Posted on 01/20/2016 4:48:10 AM PST by true believer forever
Senator Ted Cruz seems to express disgust and outrage against the tactics deployed by what he calls the “DC Machineâ€. Cruz states that their conduct in the Mississippi runoff was "incredibly disappointing" etc.
However, we now know - from specific documentation provided by internal research into the activity around the Mississippi campaign - that the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, the NRSC, was the financier for the attack ads against Chris McDaniel.
So who is the "DC Machine", this "leadership of the NRSC", that Senator Ted Cruz is so incredibly disappointed in?
Whoopsie - Yes it would appear that Ted Cruz is incredibly disappointed in ?
Nuf said.
A filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows that the NRSC paid National Media Research, Planning & Placement of Alexandria, Virginia $13,000 for media production and $69,000 for the attack ads.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Thanks, Liz (and Aunt B).
I’d believe you, but your explanation doesn’t account for the facts of McConnell’s bitter hatred for Ted and the very bitter public fight they have had. It has a chair and 3 vice-chairs, which means of course that a vice chair controls nothing.
“In short, he sold his soul to McConnell Inc.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Just after the Texans’ election in November 2012, GOP leader Mitch McConnell – now the Senate majority leader—asked Cruz to serve as NRSC vice chairman in charge of grassroots outreach. In effect, he sought to bring the tea partier into the tent by making him the liaison to tea partiers.
But it quickly became obvious that Cruz wasn’t so much of a team player.
He sought to recruit and promote like-minded conservatives ahead of the 2014 GOP primaries. He worked with outside groups that sometimes backed candidates other than those picked and approved by the NRSC – in particular, the Senate Conservatives Fund, which backed challengers to a number of incumbent Republicans, even including McConnell.”
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/ted-cruz-and-gop-senate-campaign-arm-part-ways.html/
“A conservative outside group whose efforts Sen. Ted Cruz backed has called for defunding the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Cruz, an NRSC vice chairman and Texas Republican, has not rebuked the effort.
This weekend, Senate Conservatives Fund launched a campaign calling on conservatives to pledge not to give any money to the NRSC in the aftermath of last week’s runoff in the Mississippi Senate race. As is typical, the NRSC backed Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, while the SCF and other outside groups backed his failed challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel...
...Last October, the tension between Cruz’s role at the NRSC and his backing of the SCF campaigns was apparent when the SCF endorsed Matt Bevin in the Kentucky Republican primary against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
http://atr.rollcall.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-disavow-scfs-call-to-defund-nrsc/
Let’s see: Ted Cruz is evil because he had a turbulent stint on the NRSC, but Trump is going to save us after praising Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Y’all are barking mad!
Have you ever been a vice-chair. I have been. It’s like being VP, little power except tat which is assigned to you. That’s why McConnell offered it to him.
The reality of the situation is that Ted Cruz has forgotten more about conservatism than Donald Trump will ever know.
And no committee member has ever been against, or been disappointed in, the eventual action of the committee? Every committee ever has always ben unanimous? Interesting assumption.
FR would be a whole lot more rational place if the Trump fan club would just concede that Cruz is fantastic on conservatism and quit lamely trying to make Trump into a better one. #FAIL
I am neither. Cruz was vice-chair of the Committee that ran racist ads against McDaniel. He never stood up during the primary WHILE the ads were running and said he couldn't be part of a committee that was doing that. Or call out the NRSC, that might have made a few headlines and stopped the ads right then and there. Or gone down to Mississippi.
He stayed out of sight until it was all over, knowing what he knew, and then talked to Mark Levin after the fact doing his usual principled conservative, these charges should be investigated.
In other words, he had it both ways which is the Cruz hallmark. He was loyal to the perpetrators and kept his mouth shut. He could have fought the committee on the inside or gone rogue. And then when the dust cleared, there was Ted calling for an investigation. Not unlike, when he told his donors behind closed doors that gay marriage was not a priority.
Can you substantiate that?
If a committee member, he was the vice chair, btw, if a committee member who fueled his rise to the top as the consistent courageous conservative who could be counted on, I think they might have been out there fighting the good fight. Cruz was doing what McConnell told him to do, and had already told Hannity he wouldn't get involved in any races against an incumbent. That's why he only taked about MIssissippi after the race was over. You have to listen and watch Cruz carefully because this is how he operates.
I’m getting sick of this internecine battle. We need both of these men and they need to be united in turning their fire against the real enemy: the party establishment and their Democrat allies (and especially Hillary/Sanders, et al).
Cruz can't win with folks like you AND the GOPe.
Cruz got criticized by the the GOPe on the NRSC for being one of only two senators to work with the SCF raising money in 2013 to defeat RINO colleagues.
The GOPe then pressured Cruz to stop his work with the SCF, so in Cruz 2014 tries to get along and stops SCF work. In July of 2014 Cruz gets booted from his NSRC co-chair position and he resigns because he objected to what they were doing.
So we have Trump and Trump supporters criticizing Cruz for not getting along with the GOPe and at the same time we have Trump supporters blaming Cruz for getting along with the GOPe.
As I said in another post, we will not get another GOP senator in this generation who is going to fight the GOPe. And it's because we have folks on our side who will stab such a senator in both the back and the front.
First, I 'severely' restrained myself with this "zinger". And it is a slight zinger because Trump and his crowd begs for it by the crap that is slung against Cruz.
As fieldmarshaldj accurately states at #34 ... this has already been discussed and debunked.
BTTT!!!
Meanwhile in the fall 2013, while Tea Party favorite Cuccinelli was in a close race with McAullife in Virginia, the GOPe pulls campaign funds from him and Donald J. Trump donates 25K to Clinton sycophant McAullife. Cuccinelli winds up losing by two points.
Perfect description.....makes Cruz look more and more like the devious Uriah Heep. Dickens wrote Heep as a scheming, obsequious character...the paradigm ***-kisser.... secretly plotting, always ingratiating himself into the good graces of his betters.
No one knows this better than Donald.
Perfect description.....makes Cruz look more and more like the devious Uriah Heep. Dickens wrote Heep as a scheming, obsequious character...the paradigm ***-kisser.... secretly plotting, always ingratiating himself into the good graces of his betters.
No one knows this better than Donald.
Please correct me if I'm wrong Lady Cat, but is not this FACT the primary reason for your opposition to the desired "reign" of Emperor Trump?
Yes he was, and he could have went public with this...he didn’t...says a lot...
You don't get it do you? If Obama was vice chair of a committee that had ran bigot ads against a candidate, would you hold him accountable? Of course you would. Or at least say he was there when it happened and didn't do anything to stop it.
Cruz let it go on, knowing what the nrsc was doing. He never spoke out until it was too late. He never called attention to it, until it was too late. He never went against McConnell's wishes that he not get involved in any campaign with an incumbent.
Ted Cruz is the one who dubs himself as the fighter, the trust conservative everyone can count on to stand on principle all the time.
The link to the show where cruz said he wouldn't be getting involved with incumbent races.
He is always playing - and he keeps himself clear till the dust clears and he can ride in like a hero. It took me a loong time to figure him out. I wanted the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XskN0s_ylvI
For 20 years, Cruz has been fighting for actual changes for the limited-government movement, in all three Branches of government, and you think that not braying loud enough for your personal tastes on one issue by one committee invalidates it all and defines him, and that you know “how he operates”? Even though is he talking about it now? Unreal.
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