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Notes from Senator Cruz’s Office: Thinking the Unthinkable
PJ Media ^ | October 8, 2015 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 10/08/2015 7:16:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“Maybe World War III has started already,” said Paul Teller, Ted Cruz’s chief of staff. We were sitting in the senator’s office under the ten foot wide modernist portrait of Reagan at the Berlin Wall that dominates the room. ”We always thought it would be nuclear weapons but…” He shrugged, a quizzical look on his face, as if he himself were surprised at what he had just said. But I knew where he was coming from. Who wouldn’t? The Middle East was in flames, the whole complexion of Europe changing, and America had turned tail. And we didn’t even know at that point, it was Wednesday afternoon around five, that Russia was flying cruise missiles into Syria.

I glanced over at Nick Muzin, Cruz’s deputy chief, and he didn’t seem to disagree either. Muzin is a MD/JD and Teller a Ph.D. in government. The senator clearly surrounded himself with smart guys. It spoke well of him.

And it wasn’t just guys. The day before, I had been sitting in the same spot with Victoria Coates (Cruz’s foreign policy adviser), Rachael Slobodien (his communications director) and Cruz himself, talking about many things, but mostly foreign policy because I was there on the good offices of Dr. Coates. She is an art historian, no less, with a Ph. D. in art history from UPenn....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; russia; syria; tedcruz; war; ww3
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1 posted on 10/08/2015 7:16:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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"May you live in interesting times."

2 posted on 10/08/2015 7:21:08 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But [Cruz] did say explicitly that he thought a good portion of a potential cabinet might be standing on stage with him at the debates. We may be seeing very interesting, and perhaps surprising, combinations of the top six down the line.

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What do you think, Vet? Trump would make a great Press Secretary?????

-:)


3 posted on 10/08/2015 7:22:20 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: VinL
Trump would make a great Press Secretary?????

Ohhhh, that would be so sweet.

4 posted on 10/08/2015 7:24:31 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ongoing invasion of Europe by young Islamists hasn’t hit the radar screen for most but it seems the most immediate threat. Beyond that the multi sexual weakening of Western morality and the massive drug culture are next in order. No list would be complete without BLM and anti capitalist mobs.


5 posted on 10/08/2015 7:25:07 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Want to make people faint? SecState or SecDef.


6 posted on 10/08/2015 7:25:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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7 posted on 10/08/2015 7:31:57 PM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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What do you think, Vet? Trump would make a great Press Secretary?????

LOL Actually I was thinking Ambassador to the UN.
8 posted on 10/08/2015 7:34:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The russians are overrunning the ME, and middle eastern muslims are overrunning europe. This episode of the crusades should prove to be really interesting to say the least.
9 posted on 10/08/2015 7:35:05 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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Want to make people faint? SecState or SecDef.

DHS.

10 posted on 10/08/2015 7:37:40 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah...Art Historian working in the Senate!


11 posted on 10/08/2015 7:40:21 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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Europe is toast...it will look like Syria in 25 years.....US is not far behind unless the kids wake up....


12 posted on 10/08/2015 7:40:55 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: cripplecreek; 2ndDivisionVet

What do you think, Vet? Trump would make a great Press Secretary?????

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Well, all I know is that, when one of those Trump guys starts in with Cruz as VP, attorney general, Supreme Court-— I now have my stock answer.


13 posted on 10/08/2015 7:44:28 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I am moving Cruz up to place #1 in whom I’d most like to have dinner with. Not that I could keep up with him intellectually but it would be fun to try.


14 posted on 10/08/2015 7:49:02 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s started.


15 posted on 10/08/2015 7:54:30 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Especially with Ted leading, he can talk them half to death and they will capitulate to shut him up...

Not that he will do anything, but boy he will talk about it


16 posted on 10/08/2015 7:58:54 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

TS Elliot was wrong. Not even a whimper.


17 posted on 10/08/2015 8:04:42 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul Teller? Odd coincidence, Edward Teller’s son is named Paul too.


18 posted on 10/08/2015 8:31:35 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
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To: VinL

Cruz’s campaign is not as good as I had hoped.

But the man is phenomenal. He would attract all the best conservative talent from everywhere. Only RINOs hate him.


19 posted on 10/08/2015 8:39:58 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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Cruz’s campaign is not as good as I had hoped.
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Actually, from what I’m reading, his campaign is excellent in the sense that he has intricate organization in each primary state.

Cruz is building an army— he just hasn’t engaged yet.


20 posted on 10/08/2015 8:58:12 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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