Posted on 02/04/2016 7:05:03 AM PST by xzins
Ben Carson and his closest advisers are going nuclear against Ted Cruz and his campaign for spreading false rumors that he intended to drop out ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
Carson's close friend and adviser Armstrong Williams told The Hill in an interview on Wednesdaythat the Cruz campaign’s tactics were 'nasty, brutal and deceitful.'
'We've been told all along that Cruz's operatives play dirty and were capable of this stuff, but Dr. Carson never believed it, he felt like they had a respectable operation,' Williams said. 'Now we see firsthand that having integrity just doesn't matter to them. It's about honor and character, either you have it or you don'.t'
Williams said he's certain that Cruz knew the rumors about him dropping out were false but says the Texas Republican allowed his underlings to spread it anyway.
'He's a pure politician and will do anything to win,' Williams said. 'It doesn't matter who he does it to, friend or foe, whatever it takes to win. Cruz has been running as an outsider and calling Hillary Clinton dishonest. Well, Cruz is the one running without honor or integrity, and this shows he's just like everyone else inside-the-beltway.'
Carson has demanded Cruz fire those responsible for spreading the rumor, but Cruz has said he won't do that.
"After all the candidates worked so hard, and Dr. Ben Carson had a staff member lose his life working towards this day, to have someone like Cruz and his people deceive and spread falsehoods is unconscionable," Williams said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Do you even know what SIGINT stands for?
I quoted exactly what exactly sources said.
Interesting Team Ted can make up a lie [Carson is dropping out] without sources and he gets a pass. But I get attacked as if I am the source. It’s not about me.
Since you know Dan personally I can believe you. He did tweet what he tweeted, that Carson dropping out. Obviously it was a lie, and a lie Team Ted used on caucus night even after Carson said it wasn’t true. Amazing how people bury their heads in sand to ignore the enormity of what Ted did. He sacrificed “principled” on the altar of winning. That is status quo gutter politics. It’s not “principled” or honorable.
“Carson dropping out” was a lie that even Ted admitted to, and apologized for. Ted actually said “that was our mistake” [the assumption/lie that Carson was dropping out] and that his team should have contacted Carson.
Say what you want about Trump but he didn’t pull dirty crap on caucus night when votes were being counted. Ted Cruz, the “principled” conservative did that.
I think Trump was actually stunned as how dirty it was. His after caucus speech was very nice. He congratulated Ted. He seemed very happy and so did his family. That was before he heard about Ted’s dirty tricks.
Donald Trump Speaks After Finishing 2nd in Iowa Caucuses: “We Will Win the Nomination”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrejuO6ZbMo
I would have happily voted for Ted as the nominee because I actually thought he was principled and honorable. But now voting for Ted as the nominee will be just another “cream of the crap” vote for me.
Yes. Why do you ask?
You make it sound like a bad thing in your screed about the Cruz campaign official.
Well, if he is doing it now, e.g., intercepting Ben Carson’s communications, it would be illegal.
Its amazing how much Trump supporters will ignore.
Cruz is the threat so ignore Rubio, who is far far worse. So by hurting Cruz they are helping Rubio, who with GOPe support has a good chance of beating Trump.
Omg will you stop at nothing? Even the truth?
That is not exactly what Cruz said nor apologized for and you know it?
How are you any better than what you say cruz is? You say he is Misrepresenting the facts, not correcting the truth when he found it blah blah blah....
I have responded and explained and said exactly what Gabriel said.
And cruz didn’t use his tweet. They used CNNs
Sheesh! Have you no shame?
You have YET to provide a source confirming that he works for cruz. Then, when I ask for a source, you bumble around and tell me GOOGLE IS YOUR source. And then give me a link to your Google search where the first entry is INFO WARS. Bahahaha.....Oh dear God.
If you want to call Cruz dishonest, fine. But then you can’t turn around and be dishonest yourself and expect not to be pegged a hypocrite. Because, REPEATING A LIE KNOWINGLY IS STILL LYING!
Why are you making it about me?? It’s not about me.
Team Ted lied - “principled” died.
Own it.
Who are these people. Just stop. You lost a long time ago. You need to learn how to cite sources.
I’m done. You’re just being ridiculous
We're not ignoring that Cruz is a smear artist.
So we have that going for us. ;-)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.