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Cruz hires former Gingrich aide as political operation builds
The San Antonio Express-News ^ | February 9, 2015 | Theodore Schleifer

Posted on 02/10/2015 2:05:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

HOUSTON — The political operation of potential 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz continued to beef up Monday as a top aide to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich signed onto the senator’s team.

Rick Tyler, Gingrich’s longtime spokesman who served as a top strategist to a super PAC that supported Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign, will join Cruz’s campaign-in-waiting to serve as a senior communications adviser.

“I am honored to come on board with Sen. Cruz and join the effort to make D.C. listen to the American people,” Tyler said in a statement. “I believe he will emerge as the conservative leader of the next generation because he understands that it is not ‘we the bureaucrats,’ but ‘we the people’ who make this nation exceptional.”

Tyler is the latest addition to the slowly-building political shop that would serve as the backbone of a likely Houston-based presidential campaign. Last fall, Cruz hired three other strategists to join the existing team that masterminded his 2012 upset victory over David Dewhurst: Jeff Roe, a Kansas-City based direct-mail strategist expected to play a top organizational role; Jason Miller, a communications adviser; and Laura Lofstrom, a national fundraising consultant.

Cruz has not yet announced aides who will advise him in the key early-primary states, but he has visited those states early and often ever since winning election to the Senate. Last month, Cruz spoke at gatherings in South Carolina and Iowa, and he will return to the Iowa and New Hampshire next month.

Later this month, on Feb. 20., Cruz will headline a GOP fundraising dinner in Florida.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: Kansas; US: New Hampshire; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; cruz; daviddewhurst; election2016; florida; iowa; jasonmiller; jeffroe; kansas; lauralofstrom; newhampshire; newt; newtgingrich; ricktyler; southcarolina; tedcruz; texas
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1 posted on 02/10/2015 2:05:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Toooooooo many Mehhiccccans on his back too.


2 posted on 02/10/2015 3:03:11 AM PST by Flintlock (Soapbox didn't work; ballot box neither--we're left with the BULLET BOX.)
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To: Flintlock

Ted Cruz? How do you figure?


3 posted on 02/10/2015 3:04:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Come on Ted!


4 posted on 02/10/2015 3:53:55 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Flintlock
Toooooooo many Mehhiccccans on his back too.

When you were committed to Bellvue, how did you get out?

5 posted on 02/10/2015 4:19:21 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Flintlock

Can you elaborate, please?


6 posted on 02/10/2015 4:31:35 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If this guy helps Cruz treat the media as a political opponent rather then an objective arbiter then team Cruz has a chance.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 4:56:44 AM PST by CheneyClone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In a poll I saw Sunday, ted was tied with Donald Trump at 3%

He needs some real help


8 posted on 02/10/2015 5:00:50 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ducks getting into a row on Cruz control. YES!!


9 posted on 02/10/2015 5:04:02 AM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: Flintlock

I bet it sounded better in your mind than it looks in print - lots of that going around as insanity takes hold.


10 posted on 02/10/2015 5:46:09 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Flintlock

“Toooooooo many Mehhiccccans on his back too.”

Brian Williams? Is that you?


11 posted on 02/10/2015 5:56:55 AM PST by NaturalScience
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I support Ted Cruz but what would he face after the 2016 election as president?

Obama in speaking of the Crusades is justifying modern jihadi atrocities and genocide by conduct of Christians during the middle ages, 900 years ago during the time of Saladin.This was very carefully executed with planning by the White House staff.

This illustrates Obama’s view of current political expediency which historians traditionally call “historic justice.” The view of historic justice is common to virtually every fascist dictator during the modern era, including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,General Tojo, Nikolai Ceausescu, and others including Robert Mugabe, and Idi Amin Dada.The alleged sins of the forefathers will be paid by descendants who had nothing to do with their being committed, and indeed in Obama’s case, those descendants elected him to office in a paroxysm of populist, hoodwinking
charisma.Recorded tapes of both Hitler and Obamas strident , stirring political speeches , their gestures, the exhortive tones, are very similar, and in some cases almost identical.

