Joe CarrNASHVILLE – He didn’t come right out with an endorsement, but the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was clearly on the same page with Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Carr in back-to-back speeches Saturday before hundreds of tea party activists here.
Carr, a state representative from Lascassas who’s hoping to knock off Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., in the Aug. 7 primary, denounced Democratic President Barack Obama as a “tyrant.”
In his own speech, Pastor Rafael Cruz, who fled Cuba decades ago, likened Obama to former Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro. Cruz’s son, Texas’ junior senator, is beloved by many conservatives.
And both men praised the writers of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution as divinely inspired.
So it went at the “We the People Rally” sponsored by the Nashville Tea Party that drew activists from across the state.