the Texas Republican senator boomed a Reaganesque sermon complete with G-rated jokes, scripture references 'You shall know them by their fruits and an altar call of sorts.
'Text the word "Constitution",' he implored, to a specific number. It was an Obama-like organizing stroke that no one else at the Saturday conservative cattle call thought of.
But then no one else shouted with with consistency that occasional moments of normal volume were packed with whisper-like drama.
Love him or hate him, Ted Cruz is a powerful communicator. The Princeton graduate has a debating award named for him there. He worked without notes and hired hands followed his departure from the stage by re-erecting the omnipresent teleprompter.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; iowa; iowafreedomsummit; tedcruz; texas
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
01/24/2015 3:38:33 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the fascists.)
To: aposiopetic
> Cruz’s father is a controversial preacher who advocated sending Barack Obama ‘back to Kenya’ and said gay marriage is about abolishing God from the public arena
So what’s controversial about him?
He’s about as down to earth and patriotic as a transplanted Cuban turned American citizen can get. Very nice guy full of character. I have a buddy who drives him around town when he’s in town.
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
01/24/2015 3:45:25 PM PST
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA)
To: SoConPubbie
May God bless and keep Senator Cruz.
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posted on
01/24/2015 3:45:30 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: Bigg Red
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posted on
01/24/2015 3:53:22 PM PST
by
CAluvdubya
(<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
To: SoConPubbie
Observe the loaded words; ‘boomed’ and ‘altar call’ and ‘channeling’ and ‘cattle call’ and ‘hired hands’ plus a lot of twisted and confusing syntax.
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01/24/2015 4:02:59 PM PST
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01/24/2015 4:06:03 PM PST
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RedMDer
(I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
To: SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
01/24/2015 4:46:04 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: taxcontrol
Strange, coverage from a UK paper - silence from US sources. He is going to have to do what Reagan did. Go around the media and speak directly to the American People.
I believe he's good enough at speaking to accomplish that.
Needless to say, that will burn the MSM's a$$ even more.
To: fella
Sad that that eloquence no longer exists.
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posted on
01/24/2015 5:53:11 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: squarebarb
Yes the liberal press has subliminal reporting down to an art. Most people especially libs, won’t consciously notice the hatchet job, still it goes directly to their subconscious.
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posted on
01/24/2015 5:59:23 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: SoConPubbie
Has anybody tried texting “Constitution” to 33733 yet?
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posted on
01/24/2015 5:59:40 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: SoConPubbie
His biggest applause line was a call to strip U.S. citizenship from Americans who 'take up arms with ISIS' I would like to see him sponsor legislation requiring that. I don't think he'd have a problem passing it.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Me! It gives you the tedcruz.org link.
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posted on
01/24/2015 6:05:59 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: SoConPubbie
If he wins the nomination, he will win the presidency by a landslide.
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posted on
01/24/2015 6:06:18 PM PST
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: DoodleDawg
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posted on
01/24/2015 6:22:00 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: ForYourChildren
If he wins the nomination, he will win the presidency by a landslide.
That is SO TRUE!
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posted on
01/24/2015 7:01:08 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: fella
Should be passed around at every Sharpton, Jackson and "Black Lives Matter" rally.
Actually, it needs to be passed around in the rallies for anyone supporting Amnesty, Common Core, Abortion, Gay Agenda, etc.
As of right now, that includes Jeb Bush, Romney, Christie, Rubio, Huckabee, at a minimum.
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posted on
01/24/2015 7:04:27 PM PST
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SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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