Ted Cruz campaign rally morphs into creepy ‘prayer revival’ so everyone can pray for him to be presi

[UCmeNdc]

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz turned one of his campaign events into a “prayer revival” on Tuesday, giving members of the audience an opportunity to ask God to make him the next president.

“And I don’t want occasions like this to end without realizing that God is in control and Ted Cruz is committed to not only conservative philosophy but with conservative theology as well,” he continued. “He’s going to make us a great president to make our nation a great nation again.”

Snip..........

Asking the audience to stretch their hands toward the stage, Wiley placed his hand on the candidate’s head.

“We’re going to lay hands on Ted Cruz,” he said. “Father, in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, I come to anoint my brother in the Lord. That son, Lord, that’s raised up to follow you, and I pray, Lord Jesus, that he will not let those who gave their lives in World War II like my brother Preston did go in vein, like the thousands of others that are in this crowd that lost loved ones in the wars since.”

“And I pray, Lord Jesus, that you take the hands of this man and put the mantle up on him, that he might lead our land back to where we were, to the forefathers of our father and our mother. Our God, Lord of days gone by, we will return our land to you. We commit that to you today, Lord.”

“Lord, he’s been a good senator from my home state. He’ll be a good president to all of our states. In Jesus name. Amen.”

Cruz raised his head and smiled: “This one is part political reality, one part prayer revival!”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/ted-cruz-campaign-rally-morphs-into-creepy-prayer-revival-so-everyone-can-pray-for-him-to-be-president/

[lamp_shade]

1. Gives me the willies.

[MBS]

2. wow, this really is creepy. n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. you know, I think Trump is less scary than Cruz - and that is pretty scary - President Cruz

[LuvNewcastle]

9. If I wasn't so committed to voting for Bernie,

I would vote in the GOP primary just to keep Cruz from winning. He scares me more than any of them, and that's saying quite a lot. But I'm going to vote for somebody rather than against somebody this time, and it will feel good for a change.

[nxylas]

11. I think that's Trump's job

To make Ted Cruz look reasonable.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. More Reasonable To Whom?

He's clearly too far right for a third of the country, and the people on the right are already flocking to Trump despite his "unreasonableness".

I don't think that's Trump's job. What we have here is too different forms of really nutty.

On Edit: Once could actually counter with "that's Cruz's job". To make Trump look less crasy

[ejbr]

4. Ok

[eShirl]

5. "that he might lead our land back to where we were, to the forefathers of our father and our mother"

Cruz is going to lead our land back to...? The ancestors? Then that would be WHEN we were, not where we were.

Sounds like they want to drag us back in time (as in, before the Enlightenment).

[beam me up scottie]

6. The video is even more cringe-worthy (barf alert):

[enough]

24. Yikes. (nt)

[Scuba]

7. There's no crazy like God crazy.

[Volaris]

8. Preach it, Brother.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. What scares me the most about the religious right

is that I was raised around people like that and I know what they're capable of. They have an uncanny ability to justify anything they do, and can even convince themselves that it's God's will for them to do it. They're the Christian version of suicide bombers.

[Helen Borg]

12. And imagine Ted Cruz with his finger on the nuke button.

[LuvNewcastle]

18. Oh, goddess, stop it!

[Scuba]

23. Yeah, an "end times" President is just what we need.

[gratuitous]

22. Except maybe violence crazy

They're often in one another's service.

[hobbit709]

13. Cruz wants to be the First Prophet like Nehemiah Scudder.

[Paulie]

20. Thank goodness we are Neil Armstrong

[First Speaker]

31. "If This Goes On--" is America's "1984"...

...and a lot scarier, because it can--*is*--happening before our eyes...

[tanyev]

14. So if their God is always in control, shouldn't they be supporting whoever wins?

Even Obama?

[B Calm]

15. Are they praying for his 10% flat tax to become a reality?

[Vinca]

16. He's one of the creepiest people around.

The religious posturing only adds to it. The real Ted Cruz probably slaughters goats in the basement and dances around pentacles. LOL. He's the ultimate scamster.

[UCmeNdc]

17. Republicans

Danger! Danger!

[oberliner]

19. He is scarier than Trump by far

Please, lord, do not allow that man to become president.

[gratuitous]

21. Wouldn't this be a good thing to ask Sen. Cruz about?

Some enterprising political reporter could ask one or two questions of the Senator from Texas about this naked display of demagoguery and elicit some truly deep insights about Cruz and his political philosophy.

But it won't happen.

[exboyfil]

26. It is a legitimate debate question

Use Cruz's own words. He is the one that brought religion into it. It opens up a wide range of questions that moderate Christians sure should want asked.

[libdem4life]

27. The photo of Palin reminded me of the time some preacher laid hands on her for "the annointing".

Well, nobody's perfect. Some god listens to, and some he doesn't. Not. IMO, they make a mockery of their god.

[KentuckyWoman]

28. And we thought WhistleAss was dangerous........

[zazen]

29. AGHHHGGGHHH!!!! n/t

[zazen]

30. Trump is a mere Mussolini to Cruz' Adolf . . . .n/t

[yellowcanine]

32. Excuse me while I clean the barf from my keyboard.

And is there an editor in the Rawstory house? It is "in vain", not "in vein."

[CanonRay]

33. I've said all along; Scariest guy in the race it Cruz

a total religious fanatic and Christian Domionist.

[kairos12]

34. He is the most dangerous repug. Cunning, combined with religious zealotry.

[3catwoman3]

35. I am thinking there...

...should be a religious test to hold office. Only atheists and agnostics allowed to run.

[KatyaR]

36. He's going to be here in Oklahoma City this afternoon.

He's bringing Santa for photo ops with the kids. What a con.....