Quit intentionally obfuscating. I said Will was married to a Walker operative and Krauthammer was a life-long Democrat and you know it.
...And, for the partys top donors, who hear pleas from all corners, its more than some of these other candidates have for a path to victory, says a GOP strategist familiar with Cruzs pitch. As for those dreaded consultants the senator so often maligns, hes not beyond their reach.
The Cruz campaign has paid Axiom Strategies, the consulting firm owned by Cruzs campaign manager, Jeff Roe, about $30,000 a month. A spokesman for the campaign says that fee covers Roes salary as well as those of three other campaign staffers. J2 Strategic Communications, the firm established by Cruzs senior adviser, Jason Johnson, is also paid $20,000 a month for campaign work, which a Cruz spokesman says is the closest their operation comes to a traditional campaign-consultant relationship.
One of Roes former clients was former Texas lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, the establishment candidate defeated in a 2012 Senate bid by political upstart Ted Cruz.
Thats how quickly friends of the Republican establishment can become foes, and vice versa. Now, Cruz is hoping for a similar transformation if he manages to make his renegade brand that of the Republican standard-bearer. Source