In April, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), spoke to the tea party of Hood County, which is southwest of Fort Worth, and made a bold declaration: The United States is a "Christian nation." The septuagenarian businessman turned evangelical pastor did not choose to use the more inclusive formulation "Judeo-Christian nation."
Insisting that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution "were signed on the knees of the framers" and were a "divine revelation from God," he went on to say, "yet our president has the gall to tell us that this is not a Christian nation…The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God." Seven months earlier, Rafael Cruz, speaking to the North Texas Tea Party on behalf of his son, who was then running for Senate, called President Barack Obama an "outright Marxist" who "seeks to destroy all concept of God," and he urged the crowd to send Obama "back to Kenya."
lots of children who have racist parents evolve and get with the times not en vogue to hate and suppress the poor and elderly, this nut is still in the tree and will probably never fall to far away.
there is pride in your family and there is proud of your family but do so at your own risk, not as many haters as there are compassionate's he's adopted a losing strategy for a losing stand, now he's hared from all sides for as many reasons, bad enough if only one but multiple piss offs make you damaged goods.
Comments uttered by a politician's parent may have little relevance in assessing an elected official. But it's appropriate to take Rafael Cruz into account when evaluating his son the senator.Ted Cruz, the tea party champion who almost single-handedly spurred the recent government shutdown, has often deployed his father as a political asset. He routinely cites his Cuban-born father, who emigrated from the island nation in 1957, when he discusses immigration and justifies his opposition to the bipartisan reform bill that passed in the Senate. (Ted Cruz hails his father as a symbol of the "American dream" who came to the United States legally—
what person dreams of coming here and after being welcomed sets about racially trashing half the country good thing he reneged on the immigration bill because if he wants people like poppy to be representative of dreams accomplished we don't want any.
though Rafael Cruz began his career in the oil industry in Canada, where Ted was born.) Moreover, Ted Cruz campaigns with his father; he had him in tow on a recent trip to Iowa (where the evangelical vote is crucial in GOP presidential primaries). Rafael Cruz regularly speaks to tea party and Republican groups in Texas as a surrogate for his son; during Ted Cruz's 2012 Senate campaign, his father was dispatched to events and rallies across the state to whip up support.
yes he is fair game they espouse the same vitriolic radical ideas, he learned fro0m him so every word daddy dearest says teddy should be held accountable he's the one running, the fact that he sought his support shows the type of people he's aiming at for support. those that he is referring to are not representative of a Christian America as he and his son don't either they need to stop clinging to that Bible and read it.
