BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS!!!! When conservative activists compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last week to Jesus Christ, it wasn’t the first time the first-term Republican senator was described in religious terms. The tea party favorite’s father, the Cuban-born evangelical minister Rafael Cruz, has been promoting his son as a “political savior” and an antidote to the “outright Marxist” President Barack Obama. During his son’s ultimately successful Senate campaign, Rafael Cruz said the president “seeks to destroy all concept of God” and urged the crowd to send Obama “back to Kenya.” Rafael Cruz told a gathering of Colorado Republicans that, “if the winds shift, (Obama) will side with the Muslims,” citing a distorted passage from the president’s autobiography that’s been spread by chain email among conservatives. The elder Cruz, a pastor affiliated with the Purifying Fire ministry, regularly speaks to tea party and Republican groups on behalf of his son, who frequently talks about and campaigns alongside his father, who’s risen to prominence alongside his son. Talk radio behemoth Rush Limbaugh has praised the elder Cruz, and former Sen. Jim DeMint, who now heads the conservative Heritage Foundation, brought him along to help campaign against funding the Affordable Care Act – which the younger Cruz attempted to do by tying its implementation to a federal budget resolution. Rafael Cruz told an April gathering of tea party supporters in Hood County, Texas, that the “wicked,” including so-called Republicans In Name Only, were ruling the United States, and made his often-repeated claim that Obamacare would mandate suicide or stoppage of treatment for elderly patients. Saying “social justice is a cancer,” the elder Cruz also claimed at the gathering that the federal government wanted to “take all of your money” and confiscate “our fortunes.” Which is rather ironic, since Rafael Cruz has endorsed an evangelical belief known as the “end-time transfer of wealth” from the wicked to believers prior to the second coming of Christ. The younger Cruz often cites his father’s influence on his own political philosophy, which includes exposing him to the Free Enterprise Education Center as a middle-schooler and encouraging him to participate in the Constitutional Corroborators group as a teen, and has touted his abilities as a skilled campaigner.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:54:25 +0000