Posted on 01/24/2016 7:10:07 AM PST by sarasotarepublican
Update:
In a reversal from claims made on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is now saying the senator and his family do have health insurance and never lost coverage. The late night Friday revelation came more than 24 hours after Cruz had told a New Hampshire audience that he and his family were without health insurance and were scrambling to obtain new coverage--and used the claim to slam Obamacare for the mess he was in.
In statements to Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal, campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier blamed Cruz's false assertion that his family had lost their health insurance on a misunderstanding. She said an insurance broker told Cruz that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas was dropping his PPO plan, but Frazier said that the broker did not tell Cruz his family was automatically being transferred to the carrier's HMO plan.
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Good Lord, how can politicians say this sort of stuff?
So if the broker didn’t tell Cruz then he didn’t know. Right?
Look, I’ll be happy to vote for Cruz or Trump, but it really is glaring the double standards Cruz supporters have for their candidate. If this had been Trump, the long knives would be out.
+1
So again, its someone else’s fault.
Yep. It’s obviously Trump’s fault.
I have yet to speak on this because I have generally viewed both Trump & Cruz as a vacation in the French Riviera after 8 years of the Islamocommie reign. Cruz back when he was running for senate and attending many grassroots events often in Houston, declined to sign our petitions to get a ballot measure to overturn sanctuary city. He was asked again via his staff about this from other activists helping to get signatures, to no avail. At the time we needed 20K signers and looking back knowing the forces we were up against it probably would have come to naught-i.e. protracted litigation. Ted Cruz however did sign off on a common core petition presented to him on the campaign trail.
Not the way it works here. Have you noticed a mostly conservative Rubio was discarded because of gang of 8 (including me) for one flip flop?
Trump is given a free pass on every flip flop and lie by his supporters.
Fortunately 65-75% do not intend to vote for him. I am guessing he won’t pick up much support as candidates drop out.
cruz fan until the last week.
first the NY comment and now this. even said he argued with wife about it so that means neither understood that they still had health insurance?
i’m a mess and I would never let that happen.
this game’s over.
And another mask falls off. Isn’t anyone concerned about what will be standing there when all the masks are gone?
“......... how can politicians say this sort of stuff?”.........
BECAUSE, they are “politicians” who can/will say anything when it suits their need(s).
| "Then I tried to stab a friend of mine whose name was Bob. How dare the press not believe me..." Darth Trump I tell you what: this campaign will go down in history as the most fun of all -- as long as the right man ultimately wins. |
I discard Rubio because he is a lying Amnesty snake. I will vote for Trump in the primary here in my state, but if Ted wins it, I’ll vote for him in the general election.
There is no 65-75% who ‘won’t’ vote for Trump. That’s a wishful concoction by GOPe and Democrats.
It seems Cruz is having a series of missteps lately as if he is cracking from the pressure. The eligibility thing has left him vulnerable. The Goldman Sachs thing is a problem. The Glenn Beck thing was not so good. These are all open ended loose ends like the death of a thousand cuts.
I have yet to speak on this because I have generally viewed both Trump & Cruz as a vacation in the French Riviera after 8 years of the Islamocommie reign. Cruz back when he was running for senate and attending many grassroots events often in Houston, declined to sign our petitions to get a ballot measure to overturn sanctuary city. He was asked again via his staff about this from other activists helping to get signatures, to no avail. At the time we needed 20K signers and looking back knowing the forces we were up against it probably would have come to naught-i.e. protracted litigation. Ted Cruz however did sign off on a common core petition presented to him on the campaign trail.
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Thanks for sharing that; very interesting.
I’ve come to the conclusion that like all of us, politicians are not perfect. We have some posting on this forum that demand 100% conservative perfection. If the candidate isn’t perfect, then they’re deemed a liberal or RINO, or something else. Don’t get me wrong, we do indeed have RINOs, but we can certainly draw conclusions as to who has the nations best interests at heart, even if they aren’t perfect.
Trump, Cruz...heck, even Carson would be a dramatic improvement to the Marxist, Queer we currently have degrading the White House. Sadly, we have some who will only vote for their candidate (most Cruz supporters on this forum); no other is deemed worthy enough to meet their 100% perfection criteria. So, on election night they’ll sit home having their pathetic pity party.
Genuine curiosity: one seldom finds highly partisan fans dropping their preferred candidate based on gaffes.
Who is your fallback candidate after Cruz? Or since this is so sudden, you haven't finished considering...?
I look at what we’ve learned about Cruz’s real resume and wonder whom he’d want his delegates to go to if he drops out. I don’t think he’s ever spoken about the sold-out establishment candidates. All he’s ever said is he wouldn’t speak ill about any of them.
After I posted I thought the same thing . . . do anything, say anything
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