Posted on 03/25/2016 9:40:59 PM PDT by bobsunshine
The National Enquirer published a story this week accusing Texas Senator Ted Cruz of multiple extramarital affairs.
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It was discovered that weeks ago a large number of Marco Rubio operatives and supporters were trying to bring the sex scandal story to the MSM attention.
Under the open guise of #TheThing they were communicating via various twitter feeds and following along to see if the story had been picked up. Most of the activity was centered around March 10th – March 15th.
Yesterday the hashtag CruzSexScandal went viral. Today, many of those DC operatives, participants, supporters, consultants, Super-PAC’s and campaign advisors have spent a great deal of time deleting their (The Thing) participation. The peak of their scrubbing coincided with Senator Ted Cruz accusing Donald Trump of planting the story.
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Virtually everyone in the blog-o-sphere who supported Marco Rubio was active, tweeting, re-tweeting, or following the events related to #TheThing. Now they’re running for cover and trying to hide their fingerprints.
Anti-Trump Republican operative Rick Wilson tweeted this out weeks ago. (He has since deleted it.)
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
You know very well He was referring to the charges of infidelity against him- you can capitalize whatever you like- but you and i both understand, at least I think you do- that when someone says “The whole world is on fire’ it doesn’t literally mean the whole world is on fire- and it would be just as disingenuous to insist that whoever says the whole world on fire literally means the whole world is on fire as it is to suggest Ted meant every jot and tittle of the article was a lie- Btu do keep up the rage- whatever it takes i guess-
Steve Deace called us ‘white trash’ yesterday.
[[but the grocery budget has gone up despite assurances of no inflation,]]
Which they used as an excuse to deny our nations most vulnerable citizens (the disabled, seniors, and veterans) cost of living increases for several years, while those in congress awarded themselves very generous cost of living increases every single year
[[We really need to look at the issues confronting this nation instead of tabloid crap.]]
There’s too much hatred of Ted for people to get past tabloid reactionism- they’ve built the gallows, and by george they intend to see someone swinging from it- they will not be denied- The site of blood makes them too thirsty-
I have been doing some research on Heidi Cruz before Trump mentioned her and I think this might be the dirt he was referencing. Some people say leave the wives out of it but I disagree. I as a wife believe I have more influence over my husband than most other people, it’s just a fact. He has more influence over me than most other people.
I know this article has some liberal bias to it, but that isn’t the point. Pay attention to the quotes of Edward Haley, he is one of Heidi’s mentors and as she says in the video interview that is linked, she will be forever indebted to him.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html
This article includes a link to a Video/interview with Heidi Cruz. I would ask everyone to watch the video. (You won’t have the liberal bias, it’s in her own words.) Heidi’s own words explain her “access” to the White House following her work on the campaign and recount, etc. She speaks of some of the “important” people that she has worked with, Robert Zoellick (Head of the World bank after being appointed to Deputy Sec of State by George Bush), P. Edward Haley (CFR Member), Dr. John J Pitney (Political Adviser to Obama Admin), Dr. Brock Blomberg(Fed Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Council of Economic Advisers under Bush), John Taylor(Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs under Bush).
I personally see someone who has lived a privileged life, has humanitarian goals to use American wealth, Power and Privilege to help the world (Globalist) (She knows she is the elite class, she plans to use her influence to “move things in a direction.”)
Just not sure that Heidi the financial expert realizes that this country is broke, in debt and should no longer be spending money on these great humanitarian issues. Hmmmm what’s wrong with this picture? Sounds a little like more of the same from the Washington Elite who have no concern for we the little people, the Constitution, the proper role of Government, being created equal, etc.
Watch the video, https://vimeo.com/12926194
I have more info on Edward Haley, Heidi’s mentor. I can post that later but start with the video and then ask yourself, who is this Edward Haley who is so influential with Heidi Cruz??
The GOP do not want Trump but they also donot what Cruz—in fact more would rather have Trump rather than Cruz. I think there is more to the mistress story than meets the eye.
He shouldn’t. There’s no point.
Ted Cruz can’t win this race.
Mark sure seems awfully, awfully keen on it though.
Do you know that Daily Beast is a left wing site? I wouldn’t believe anything they post. Their purpose is to get Hillary Rotton Clinton elected as the next president
That is a possibility, yes. But I am just playing by Mark’s rules here.
Assign blame to the one who benefits.
Donald doesn’t benefit by this.
The GOPE does, and Mark knows it, he’s just into lying for Cruz right now.
I don’t know much about Steve Deace except from what I’ve heard on FR. Glad I’ve never listened to him or even know if he’s on in my area.
“White Trash”? That’s a favorite Christian Cruzer insult.
Do these geniuses not realize that if Cruz is the nominee, they will need our support & votes? Not very smart of them...
The GOPe benefits.
That should be glaringly obvious to anyone due to Katrina Pierson.
A Cruz PAC put out a smear ad showing Melania Trump in a naked pose.
Ted Cruz, upon discovering this, did not immediately condemn the ad. Instead, he chose to merely distance himself from it, saying in effect, “I dindu nuffin.”