Few today understand the historic context which is something that Winston Churchill left to us as an inherited view of the history analysis of fascism.Obama has an agenda to socially transform the United States along racial and ethnic minority nationalism lines ( Southern Border illegal aliens,immigrant Muslims, national defence policy weakened, economy botched by taxation to pay for redistribution of wealth programs), with a socialist plan for wealth redistribution, that is to say: Nationalist Socialism.

This makes Obama himself a fascist whose intent is to destroy America, elected to office under a charismatic cloud against freedom, the same way Mussolini and Hitler were.It will take a generation to mend the damage that Obama has done to our nation and to our alliances abroad, if he does not cause WW III in his last years of office.

I believe personally that impeachment is too good for this thug we have in the White House. He should be summarily arrested, charged, tried and incarcerated for identity fraud and treason to our allies, as well as extortion ( Al Sharpton his extortion race jockey),and willfully contravening the Constitution, and then he should be duly executed after his trial as punishment for the millions of needless deaths he has caused in Mexico,Libya,Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen,Nigeria and Kenya, many of whom were Christians falling to the swords of Islam.

Now Obama meddles in the national elections of Israel, a fact that is in itself the basis for impeachment, even if one ignored all of his other travesties, legitimated by a fraudulent presidency.

If the GOP has committed lesser sins, history may forgive them, but history will never forgive the GOP or even Ted Cruz as a new president for failing to go after this fascist president with direct criminal law force of Congress after the 2016 election.

Lest you think my remarks inappropriate I refer you to this essay written in 2008, by a greater historian than I:

” Barack Obama: The Quintessential Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

Its time to stop playing with Obama and the legacy movement which will confront any GOP president, and attack Obama on all fronts as the wheedling, murdering, fascist dictator he truly is.Put him behind bars forthwith and advance his trial immediately by Congress itself, even after November of 2016..

Ted Cruz is THE MAN for that job.No one else could even begin to get that done.None of them even know the name of the game that is afoot like Ted Cruz does.


12 posted on 02/10/2015 6:40:09 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this a good move, 2ndDV? I’m sincerely asking...I don’t know anything about Rick Tyler.


13 posted on 02/10/2015 6:40:33 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Flintlock
On a thread about Scott Walker you said:

Well, he’s too many Mehhiccccans comin’ in for me.

In this thread about Sen. Cruz you said:

Toooooooo many Mehhiccccans on his back too.

Just who is pure enough for you?

14 posted on 02/10/2015 6:47:15 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! "The Miracle of America")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


CRUZ or LOSE!


15 posted on 02/10/2015 7:44:18 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Flintlock

Sleep it off.


16 posted on 02/10/2015 8:05:57 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not sure taking on some of Newt’s past baggage is the way to go.


17 posted on 02/10/2015 8:18:41 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Flintlock

Do you have a clue what you are talking about?


18 posted on 02/10/2015 8:21:09 AM PST by alstewartfan (When I looked the sky was empty. I suppose you never saw the landing lights. Al Stewart)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I believe it’s a good move, as far as I can tell Rick Tyler has been effective but also actually has Conservative principles. Much better that Senator Cruz seek out people Rick Tyler instead of people like henry barbour, haley’s nephew and hatchet man who carried out the dirty work in the cochran campaign, henry has been hired by Governor Rick Perry’s campaign. I believe you can tell a lot about a candidate by the people he surrounds himself with.


19 posted on 02/10/2015 8:28:53 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: Jane Long

“Not sure taking on some of Newt’s past baggage is the way to go.”

Newt had and has many attributes, his attributes far out weighed his baggage for me in the last election when compared to the candidates we had to chose from. However I would view Rick Tyler as an attribute and asset as opposed to baggage.


20 posted on 02/10/2015 8:36:06 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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