Posted on 01/30/2016 6:04:42 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday said controversial get-out-the-vote mailers sent by rival Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign ahead of the caucuses were an 'unusual way' for the Texan to end his campaign here.
Cruz has been taking heat after one Iowa voter tweeted out a photo of a mailer he received presented as an official note slapping him with a "voter violation" for not voting.
"I had some voters mention to me they were upset about it," Rubio told reporters before a campaign rally at Iowa State University here. "Obviously, they had people's names and they gave them 'F' ratings for how they voted. I think a lot of voters were disturbed by it and again, it's kind of an unusual way to end your campaign in the state."
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It’s how a guy WAY ahead, and with the most “amazing ground game ever conceived in the history of American politics” would obviously do.
Kinda like what we truckers say when we see a semi involved in an accident that was clearly the truck driver’s fault:
Hell of a thing to have happen on your last day of work.
It's done all the time and is a common campaign practice.
Maybe that's true.
But it's in the NY Times, leading on CNN, picked up By the Examiner and several Iowa newspapers.
Cruz had to answer a question about it on the trail today.
I don't know how badly, if at all, it will damage his vote on Monday, but we should have a pretty good idea by tomorrow evening.
So far it appears to have cost him a point or two from what he would of had.
Baffling.
[I think a lot of voters were disturbed by it and again]
You know, had a guy at church, an associate pastor, one time suggested the church buy a marketing book to identify a certain group of people and then, I guess, show up on their doorstep and/or mail them.
I thought it was a very, very, bad idea. AFAIK, it didn’t happen.
I wonder if Rubio will now finish second especially after the debate.
Citizenship Quiz:
Ted Cruz - 50% (mother)
Born in USA - FAIL
(Hey, just a joke, don’t bash me, Cruz fans...)
Unusual is the understatement of the year. LOL!
flush goes the toilet
Rubio is the last one that should be commenting on this ... he’s next in line for the Trump thump ..LOL !
“Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday said controversial get-out-the-vote mailers sent by rival Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign ahead of the caucuses were an ‘unusual way’ for the Texan to end his campaign here. “
Not a Rubio fan but he got in a great zinger there! Witty!
Rubio is playing it cool, doesn’t want to blow his second place chances.
Yep , they are treasonous
For a guy who was never eligible to the office in the first place, it's a brilliant way to end a campaign -- rustle up some last minute huge fund-raising, create a dust-up that leaves the whole country shaking their heads, then vanish into the shadows with millions left over. Yes, they get to keep the money.
it's kind of an unusual way to end your campaign in the state."" End your campaign " may have more meaning than they thought.
And he's another twinkie who is not eligible to the office of the presidency.
If he had the balls and it's as effective as he claims he could've done it to their faces.
To suggest this tactic a bit “creepy” would be a gross understatement. It’s one thing to mail the recipients voting record/reminder to caucus. It’s quite another to juxtapose/expose that information with those of one’s neighbor’s. Imagine the manipulations such “public information” any candidate could use to “encourage”/”shame” potential voters to do or buy into?
Conservative means smaller and less intrusive government. This tack smacks of exactly what we hate about DC’s intrusive manipulations and Cruz should have known better. Ugh!
I’m a huge Cruz supporter, but this was just plain stupid. It worked for the Democrats, because in all-minority neighborhoods, everyone can safely presume that their neighbors would all vote the same way. What was the idea here? Trying to get people to vote for other candidates?
At least he owned up to it, but it was just incredibly stupid.
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