It’s how a guy WAY ahead, and with the most “amazing ground game ever conceived in the history of American politics” would obviously do.
Kinda like what we truckers say when we see a semi involved in an accident that was clearly the truck driver’s fault:
Hell of a thing to have happen on your last day of work.
It's done all the time and is a common campaign practice.
Maybe that's true.
But it's in the NY Times, leading on CNN, picked up By the Examiner and several Iowa newspapers.
Cruz had to answer a question about it on the trail today.
I don't know how badly, if at all, it will damage his vote on Monday, but we should have a pretty good idea by tomorrow evening.
So far it appears to have cost him a point or two from what he would of had.
Baffling.
[I think a lot of voters were disturbed by it and again]
You know, had a guy at church, an associate pastor, one time suggested the church buy a marketing book to identify a certain group of people and then, I guess, show up on their doorstep and/or mail them.
I thought it was a very, very, bad idea. AFAIK, it didn’t happen.
I wonder if Rubio will now finish second especially after the debate.
Citizenship Quiz:
Ted Cruz - 50% (mother)
Born in USA - FAIL
(Hey, just a joke, don’t bash me, Cruz fans...)
Unusual is the understatement of the year. LOL!
flush goes the toilet
Rubio is the last one that should be commenting on this ... he’s next in line for the Trump thump ..LOL !
“Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday said controversial get-out-the-vote mailers sent by rival Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign ahead of the caucuses were an ‘unusual way’ for the Texan to end his campaign here. “
Not a Rubio fan but he got in a great zinger there! Witty!
For a guy who was never eligible to the office in the first place, it's a brilliant way to end a campaign -- rustle up some last minute huge fund-raising, create a dust-up that leaves the whole country shaking their heads, then vanish into the shadows with millions left over. Yes, they get to keep the money.
it's kind of an unusual way to end your campaign in the state."" End your campaign " may have more meaning than they thought.
If he had the balls and it's as effective as he claims he could've done it to their faces.
I’m a huge Cruz supporter, but this was just plain stupid. It worked for the Democrats, because in all-minority neighborhoods, everyone can safely presume that their neighbors would all vote the same way. What was the idea here? Trying to get people to vote for other candidates?
At least he owned up to it, but it was just incredibly stupid.
Pile on, they’re desperate to make hay of this.
Cruz stole this dirty trick from Obama, who used the dirty trick in the 2012 campaign. Add this one to the growing list of dirty tricks cooked up by Ted “Dirty Trickster” Cruz. PS-—wonder if Glenn “Dan Rather” Beck was behind this or is he working on a new photoshopped phoney Tweet?
I am a Cruz supporter...but I can say without any excuse or preamble that this was a big mistake by Cruz.
People will see and feel “big brother,” all over it...they very thing Cruz is campaigning against.
In addition, it will offend, and then anger them, and they will most likely (if they vote at all), go out and vote against whomever sent such a correspondence.
Cruz has some knuckleheads working for him...or agents working against him.
Does not matter...he himself should have seen how crazy this was and either stopped it...or if he did not find out until later...he should have apologized and fired the people who were responsible.
This will hurt him, particularly in Iowa, but also wherever people hear of it...and you can bet the competition will trumpet it far and wide.