Posted on 03/29/2016 4:41:08 PM PDT by Signalman
RSBN is doing its best to keep you updated in real time about what certainly seems to be the effective end of the Cruz campaign, as the multiple-mistress scandal continues to linger and fester.
As of this afternoon, March 29, the Cruz campaign appears to be spinning out of control, if not already finished. It may be just a matter of time.
Not that Big Media is particularly doing much to do anything but bury the story. The trumpophobic media of course is relying on Cruz to remain in the race as its last hope of possibly preventing Trump from receiving the 1,237 delegates required for the Republican nomination.
The big news of the last day or so, make no mistake, is that Heidi Cruz has gone MIA. She canceled her New Jersey campaign events that were scheduled this week, including a fundraiser in Morris County scheduled for Wednesday.
Additionally, she has not tweeted since Friday, the day after the Cruz-infidelity story broke in the National Enquirer.
Additionally, yesterday Cruz added suspicion by hamhandedly attempting to avoid a question on the infidelity issue. Instead, he figuratively hid behind the skirt of Carly Fiorina.
When Cruz was asked by a reporter from DailyMail.com yesterday to tell “on the record that you’ve never been unfaithful to your wife,” Fiorina awkwardly jumped in, with a subsequent exchange going as follows:
Fiorina: “If I may…” Reporter: “No, I’m sorry. I asked the Senator that question.” Fiorina: “Well, I’m gonna comment, OK?” Reporter: “Do you have first-hand knowledge of his marriage?” Fiorina: “I’m gonna comment. This is an example of the media playing to Donald Trump’s tune.”
Fiorina then tried her best to change the subject, saying “Donald trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission. And in a week when we have had a terrorist attack in Brussels, a shooting on Capitol Hill, the president of the United States in the baseball stands with Raul Castro, and insisting that he be photographed in front of a portrait of Che Guevara with the two Castro brothers, we are talking about a scurrilous, ridiculous piece in the National Enquirer. Why do you all dance to Donald Trump’s tune? Let’s talk about the issues, please.’
Given another attempt to answer the specific question, Cruz responded with “Sir, I recognize that you love going into the gutter with these kind of … [several parties talking at once].”
Cruz did say, thereafter, that “the National Enquirer story is complete garbage. It is total lies. It was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen.”
Cruz of course was using legalese there, which could have of course referred to any National Enquirer story. He did not answer the reporter’s actual question about his faithfulness.
As Trump emphasized during his appearance on The Savage Nation yesterday, it was Marco Rubio’s campaign which had been peddling the Cruz-mistress story for some time, and Trump himself had nothing to do with its promulgation. In fact, Trump (who of course wasn’t there 24/7 and thus cannot be entirely sure that there was no infidelity) expressed to Savage that he thought the allegations were “garbage.” Note, as was the case with Cruz also using the term “garbage” to describe the allegations, the use of the word “garbage” does not necessarily mean that one thinks the allegations are untrue.
Meanwhile, the Cruz campaign has resorted to attempting to deflect attention from its candidate’s meltdown by playing up the ridiculous-to-the-point-of-almost-hilarious charge of “battery” in Jupiter, Florida against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. This “battery” consisted of a slight inadvertent brush-up against publicity-seeking, now-former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields when both parties were on a crowded stage. Cruz’s campaign manager Alice Stewart attempted to exploit the bogus charge against Lewandowski, saying, apparently not jokingly: “Unfortunately, this abusive behavior seems to be part of the culture of the Trump campaign.”
As for the division of the Cruz campaign know as The Glenn Beck Program, Beck said yesterday that he’ll drop Ted Cruz “like a hot potato” if the sex scandal allegations turn out to be true.
Beck added that “But if you’re a serial guy, like five of them during this campaign, that’s insane, a totally different person han we think Ted Cruz is…” But, laughingly, Beck pointed out that Cruz “doesn’t have enough game. We’re not talking Tom Cruise. It’s Ted Cruz, have you watched him?”
Beck has taken in recent weeks to referring to Cruz as the “anointed one,” beseeching Christian voters that it’s their religious due to vote for Cruz.
Some Cruz supporters are certainly troubled by the way the story is playing out. According to Tanna, one now-former Cruz supporter: “He’s so done. His entire campaign has been based on being a moral elitist being above and more GODLY than the rest of us and I took the bait. Shame on me. Last time I fall for that preacher crap.”
In sum, whether the adage that “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” applies to the Cruz-infidelity story is, for now, for you to decide. We at RSBN suspect the soap opera known as the Cruz Campaign will be providing a final answer very shortly.
#83 Forgive?Really, who is supporting someone that funded numerous Leading Democrats in Congress and funded Hillary for President in 08?
Amen to that! And the higher up they go, the more likely that's true. If you find a decent, humble politician, it's more likely to be at the local level IMO.
Yeah, we noticed you'd been slipping lately. Wondered if it was a work slowdown...
Imagine how all of those who did their part to promote the story will feel.
Or should feel, anyway.
HAve you never heard that correlation does not equal causation?
“Heidi’s personal problems ARE NOT fair game. “
Who she is can be just as important as who he is. Seems wives of presidents have major impacts on the administrations and this nation.
I agree.
A smear job, no matter who does it, is loathsome.
THAT would explain the difference between Rush and Hannity lately...
I wouldn't be so sure of that. If anything, she's inching away from the nomination as she continues to lose states (3 on Saturday alone) to a 74 year-old white male communist. Go figure.
Yes my mistake and I am sorry I thought you meant cruz could win FL and Trump could not.
Long day after Easter.
We’re seeing Herman Cain 2016 all over again.
LOL!!!
If proof every surfaces I hope I have enough of my own to reassess my support of Cruz.
Or, to borrow a quote from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising:
"Right full rudder, all ahead flank," McCafferty ordered yet again.
He turned to the exec. "You know what they just did? They dropped a fish to spook us into moving! Damn!"
Beautiful tactic, whoever you are. You know we can't afford to ignore a torpedo.
Cruz would never win Colorado in a million elections. Trump can, probably will.
Hillary has probably had more liaisons with women than all the republican candidates put together.
I'd say more like...Anakin.
Reminds one of the role Perot played in 92 doesn’t it.
Running interference for a Clinton Presidential Campaign too.
Someone Trump has been friends with and donated to her political Campaigns.
All sheer happenstance. Yeap especially the part about Bubba talking trump into running.
/s
I’m a Trump supporter and can’t stand Cruz. But if anyone should be talking to lawyers about a lawsuit it’s the women whose pictures were plastered on the front page. And the NE could never get away with the defense “We didn’t identify the women.” Anyone who knew them could tell who they were.
I want my candidate to win on the strength of his/her arguments.
However, I’m not naïve enough to think that dirty tricks doesn’t enter into it.
The thing is, to keep your personal integrity intact, when all about you are losing theirs....
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