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The truth finally comes out. Cruz is an ISIS or al-Qaeda plant - trained in Yemen, then spirited into the U.S. via Canada. He pretends to be sort of āCubanā to lull everyone into a false sense of security. But weāre not that easily fooled - just listen to the strident, āAllah is on my sideā tone of his bloviations. Thatās always a dead giveaway. So how come he disappears for a few minutes, five times a day? Answer me that one!
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āWe have never seen an administration with such hostility to religious faith. Last year, there was a chaplain in the Air Force up in Alaska who wrote in a blog post the phrase āThere are no atheists in fox holes.ā He was ordered by his supervising officer to take it down. I guess it was deemed insensitive to atheists. I kind of thought it was the job of a chaplain to be insensitive to atheists.ā
Ted Cruz
Yes, no religious test, please. However, government officials should make it their job to offend the non-religious. Because the Constitution definitely doesn't protect Atheists.
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Muslims feel that their religion is very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official
This coming from a guy (Carson) who says tax policy should be based on what his God says about tithing, that the government should regulate womenās bodies based on his religious interpretation of life, and that certain people shouldnāt be allowed to marry because he thinks certain phrases in the Bible are applicable today while others are not.
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Hypocrisy anyone: āMuslims feel that their religion is very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official, and thatās inconsistent with our principles and our Constitution.ā
How is that different than what Cruz, Huckabee, Carson, and the rest of the dominant GOP players advocate every day??? What a bunch of hogwash.
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Canāt fool meāthat one in the right is only pretending to be a vampire.
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Right?
I was going to write the same thingā¦
Not acknowledging, irony or hypocrisy is prerequisite to to being a republican.
Not acknowledging, irony or hypocrisy is prerequisite to to being a republican.
Iāve come to the conclusion is that itās not the case that GOPers refuse to acknowledge irony or hypocrisy; itās that they are totally unaware of their existence. Itās like expecting cockroaches to be aware of differential calculus.
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āMy view, listen. The presidentās faith is between him and God. What Iām going to focus on is his public policy record,ā Cruz said when asked about Trumpās comments on āIowa Press,ā according to the Des Moines Register.
Good point. I think Cruz is a Satanist. Or maybe even, Satan.
Just because Sen Cruz gets ONE THING correct about the Constitution is no reason for applause.
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āMy view, listen. The presidentās faith is between him and God. What Iām going to focus on is his public policy record,ā
Which is a continuation of the FID/FUD attack against Obama, the whole āhe SAYS heās a christian and I have no reason to doubt him, buttttttā¦ā
No applause here, but itās mildly remarkable considering the jaw-dropping statements heās already made. Two possibilities come to mind: 1) Trying to pander by denying the intent of the Establishment Clause is too much even for Ted Cruz, or possibly 2) heās gotten some low-key messages from Harvard and Yale saying if he pushes his luck with the outrageous bullshit any more theyāll yank his diplomas and heāll be a high-school graduate.
Says former dual-citizenship-holder and son of wacky end-times preacher who knows throwing stones might cause unfortunate scrutiny of his life and motives.
Iāve heard people are saying that. Someone should look into it.
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āYou know, the Constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office and I am a constitutionalist,ā
Iām pretty sure that word doesnāt mean what you think it doesā¦
What Iām going to focus on is his public policy record," Cruz said when asked about Trumpās comments on āIowa Press,ā according to the Des Moines Register.
Perfect.
Since the man in question (the current President) isnāt running, letās do exactly that - focus on the public policy record for those that are running.
Except Al Lewis the man who played Grandpa Munster, was a good man:
āAs an activist, he hosted a politically oriented radio program on WBAI and ran as Green Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1998.ā
Kinda sorta on the opposite end of the political spectrum from crypto-fascist Ted.
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I see grog blossoms on the schnoz ā¦
I think the opposite is true. Cruz was an outstanding student in university including being summa cum laude at Harvard Law. Itās not possible to achieve that level of recognition at the nationās most prestigious and arguably best law school without fully knowing and appreciating such things as what the Constitution states. Moreover, Cruz has some experience in appearing before the SCOTUS on constitutional cases, where he was reviewed by third parties as very effective and even compelling. IOW, he has been, not just in the abstract but at a practical level, a qualified expert on the Constitution and with an expertās facility with the related concepts.
Instead, I think his message has nothing to do with the āstate of the lawā. I think heās saying that BECAUSE a full belief in the tenets of Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, fully faithful Muslims cannot honestly give Constitutionally-founded oaths to serve in public office.
But of course the same could be said of ANY religious doctrine that conceivably supercedes the Constituiton. Strictly enforced, the Constitution would forbid the taking of oaths BECAUSE it necessarily exposes the presence and extent of religious belief.
This suggests the real objection here: to so-called āConstitutionalismā. Thatās a big subject, and one that I would be perfectly happy to have Cruz stuck in a permanent chair at some law school arguing for the rest of his life. But itās not, as Cruz implies, the END of the argument; itās just a beginning point.