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Posted on 03/09/2016 12:10:20 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Trying to explain the significance of the last few days, in relationship to the Ted Cruz candidacy, requires the intellectually honest observer to recognize and/or accept the increasingly likely probability: we have been facing a manufactured “false dilemma” longer than most may be willing to accept.
“False Dilemma” – the fallacy of false choice, or the fallacy of the false alternative, is a type of informal fallacy involving a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option.
In essence, presidential candidate Ted Cruz has been presented, by those who gain leverage in the presentation, as an option – to the previous “establishment candidates“.
Under this assumption, the intent of the option (Cruz) is to block the observer (electorate / us) from considering any additional alternative which remains outside the control of the presenting entity (the DC power brokers, GOPe, Wall Street donor class).
In order to recognize the fallacy of false choice, the audience must engage the new information while reevaluating their prior assumption, positions and options.
That said, Team Cruz has shown new evidence of being much further aligned with the GOPe than most political observers, and high-information voters, might be willing to accept.
Here’s why:
Adding the entire financial team of Jeb Bush which includes: Paul Dickerson of Houston, TX, Boyden Gray of Washington, DC, Charles Foster of Houston, TX, Reginald J. Brown of Washington, DC, Paula and Jim Henry of Midland, TX, and Nancy and Randy Best of Dallas, TX. shows that Ted Cruz is much further in alignment with the Bush clan than most previously recognized.
In addition, by Ted Cruz adding Neil Bush Cruz is signifying an ideological alignment that is 180° divergent than most of the supporters of Ted Cruz would be aware of. These alignments point to a direct acceptance that much of the story-line behind Cruz’s candidacy was false.
As a direct consequence, the fallacy of false choice within the option of Ted Cruz from the outset gains sunlight.
However, this new reality is challenging for many people to accept. To those who cannot bring themselves to accept this paradigm shift, further evidence surfaces today with the endorsement of consummate insider, Carly Fiorina, who said:
“Last Tuesday we had a primary, and I walked into the ballot box,” [Fiorina] told a crowd of Cruz supporters. “I saw my name on the ballot, and it was kind of a thrill, but I checked the box for Ted Cruz.” (link)
That “last Tuesday” reference highlights Fiorina’s home residence (as we previously shared) in Virginia, not California as many people mistakenly think. Fiorina has been the consummate “inside the beltway” politico, even though she was never in an elected position as a politician.
Fiorina worked for the John McCain campaign in 2008 as a surrogate. She again worked in 2012 as an official campaign spokesperson for Mitt Romney. Indeed, in the beginning of her own presidential bid last year, Carly Fiorina stated she was urged to run in 2016 due to a conversation with Mitt Romney.
So, we re-engage the intellectual honesty with a reminder of Carly Fiorina, and now find ourselves answering a nagging previous question.
Why did the Wall Street funders of the Ted Cruz campaign fund the origin of the Carly Fiorina campaign in 2015?
$500,000 transferred from KtP1 (Keep The Promise) which is Ted Cruz’s Super-PAC, to CfA (Carly for America) Ms. Fiorina’s Super-PAC, in June of 2015. What clarifies now, with this new information, is how the fallacy of false choice was being presented to us by the Wall Street financial team, the Globalists, last year. Remember, even the FEC wanted know what they were doing (LINK).
Cutting through the intent here and getting to the substance of truth is really not too difficult, but you won’t find many outlets (new media or old) willing to go there. However, as you are aware for us the Truth Has No Agenda, and Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant.
We begin by watching this video of Carly Fiorina appearing on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and the discussion of a Muslim candidate eligible as U.S. President:
Just sticking with raw data, and trying to avoid injecting opinion, now consider this:
CARLY FIORINA – “VISION 2010″: U.S. & ARAB ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES – U.S.-ARAB ECONOMIC FORUM – SEPTEMBER 29, 2003, DETROIT, MICHIGAN:
Thank you for those nice words, Mr. Chairman.
