Posted on 01/16/2016 7:42:15 AM PST by true believer forever
"Ted Cruz attacking Donald Trump for his "New York values" isn't all that surprising, nor was it a spur of the moment retort.
The top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are competing aggressively for evangelicals and other socially conservative voters who are influential in the crucial Iowa caucuses.
Cruz's implicit charge is that the thrice-married, four-times bankrupted Trump lives his life just like all the other Manhattan liberals, and an obvious play to depress the reality television star’s support among heartland conservatives."
The swipe was straight out of the playbook of the Texas senator's bulldog campaign manager, Missourian Jeff Roe. That means - along with most moves Cruz makes - that it was probably deliberately calibrated and carefully planned. In 2008, Roe produced a television spot for a client, Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., that painted his Democratic challenger Kay Barnes as a social and fiscal liberal who was "pushing their San Francisco values.""
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
KC political consultant Jeff Roe rides out backlash to Tom Schweich suicide
"It's been more than a month since Roe, a well-known and often-feared campaign consultant, helped produce a mocking radio commercial in the Missouri governor's race. The ad, aired in Kansas City and other markets, suggested state auditor and GOP candidate Tom Schweich was a "bug" and compared him with bumbling TV character Barney Fife.
Days after the spot aired, Schweich took his own life.
Some of Schweich's friends quickly concluded the ad played a role in the suicide and accused Roe of bullying the candidate. Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth urged Republicans to walk away from Roe, a request he repeated last week.
"We should disassociate ourselves from anyone who conducts this sort of campaign," he said in an email.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article16663127.htm
CLAYTON, Mo. - Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth on Tuesday remembered Tom Schweich as “a sensitive friend and extraordinary public servant” - driven to suicide, he said, by political bullies and an anti-Semitic whisper campaign.
“Words do hurt. Words can kill,” Danforth said at a memorial service attended by many of the state’s leading political figures. “That has been proven right here in our home state.”
Schweich, 54, was recently re-elected as Missouri auditor and had been a Republican candidate for governor in 2016. He died Thursday and was laid to rest Tuesday.
He was known to be upset at recent campaign tactics used by his opponents.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article12328643.html
https://soundcloud.com/politicmo/citizens-for-fairness-schweich-radio-ad
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No, Trump didn’t “walk into a fight”, but he’ll damn sure FINISH it!
GO TRUMP GO!
I am Cruz first, Trump second. One, the other, or both - I don’t care. I must say though, that Ted screwed up because he didn’t see how what he said could be misinterpreted.
To me, this is the kind of thing that distracts from decimating this current oppressive government to get back to their intended function.
Little Willy Jacobson is going to get a bad case of agita today if he reads Trump’s twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
GO TRUMP GO!
Yay! If you read the article, the Cruz campaign manager is a real piece of work. He does the extreme dirty work behind the scenes so Ted can go out and give a big bear hug to Trump.
Walk? More like he jumped in with a flying Superman punch.
Walk? More like he jumped in with a flying Superman punch.
Misinterpreted only by people who don’t count in this race - the media and New Yorkers.
With Cruz’s two ‘unreported’ accounts from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, and being born in Canada...and then his attack on New York...he’s got a bad headache and it won’t be going away anytime soon...
GO.TRUMP.GO...LIVE THE LAWS THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED UPON!!!
BOOM! TRUMP! YEAH!!!!
!!!!*&^!!!!
GO!
Those liberals never say anything bad about southern values, do they? Double standard much?
You choose to ignore the value of Trump’s presence on scene. I do not.
If we stand back from the staid insistence of “all or nothing” and take a look at the value he has thus far given in bringing the word “illegal” back to the public discourse there is value. Bringing America’s gut punched feeling Muslims don’t have our best interests at heart to the surface, and that our federal government doesn’t give a potter’s damn about business, enterprise and a government that has too far exceeded its charter brings value.
I look at him as a tool to help take down our quisling RINOs who have taken over our government. Nothing more. I’ll let him and Ted duke it out.
The MEDIA doesn’t count???
My god, man , are you naive!!!
Agreed. This country is rotting out from under our feet like river ice in the spring, and the media - and many here - go into a frenzy on penny-ante crap like this. The Media can be excused as they are desperately looking for something to damage Cruz or Trump, but the supporters of these guys are being suckered into another "Look! There's Elvis!" moment.
... I’ve read some of your posts. Are you sure you want to go there?
Do you want to go here about the many DT has hurt?
When you read more of my old posts try leaking at facts against your guy.
To me, this is the kind of thing that distracts from decimating this current oppressive government to get back to their intended function.
Yep, I agree, an unforced error, but it seems to be his campaign manager's preferred mode of attack:
From the article I posted:
"Cruz' implicit charge is that the thrice-married, four-times bankrupted Trump lives his life just like all the other Manhattan liberals, and an obvious play to depress the reality television star's support among heartland conservatives.
The swipe was straight out of the playbook of the Texas senator's bulldog campaign manager, Missourian Jeff Roe. That means - along with most moves Cruz makes - that it was probably deliberately calibrated and carefully planned. In 2008, Roe produced a television spot for a client, Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., that painted his Democratic challenger Kay Barnes as a social and fiscal liberal who was "pushing their San Francisco values.""
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