This is not CONSERVATIVE. Cruz is no conservative, he’s a POSER.
This is a TOTALITARIAN TACTIC.
Typical career politician, TELLING people what to do.
Damn you, you have to EARN my vote, you are not ENTITLED to it. If I don’t think anyone running is WORTHY of my vote, I will WITHHOLD it.
Put me on the disappointed list. I try to understand, people are not perfect in a fallen world, but Ted should be better than this — he is gifted more than others, blessed more than others. To whom much is given, much will be required, that means keeping a standard commensurate with the gifts.
Hmm, it’s a tweet with no corroborating info - BS detected.
I don’t think it’s that big of a deal Frankly!
Doesn’t matter.
If The Donald did this the Trumpeteers would be on here telling us it is part of the deal and The Donald is an expert and closing deals. I looked at the mole hill and it is still a mole hill.
I am a Cruz supporter...but I can say without any excuse or preamble that this was a big mistake by Cruz.
People will see and feel “big brother,” all over it...they very thing Cruz is campaigning against.
In addition, it will offend, and then anger them, and they will most likely (if they vote at all), go out and vote against whomever sent such a correspondence.
Cruz has some knuckleheads working for him...or agents working against him.
Does not matter...he himself should have seen how crazy this was and either stopped it...or if he did not find out until later...he should have apologized and fired the people who were responsible.
This will hurt him, particularly in Iowa, but also wherever people hear of it...and you can bet the competition will trumpet it far and wide.
I believe that Cruz honestly can’t see anything wrong with this simply because, regardless of what he calls himself or projects in order to win the candidacy, he is a product of Washington. He has been groomed and has spent his adult life with the expectation of being a major player in it.
Washington has become a world quite apart from the one in which we live. It’s values, principles and methods are entirely unlike those that average Americans like us embrace. We have become merely numbers and statistics to be managed and manipulated. The media has been trying to turn our brains to mush for years with much success. Now politicians are getting in on the tactics.
I’m encouraged that so many took umbrage at this underhanded and manipulative move by Cruz’s campaign. Of course it’s been done before. The difference is that, this time, it was done by someone who has touted himself as anti-big government and above anything that smacks of dishonesty. I somehow don’t think that these Gestapo like tactics would jive with any Christian philosophy either.
Cruz himself says it’s his mailer in this article
I’ve been seeing this ballot calling-out-people thing for a while. Why did Cruz campaign or more specifically why did Cruz do a damn fool thing like this?? To me, actions like this smacks of a desperate guy.
Anybody sending me something telling me it’s a violation to NOT vote is not worthy of consideration for my vote. And I don’t want a good portion of our neighbors to vote.
Take note Cruz supporters: the campaign that most likely broke this story is the RUBIO campaign.
Go back to the original article and notice the political consultant interviewed for the story was..Rick Wilson.
You know who Rick Wilson is...http://time.com/4106999/marco-rubio-super-pac-john-jordan-winery/
You know...Rick Wilson
https://twitter.com/therickwilson
No friend of Trump or Ann Coulter
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/18/meltdown-day-2-rick-wilson-asks-ann-coulter-if-trump-pays-her-more-for-anal/
Just like to keep the players straight.
for me, there is no problem with the mailing
I don’t know why the fuss
Now some random guy’s Twitter account is considered a news source worthy of posting to FR? Who is this jerk to speak for Sen. Cruz?
Cruz = Nixon.
Really capable in some ways. Uncharismatic, though, and a mean streak, it seems.
Yet still could be a good president in various respects.
If you are willing to risk it.
Sounds like the dearly departed Libby Lou and Beck have seized the mind of Ted!
Mendacity from the Cruz Campaign....
Ted Cruz’s Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks
“In Iowa, although voter registration information is free and available to the public, voter history is not. That information is maintained by the secretary of state, which licenses it to campaigns, super PACs, polling firms, and any other entity that might want it. So was the Cruz campaign accurately portraying the voter histories of Iowans? Or did it simply make up the numbers?
It seems to have made them up.”
Well, that’s not out of character for Cruz. He NEVER apologizes for anything EVER! His poor wife....