It’s an honor for me to be here this morning. This is the perfect place to host a meeting on the future of the Middle East. The leadership of Arab-Americans in this community – and in the state of Michigan – has been nothing short of dazzling, and I want to thank you for hosting us here this week.
A great deal of time will be spent at the conference this week focusing on the problems of the Arab world. I want to kick things off here today instead by asking you to imagine the possibilities…to imagine what the Gulf region would be like if Arab countries were at the forefront of the global economy…to imagine what the world would be like if Arab nations were the world’s leading force for enlightenment and inclusion…to imagine what the future would be like for a Middle East rooted not in conflict, but anchored in partnership.
Two years ago, less than two weeks after the tragedy of September 11th, I gave a speech in Minnesota in which I said it didn’t take much to imagine that kind of world because we have seen that world before. All it takes is for us to think back to another time, to a civilization that was once considered the greatest in the world.
It was a civilization that was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins. One of its languages became the universal language of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its writers created thousands of stories. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things. When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, as I said to the audience that day in Minnesota, the civilization I’m talking about, of course, was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent – rulers who challenged our notions of self and truth; who contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership; whose leadership led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.
As we meet to think about the civilization that exists on that same land today, I ask you to imagine for a moment what a leader like Suleiman would say if he could somehow be here today, and see what the world has become.
I think he would be pleased at how much the world has learned from the example of the open, cooperative society that enlightened the world all those years ago. The Islamic example has helped create a world where democracy and transparency and rule of law are empowering people and taking them to new heights. (read more)
Please read the entire speech and pay close attention to the closing paragraphs.
What you will note is an almost eerie similarity to current Secretary of State John Kerry vis-a-vis the “Jobs for Jihad” program he, and his globalist co-horts, have been advocating for the past three years.
Read everything written by Fiorina and then reference/remember the words used by State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf – they are almost identical.
Next example – look at the following reception by Professor Al-Hassani, the Chairman of FSTC, at the conference “La Deuda Olvidada de Occidente he is responding to the speech of Carly Fiorina and the intended audience in the Mid-East:
[…] In this presentation focus will be on the other manner by which history is distorted: that is, the suppression of centuries of contribution to modern civilisation by the Muslim world. This negligence is apparent in academia, in the media and in the educational curriculum and associated history books, especially those aimed at the general public. The focus on this issue is to alert communities as to the particular significance of the Muslim civilisation and its historical role in giving birth to much of modern science and technology.
The following words by a famous lady well describes this situation and the debt that world history owes to the civilisation created by Muslims. They were pronounced by Mrs. Carleton S. Fiorina, chairman, president, and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company (1999-2005) in a discourse on 29 September 2003:
[…] When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive.
When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others. While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. (read more)
Professor Al-Hassani was rejoicing that Carly Fiorina was asserting without Islam there would be no U.S.A., no America, no exceptionalism. This is the exact approach of the U.S. State Department, Charles Rivkin Project, we originally exposed in 2012.
The Rivkin Project was/is a U.S. State Department program with a specific goal to remove national pride and identity in favor of a more global worldview of a collective society, a “multi-cultural” society. Again, these are not interpretations of her words, these are Fiorinas’ own words.
And yes, there are those who are now beginning to connect the dots to President Obama’s first foreign policy speech and travel. Where was it delivered? Cairo Egypt.
Does it make sense now how Fiorina came to be in contact with all those “world leaders” she brags about meeting?
If you need to finally stamp out any reservations or doubt you might have about this agenda; consider Carly Fiorina is also closely linked to the Clinton Global Initiative – SEE HERE ( <—scroll down the page) – providing leadership and mentorship within the Bill and Hillary CGI.
