A Disconcerting Tripwire – What Carly Fiorina Endorsing Ted Cruz Really Means…

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.

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.

“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.

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:

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.

They hate him so much that they have joined sides.
Hired Bush, and you want to see what is going on with FL here with all the money and attack AD’;s.

Look cruz was great and was the outsider, but since his campaign has been broken he is doing what he can and that means to take Trump down with the help of the GOP.Enemy of m enemy, sad part is that he is losing respect for joining the establishment.

Which goes against what he said when he started this.

“Let me encourage other members of the establishment: Keep supporting Donald Trump because every time you do it, what it is doing is telling conservatives all over the country is where you stand and who stands with you”.
- Ted Cruz, New Hampshire stump speech

Although you make a valid point;

Fiorina endorsing Cruz is a net loss.

Christie endorsing Trump is a net gain.

The establishment has blasted Christie for his endorsement while the Fiorina endorsement is being viewed by the media as some sort of exciting, breaking news!

Sorry, but Cruz is buddying up with the wrong people to call himself an outsider.

The truth is Cruz is an attorney and a career politician, exception for a short period when he was in private practice, with one well known client by the name of John Boehner.

why are there any poor people running? LOL

he is the elitist establishment lawyer who will say and do anything to get what he wants and some can’t wake up to it because it hurts their feelings or they have t admit to themselves they were wrong or conned.

“Cruz has a proven track record of being a conservative,”

And just what does that mean? That he talks a good story? Where are all his concrete contributions to Conservatism?”

Somebody name one, please......

Nice writeup.

In my observation, Ted Cruz has a proven track record of standing up and talking loudly when nothing of realistic consequence is on the line, then slinking off into the shadows to vote for the globalist agenda on issues of real substance when the orders are phoned in, and creating a formidable word salad of “explanation” after the fact. His “protest votes” only happen when they don’t affect the outcome, which leads me to believe that he’s been allowed to do his dog and pony show on occasion to set him up exactly as the article describes.

That coupled with the 11th hour sidling up to the Bushes and other GOPe forces, lends credence to my long-standing suspicions.

I’d rather have Cruz than Hillary or Bernie, but I’m under no illusions that he’s any kind of real “outsider”.

No, Cruz is an insider because he worked for the Bush Administration, and has welcomed Neil Bush into his campaign, along with Jeb’s entire finance team. That, plus his cooperation and coordination with the neo-con artists and their open border toadies in the effort to take down Trump.

The stench of warmed over Bush is becoming overpowering.

well, I read at least one Cruzer that wrote something like, the money is there, Ted needs it to fight the establishment

and stop abortion and nominate 4 conservatives to the USSC and build a wall but not make any deals with the democrats and get it all done by himself

yada yada yada

uhhhh

LOL I really don’t think Trump is too worried over Fiorina at all. Hell I remember some o here no names mentioned who still support Cruz for some reason after we have seen this week and were saying snarly Carly and other things about her. Now she is gold LOL

You can’t make this crap up anymore with hypocrisy.

Keep digging.

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.

No. Fiorina is a prominent republican, so she supported republicans in the past. That is far different from the implied conclusion that she is a Washington insider.I would guess that most Trump supporters on FR voted for Mitt Romney four years ago, but that doesn't mean we should reject their comments. Even before Carly endorsed Cruz (my first choice), and even if she instead had endorsed Trump (my second choice), I saw her and would have seen her as an honest outsider, completely different from Jeb/Christie/Rubio/Kasich.

This is a simple hit piece with no visible substance.

75% or so of FR sees Trump as the best choice and Cruz as an (often grudging) backup. 25% or so of FR sees Cruz as the best choice and Trump as an (often grudging) backup. We don't need to slam each other's candidates with nonsense articles like this (and, yes, I know that both sides are guilty). Guilt by association is not a valid reason to reject either man. Our priority should be to make sure the establishment does not pull a fast one and force a third candiate on us who is neither Trump nor Cruz, not to take down one of the two in the hope that our guy will be the only one left standing.

When Ted Cruz was 12 years old and memorized the Constitution, he was approached by the cabal of the GOP establishment and recruited to be a sleeper agent 33 years later.

They got him into Princeton then Harvard Law school. They put him as an intern to William Rehnquist and then brought him to the attention of the Governor of Texas as a brilliant legal mind and rock-ribbed Constitutionalist to help with his campaign.

This cunning and all powerful cabal then had him argue Bush v. Gore in front of the Supreme Court to push Bush over the top.

They convinced Cruz to go back to Texas and take the job of Solicitor General, where he went back to the Supreme Court many times to defend the laws of Texas and to support cases like Heller v. Washington D.C.

They sacrificed one of their own to Cruz’s conservative campaign that aligned him with the Tea Party movement, that clearly the GOP establishment anticipated in 1983 when Cruz was recruited.

Once in the Senate, they encouraged Cruz to fight against the establishment at every opportunity. They had him call McConnell a liar, they had McCain call Cruz a “whacko-bird”, they had him filibuster and shut down the government.

And what was the purpose of this three decade deception? So they could get Neil Bush to pull his strings halfway through the 2016 GOP Primary season.

Mission accomplished!

Did you read the entire article. The author did not rely solely on Carly’s endorsement. Carly’s campaign received financial support from Cruz’s main super Pac (prima facie indication that both were acceptable to the backers) and the following:

“....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.

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.......”. Does this paint a picture of Cruz as an incorruptible, forever antiestablishment “true conservative”?

“Cruzers need to wake up and see Cruz as the stealth Establishment candidate he always has been.”

There will be no awakening for Cruzers.

I just heard Rush try to reconcile the Establishment’s coming around to Cruz, its supposed most hated, as opposed to Trump. A moment of static drowned out his explanation.

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