Posted on 03/01/2016 1:16:32 PM PST by drewh
A long-time political insider just made a bombshell announcement about conservative Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is running for President.
This Republican operative, who has worked on 9 different presidential cycles, couldn’t keep it quiet any longer after being in talks with key leaders of Cruz’s and Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) campaigns.
The insider is Roger Stone. He once worked for Donald Trump, and passed along his report to a popular radio host that Cruz used a high-priced attorney to confidentially request that Rubio’s team promise Cruz a Supreme Court appointment in exchange for Cruz exciting the race. This is in addition to recent reports that the candidates’ wives have been in contact, discussing why someone dropping out is essential.
This is unprecedented, but Cruz has to be well aware that the political establishment is lining up behind Rubio. Fox News has a pro-Rubio tilt, and the powerful Koch brothers just sent a number of their top operatives to Team Rubio in hopes of defeating Trump during a contentious convention fight.
Cruz has been a bold conservative voice in the United States Senate who has been willing to filibuster Obamacare and take on his own party. But while he’s a constitutional scholar with solid principles, it’s clear that after his team messed with Dr. Ben Carson, he is also willing to play dirty tricks.
However, those tricks haven’t changed Trump’s nearly insurmountable lead, and Cruz doesn’t want to face even more legal battles about his former dual-citizenship with Canada. Cruz, who is a former Supreme Court law clerk, may see a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court as the perfect exit strategy!
As Roger Stone once noted about Cruz, he is the ultimate Nixonian politician:
Vladimir Lenin said, “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” I can’t think of a better description of Ted Cruz’s relationship with the DC-Wall Street Establishment – Cruz being the scoundrel of course. Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” […]
Despite his ability to lie with a straight face (sadly Nixonian) on his support for amnesty and TPP, he got nailed by Senator Marco Rubio on the debate. Acting like a prick in the U.S. Senate was the core of Ted’s disciplined effort to bury his old school ties and reinvent himself as a modern-day Jesse Helms and supposed Conservative outsider. It’s a ruse. It’s clear that something dramatic has to happen this week, with 12 primary elections happening on Super Tuesday. Without deals like this, nothing can stop the Trump Train.
What do you think about Ted Cruz allegedly offering to drop out of the race?
Mathematically Cruz can’t win.
Cruz knows it.
What he said: Roger is a liar.
Redstate had a writeup on this as well. Looks like team Trump is actually ~trying~ to do to Cruz what they accuse Cruz of doing to Carson. HYPOCRITES~!
FALSE CLAIM that has been discredited by CRUZ headquarters.
It’s a blowback story. Total BS. Last minute hitjob.
This reeks of false flag. I always thought Stone leaving the Trump campaign was so he could do stuff like this without it blowing back on Trump.
Could be true but I don’t buy it. Not yet.
I'm not buying this BS. It is another 11th hour rumor.
The latest cruise-begging email title was “Help!”
I’m skeptical.
Your typo makes it even more hilarious. /h
Vladimir Lenin said, “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” I can’t think of a better description of Ted Cruz’s relationship with the DC-Wall Street Establishment – Cruz being the scoundrel of course. Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” […]
Cruz is in Texas today campaigning, that is a big tell. Trump was within MOE in the last polling...
in two years Cruz will be casting the vote that removes Trump from office after the House impeaches for self dealing.
Total and complete BS
This bogus rumor was debunked yesterday, yet the lie is still being spewed here on FR.
I wonder if this might be a case of turning the Cruz Iowa trick played on Carson around, even though the entire scenario seems pretty implausible. But it does plant the idea that Cruz will not remain in the race.
Lol!
Los Hermanos de Cubanos will walk away from this with nothing.
Nothing.
Stone came up with Atwater and they spent their time together blaming the other for dirty tricks.
Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
You guess wrong.
Roger giving Cruz a dose of his own medicine, doubtless.
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