Ted Cruz fights for liberty AND freedom!

[Enrique]

not just one! both!!!

(I just heard this dumb ad on RW radio)

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/pro-ted-cruz-super-pac-announces-1-million-radio-ad-campagin.html/

“(Narrator) His father was jailed fighting for the freedom of his fellow countrymen and fled Cuba to live the American Dream. Like his father, Ted Cruz fights for what matters: liberty, freedom, and the Constitution that protects both. Ted doesn’t need a pollster to tell him what to think about things that matter.

[Bucky]

1. I noticed they slipped the word "for" in there

it obviously doesn't belong

[ananda]

9. Lol

Good read!

[Human101948]

2. Wasn't his father a follower of Castro? Doesn't that make him a Commie sympathizer?

At 17, Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging urban sabotage against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cruz was eventually jailed and tortured, and upon his release wanted the underground to help him personally reach Castro’s camp in the Sierra Maestra highlands.

“My dad asked if he could join Castro in the mountains and keep fighting,” the firebrand Republican presidential candidate writes in his book, A Time For Truth, which will be released on Tuesday. “But he was told there was no way to get to the rebels.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/27/ted-cruz-memoir-father-cuba-revolutionary-fidel-castro

[Enrique]

3. wow i didn't know that

Marco Rubio's parents also fled Batista, though he has implied that they fled Castro and I would bet approximately 99.9% of Republicans believe that.

[Human101948]

5. Yes, and Batista was the USA's favorite dictator...

Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large US-based multinationals who were awarded lucrative contracts.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people.[7][8][9] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

[hifiguy]

7. He was definitely the Mob's favorite dictator.

They bribed Batista with millions of dollars to let them run all the gambling and prostitution in Havana.

[Mika]

6. FYI, it took the Mariel crisis for post-revolution Cubans to outnumber those who "fled" prior to '59

who live in the US.

[Human101948]

4. Pappy Cruz lives the American Dream...to scam simpletons with religion!

In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz' father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as "kings" to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the "Seven Mountains" mandate, and "bring the spoils of war to the priests", thus helping to bring about a prophesied "great transfer of wealth", from the "wicked" to righteous gentile believers.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/10/16/143336/01/Front_Page/Cruz_Father_Suggests_Ted_Cruz_quot_Anointed_quot_to_Bring_The_Spoils_Of_War_To_The_Priests_

[hifiguy]

8. Flat-out fraud and bald-faced thievery are illegal

unless you are a bankster or a "preacher."

Then it's all perfectly OK.

Ain't 'murika grand?