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To: Sean_Anthony

When will Ted renounce Romney’s involvement and comments beyond this?

Until then, he’s working for their agenda.


2 posted on 03/07/2016 9:45:38 AM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: datura

Nope.

Just enough of the fake tough talk to keep his base, not enough to not “keep his options open”.


7 posted on 03/07/2016 9:51:06 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: datura
Here's some interesting reading for whatever it's worth. Certainly not anything different than what we see posted about Trump over and over and over;

Bloody Kansas (written before the KS caucus) http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/bloody-kansas.html?m=1

The Power Behind Ted Cruz Election Fraud http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-power-behind-ted-cruz-election-fraud.html?m=1

Ted Cruz is Scared (very thought provoking) http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-is-scared.html?m=1

Proof of Ted Cruz Vote Fraud in Kansas and Maine http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/proof-of-ted-cruz-vote-fraud-in-kansas.html?m=1

Read and think about it for a second. Not that it matters now...

If true there will be less of it in the primary states, especially the open primary states and ones that require ID.

Jeff Roe is from Kansas City. He’s a sleezebag. So was the guy Ted fired, and so is the guy that replaced him - busted for hiring illegal aliens - twice.

There’s no doubt Jeff is well versed in gutter politics.


“It was Mr. Roe who hired Mr. Tyler to be the Cruz campaign’s spokesman. (In an interview this month, Mr. Tyler said he had “learned a lot” from Mr. Roe. “Jeff wins,” Mr. Tyler said, adding, “I don’t think anything we’ve done is underhanded or deceptive or anything like that.”)

But back home, Mr. Roe’s allies and opponents alike have seen a familiar imprint in the Cruz campaign’s recent exploits, which have included a Photoshopped image of Mr. Rubio and the misleading suggestion, on the night of the Iowa caucuses, that Ben Carson was leaving the race.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-campaign-manager-jeff-roe.html?_r=0




All been done before by Jeff Roe. Then there is this;


"Political consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City, is Ted Cruz's campaign manager — and the architect of the Texas senator's surprising first-place finish.

Roe is hardly a household name even amongst the political chattering class. (He has less than 6,000 Twitter followers.) Locally, he's most famous for commissioning the mean-spirited ad that upset State Auditor Tom Schweich and may have factored into his suicide, at least according to former U.S. Senator John Danforth, who blasted "politics that has gone so hideously wrong" in his funeral oration. Roe has been labeled "the Karl Rove of Missouri" — and the people calling him that don't consider it a compliment.

But as last night's results proved, he knows what he's doing. Cruz didn't just hold off all the other candidates vying for Iowa's large block of conservative voters. He did it even while beating Donald Trump. It was a wild, complicated race, and you have to respect the guy who figured out how to propel any candidate, much less one who's thoroughly loathed by everyone he meets, to victory.

In an interview with Chris Wallace a few weeks ago, Roe discussed a few secrets to his success — namely, a simple message and strong branding. Roe comes across as intensely analytical. He doesn't just know how long the average voter looks at a mailer (17 seconds); he knows how long he wants you to look at one touting Cruz (45 seconds). "When we communicate with the voter, we want it to be simple, clear and reinforce our candidate's brand," he says. For Cruz, that was "strong Christian conservative leader."

A recent New York Times Magazine piece delved more deeply into how Roe & Co. made those words resonate for Cruz, who'd hitherto been identified mostly as a conservative, not necessarily a Christian. Writes Robert Draper,

"One morning early in January, in the lobby of a public library in Onawa, Iowa, I listened to Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, as he explained a central challenge of his previous few months. ‘‘Prior to March 23,’’ Roe said, ‘‘if you were to word-cloud ‘Ted Cruz,’ which we do every day — take all the Google mentions and Internet searches, dump them into a file and form a cloud — you can’t find ‘evangelical.’ ’’ In other words, voters were largely unaware of the Tea Party firebrand’s religious faith. To convince evangelicals that Ted Cruz was the ‘‘righteous’’ candidate, Roe told me, his team needed to sell him as such, from the very beginning: ‘‘Regardless of what you’ve got in the bank, you’d better determine the narrative of the campaign, and show that’s who we are, every day."

Last night's results suggest that effort worked beautifully.

Yes, Iowa is unusually dominated by evangelicals, and yes, if Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are any indication, Cruz faces an uphill battle to get the Republican nomination, much less win a single state. But we have to hand it to Roe. Never before has a candidate that so many Americans find this intensely annoying managed to make it this far."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/02/02/missouris-own-jeff-roe-was-the-wind-beneath-ted-cruzs-iowa-wings




Nothing like this is coming out about the Trump or Kasich campaigns. If there was anything like this going on with Trump the media would be screaming it from the rooftops.
10 posted on 03/07/2016 9:59:31 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: datura

Has Trump denounced Romney’s involvement and comments? Why is it necessary for Cruz to make a further statement on the matter than he did? Is there some proof you have that Cruz and Romney have been meeting and conspiring together?


26 posted on 03/07/2016 11:00:27 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: datura
When will Ted renounce Romney’s involvement and comments beyond this?

Nope. Cruz should stay on message as much as possible and not get dragged into every discussion started by someone who hates him. He doesn't have to renounce Romney or any of the others. Similarly, Trump should stay on message as much as possible and not get dragged into a discussion of every staged Klan photo with a vague Trump connection. If they let every distraction take them off message, it would give Rubio and Kasich a chance. America cannot afford that.

30 posted on 03/07/2016 12:21:30 PM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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