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Source: Alternet
Over the last several years, mainstream media, liberals and progressives alike have succumbed to a misleading narrative that depicts the Tea Party as secular and libertarian. But leading Tea Party Republicans in the U.S. Senate Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were raised within the bosom of the politicized Christian right and have access to its leadership, one of whom is former Texas U.S. Representative Ron Paul (consider this 2003 op-ed from Rand Paul's father, Ron.)
But Ted Cruz brings to the table his own formidable, even astonishing, elite connections that, in 1999, helped enable candidate George W. Bush's lock on the 2000 election Republican presidential nomination.
In 1999 Cruz, then a George W. Bush campaign aide, helped cement support from the religious right for Bush by arranging a meeting between one of the key architects of the movement, Paul Weyrich - who played a pivotal role in drawing evangelicals into electoral politics - and one of the Bush for president campaign top campaign leaders Timothy Goeglein, who went on to serve as Special Assistant to U.S. President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008, and now works with Focus on The Family.
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But, reveals Goeglein, then-Bush campaign aide Ted Cruz helped play the inside track, by arranging a meeting between Cruz, Goeglein, and Paul Weyrich. Starting on page 34, Goeglein begins,
We met for a breakfast all of us thought would last an hour or so. It ended up going nearly three hours. Paul queried me and ted on nearly every issue possible in a spirited, lively session. I came to see the repartee among the three of us was rooted in common principles and values; and by the end of the breakfast, Paul told us, in all his years of following presidential politics, he had never felt more comfortable with the core convictions of a candidate on the issue he most believed in, the sanctity of every human life, the foundation of the traditional family, and American sovereignty. Te breakfast ended in unity and common purpose. This kind of one-on-one outreach was a cornerstone of the first Bush campaign, and conservative support was one of the keys to victory."
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factsarenotfair
(910 posts)Maybe I wish I still didn't.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)the White House to Stupid. He's the fraud who came up with those appallingly juvenile "Left Behind" books that are so popular with undereducated Christians in the heartland. He and his wife Beverly have managed to carve quite an empire out among the faithful.
Weyrich was there, but more as a bit player.
Still, I don't wonder Cruz is collecting these frauds as he goes along. It's one thing that makes him thoroughly unpleasant to everyone else he comes into contact with.
He'll be lucky if the other Senators in his own party don't take a collection to fund putting a contract out on him.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)during the recount. Never forget that.