Troubled? You should be. Her globalist ideology is thinly veiled, and in my opinion what has unnerved many of the electorate who did not buy what she was selling. Despite claims to the contrary, the U.S. voter is intelligent and have an innate sense when they are being misled:
♦ Carly Fiorina on Immigration: Pass the DREAM Act. For other undocumented immigrants, a direct path to citizenship is unfair. While running for the U.S. Senate in California in 2010, Fiorina said she supports the DREAM Act, which would give legal status to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
♦ Carly Fiorina on Climate change: It is real and man made. But government has limited ability to address it. Speaking in New Hampshire in February, Fiorina said there is scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.
♦ Carly Fiorina on Education: Supports Common Core – Set national standards but give local districts maximum control. No Child Left Behind was positive. In a position paper while running for the U.S. Senate in California, Fiorina strongly advocated for metric-based accountability in schools. She praised No Child Left Behind as setting high standards and Race to the Top for using “internationally bench-marked” measures.
♦ Carly Fiorina never hired after HP Job: […] Here are the facts: In the five years that Fiorina was at Hewlett-Packard, the company lost over half its value. It’s true that many tech companies had trouble during this period of the Internet bubble collapse, some falling in value as much as 27 percent; but HP under Fiorina fell 55 percent. During those years, stocks in companies like Apple and Dell rose. Google went public, and Facebook was launched. The S&P 500 yardstick on major U.S. firms showed only a 7 percent drop. Plenty good was happening in U.S. industry and in technology.
It was Fiorina’s failed leadership that brought her company down. After an unsuccessful attempt to catch up to IBM’s growth in IT services by buying PricewaterhouseCooper’s consulting business (PwC, ironically, ended up going to IBM instead), she abruptly abandoned the strategic goal of expanding IT services and consulting and moved into heavy metal.
At a time that devices had become a low margin commodity business, Fiorina bought for $25 billion the dying Compaq computer company, which was composed of other failed businesses. Unsurprisingly, the Compaq deal never generated the profits Fiorina hoped for, and HP’s stock price fell by half. The only stock pop under Fiorina’s reign was the 7 percent jump the moment she was fired following a unanimous board vote. After the firing, HP shuttered or sold virtually all Fiorina had bought. (read more) Against this substantive backdrop, and considering all possible alternative explanations, a reasonable person can only conclude Ted Cruz was a “false choice” all along.
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It means, everyone should be expressing surprise at how popular iCarly is here on FR, considering how she's been continually excoriated.
It wasn’t I that questioned Cruz’s Conservative credentials here.
Was it?
Cantor lost on the immigration issue because everyone knows you need a visa to visit many parts of Northern Virginia, and folks got tired of the status quo (and Cantor's stance on immigration wasn't terrible-- but it didn't translate into intentional steps).
So when I say he has a track record, I'm not making the shit up. He has been followed well before this campaign, and it is discouraging to see that his efforts are not acknowledged. He is the only conservative in the race.
Using the biblical principle of a man's "conversation about him," Ted is a known quantity and quality. It's not a mystery what he is about.
Filing bills and getting enough people to actually pass a bill to support it are two different things.
Filling bills that go nowhere is not accomplishment.
Speeches are just talk. Not actions.
I keep hearing that and I voted for him in 2012. Besides the amusing and ineffective filibuster, what great and conservative things has Cruz actually accomplished in the Senate? I guess you think he hired Neil Bush and will meet with Kasich, Rubio and JEB! as a protest against the GOPe? Bush is Bush/GOPe and has been for almost 2 decades.
Carly makes no difference whatsoever.
However, Rush let the cat out of the bag this morning regarding Cruz’ sure-fire strategy that he had planned out for winning the presidency.
Apparently, Cruz had lunch with Rush a couple two or three years ago where Cruz explained his plan. He figured that Romney lost in 2012 because five to six million evangelicals stayed home. So, Cruz figures he already has the conservative vote naturally locked-in, and can take the tea party and non-establishment vote, and the rest of the Republicans (even the establishment) have nowhere else to go, so all he has to do to win it is snare the evangelicals. Thus he comes out with a campaign custom tailored to woo and win the evangelical vote.
