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« on: September 10, 2014, 10:24:28 PM »
« edited: September 10, 2014, 10:38:23 PM by Deus Naturae »

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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2014, 10:28:28 PM »


What a moron!
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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2014, 10:39:36 PM »

Cruz has outlined his 3 point plan for "stopping ISIS" which begins with "make border security a top priority"
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/opinion/ted-cruz-how-us-can-stop-isis/


Maybe being from TX he has some special insight, but I missed the reports about the ISIS forces assembling across the Rio Grande
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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2014, 11:22:27 PM »

As a Christian, I do not view Israel as an ally.
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2014, 09:12:04 AM »

Palestine being the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the ME, of course.
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2014, 09:13:01 AM »

Ted Cruz knows what he's doing. "See? There are no good middle easterners!"
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2014, 09:33:33 AM »

I just hate him.
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2014, 11:06:39 AM »

I don't think this is going to hurt him politically.
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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2014, 11:26:00 AM »

I don't think this is going to hurt him politically.

This.  If anything, it'll help him amongst the base of the GOP that views Islam/Arabs as the devil's religion/people, or w/e term they desire.
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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2014, 12:11:35 PM »

Palestine being the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the ME, of course.

Isn't Lebanon significantly higher?
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2014, 12:44:15 PM »

Palestine being the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the ME, of course.

Isn't Lebanon significantly higher?

Yes. Lebanon is 41% Christian, Palestine about 3%. I was assuming that King was being sarcastic.
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« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2014, 12:51:01 PM »

Ah, so it is. Still, Palestine, especially when you consider the uncalculable displaced is probably 1/5th Christian and a peaceful Palestine would likely become hugely Christian if more felt comfortable moving to the Holy Land.
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« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2014, 02:08:17 PM »

Mark Levin and Breitbart love it. Expect Cruz to surge to the top of the GOP primary polls now.
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« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2014, 02:11:52 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2014, 02:23:15 PM »

Mark Levin and Breitbart love it. Expect Cruz to surge to the top of the GOP primary polls now.

Yeah right.  This forum, in the interest of bashing the GOP, epically overrates how fringe the Republican primary electorate is.  Last I checked, some of our most recent nominees have been Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush and Bob Dole.  Say what you want about any of them, but none are extremists, and if somebody thinks that they are, then he or she is probably the one who's extreme in their views.
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« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2014, 02:29:13 PM »

I'm no fan of Ted Cruz, but it sounded like a small group of political opportunists after watching the video, like a vocal group of a dozen or so.
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« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2014, 04:02:05 PM »

Here's the thing: He isn't actually talking to Middle Eastern Christians. The people who you are physically speaking to are often times not your target audience. He's talking to American Evangelicals. This has no impact spare that later he will be able to cite it as him "supporting persecuted Middle Eastern Christians". Nobody in his target audience will remember/know/care that he was booed by said people.
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« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2014, 04:17:34 PM »

Mark Levin and Breitbart love it. Expect Cruz to surge to the top of the GOP primary polls now.

Yeah right.  This forum, in the interest of bashing the GOP, epically overrates how fringe the Republican primary electorate is.  Last I checked, some of our most recent nominees have been Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush and Bob Dole.  Say what you want about any of them, but none are extremists, and if somebody thinks that they are, then he or she is probably the one who's extreme in their views.

The Rise of the Teabaggers happened in 2009. McCain, Bush, and Dole's nominations are irrelevant to discussion. As for 2012, Romney was nominated because he outspent heavily, and was unified in moderate support, whereas right wing support was divided between economic minded Gingrich and the social minded Santorum. Cruz bridges the wackjob gap.

In a primary of Jeb vs. Cruz vs. Paul, Cruz wins.
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« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2014, 04:33:58 PM »

The whole thing was calculated by Cruz from the beginning for the John Hagee and Sheldon Adelson primaries. He wanted to be the defender of Israel from the mean old swarthy Ay-rabs, and he got exactly what he came for. That's why the story broke first, nearly identically written, on about 10 neocon blogs at once, several hours before it was reported on by the mainstream media. Most likely one of his staffers sent them talking points before he even set foot on that stage.
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« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2014, 10:21:27 PM »

Palestine being the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the ME, of course.

Isn't Lebanon significantly higher?

Yes. Lebanon is 41% Christian, Palestine about 3%. I was assuming that King was being sarcastic.

Pre-1948, Mandatory Palestine was about 25-30% Christian; that percentage steadily declined after that. They tended to live in pretty concentrated areas in specific cities and towns. My dad says he didn't know any Muslims growing up until he went to college in Beirut; all of his friends, neighbors and classmates as a child had been Christian. Two cities in the West Bank - Ramallah (the de facto Palestinian capital) and Bethlehem - were historically overwhelmingly Christian, and their mayors are actually required by law to be Christians even though the majority of people who live there now are Muslim.
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« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2014, 11:16:12 PM »

The Republicans' whoring to the Zionists continues to disgust.
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« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2014, 09:28:47 AM »

The Republicans' whoring to the Zionists continues to disgust.

Because Democrats are so much different on Israel.
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« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2014, 02:29:19 PM »

The Republicans' whoring to the Zionists continues to disgust.

Because Democrats are so much different on Israel.
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« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2014, 06:28:34 PM »

The Democrats have  an ex-president that wrote Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, the GOP do not.
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« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2014, 09:19:05 PM »

The Democrats have  an ex-president that wrote Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, the GOP do not.

Ron Paul called Gaza a concentration camp IIRC.  And Jimmy Carter isn't influencing US policy.  Even progressives like Warren and Sanders are pro-Israel.
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