Posted on 01/30/2016 2:55:27 AM PST by springwater13
Please do us all a favor and take your ball and go home. You’ve done enough damage to Cruz already.
Quite the brain bank you have going there!
Lol. Intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing. When deceit is thrown in you can be the smartest deceiver in the world but simple folks with wisdom can see right through it.
Rather than knee-jerk this - am I growing up? - I went back to sleep ruminating on it.
So, a guy at an Iowa college, part of Team Cruz, puts this idea together to get the attention of Iowans who get 10 campaign mailers per day, plus polling calls, which largely get thrown in the trash and hung up on. This mailer, he says, will not be thrown away, in fact the recipients will immediately call their neighbors listed on the violation form to confirm THEY got one, too.
Sounds like a marketing breakthrough, no?
But on the same day 7 people depart the campaign under questionable circumstances. I’m looking for more info on that, if anybody knows anything.
So this Iowa professor or whatever he is, is he still with the campaign? If so, then this is stupider than the Beck idea. If not, then Cruz likely didn’t hear about the mailer until people started opening theirs and likely blew a gasket. Remember, Cruz’ church and 4 others in Houston were targeted by lezbo mayor Anissa Parker to hand over their sermons, which Cruz remedied immediately.
IMO, Cruz wouldn’t approve this, Texans are outraged by this kind of stuff. Iowans probably aren’t, subject as they are to Caucus attention overkill every 4 years.
Was camp Cruz sabotaged? Need more data - from that Dailey affair - to decide. OTOH, depending how ‘narrow’ this mailing was, it could be the talk of IA until Monday.
I think the simple answer is Cruz’s campaign manager is a tone deaf moron.
OK, but even Romney didn’t drive conservatives away from the voting booth the way Trump is setting up to do.
You’ll see. Congratulations on supporting Hillary for prez. You reap what you sow.
Oh please Romney is a hoser!
Ping to 122 p-marlowe.
This is beyond the pale. They made it visible to the public that the recipient was a possible part of voter fraud....on the envelope that everyone sees
Yep. And Trump is a blowhard, liberal, political windsock who acts like a petulant four year old who is ready to “make deals” with Pelosi and Reid.
Yeah. If this is what conservatism has come to, it’s time to go politically Halt.
Between this and the Beck Swearing in Ceremony Cruz is toast. This is literally scandalous. How could anyone running for President possibly think this would be a good idea?
If Cruz didn’t know about this, then that really doesn’t excuse him. He should have known about it. He’s been hanging around Iowa for a month and he ought to know what his campaign is doing there.
Maybe someone thought it was “cute”.
All I know is this is a game changer for me.
I suspect by June this primary will be over. Maybe I’ll register as a democrat and vote for Sanders. That is, unless Hillary is already behind bars.
You go then. You are delusional. Let’s talk after Iowa.
You are coming around! Very proud!
You are correct, ConservativeMind. That video was an entry into a ComedyCentral contest #CruzYourOwnAdventure that invited anyone and everyone to manipulate Cruz footage. The one Grania mentions is but one of many people have mistaken to be legit Cruz ads.
I think the simple answer is Cruz’s campaign manager is a tone deaf moron.
OTOH if Cruz fires him, there goes the fun of silly season.
I’m embarrassed to admit this unforced error may ‘front-fire’ and get low turnout areas to caucus, regardless for who.
There is a real level of intentional deceit going on in this between Cruz and the voters receiving these packets.
I can see my elderly mom thinking she actually had violated the law. Seriously.
It IS going to backfire. If true, I cannot support a candidate that feels the need to shame people into voting for him. If I put myself in the shoes of the ones who received this mailer, this would offend me and drive me to the polls for someone else, regardless of the historicity of such a mailer. I was a Strong Cruz supporter, but I am never a syncophant or blind follower.
Ted Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal "Shaming Letters" To Iowa Voters
Ummmmm, why would a ‘conservative’ go to a super lib blog in the Peoples Republic of Austin to get as a unbiased friend to conservatives source?
Sarah Rumpf
ïAustin, TX
Sarah Rumpf is a journalist, attorney, and caffeine addict living in Austin, Texas
What mailer? You have a full copy and somehow ‘forgot’ to post it too?
It seems to have been magically pulled from any publication even the liberal source of your story.
Show us the mailer!
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