Sen. Cruz: The Real Story of What Is Happening in Washington ( 59:47 )
Published on Sep 28, 2015
It really IS worth your time.
Posted on 11/24/2015 7:07:54 PM PST by JSDude1
I posted a bit earlier on the panic the GOP Establishment finds itself in over the rise of Donald Trump and his apparent immunity from traditional laws of political behavior and consequences. They are becoming just as panicked about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%. Now a Super Pac run by a major Rubio supporter is attacking Ted Cruz for his vote to rein in the data collection efforts by the NSA.
Some conservatives have wondered whether Ted Cruz’s support for the USA Freedom Act, which curtailed the National Security Agency’s ability to collect metadata from phone records in bulk, would eventually prove a weakness among a Republican electorate that is fundamentally hawkish.
Now, a little over a week after ISIS gunmen murdered hundreds of civilians on the streets of Paris and pushed terrorism to the top of voters’ minds, a conservative group is set to air ads that will hit Cruz for his support of the Freedom Act. American Encore, a group founded by Sean Noble, a former Koch brothers’ operative, is paying for the ad, which go up in the Des Moines, Iowa, market Tuesday morning on broadcast and cable. According to Noble, American Encore is putting about $200,000 behind the 30-second spot, which will air over the next two weeks.
The ad, which features scenes from Paris in the wake of the recent massacre, accuses Cruz of voting to “weaken America’s ability to identify and hunt down terrorists†and of supporting a bill that “was crafted to hobble the gathering of intelligence.â€
This issue goes back to Cruz joining 66 other senators in voting for the USA Freedom Act which limited the ability of federal agencies to bulk collect phone records.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Amazed at how out of touch a party can be...
Yep, the money boys in the GOPe are going after Cruz and Trump. They are using Rubio to attack Cruz and Kasich and the vehicle to attack Trump.
Fascinatingly, Red State and that retard Erick Erickson is just as much a part of the establishment as team Rubio. They’re just fulfilling a different role.
GOPe wants to lose...they know with Hillary they’ll still have it good and the money will keep flowing to all the crony traitors.
Morons. At worst Cruz will go back to the Senate where he will be their biggest nightmare ever!
The GOPe must realize they have been outed as about as homo as you can get.
This is going to backfire.
Hopefully as Majority Leader.
Yep.
They must be just absolutely terrified that the voters are recognizing the GOP-e and the Democrats as just two slightly different flavors of communist, anti-American scumbags that they all really are.
You make a valid point, my good FRiend.
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The poor bastards have him surrounded.
GO TRUMP!! What a gaping hole!!! Watch this huge gain for Trump. Keep it up boys!!
Cruz could never be majority leader in 2017. I believe a “D” Democrat will be majority leader instead of just a Democrat sympathizer as we now have.
ping for later
The group who did the ad wasn't the National Republican Committee (GOPe as some call them), but individuals who have a PAC for Rubio. They can make and run any ads they want, so they did.
Cruz’s team needs to ask Rubio about his deciding vote on the trade deal, and it netted him $3.9 million.
Rubio can be bought.
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