Anyway, another example of piss-poor judgement was when Ted pulled this really STUPID stunt:
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And then this:
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He finally apologized for that. If he were honest, he would have made a statement stating the Melania thing was inappropriate and apologize to Trump. Instead, he went deeper.
The guy is a jerk. And because I sent him money, I'm a jerk too for supporting him. Maybe I'll send Heidi a note asking for my $100 back since they have Bush, Beck, and Romney supporting their campaign now.
You’ve made several accusations against Cruz, starting with what happened several months ago in Iowa with the Ben Carson story started by CNN. SO, here’s a response first to the Ben Carson brouhaha ( and then after that, we’ll go to the Melania story ):
Who’s to blame for the rumor that Ben Carson was suspending his campaign after the Iowa caucus?
Was it CNN which accurately reported that Ben Carson was returning to Florida after the caucus, wouldn’t go to New Hampshire or South Carolina, would go to the Washington prayer breakfast, would be speaking at 9:15 regardless of the caucus results, and speculated that a serious Presidential candidate wouldn’t act this way?
Was it the CNN tweet: “After the #IAcaucus, @RealBenCarson plans to take a break from campaigning.”
Was it the Marco Rubio campaign that “was pushing the narrative hard” that Carson was dropping out?
Was it the Ted Cruz campaign that passed the CNN report to its caucus leaders? Was it the Rand Paul campaign that apparently did the same?
Was it Carson’s staff which, hearing of the CNN report, didn’t correct the speculation? Or was it the Carson campaign itself for giving CNN the information that led to the report and the subsequent speculation which they reported as “Breaking News”?
The media, the political establishment, and his political opponents say the caucus winner, Ted Cruz, is to blame.
Did Ted Cruz or his campaign create the news or speculation? No.
Did they invalidly pass on the CNN report? No.
Was the Carson campaign prevented from correcting the impression given by the CNN report? No.
Is there evidence that a single vote was changed? No.
Would Carson have place third or higher if the CNN information hadn’t gotten out? Not likely, Carson needed 25,000 votes to move into third place.
Carson placed where the polls projected, fourth.
And the media, which wants an establishment candidate, a RINO, to win the primary, has also been attacking Cruz. To create a false impression the media withholds the actual information, e.g., the actual CNN report and the related tweets. The media doesn’t ask why the Carson campaign provided the information (unusual for a serious candidate) that caused the speculation?
For the timeline of this situation with the CNN report and the tweets, see: http://goo.gl/XOHj8R
Imagine for a moment if the tables had been reversed, if Cruz had done exactly like Carson did and leaked the plans to CNN, neglected to get CNN to correct their report, neglected to inform caucus workers that the CNN report was false, and in fact even made such strange plans that caused the speculation by not going directly to the next primary state, New Hampshire, or the primary after that, South Carolina, for several days, in fact didn’t hold a single public event (as far as I can tell, he didn’t even arrive there apparently until Friday or Saturday) between the caucus and Saturday night’s debate.
What if Cruz had done what Carson did and Trump had been aware of the information, the speculation, and passed it to his caucus coordinators? What would be said?
Everyone would say what a stupid and poorly managed campaign Cruz was running, and how that showed he wasn’t prepared to be President.
Everyone wants to take out Cruz, so they blame him for Carson’s blunders. Cruz is the target because he is the biggest threat to Trump, to the establishment, and, after Trump who they think they can take down eventually, to his competitors.
I admire Dr. Ben Carson; he would be a fine President. I will happily vote for him if he had been the Republican nominee. But he was running a strange campaign, and his own actions and his campaign are to blame for what happened in Iowa. I am disappointed that Carson is trying to blame someone else for his campaign’s mistake, it is unworthy of him.
Now, in regards to the Melania GQ photo ad...
Despite the ad being created by Lisa Mair who operates an anti-Trump super PAC (the group is not pro-Ted Cruz, simply anti-Trump), Trump accused the Texas senator of being behind the ad.
Ted Cruz is getting flack for something he vehemently denies he has anything to do with.
To accuse Ted Cruz of coordinating this ad with Lisa Mair because it benefited him in Utah is akin to accusing Israel of supporting ISIS because Iran is also at war with it and Iran is Israel’s sworn enemy.
To raise the political heat a little bit more, the Washington Post decided to publish one of those nude photos of Melania, see here:
The photo clearly states at the bottom, “Paid for by Make America Awesome. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.”
This statement means that Make America Awesome, without any authorization from any candidate, chose to make those photos public probably in an attempt to alert Utah voters to Donald and Melania Trump’s very scandalous past.
Because those naked GQ photos are now popping up everywhere, this has made Donald Trump furious because they rip off the “conservative” mask around himself and his family that he has worked so hard to sell to the American voters during the run-up to the primaries.
Trump’s problem is that he cannot actually sue the Washington Post or GQ Magazine for defamation because the photos are real; Melania posed for them willingly.