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(01-10-2017, 08:13 AM)Odin Wrote: (01-09-2017, 03:54 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: It's not clear just how much Cruz is Religious Right, and how much he was just emphasizing that because he thought it was the right strategy to win the nomination. Certainly those of us who really examined his background found that he was pretty strictly libertarian - if minarchist - in his economic outlook.
Cruz's dad is a crazy Dominionist fundy preacher who thinks Ted is "anointed by God" to rule America. He's a wacko.
I haven't looked into it enough to say for sure, but I concede that Cruz's dad may be a wacko. He wasn't the one running for President, though.
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(01-10-2017, 01:31 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: (01-10-2017, 08:13 AM)Odin Wrote: (01-09-2017, 03:54 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: It's not clear just how much Cruz is Religious Right, and how much he was just emphasizing that because he thought it was the right strategy to win the nomination. Certainly those of us who really examined his background found that he was pretty strictly libertarian - if minarchist - in his economic outlook.
Cruz's dad is a crazy Dominionist fundy preacher who thinks Ted is "anointed by God" to rule America. He's a wacko.
All of them the theological descendants of a British wacko who sparked the serious ire of the Church of England and even a number of non-CoE Protestant sects.
Who and what is all that, pray tell?
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