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brooklynite

(94,667 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:03 AM Mar 2015

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Ted Cruz announcement kicking off

Christian Rock playing...who would have guessed?

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324979-1/awaiting-ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-announcement&live=

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Ted Cruz announcement kicking off (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2015 OP

ooh. thanks. let's make this the "live thread" cali Mar 2015 #1

I'm watching it H2O Man Mar 2015 #11

Wonder if we'll have the bodily resurrection of Jerry Falwell? brooklynite Mar 2015 #2

They're rescheduling a speech by "Governor McDonnell" of Virginia... brooklynite Mar 2015 #3

blah,blah,blah. Not an endorsement. cali Mar 2015 #4

What a spectacle tracks29 Mar 2015 #5

Why aren't they playing the National Anthem? brooklynite Mar 2015 #6

+1 mmonk Mar 2015 #8

Check out the Rand Paul shirts right behind him tracks29 Mar 2015 #7

Cruzty the clown GreatCaesarsGhost Mar 2015 #9

I like it underpants Mar 2015 #19

Cruz has a lot to learn about political campaigning brooklynite Mar 2015 #10

I really think this is going to hurt him more that anything. While he is running he is going to jwirr Mar 2015 #12

He is despicable. I have no idea how cali Mar 2015 #13

attacking the ACA with cheers from the pet audience cali Mar 2015 #14

Beside the religious schmaltz he could have given this speech in a 1930s German beer hall.../NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #15

More religious content than this? whatthehey Mar 2015 #20

pretty predictacble stuff. Guns rah rah. Abortion, boo hiss. Marriage is only for cali Mar 2015 #16

Obligatory Ronald Reagan paean cali Mar 2015 #17

oh, yeah forgot. abolish the IRS. flat tax. cali Mar 2015 #18

cali

(114,904 posts)

1. ooh. thanks. let's make this the "live thread"

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:05 AM

Mar 2015

H2O Man

(73,579 posts)

11. I'm watching it

Reply to cali (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:28 AM

Mar 2015

on MSNBC.

brooklynite

(94,667 posts)

2. Wonder if we'll have the bodily resurrection of Jerry Falwell?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:09 AM

Mar 2015

brooklynite

(94,667 posts)

3. They're rescheduling a speech by "Governor McDonnell" of Virginia...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:19 AM

Mar 2015

...apparently he'll be indisposed (for the next 2 years).

cali

(114,904 posts)

4. blah,blah,blah. Not an endorsement.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:19 AM

Mar 2015

glowing is an understatement for this introduction.

and here he is....

tracks29

(98 posts)

5. What a spectacle

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:21 AM

Mar 2015

All of this bullshit only for the guy to crash and burn

brooklynite

(94,667 posts)

6. Why aren't they playing the National Anthem?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:21 AM

Mar 2015

I always liked "O, Canada".....

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

8. +1

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:23 AM

Mar 2015

tracks29

(98 posts)

7. Check out the Rand Paul shirts right behind him

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:23 AM

Mar 2015

GreatCaesarsGhost

(8,585 posts)

9. Cruzty the clown

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:25 AM

Mar 2015

underpants

(182,858 posts)

19. I like it

Reply to GreatCaesarsGhost (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:15 AM

Mar 2015

Also The Calgary Kid and Carnival Cruz

brooklynite

(94,667 posts)

10. Cruz has a lot to learn about political campaigning

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:27 AM

Mar 2015

He's playing to the audience in the round, which means he's turning his back to the camera.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

12. I really think this is going to hurt him more that anything. While he is running he is going to

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:29 AM

Mar 2015

continue to talk about what he wants to do and the more people know the more they are going to fear him.

cali

(114,904 posts)

13. He is despicable. I have no idea how

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:33 AM

Mar 2015

an independent voter will respond to him.

cali

(114,904 posts)

14. attacking the ACA with cheers from the pet audience

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:37 AM

Mar 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

15. Beside the religious schmaltz he could have given this speech in a 1930s German beer hall.../NT

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:43 AM

Mar 2015

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)

20. More religious content than this?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #15)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:28 AM

Mar 2015

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited.

-Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922

cali

(114,904 posts)

16. pretty predictacble stuff. Guns rah rah. Abortion, boo hiss. Marriage is only for

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:43 AM

Mar 2015

1 man 1 woman. repeal all of common core. school choice is the new civil rights battle.

But hmm, no mention of his wanting to dismantle the dept of Ed.

oh puke, Israel right or wrong forever and ever (until the apocalypse) Fucking wild cheers to his Israel crap.

On to Iran. Hawkity, hawkity.

cali

(114,904 posts)

17. Obligatory Ronald Reagan paean

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:47 AM

Mar 2015

cali

(114,904 posts)

18. oh, yeah forgot. abolish the IRS. flat tax.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:48 AM

Mar 2015

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