Ted Cruz to lead 50-state attack on Planned Parenthood
Source: ABC News
(TEXAS TRIBUNE) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who has assiduously courted evangelicals throughout his presidential run, will take a lead role in the launch this week of an ambitious 50-state campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood a move that is likely to give the GOP candidate a major primary-season boost in the fierce battle for social-conservative and evangelical voters.
More than 100,000 pastors received e-mail invitations over the weekend to participate in conference calls with Cruz on Tuesday in which they will learn details of the plan to mobilize churchgoers in every congressional district beginning Aug. 30. The requests were sent on the heels of the Texas Republicans Rally for Religious Liberty, which drew 2,500 people to a Des Moines ballroom Friday.
The recent exposure of Planned Parenthoods barbaric practices .?.?. has brought about a pressing need to end taxpayer support of this institution, Cruz said in the e-mail call to action distributed by the American Renewal Project, an organization of conservative pastors.
The push comes as Cruz seeks to grab a decisive edge in a crowded primary-within-a-primary, with half a dozen GOP contenders battling for what he has referred to as the evangelical bracket.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)word I am looking for...."psychopathic religious extremist" is closer.
The GOP operatives thst funded and planned this smear did so expressly to rile up the easy to rile up pitchfork carrying mobs that are ever on the ready to stop evil liberals from their murderous rampage over dead fetuses....I mean "dead baby parts".... same ones Carson researched, but that is
OK because Carson "repented" and Jesus always forgives on demand.
Archae
(46,354 posts)The "liberal media" has yet to expose fully the con artists, demagogues and liars behind it.
They keep it going, because it "generates controversy," gets ratings.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Why absolutely no curiosity about who is behind the smear campaign and who funded them and their CrazyGlue ties to GOP political operatives, all easily researchable.... All avoided just to give oxygen to the rapidly imploding GOP - to keep the smear alive just to keep stirring the pot.....the media is clearly a huge part of the problem.
eggplant
(3,913 posts)That's just awful.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Nice.
Now we need a little rapey talk as well.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Rights Amendment, open more clinics for women (to include PP).
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)He thinks he can win the White House on this? He's going to drag the entire GOP field even farther right.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)or keep your religion out of politics. If I ever did go back to church and the preacher mentioned anything political I would get up and walk out, hoping he ask me where are you going.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)pocket as he made this speech/statement.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)And lose the election.
This is now the existential dilemma of modern conservatism.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)Maybe he's hoping to unseat Mitch McConnell as majority leader. Or maybe he's running for VP. Imagine his and Trump's egos on the same ticket!
truthisfreedom
(23,157 posts)Things keep getting incrementally excremental.
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)They have no right to force others to believe what they believe
ananda
(28,877 posts)Pleeze!
jmowreader
(50,564 posts)Also Vermont, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware...