Posted on 03/25/2016 2:04:29 PM PDT by SteveSCH
The truth behind the rumor-mongering, however, is a little more complex. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruz’s opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months now—and that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved in spreading the smears.
For months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications, according to Republican operatives and media figures. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC News—reporters at all those outlets heard some version of the Cruz-is-cheating story. None of them decided to run with rumors. Those publications’ representatives all declined to provide on-the-record comments when The Daily Beast reached out for this article.
Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubio—but not associated with his official campaign—showed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.
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Trump has taught me to use pretzel logic when talking to Trumpers.
so what?
Enquiring minds want to know- did Mr Bible-raiser, Mormon savior, dominionist anointed one Ted Cruz boink other women - or not?
Hardly just a lunch. The article claims that there is video of Cruz and a woman leaving a HOTEL together regularly two days a week. I certainly don’t know if that’s true, but let’s not pretend it says he was only having a lunch with a woman.
Habeus corpus.
On 4/1/14 at 7:24pm, Amanda Carpenter posted a mirror selfie of herself with the EXACT SAME TATTOO on her left shoulder blade.
But that's all a coincidence, right?
I’m not sure why you posted that to me.
Wasn’t so much as a reply to you as it was likely you were the last comment in line when I decided to post.
And because it isn't what he was not that long ago, I'm required to believe him? Other candidates were and are required to carry the baggage of past actions, but Trump gets a pass? He has a past more liberal than any other candidate and him telling me he's changed is not enough.
the story of Ted Cruz bearing a tatoo of Winston Churchill is more distressing than the rumor of the 5 mistresses.
“An operative allied with Rubio...” Those same “operatives” were from the Bushes. Now they’re allied with Cruz because he was dumb enough to trust them.
Bushes are the slimy ones.
Ted Bush will tell his fanatics they were attending a Book club .
His zealots will eat it up like cotton candy .
His denial was a little too strong in my opinion. He said five living women.
No problem. :)
I think you nailed it. This is way too much like Let's You and Him Fight. The short term winner will be the GOPe and the designated loser. The long term winner is Hillary.
And that doesn’t even include the women who were dazzled by his paisley robe when he was in college.
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
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LOL! Excellent.
LOL
| Makes sense because that's the Cruz mission now: take down Donald Trump. He has no illusions about winning the nomination now. Cruz is the designated take-down-Trump candidate for the GOPe/Golden Sacks. |
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