And it may have worked like a charm had Trump not exploded on the scene with a bold plan to build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, secure the nation, Repeal Obamacare, straighten out the trade deals that have devastated our manufacturing industry and jobs, cut taxes with a Reaganesque tax plan, rebuild the economy, bring manufacturing, capital and jobs back, rebuild the military and make America great again. And as a last minute bonus, Trump throws in slapping a moratorium on Muslim immigration.
Surprise! It caught on like wildfire. But Cruz was not concerned. He continued on nonchalantly, smug in the knowledge that the evangelicals would never support Trump and that his plan was sure to lock them in. All Cruz had to do was lay low and wait for Trump to implode.
But something went wrong. Evangelicals (and other demographic groups you might think would never support a guy like Trump) are flocking to Trump like crazy. Cruz can’t figure it out. The consultants can’t figure it out. The media, the pundits, the democrats, the establishment—no one can figure it out.
Rush explains that like all demographic groups, evangelicals are not monolithic single issue voters. Not even on abortion.
It turns out that evangelicals are also concerned about securing the borders, rebuilding the economy, bringing back manufacturing and jobs, cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting government, building a strong military and (not surprisingly) taking a tough stand against Muslims who are chopping the heads off Christians.
Rush may not have directly said it, built I believe he may be thinking that Cruz blew it trying such a narrowly focused campaign.
his record on before the USSC is as soliciter general. It was 5-4. He never submitted anything in the form of an amicus brief on the homosexual based marriage.
Anyone that posts that on THIS site is got to be a paid Democrat Troll. Seriously. I’ll let others ping the boss but really? Who fought the system the last few years over budget and guns and freedom of speech? Hello? How pathetic.
And anyone who supports Pastor Rafael while he parrots Bishop Romney’s viscious lies and brings a Bush onto his team is a Cruzy drinking the Kruz-Aid. You’re good with name calling. Others can do it too. Knock it off.
Agreed! I would like to see her as Sec of State.
He does not have a 9-0 record on before the Supreme Court.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/cruzs-record-before-the-supreme-court/
You sleep well knowing that While Ted Cruz was fighting to uphold YOUR constitutional Rights, Donald J. Trump was financially and personally supporting the enemy and their Agenda (AWB-in one instance)in that fight.
Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi.
So you put any spin on anything you claim but those are the FACTS you can NOT dispute.
Pot, meet kettle!
SP = Site Pest = Troll = democ-rat, and probably a paid operative.
SP Alert.
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See # 107 by JimRob.
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Hey, works for me.
My selection come our primary time is whomever the GOPe/TPTB/Elites are hating on the hardest.
Dave Brat’s primary victory over Eric Cantor killed the Gang of 8 abomination, not Ted.
“The same Ted Cruz who cut a deal with McConnell to sell out conservative primary candidates in order to get a pat on the head to run for President along with Rand Paul.
The same Cruz who co-authored the article with Paul Ryan to support TPA and supported the amendment in the Senate that added the TPA legislation to a house bill.
The same Ted Cruz who voted for Closure on the Corker amendment giving Obama authority to enact the Iranian deal giving away Congresses authority to review such treaties.
The same Cruz who opposed the gang of eight legislation in the Senate but it passed the Senate anyway. Only Dave Brat’s defeat of Cantor stopped the bill from becoming law. The person who fought the legislation the hardest in the Senate, Jeff Sessions, endorsed Trump.”
Oh yeah? Well OK, if you insist on being FACTUAL about it.
How can you say they hate him when they work on his campaign?! Neil Bush is Jeb’s brother and a part of the Bush dynasty and by being part of Cruz campaign you think they hate him by supporting him???
You would be beside yourself if this were Trump claiming to be an outsider but having the Bush family support him. BTW you do know Cruz has worked in the Bush realm most of his career?
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