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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 05:44 AM Sep 2014

GOP congressman: Ted Cruz was playing to Tea Party in ‘self-serving’ speech to Christians

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/11/gop-congressman-ted-cruz-was-playing-to-tea-party-in-self-serving-speech-to-christians/



GOP congressman: Ted Cruz was playing to Tea Party in ‘self-serving’ speech to Christians
By Arturo Garcia
Thursday, September 11, 2014 17:30 EDT

A Republican congressman criticized party colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday for his remarks to a group of Middle Eastern Christians, suggesting that Cruz instigated the negative response that led to him being booed off the stage.

Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), who attended the event Wednesday night, told the Washington Post that he wondered if Cruz’s speech was meant “for another audience” — specifically Tea Party Republicans.

“He was speaking to people outside of the building,” Dent was quoted as saying. “It was a willful and deliberate confrontation, and very self-serving.”

Cruz was reportedly not using notes or a teleprompter during his appearance at a fundraiser for In Defense of Christians when the audience began booing him when he said, “Christians have no greater ally than Israel.” Cruz accused the attendees booing him as being “consumed with hate” before cutting his speech short and leaving the stage.
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GOP congressman: Ted Cruz was playing to Tea Party in ‘self-serving’ speech to Christians (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP
Carnival Cruz is a joke Gothmog Sep 2014 #1
Things aren't so great for brown Christians in Israel+the territories Ash_F Sep 2014 #2

Gothmog

(154,585 posts)
1. Carnival Cruz is a joke
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:13 AM
Sep 2014

The tea party is not sufficient for Carnival Cruz to be the GOP 2016 nominee. I would love to see an idiot like Carnival Cruz be the GOP nominee but that is not going to happen

Ash_F

(5,861 posts)
2. Things aren't so great for brown Christians in Israel+the territories
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 04:16 PM
Sep 2014

Cruz doesn't know what he is talking about

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