Ted Cruz to lead 50-state attack on Planned Parenthood

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who has assiduously courted evangelicals throughout his presidential run, will take a lead role in the launch this week of an ambitious 50-state campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood — a move that is likely to give the GOP candidate a major primary-season boost in the fierce battle for social-conservative and evangelical voters.

More than 100,000 pastors received e-mail invitations over the weekend to participate in conference calls with Cruz on Tuesday in which they will learn details of the plan to mobilize churchgoers in every congressional district beginning Aug. 30. The requests were sent on the heels of the Texas Republican’s “Rally for Religious Liberty,” which drew 2,500 people to a Des Moines ballroom Friday.

“The recent exposure of Planned Parenthood’s barbaric practices . . . has brought about a pressing need to end taxpayer support of this institution,” Cruz said in the e-mail call to action distributed by the American Renewal Project, an organization of conservative pastors.

The push comes as Cruz seeks to grab a decisive edge in a crowded primary-within-a-primary, with half a dozen GOP contenders battling for what he has referred to as “the evangelical bracket.”

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Cruz is going to ride the PP smear as far as he can until it is exposed...."pandering" is not the

word I am looking for...."psychopathic religious extremist" is closer.

The GOP operatives thst funded and planned this smear did so expressly to rile up the easy to rile up pitchfork carrying mobs that are ever on the ready to stop evil liberals from their murderous rampage over dead fetuses....I mean "dead baby parts".... same ones Carson researched, but that is
OK because Carson "repented" and Jesus always forgives on demand.

[Archae]

3. The PP smear has been exposed.

The "liberal media" has yet to expose fully the con artists, demagogues and liars behind it.

They keep it going, because it "generates controversy," gets ratings.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Absolutely agree. The mass media could have exposed the PP lies in 24 hours flat...but stretch it out.

Why absolutely no curiosity about who is behind the smear campaign and who funded them and their CrazyGlue ties to GOP political operatives, all easily researchable.... All avoided just to give oxygen to the rapidly imploding GOP - to keep the smear alive just to keep stirring the pot.....the media is clearly a huge part of the problem.

[eggplant]

8. PP smear? really?

That's just awful.

[onehandle]

2. A War on Women... Let's call it a 'Cruzade' on Women when they face a female Democratic Nominee.

Nice.

Now we need a little rapey talk as well.

[DhhD]

5. Cruz's new front: War Against Women. Women's new front: Expand Medicaid, Equal

Rights Amendment, open more clinics for women (to include PP).

[CanonRay]

6. Unbelievably stupid

He thinks he can win the White House on this? He's going to drag the entire GOP field even farther right.

[sorefeet]

7. Tax the shit out of churches

or keep your religion out of politics. If I ever did go back to church and the preacher mentioned anything political I would get up and walk out, hoping he ask me where are you going.

[DhhD]

15. Wonder which of the Seven Mountains idol Cruz is holding in his hand or is stuffed in his

pocket as he made this speech/statement.

[Sunlei]

9. Cruz will be responsible for Cancer deaths.PP provides,500,000 breast exams & 400,000 pap tests

Planned Parenthood provides nearly 400,000 Pap tests and nearly 500,000 breast exams each year.

[daleo]

10. Nice way to win the primary

And lose the election.

This is now the existential dilemma of modern conservatism.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. He's not even in first place in Texas anymore

Maybe he's hoping to unseat Mitch McConnell as majority leader. Or maybe he's running for VP. Imagine his and Trump's egos on the same ticket!

[truthisfreedom]

11. Cruz launches 50-state attack on women's health.

Things keep getting incrementally excremental.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. They should all mind their own business

They have no right to force others to believe what they believe

[ananda]

14. Trump-Cruz

Pleeze!

[jmowreader]

16. He knows "50 states" includes Massachusetts and California, correct?

Also Vermont, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware...