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Shouts of ‘liar’ are taking their toll on Ted Cruz’s campaign
MSN News ^ | FEB. 24, 2016 | Katie Zezima

Posted on 02/24/2016 5:49:38 AM PST by detective

Ted Cruz's presidential bid is in turmoil after repeated allegations of unsavory campaign tactics by his Republican rivals, leading some key supporters to call for a shake-up in the candidate's message and strategy a week ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday primaries.

Aides and allies of the insurgent senator from Texas acknowledged in interviews this week that the campaign has been damaged by attacks on Cruz's integrity from Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. They have pointed to a series of questionable tactics by the Cruz camp, including calls to voters suggesting that candidate Ben Carson was dropping out and the sharing of an inaccurate video suggesting Rubio had disparaged the Bible.

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To: detective

Cruz is finished, for a whole host of reasons.

If you have any doubt about that, watch his speech from last night, then look in a mirror, and look yourself in the eye and try to say honestly to yourself: I believe the Cruz campaign is still alive.


101 posted on 02/24/2016 7:40:13 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: COBOL2Java

AMEN to that.


102 posted on 02/24/2016 7:41:40 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Durbin

Really? I am all for people supporting their candidates but it’s also cool to step out and look at things analytically.


103 posted on 02/24/2016 7:42:22 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Donglalinger

Underrated character on that show IMO


104 posted on 02/24/2016 7:42:43 AM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: ClearCase_guy
Cruz is unpopular and he's running a dirty campaign.

To call a mistake "dirty" is dirty.

105 posted on 02/24/2016 7:43:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: nclaurel

Who said I’m leaving? There are places you can live and not be inundated with homos, thugs, corrupt politicians, and morons. Just stay home, don’t watch tv/internet and send the wife to town as needed.


106 posted on 02/24/2016 7:44:00 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: grey_whiskers
What is it about that state that generates xenophobia towards the rest of the country?

I can only speak for this Texan. I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, State's Rights, a very weak federal government. I would support Texas Secession in a heartbeat rather than be dragged down by an overreaching federal government and welfare society. If that is what you call xenophobia towards the rest of the country, so be it.

107 posted on 02/24/2016 7:46:50 AM PST by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: Trumpinator

“Really? I am all for people supporting their candidates but it’s also cool to step out and look at things analytically.”

So Carson hasn’t been playing the “pity me” card?


108 posted on 02/24/2016 7:47:48 AM PST by Durbin
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To: jospehm20
Did you ever stop to wonder why the liar label is sticking?

When the general Republican population has been drinking the " Donalds'" koolaid, they become cultish and start chanting " LIAR LIAR LIAR".. just to gain momentum.

NOT TRUE..

Ted Cruz is NOT a liar and was looked up to as a anti establishment leader.

For those of you who are trusting TRUMP , your day of reckoning is about to come....

109 posted on 02/24/2016 7:48:01 AM PST by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Durbin
“Really? I am all for people supporting their candidates but it’s also cool to step out and look at things analytically.”

So Carson hasn’t been playing the “pity me” card?\

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You don't think he is genuinely pissed off?

110 posted on 02/24/2016 7:48:39 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

“You don’t think he is genuinely pissed off?”

I think he’s petty and playing the victim and milking it for everything he can.


111 posted on 02/24/2016 7:53:27 AM PST by Durbin
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To: pollywog

Trump is not alone in this. The Carson and Rubio campaigns called him a liar too. Maybe when 3 different campaigns call somebody a liar, he really is? The truth is Cruz is a very successful professional politician and professional politicians sometimes lie. It is what they do. The whole Cruz anti-establishment thing is a laughable whopper to me. Cruz is a Princeton and Harvard educated lawyer who clerked for the SCOTUS Chief Justice after law school. The man has been at the highest levels of the GOP since 1999. He has spent 2/3 of his post school life in politics. His Harvard educated wife served in the GW Bush admin, sat on a CFR board and is now an executive at GS. There is nothing more the guy could do to become more ruling elite/establishment. Cruz should be very proud of all his very impressive accomplishments but he is most definitely not anti-establishment.


112 posted on 02/24/2016 8:09:07 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: detective

Ted Cruz has been engaging in dirty trix since Iowa. The chickens are coming home to roost.


113 posted on 02/24/2016 8:18:47 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Lagmeister

I didn’t say anything about who abandoned whom. I was talking about the emotional joy it gives sinners to see one who tries to do right, fail. All men have feet of clay. This includes Marco, Ben, Trump and Ted. Some strive to do better, some make the best of what they are.


114 posted on 02/24/2016 8:21:57 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: deport

Yup. If you hire Jeff Roe you’re agreeing to get down in the dirt.


115 posted on 02/24/2016 8:33:42 AM PST by Charlie Browns Gun
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To: Resolute Conservative
Well some people may be bigger than me, I would take my toys and middle finger this country while I moved to nowhereville and lived out my days watching the decline.

I took that to mean you were leaving. Still no contact with outside you will miss the decline you predict.

116 posted on 02/24/2016 8:42:43 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: nclaurel

If the wife unit would let me I would have off-grid’ed as much as I could by now. She likes making money still, I have passed that part of my life where I feel the need to achieve more and have someone take it from me.


117 posted on 02/24/2016 9:04:23 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: oldplayer

Sadly, you and I disagree on one key point: I don’t think Cruz tried to do better. I think he has always been a galactic hypocrite.


118 posted on 02/24/2016 9:46:49 AM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Lagmeister

Ted said he believes in marriage. He’s stayed married to the same woman. That’s at least one area in which he is not a hypocrite. Of course, if you don’t believe in vows, three or four marriages is fine and you’re not a hypocrite. But that’s just one issue. I guess he can be a hypocrite in other areas.


119 posted on 02/24/2016 10:28:21 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: detective
Aides and allies of the insurgent senator from Texas acknowledged in interviews this week that the campaign has been damaged by attacks on Cruz's integrity from Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.

It wasn't hurt by their own actions; oh, no, it was hurt by opponents quite naturally taking the advantage of pointing out their actions. So much for a "principled" conservative. Blame is the liberal way right down the line.

120 posted on 02/24/2016 11:43:53 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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