Trump rightfully came out with strong criticism of the ad, and of Ted, for failing to call it what it was - pure sleaze politics, which Ted benefited from.
When the National Enquirer then ran the story of Ted’s alleged affairs, the first thing Ted does is kick the cat, i.e., Trump, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the story or it’s publication.
That’s the timeline, and those are the reactions of both candidates to the events.
The point is, Trump did not accuse Ted with the ‘mistresses’ allegations. National Enquirer did. Ted then attacks Donald Trump for what someone else published, which is simply shooting at the wrong target.
We’ll know a lot more when the next edition of NE comes out. They’ll drip this out slowly to sell copy.
As I said in my post. “I know this article has some liberal bias to it, but that isn’t the point. Pay attention to the quotes of Edward Haley, he is one of Heidi’s mentors and as she says in the video interview that is linked, she will be forever indebted to him.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html
This article includes a link to a Video/interview with Heidi Cruz. I would ask everyone to watch the video. (You won’t have the liberal bias, it’s in her own words.)
WATCH THE VIDEO AND YOU WON’T HAVE THE LIBERAL BIAS, IT IS IN HER OWN WORDS. I INCLUDED THE LINK FOR THE VIDEO TO MAKE IT EASIER TO FIND BUT WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHERE I FOUND IT.
AGAIN, HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO Watch the video, https://vimeo.com/12926194
Good point. Yeb’s endorsement of Cruz spoke volumes. The sad thing is that many Cruz supporters aren’t intelligent enough to realize that the GOPe is using Cruz. They’ll receive no sympathy from me when they find out.
Katrina Pierson is reported to be one of the notorious “5”. Knowing this, why in the world would Trump be the one behind the rumors, when the rumors involve his own spokeswoman? It wouldn’t benefit Trump’s campaign at all. If the more crazed Cruz supporters would actually start thinking, instead of hurling childish insults, they would realize that.
Yet, many of them call Trump supporters “Low-info”. How ironic:)
When I say wives should be out of it, I’m referencing a stay at home, or at the very least a mom not focused on her own political or shall we say “connected” career.
Melania’s past is of note because she will be our first lady. She has not broken any laws. She is functioning as a wife and a mother, and not a political creature or a person pushing the globalist mindset.
Melania is not in the same work as she used to be. There’s no real room to trash her. She’s a mother to Baron, and has her own jewelry line or some such.
Heidi on the other hand is very much a political, connected, and globalist supporting person.
Her views are very much a part of the real story.
Where Melania may adviser her husband on how their son or her jewelry line is doing, Heidi may very well be whispering in Ted’s ear what great globalist ideas whe wants him to support.
Your information supports that.
It’s germane to him being president.
There was more background information on Heidi than I had seen before.
I don’t listen to the commentary there. I note her connections, and some of them are troubling to me.
I’m interested in a USA centered world view.
She’s interested in a globalist world view.
That is an elitist set of people who think they know how to manage the world better than government do.
Anyone coming close to that group, is of concern to me.
Her CFR experience alone makes her a big threat IMO.
Where we worry about Hillary’s desire to be a climber, we sometimes forget we can have them too.
I look at Heidi’s credentials, connections, fellow travelers and want her nowhere near the White House or a resume enhancement stream as it applies to future office.
Your straw man argument would only hold up if Ted said that the WHOLE WORLD was lying. He said that the NE was lying, and that it was FULL OF LIES.
I was going by Ted's WORDS, and he didnt' say MOST of the story is a lie. The Washington Post had an article saying that at least TWO of the stories about the females are TRUE.
If so, that would mean that TED only meant that Three of the Five were UNTRUE when he said it was ALL LIES.
Correct ?
[[Point 1: Ted Cruz came out and said the NE article is ALL LIES.]]
[[He said that the NE was lying, and that it was FULL OF LIES.]]
So you’ve gone from ted saying the story was ‘all lies’ (which as pointed out already is simply a figure of speech- but you knew that of course) to Ted saying the article was ‘full of lies’-
You can’t even keep your accusations straight-
[[The Washington Post had an article saying that at least TWO of the stories about the females are TRUE.]]
“TRUE” Capitalized and everything- must make it a fact then- Because hookers are known to be nothing but truthful- Tell us ucansee- did you witness the affairs yourself? Did the Washington times reporter? (Who by the way it appears, if it’s the same person, was fired for Faking a news headline-)
Do you know for a fact Ted is guilty? No? Then why are you trying to portray the idea that he is before the facts aRe known?
[[I was going by Ted’s WORDS, and he didnt’ say MOST of the story is a lie.]]
sigh! And people that say ‘the world is burning’ don’t ‘actually say’ ‘most of the world is not burning’ either- what’s your point? Your argument has fallen flat- You are demanding literalism where it’s obvious that literalism is Not required for a General statement- If you can’t see that, then I don’t know what to tell you- I’ll simply let your comments speak for themselves-
Yep, the mob howling in the streets with torches and primitive ag implements was supposed to be for the Democrats.
However, the phenomenon of transference has been mastered by the Marketing dept at Trump Inc. and they are defending the Democrat while clamoring to hang the Conservative.
The mob has taken over.
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