Posted on 04/11/2016 4:21:10 PM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Ted Cruz claims that Roger Stone, The Daily Caller Men’s Fashion editor, “decides” what Matt Drudge posts on his website Drudge Report.
In an interview with Mike Slater on “The Mike Slater Show” Monday, Cruz said, “If people want to get on the “Trump train,” they can. I actually think we need real and meaningful solutions to the problems in this country, and as president my focus is going to be on three things: jobs, freedom and security.”
Slater asked Cruz what he thought of the Drudge Report and the Texas senator replied, “Look, Drudge Report over the years has done a good job highlighting the excesses of the left and the excesses of liberalism, and about the past month the Drudge Report has basically become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign.”
“And so every day they have the latest Trump attack. They’re directed at me. It — by all appearances, Roger Stone now decides what’s on Drudge, and most days they have a six-month-old article that is some attack on me, and it’s — whatever the Trump campaign is pushing that day will be the banner headline on Drudge.”
“By the way, they no longer cover news. Remember they used to have things like election results? They don’t put those on Drudge anymore. When we win a state, suddenly the state doesn’t matter. You know Colorado — there was no red siren on Drudge when we won all 34 delegates in Colorado. That wasn’t news, because — I mean listen, that’s fine,” Cruz said.
Later Cruz said, “My number one priority is bringing jobs back to America, raising wages for everyone, making it easier for people struggling to achieve the American Dream. That’s my focus. And I’m going to let others worry about the silly political game and the circus.”
LISTEN (begins at 15:16):
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>> “Where they all been?” <<
One of them was the manager of the most successful appelate litigation division in any legal corporation in the US.
Saved our hides more times than you have changed your undies.
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Well Ted, that's because no election was involved in the award of those delegates.
"Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. His parents are Reform Jewish Democrats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge
Well, except for the Chicoms.
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I only elevated your character by quantum levels in doing so.
And that was typical Drudge, not in any way unusual.
You really need mental and spiritual help.
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Cruz is getting out in front of something and I don't think it's that he drinks out of the milk carton. This is what he pulled before the Enquirer dump.
He is the master legal strategist of this era.
But Cruz is losing here. Btw, were not electing someone who can recite or twist law. We're electing a leader, not a former law clerk. We need a leader, not another lawyer.
Get it?
This is how stupid the Cruzers think we are. Most FReepers aren't even watching Fox anymore because they're sick of the constant anti-Trump coverage from Trump haters like Rich Lowry and the other freaks from the NRO and other publications. But the Cruzers think we're so stupid we'll believe them when they claim that Fox News is Pro-Trump.
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“Reform” is to Judaism as Mormon is to Yeshua.
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Your photo editing matches your morals and intellect.
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In other words, the Jewish Matt Drudge is not a real Jew because his parents are Reformed instead of Orthodox. You are the dumbest and most offensive person on this forum.
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Fox, and Hannity in particular are head over heels infatuated with Trump.
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I run the Free Republic Caucus. It was set up so any FReeper could support the candidate of their choice.
I spend hours on the forum every day and I don’t see anyone trashing others for who they vote for. If anyone sees something like that, I want to know. I will do my best to put an end to it.
I see that some of you think it’s silly. Others have fun with it, and I urge everyone to participate.
Cruz folks are welcome there. I have made post after post making it easy for folks to hit the thread, spend 15 to 30 seconds there to vote once per day.
Opposition research? Silly?
What is silly about citizens casting a vote? Most Conservatives I know think that’s a pretty cool thing to be able to do.
As for some devious plan to develop opposition research at the expense of Cruz supporters, the very thought is evidence of strong paranoia.
Consider this. If it’s just for opposition research, against Cruz, then why couldn’t it be used against Trump supporters? The idea this is being used as some means of developing a database is absurd.
When the caucus is over I will develop some statistics. I post some of them every day. It’s interesting to people. I get notes every day saying thanks for the caucus threads.
This was set up by myself, solely based on my own concept, and purely for entertainment and the enjoyment of FReepers as a little added value to the forum.
There are plenty of Cruz supporters on the threads. If they don’t wish to vote, I have no problem with that. If they want to, I have no problem with that.
When I started the caucus, I had no idea how the vote would go. I expected to see the Cruz folks in the lead, or at least challenging the lead strongly.
It had been one of my initial concepts, that Free Republic would have a louder voice if more people took part in the caucus each day. I gave up on that. A lot of folks don’t care to participate. Hey, that’s their choice and I think that’s fine.
It seemed to me that if several thousand people were participating, it could provide a rather revealing view of support here.
I know that a few Cruz supporters had a run in with Jim. I know a few left. If my initial premise had been lived up to, those few people should not have swayed the percentages much at all.
It may interest you folks to know that five votes out of 200, equals only 2.5%. If 20 people left, we might be talking about only 10% of a day’s vote. And if our votes were up near 400 per day, it would only be 5%, and at 600 3.3%.
I have seen it stated a number of times that this poll is set up as some sort of tool to put Cruz down, or minimize the appearance of his following here.
The only people minimizing Cruz’s support in the caucus, is the Cruz supporters on the forum who refuse to participate.
You two, and everyone else is welcome to participate in the Free Republic Caucus.
Please join in.
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That is a weird accusation this person made about Matt Drudge? Matt Drudge IS Jewish and also observes the Sabbath by not working on his website.
He has a couple of guest editors hired on to cover for him during the Sabbath or when he is away. His first guest editor hire back in the 90's was a young Andrew Breitbart - When he started making enough money off his website where he could hire someone to cover for him during Sabbaths and other times. During some slow news weekends, you can observe his website remain unchanged from Friday night till Saturday night.
Back when Drudge was still doing his national Sunday night radio show, a caller starting ranting that Jews were responsible for America's problems. Remember Drudge slamming the caller, reminding him he was talking to a "Jew" and he didn't take kindly to what he was saying. He then went to explain that he usually had a trusted guest editor cover his website during Sabbaths, since he was observant.
As is said.....”Whining isn’t winning”..... If Trump wants to secure the necessary delegates to win the Republican nomination when the National Convention assembles for its first vote, he needs to drop the impotent cry of “unfairness” and start learning the rules to the game he’s trying to win.”
How does Trump possibly think he is going to be an awesome president when he can’t even run a mildly functional operation in Colorado?....... it’s not like this is brain surgery. It’s entirely doable with just a little bit of understanding about how delegate allocation works.
It’s really that simple....currently he’s losing.
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Drudge is not a Jew because he disrespects the law of Moshe, and the covenant.
Read Paul and get educated.
LOL Excellent idea.
You bet, I'll ping you here after NY etc...
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