Friday, June 19, 2015

Among the Faithful Conservatives, Cruz Shines!

The Weekly Standard ^ | June 18, 2015 | Michael Warren 

It’s no accident that Texas senator Ted Cruz sounds like a minister on the stump. His father, Rafael, is an evangelical pastor, after all. And as the Republican presidential candidate displayed before the faith-focused crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington this week, his pastoral pedigree may be paying off.
“The Word tells us,” Cruz said Wednesday afternoon, rounding back toward the podium like a preacher returning to the Bible during a sermon. “ ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh the morning.’ And I’ll tell you this.”
Cruz’s voice became more intense and purposeful. “Morning is coming,” he said. “Morning is coming.”
It was by far the best received address among the three presidential candidates speaking at the conference Wednesday at Washington’s Omni Shoreham hotel. Cruz had been preceded by his fellow senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, and they all hewed closely to their stump speeches. Paul and Rubio performed well, though the latter stumbled over a few frequent lines that he ought to have down pat. But Cruz’s soaring rhetoric, his focus on religious liberty, and his natural affinity for the crowd made him a standout on the conference’s first day....
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