Posted on 02/19/2016 12:16:23 PM PST by McGruff
Is South Carolina going soft?
With two days left until the GOP primary, the elbows are sharp. But we've hardly seen any of the much ballyhooed mud pit we were promised when the Republicans packed their bags in New Hampshire and moved the circus South.
Yes, there has been a fake Facebook page touting an endorsement from Rep. Trey Gowdy for Sen. Ted Cruz, when Gowdy actually endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio weeks ago. Rubio also starred in a robocall accusing him of supporting amnesty and had his head photoshopped (by the Cruz campaign) onto a bogus picture of him shaking President Obama's hand. Maybe the worst mailer so far wonders why Ted Cruz says he's against gay marriage, "BUT he has no problem taking BIG CHECKS from gay men."
Compared to the lore of Palmetto State dirty tricks, it's all kind of meh. Where are the mistress bombs? The knife fights? We were told to expect a cocktail of sweat and desperation to drive struggling campaigns to depths they'd never imagined--innuendo, rumors and flat out lies about people's positions, and not on immigration. The hottest rhetoric so far has been on Donald Trump's Twitter feed, and that was Trump fighting with the pope.
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Sen. John McCain took his turn on the receiving end of Low Country politics in 2000, when anonymous pollsters called likely GOP primary voters and asked, “Would you be more or less willing to vote for John McCain if you knew he had fathered a black child?” The child in question was a daughter McCain and his wife had adopted in Bangladesh.
In 2012, a mailer (anonymous again) showed up in the form of a Christmas card from Mitt Romney and his family, who are Mormon. The glossy card noted, “We have now clearly shown that God the father had a plurality of wives...”
And of course, no list of offenses would be complete without the former-Republican blogger who claimed he’d had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with now-Gov. Nikki Haley just before she ran for, and won, her spot in the governor’s mansion.
Donald Trump sure hasn’t been charged with any dirty tricks, only one candidate has.
So, you better ask Cruz...
Little late for something like that to stick, right?
Cruz has spent millions of his banker’s, oil, corporate, open borders cash on a 100% negative campaign.
They say negative works, we’ll soon see.
Cruz has been lashing out stretching the truth and outright lying, but it has been pretty business as usual as far as the lies go. Pretty sure the last-minute WSJ poll showing him in an inexplicably good standing was calculated as well.
We just have to see who he claims is dropping out of the race tomorrow. LOL
Cruz has been looking a little green and pinched. I expect he is sweating bullets over even holding on to 2nd, maybe even 3rd, with Rubio and Kasich on the rise and Ted in the dog house for several days.
Cruz is down to the base of his base, and even the Evangelicals have lined up with TRUMP reportedly, Cruz’ “firewall” group in his “firewall” state.
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