Ted Cruz wows Iowans with sermon-style political speech and corny Islam jokes

DailyMail ^ | 17:32 EST, 24 January 2015 | David Martosko

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Ted Cruz wows Iowans with sermon-style political speech and corny Islam jokes: Those 9/11 hijackers 'weren't a bunch of ticked off Presbyterians' 

• At the Iowa Freedom Summit, he boomed a Reaganesque sermon complete with scripture references and an altar call – just send a text message
• Cruz had spent all week in Washington, he told a Des moines crowd, 'So it's great to be back in America'
• He said the US should close the IRS and post all 110,000 employees on its southern border – an army of tax agents to scare illegal immigrants
• His biggest applause line was a call to strip U.S. citizenship from Americans who 'take up arms with ISIS'
• Cruz's father is a controversial preacher who advocated sending Barack Obama 'back to Kenya' and said gay marriage is about abolishing God from the public arena 

Ted Cruz is running for president, unless he's engaged in a method-acting experiment to prepare for a movie role – as a senator who's running for president by channeling his preacher father.

At the Iowa Freedom Summit, the Texas Republican senator boomed a Reaganesque sermon complete with G-rated jokes, scripture references – 'You shall know them by their fruits – and an altar call of sorts.

'Text the word "Constitution",' he implored, to a specific number. It was an Obama-like organizing stroke that no one else at the Saturday conservative cattle call thought of.

But then no one else shouted with with consistency that occasional moments of normal volume were packed with whisper-like drama.

Love him or hate him, Ted Cruz is a powerful communicator. The Princeton graduate has a debating award named for him there. He worked without notes and hired hands followed his departure from the stage by re-erecting the omnipresent teleprompter. 

[MaxMax]

"including FoxNews"

Yes and it took me a while to figure it out, they did a slow transformation and
I was completely caught off-guard. But it didn't take long to figure out what was wrong.

Fox has gone turncoat, it's almost subliminal to the masses accept to those who
actually seek out the news instead of being spoon fed the mashed peas and deception.

When people said they would end up parsing the news I didn't believe them.
I was very wrong.

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