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Team Carson furious with Cruz
The Hill ^ | 4 Feb 16 | Easley

Posted on 02/04/2016 7:05:03 AM PST by xzins

Ben Carson and his closest advisers are going nuclear against Ted Cruz and his campaign for spreading false rumors that he intended to drop out ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

Carson's close friend and adviser Armstrong Williams told The Hill in an interview on Wednesdaythat the Cruz campaign’s tactics were 'nasty, brutal and deceitful.'

'We've been told all along that Cruz's operatives play dirty and were capable of this stuff, but Dr. Carson never believed it, he felt like they had a respectable operation,' Williams said. 'Now we see firsthand that having integrity just doesn't matter to them. It's about honor and character, either you have it or you don'.t'

Williams said he's certain that Cruz knew the rumors about him dropping out were false but says the Texas Republican allowed his underlings to spread it anyway.

'He's a pure politician and will do anything to win,' Williams said. 'It doesn't matter who he does it to, friend or foe, whatever it takes to win. Cruz has been running as an outsider and calling Hillary Clinton dishonest. Well, Cruz is the one running without honor or integrity, and this shows he's just like everyone else inside-the-beltway.'

Carson has demanded Cruz fire those responsible for spreading the rumor, but Cruz has said he won't do that.

"After all the candidates worked so hard, and Dr. Ben Carson had a staff member lose his life working towards this day, to have someone like Cruz and his people deceive and spread falsehoods is unconscionable," Williams said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carson; cruz; dirtytricks; fraud; gossip; nointegrity; tedcruz; votefraud
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To: xzins

this entire story is silly....He’s fine with being called a crazy pedophile yet gets mad when people run with a story from CNN...OK


21 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:09 AM PST by SPRINK
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To: dynoman

While not enamored with this trick, Romney pulled and the GOPe would pull this type of crap in a second to eliminate the conservatives from this race. In some ways, it is good to know that there is a conservative in this race who can play dirty.

Politics ain’t bean bag. Trump is a fighter, Cruz is a fighter and Rubio will have the GOPe behind him. Lest anyone think that the way to the nomination and the White House is by being as pure as the wind driven snow:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/228434/fast-times-nashua-high-craig-shirley


22 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:49 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: xzins

Carson needs to make up his mind.
Yesterday he said it was CNN that reported he was quitting the campaign, no today it’s Cruz’ fault.
Carson is just mad that many of his team quit and went to Cruz.


23 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:59 AM PST by svcw (Liberalism looks smart to stupid people.)
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To: xzins

I wasn’t aware there was a Team Carson left. Hadn’t most of his political staff jumped ship long ago?


24 posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:23 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: dynoman

Lest we forget.... In other news:
Meet Chad C. Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, former DoD/CIA/Goldman Sachs/Homeland Security.

Sweet co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.

As a leader of the Chertoff Group, Sweet “advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection.”

http://www.chertoffgroup.com/bios/chad-sweet.php

Meet Ted’s ex-CIA PR guy, Dan P. Gabriel. Gabriel is involved in SIGINT aka interception - which is turned into propaganda. His twitter handle is @danpgabriel and he was one of the people pushing the angle that it was confirmed to the Cruz campaign that Carson was dropping out. After called out on the lie, the agent deleted the tweet and denies everything in typical spook fashion:


25 posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:58 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: xzins
Williams said he's certain that Cruz knew the rumors about him dropping out were false

All of Carson's SuperPAC in NH quit over the weekend, and then his team tells CNN Carson is leaving the caucuses early to go home to Florida and will be "taking a break" from campaigning (at least that is what was first reported). And with all of that, William's is "certain" that Cruz knew all of that didn't indicate Carson might be dropping out?

26 posted on 02/04/2016 7:17:31 AM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: xzins

And has Carson expressed ANY outrage at Rubio? If not, why not?


27 posted on 02/04/2016 7:17:33 AM PST by texas_mrs
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To: bramps

Again...just because you accept an apology does NOT mean you don’t expect there to be consequences.

In fact, the mark of a real apology is that the apologizer attempts to make some kind of restitution. That is the biblical way, and Cruz and Carson are both biblical Christian candidates....at least they say that.


28 posted on 02/04/2016 7:17:53 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins
Beware those who run as self-proclaimed "Christians", those who have to tell you about their "principles."

The actions of Ted "Nixon" Cruz contradict both claims.

Note also he apologized without holding his staff accountable. I've come to believe he knew about the mailer. Knew about the text indicating Carson was dropping out. This man has situational ethics.

A number of his staff left before the Iowa election. They accused him of being a phony. I discounted it at the time. Now I understand what they said they witnessed.

Although Reagan is who he mimics verbally, Nixon is his role model on action.

29 posted on 02/04/2016 7:18:03 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (As a representative of Earth, I officially welcome Global Warming to our planet)
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To: dynoman

BREAKING: @moody has learned @realbencarson will return to FL following , will not go to either NH or SC


30 posted on 02/04/2016 7:18:09 AM PST by optiguy (A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8)
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To: xzins

Cruz hats black people now?


31 posted on 02/04/2016 7:18:16 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: dynoman
With Carson’s funding taking a nose dive, he can’t afford to let go of this.

Ben Carson’s campaign raised around $23 million in the last three months of 2015, his campaign manager Barry Bennett said on Wednesday — one-upping Ted Cruz's fourth-quarter haul of nearly $20 million.

You got anymore lies? Cruz

32 posted on 02/04/2016 7:18:36 AM PST by scooby321
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To: xzins

Cruz campaign chair worked in the Clandestine Arm of CIA and has access to a former Director of CIA and NSA that works for his firm.

Carson in over his head.


33 posted on 02/04/2016 7:19:14 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Calpublican

“Carson & Trump are making themselves look inept”

Yeh Trump and Carson didn’t know shaming letters and dirty trix were the way to go. LOL!


34 posted on 02/04/2016 7:19:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dynoman

Trump higher ethical ground? lol thats funny


35 posted on 02/04/2016 7:19:39 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Calpublican

No Carson and Trump are not the “inept” ones. They did not pull dirty crap like the Cruz camp did.

I remember what someone told me; “When someone hands you their head on a platter - why not take it?”

That is what Ted did, he handed ammunition to his opponents. Not smart. “Principled” Ted isn’t. He just blew that to smithereens. That dog don’t hunt no more.


36 posted on 02/04/2016 7:19:49 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: SPRINK

One affected delegate count and the other didn’t. Who called him a pedophile?


37 posted on 02/04/2016 7:19:57 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: texas_mrs

This is how Rubio wins.


38 posted on 02/04/2016 7:20:03 AM PST by skeeter
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To: dynoman

The tweet you posted was seventeen minutes after CNN tweet.


39 posted on 02/04/2016 7:20:06 AM PST by optiguy (A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8)
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To: xzins

This is the most publicity Carson has gotten since Trump called him a child molester.


40 posted on 02/04/2016 7:20:34 AM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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