Posted on 03/27/2016 2:14:11 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater
After the Washington Times quickly disassociated from him "for saying a scandal may be true", Johnson seemed to still be a class act. He tweeted that he respected them and had enjoyed working with them. He did not understand though why they would do this via Twitter instead of a phone call or even an email.
However, now there are attempts to smear and discredit him, claiming they have not had a relationship with him in over a year which he soon replied to providing proof of being paid just last month.
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Has there been a single reported “fact” about this “scandal”? None. The NE is looking into rumors. The Washington Times guy says that “From what I know, at least 2 of the women named as Cruz mistresses by the National Enquirer are accurate”. What does that mean? Accurate that they had affairs with Cruz? Accurate that they exist? Accurate that they are 2 of the people NE is reporting about? “From what I know”? What does he know? What information does he draw on to confirm whatever he’s supposedly confirming? How is his information verified?
The Cruz ‘scandal’ is completely phony. No facts. No evidence. No proof. No testimony. No documentation. Nothing.
Pleeeese.
This is NOT “news.” This is nothing but rumors. Nothing more.
How would you feel if someone started publishing stories that you were sexually involved with someone from work... a man even!
When you confronted them, their answer was, “But it’s a rumor and I heard it from a few people... who heard it from a few people... and it was even in the National Enquirer! Of course, there are no sources given... but it is a rumor...”
These were never, and are still, nothing more than vicious rumors. Hundreds are started every day.
Stop falling for the BS and wait for the facts... if there ever are any.
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A Lover’s Sister-in-Law Speaks Out:
This week the National Enquirer (which first reported the affair of failed Democrat party member John Edwards) broke a story that alleges Ted Cruz had multiple affairs with various women, while his wife Heidi Cruz was battling depression.
The Cruz campaign has yet to respond to the allegations, but a short phone call with the sister in-law of one of the women, after I found her online through use of the White Pages, appears to confirm the allegations. The woman, whose brother is married to the alleged paramour — who appears on CNN as contributor, said, “It’s true. They were together only a few times.”
She added her sister-in-law, “was transfixed by Ted. He has a way of selling ice to an Eskimo.”
I asked when the affairs occurred. “Right before Ted’s campaign for Senate,” she said. “They’d get together when Cruz visited DC.” She added, “The whole family knows, everybody knows about this.”
Cruz’s lover is married and has children.
https://medium.com/@Blackppl4Trump/l-affaire-of-ted-cruz-c1818b9db18f#.fqh8co47b
There were Carson rumors, too, spread in part by certain Trumpsters here. Brain sponges, cultism, pyramid schemes. Now? All gone! Immaculated! Gossip-mill re-directed to new boogieman.
You’re joking right? Your “facts” come from an anonymous blogger who goes by the name “Trump Enforcer”.
What is the name of the sister-in-law? Why doesn’t he report her name? Why is she not on record? Why is no one on record? Are there any facts confirming what she is saying? Witnesses that saw Cruz with the lover going into a hotel room together? Dates, times, places? Anything?
This is nothing but anonymous quotes from anonymous sources. They can be and are likely made up. Again. NOTHING.
“There were Carson rumors, too, spread in part by certain Trumpsters here. Brain sponges, cultism, pyramid schemes. Now? All gone! Immaculated! Gossip-mill re-directed to new boogieman.”
Exactly, although, I think you lend it too much credibility by calling it a gossip-mill. Gossipers will tell you who they heard the gossip from.
Good point. Anonymous gossip is lame. :-)
I knew this when Romney endorsed Cruz one week, then Kasich the next. They are moving the piece on the board to block Trump.
Cruz doesn’t realize he will be tossed aside at the appropriate time with someone the GOPe finds acceptable.
Cruz at this point is strictly a block for Trump. He has zero chance of winning.
The affairs were kept out of the controlled state media until the approppriate time. However, after the shots on his wife Trump decided to drop the bomb.
Funny, when this happened to Herman Cain last election, a number of FReepers were very vocal about how badly we damage our own best candidates by believing those that seek to harm us (the MSM, et al.) with little evidence. Now that it serves to (on the surface) help Trump by weakening one of his rivals, so many FReepers are willing to believe rumor and innuendo. Show me the proof. Not cherry-picked suggestions of an affair (like the bogus $500 thousand story, with no evidence it was hush money, just innuendo), but proof. There isn't any (yet). But we are so willing to jump on the bandwagon. Who else gets helped by tearing down the right wing of the party, hmmm?
