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CNN's Piers Morgan seized on a recent "expose" of Pastor Rafael Cruz by Mother Jones to trash his Tea Party star son as "scary." The magazine cited the elder Cruz's "extreme views" in several speeches he gave to evangelicals and the Tea Party. "Rafael Cruz blends the far reaches of extreme conservatism and Christian fundamentalism," the article said. Among his "inflammatory remarks," Cruz said Obama believes "government is your god" and has "a clear agenda to destroy American exceptionalism" and redistribute wealth. What else is new? The leftist publication complains the immigrant-turned-successful-entrepreneur has an outsized influence over his son. So,...

Al Sharpton opened his MSNBC show Thursday with a look at recently-released footage of Sen. Ted Cruz’s father Rafael Cruz telling a campaign crowd that he’d like to send President Obama “back to Kenya” among other “extreme” views. “Like father, like son,” Sharpton said, adding, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Sharpton went on to condemn the “vile” comments made by Rafael Cruz, who he called a “rising star in the GOP himself. He called the senior Mr. Cruz “a tea party hero who is a prime example of how extreme and hateful towards President Obama the right-wing...

In a fiery address over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz's father told a crowd of Christian conservatives in Iowa that the United States is edging toward socialism under President Barack Obama, as he joined his son in denouncing Obamacare. According to ABC News, Texas pastor Rafael Cruz also offered a veiled comparison of Obama to Cuban leader Fidel Castro as he spoke of being a Cuban immigrant who fled the perils of socialism at the time of Castro's communist revolution and later became a U.S. citizen. In an apparent reference to Obama's 2008 campaign theme of "hope and change," Cruz...