BREAKING: @moody has learned @realbencarson will return to FL following #IAcaucus, will not go to either NH or SC
While not enamored with this trick, Romney pulled and the GOPe would pull this type of crap in a second to eliminate the conservatives from this race. In some ways, it is good to know that there is a conservative in this race who can play dirty.
Politics ain’t bean bag. Trump is a fighter, Cruz is a fighter and Rubio will have the GOPe behind him. Lest anyone think that the way to the nomination and the White House is by being as pure as the wind driven snow:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/228434/fast-times-nashua-high-craig-shirley
Lest we forget.... In other news:
Meet Chad C. Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, former DoD/CIA/Goldman Sachs/Homeland Security.
Sweet co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
As a leader of the Chertoff Group, Sweet “advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection.”
http://www.chertoffgroup.com/bios/chad-sweet.php
Meet Ted’s ex-CIA PR guy, Dan P. Gabriel. Gabriel is involved in SIGINT aka interception - which is turned into propaganda. His twitter handle is @danpgabriel and he was one of the people pushing the angle that it was confirmed to the Cruz campaign that Carson was dropping out. After called out on the lie, the agent deleted the tweet and denies everything in typical spook fashion:
BREAKING: @moody has learned @realbencarson will return to FL following #IAcaucus, will not go to either NH or SC
Trump higher ethical ground? lol thats funny
The tweet you posted was seventeen minutes after CNN tweet.
Great post!!!
You post the tweet @ post #56...but you haven't on this thread -- or any other you've posted on today or yesterday -- about this tweet re: the Rubio campaign. Why not? (If this is such a "moral indignation" issue to you?)
From Uh Oh, Was Marco Rubio Guilty In The Ben Carson Dropout Rumor?
Excerpt from this link: What has not been said much throughout the day is that Florida Senator Marco Rubioâs campaign worked actively to spread the message that Carson was leaving the presidential race. These actions were reported on Twitter by Conrad Close who, according to his Twitter profile, is the managing editor of Outset Magazine.
[You can go to the link to see a snapshot of Close's actual tweet...it reads:
Per the link above: "Another interesting little tidbit about Close, that he shouts from the rooftops with his Twitter profile picture, is that he is Team Rubio with the statement below his picture, 'Iâm voting for Marco Rubio.'
[So, it's not like Close was "anti-Rubio" & was attempting to sabotage him]
I call you & other FR posters out on this.
If you've ONLY targeted Cruz, who the Carson team went after ONLY a SINGLE Cruz staffer on this rumor...yet have ignored 100% Rubio, who Rush confirmed yesterday MULTIPLE staffers were involved in rumor-mongering...then it all comes across as crass exploitive targeted of THE front-runner...NOT as some moral issue sticking in your craw.
'Fess up.
Here is a timeline for those with limited attention spans:
http://thefivepilgrims.com/2016/02/03/a-quick-fact-sheet-of-the-cruz-carson-controversy/
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This is really disppointing, and has me rethinking my support of Cruz. I won’t support Trump due to similar concerns about his behavior, so not sure where that leaves me.
The alternate, and much more likely scenario, is that the tweet actually reflected reality.
The actions that Carson is now taking do not reflect a candidate who intends to stay in the race much longer.
STOP. GABRIEL DOES NOT WORK FOR CRUZ.
Does it make you feel good to lie?