So far, there isn't any proof. But many of you are willing to be just as bad as Democrats so long as it helps your candidate. Explain how this circular firing squad helps create a conservative majority...?
First off, my own vote would not be affected by adultery either by Cruz or Trump. When Herman Cain was caught in something similar, I stood by him regardless. I also stood by others.
But since Cruz recklessly blamed Trump out of the box, we are spurred that much more.
But this forum is founded on information gathering.
Too many times news gets buried because people think too much like lawyers and not enough like criminal investigators.
We look for witnesses and evidence, even if it’s not first-hand. We prefer the smoking gun, but that’s not the way to solve ‘crimes’ or political questions.
I would appreciate a link to the debunking.
Amanda Carpenter’s tweeter feed for the past 3 years is filled with little remarks about Cruz. She calls him “daddy”, “sweet”, and goes on to say she she only dates married men because there’s not commitment and that’s how she likes to keep it. The minute her sister or brother in law is interviewed about the affair Cruz will end his campaign. It’s coming. Stay tuned.
“He has zero chance of winning.”
Not true. He has a small mathematical chance of winning, needing 85% of the remaining delegates to win outright. Of course, that’s a small chance, but a lot of things can happen. More importantly, he doesn’t have to win the delegate count outright if he prevents Trump from doing so. In a contested convention, Cruz’s chances improve a lot, especially after the first ballot.
I see a lot of grousing about Cruz’s efforts to secure support among unbound delegates and the selection of bound delegates. If it is part of the process under the existing rules, there is nothing wrong with it at all. Trump has the exact same opportunity to secure delegates.
One thing I have left in common with Trump supporters is that it would be wrong for either Trump or Cruz, having worked and fought so hard to win delegates, to have the nomination snatched away by the establishment jerks.
I buy it. That also explains why the mainstream media, which hates Cruz, is softpedaling the story about the affairs, going so far as to fire guys who mention it. Twitter is also purging tweets referring to it and suppressing the fact that it's a trending story.
It's too soon to knock Cruz out. If he implodes now Trump easily gets a majority of delegates and then there's no stopping him.
Too bad they’re screwing themselves in this childless antics. They are letting the media run their campaign.
I agree completely.
Cruz has has shown an ability to win 8 small caucus states. His only primary wins have been in his adopted home state of Texas and Oklahoma, where he barely beat Trump. In Texas 57% of voters went against him. He has been summarily destroyed in all other states by Donald Trump, not even close. No candidate that has lost Ohio and Florida, and got destroyed all over the Evangelical South will get the GOP nomination. It ain’t happening and to make matters worse after Wisconsin (where he might win), the race moves to the NE where Trump will clean house. Cruz is hoping to go to a contested convention where he thinks the GOP establishment will try to hand him the nomination on the second ballot. That ain’t happening either. He’s being used played like a drum by the establishment, hoping and praying that he can get enough votes to keep Trump from clinching it before the convention. The goal of the GOPe is to get rid of Trump and Cruz...once and for all.
No doubt about it. Agree with your appraisal of his limited appeal as well. Unless Hillary collapses from her own scandals and zero charisma Cruz can't win the general election. He has no path to the nomination. The GOPe doesn't want him, the voters don't want him, even his evangelical base breaks for Trump.
The CubanMistressCrisis is beating a nearly dead horse. But the old nag might have enough life left in her to poison a well or two.
While I agree that the GOPe plan is pretend to support Cruz and use him to suppress Trump’s delegate count, I don’t agree with the scandal theory. There’s much easier ways to deal with Ted. He can be objected to for lacking NBC status by any of the 57 Delegations. And there is the disunity of the delegates themselves on the 2nd round. People forget that hundreds of delegates are bound to the 2nd or even 3rd round by state party rules.
Dirt has a mind of its own and turns up anytime and anywhere. The Enquirer and like-minded news sources are in business to make money. They don’t take their marching orders from political parties or strategists. While they might be convinced to suppress a story for a short time, they want to scoop it first and reap the big bucks. They want the a hard-copy sell out that comes with being first, not last. Investigators were making inquiring phone calls in early March. The Enquirer made their decision and beat their competitors from having the story out before them.
TeamCruz had known it was brewing. And this is what they did, IMO:
They devised and solidified their talking points.
They attacked Trump’s wife w photo to create a big diversion.
They faked a hoax NE article to quickly discredit the initial story.
Reuters Poll Mar 25, 2016 (5 Day Rolling) [Trump vs Cruz - Trump 54.7% Cruz 37.9 %]
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