Canadian Ted Cruz's Failure to Wear an American Flag Pin at Campaign Kickoff Showed 'Utter Contempt for Everything American'

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Canadian Ted Cruz’s Failure to Wear an American Flag Pin at Campaign Kickoff Showed ‘Utter Contempt for Everything American’

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015 Jon Ponder

Where's the American flag pin? — Where’s the American flag pin?

Did you notice? When Canadian Ted Cruz launched his U.S. presidential campaign in Lynchburg, Va., yesterday, there was something conspicuously absent on his lapel. An American flag pin.

Conservatives have made it clear in years past that among candidates for president there is no greater symbol of patriotism than wearing an American flag pin. In fact, in 2012, Joseph Farah, publisher of World Net Daily, said that when a candidate does not wear an American flag pin, it is “a metaphor for his utter contempt for everything American.”

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Robin M. Pettit says:

March 26, 2015 at 6:51 am

Ted Cruz was wearing a metaphorical American tie. Assuming his suit and the bars on his tie are blue and white. The bars on the flag correspond to the bars on his tie, and the suit is the blue so that is the field for the stars and the stars are in his eyes. We just have to find the red. Oh, that is the blood pumping in his true Canadian/USA Texas veins.

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March 29, 2015 at 2:48 pm

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