Posted on 03/26/2016 9:26:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
Defend Heidi Cruz
by MONA CHAREN March 26, 2016
Is Trump the political genius that some have been hinting? Who else, without staff or experience, could rocket to the top of the polls and remain in that perch month after month despite everything? Maybe it’s genius, or maybe its shamelessness. The latter can be mistaken for the former. This week’s new slog in the mud demonstrates one of Trump’s techniques to perfection — he flings filth at an opponent and then invites the docile press to conclude that “both sides” are engaged in unseemly brawling. (This is usually John Kasich’s moment to shake his head sadly and remind voters that, golly gee, he would never do such things.)
The “wife spat” began, as these things always do, with a Trump shiv. An independent PAC, Make America Awesome, published practically nude pictures — fully available in the public domain — of Melania Trump from a GQ photo shoot from the early 2000s, and invited viewers to consider whether someone who posed for such pictures would make an appropriate first lady. Trump then grabbed this small ad as excuse to hurl accusations at one of his opponents (wonder why he didn’t accuse Kasich?), tweeting that he believed Cruz to be responsible for the ad and threatening to “spill the beans” about Heidi Cruz if Cruz weren’t “careful.”
Cruz had nothing to do the the Make America Awesome ad. But before getting to the rest of the imbroglio, and at the risk of seeming utterly Victorian in this sorry time, it seems to me that Melania’s history as a nude model is not completely out of bounds as an election issue for voters. In an era when Paris Hilton becomes a household name for being featured in a sex tape,..... (READ ON)
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Cruz’s side started this war with the nude pictures. Assuming Senator Cruz was unaware of the ad initially, he should have renounced it the day it came out. I have no idea if the allegations about his infidelity are true. There are no “Monkey Business” pictures of the type that sunk Gary Hart in 1988. Cruz and his side played with fire, and he is now getting burned.
>>(wonder why he didn’t accuse Kasich?)
>Because Kasich didn’t attack his wife, you clueless bimbo!
The big lesson — which was obvious quite a few months ago: do not attack Trump. Ever. Beat him on points and policy (if you can) and by getting people to like you. Don’t try to make people dislike Trump. Don’t attack him. It never works, and his counterattack will destroy you.
The Heidi Cruz meltdown at the side of the road happed in 2005, around the time Ted is now being accused of seeing hookers dressed like school girls and judges.
Heidi Cruz. Police report about her breakdown...
Austin Police Report from Aug 22, 2005.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1688866/cruz-incident-report.pdf
Here is the location on Google Maps where Heidi Cruz was found sitting at 2200 (10pm), Aug 22, 2005 with her head in her hands.
“...I MADE CONTACT WITH THE ABOVE SUBJECT AT ENFIELD AND N.MOPAC. THE SUBJECT WAS SEATED IN THE GRASS, APPROXIMATELY 10 FEET AWAY FROM N.MOPAC PROPER AT THE ENFIELD ON-RAMP...”
Google Maps - Enfield Rd onramp to N. Mopac, Austin, TX
https://goo.gl/maps/iR8tKNUai2F2
An insult to Heidi is an insult to Golden Sacks itself!!
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I did not have Sacks with that woman!
Please stop. I’ve seen pictures of Melania too that are very unflattering. They are both beautiful women.
Rubio started that. Your attention span is that of a 30 second commercial.
Jeff Roe purchased that photo and it then went to the SuperPac. YOu are the one who needs to get informed.
Your attempts to obfuscate away from the issue of Cruz’s character are hilarious.
Trump never attacked Heidi. The threat to spill the beans about Heidi and her North American Union had nothing to do with Ted’s proclivities for brunettes.
Trump was wrong. It isn’t just Lyin Ted, it should’ve been Layin Ted.
Charen is GOPe, fully purchased and owned.
Yeah, she is in the Fox News restroom wearing his jacket, but Heidi needs protection from mean Trump people.
Truly Bazarro world insanity.
Aren’t you embarrassed to display you vapid Trumpisms? At least to their credit other Trumpkins have responded to the contents of the article.
LOL, so Trump voters would have voted for Jeb?
Voters didn't want Jeb, Trump or no Trump.
Great column by Mona. Tragic to see what has happened to the formerly great free Republic.
You are right, the RNC/GOP would have been coasting by now instead of sweating bullets because The Cheap Labor Express would be getting their amnesty candidate.
Yeb! would already be considered the “presumptive” nominee to be The Designated Loser just like his predecessors, McAmnesty and Romneycare.
Trump is what disrupted their playbook.
I wanted to show the original Twitter which caused *so* much heartburn.
Tacky, yes. World-ending cheap shot (especially after the Cruz PAC twitter of Melania nude), no.
I keep waiting for your zot. I doubt there is a more obvious GOPe shill on the FR.
Oh how holy you are. Such a genius to grace the presence of FR.
Steelfish get hooked with rusted nails.
NOPE
...as are we all. EYE BLEACH!
“assuming Senator Cruz was unaware of the ad initially, he should have renounced it the day it came out.”
Wallace, Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, paid GQ for the right to use the nude photo of Trump wife. Cruz not only knew, he and Jeff Roe committed a crime by giving that photo to the “Make America Awesome” PAC.
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