Cruz Robocall Tells South Carolina Voters Confederate Flag is ‘Our Flag’

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[TigerClaws]

The South Carolina primary is about to get under way today, so of course Ted Cruz is up to his last minute shenanigans. You remember Iowa, of course, where he told voters Ben Carson was dropping out of the race and lied that the news came from CNN.

This time, according to Schuyler Kropf at The Post and Courier, a Ted Cruz super pac, the Courageous Conservative Political Action Committee, has a new robocall going out to South Carolina voters that the Confederate flag is “Our flag.”

Yes, it is your flag, and the first time you ran her up the flagpole, federal troops stormed ashore and yanked her down again. That is, after your flag started the bloodiest war in American history over your imagined right to own other human beings – black slavery.

In the call, you hear Trump’s voice say, “Put it in a museum, let it go.”

Another voice then says, “That’s Donald Trump supporting Nikki Haley removing the battle flag from the Confederate memorial in Columbia,” and goes on to tell voters that “people like Donald Trump are always butting their noses into other people’s business,” and that “Trump talks about our flag like it’s a social disease.”

The thought that you can own other human beings is a social disease. And if that’s your culture, is a rotten culture. The call tells voters “He Ridicules Our Values.”

I did not know owning black people was a “value.”

Nikki Haley, of course, removed the flag. She also, on Wednesday, announced her endorsement of Marco Rubio, which no doubt got her on Cruz’s shortlist.

Now naturally, Cruz spokesperson Alice Stewart says Ted Cruz has nothing to do with it: “This is from someone not affiliated in any way with our campaign.

A spokesperson for Trump, who is leading Cruz in the Palmetto State 32 to 18 percent, responded with equal predictability, calling the robocall “the same old trash and more signs of desperation.”

Interestingly, The Washington Post tell us that 70 percent of Trump supporters and 62 percent of Cruz oppose the flags removal.

[Vaquero]

It is. It was the flag of half the country during our darkest hour.

Will the democrats want to blow up Buddhist statues next?

[Pajamajan]

This was not a good idea IMO.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

I thought it was the Maple Leaf

[JJ_Folderol]

>>> Now naturally, Cruz spokesperson Alice Stewart says Ted Cruz has nothing to do with it: “This is from someone not affiliated in any way with our campaign. <<<

Another Trump dirty trick?

[Lopeover]

It was a super PAC. If you recall Trump asked that candidates request super pacs disband and give the money back. He would not allow a super pack to be established in his name. Said he didn’t know the guy setting it up.

[Souled_Out]

A liar lies, if anyone is still believing Cruz, they are gullible beyond belief.

[theoldmarine]

Did they have that flag up there in Canada? Maybe he thinks it looks like the Union Jack?

[JJ_Folderol]

>>> A liar lies <<<

A liar ALWAYS accuses others of lying. It’s called ‘projection’.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

For those with poor reading comprehension skills, the salient words are: "a Ted Cruz super pac". Who needs to know that PACs (PACs are political action committees) are independent of the campaign and the candidate? Ignorant people.

[grania]

This was not a good idea IMO.

Cruz's campaign and his PACs are tone-deaf. He has a reputation now for "whatever it takes" campaigning, and he's defended his campaign's tactics. Adding to the pile of questionable strategies is like adding to a pile of snow....at some point it becomes a glacier.

The thing is, brought up in an honest way, during the campaign, the issue would have been valid. Did Cruz speak out on the assault on Confederate history? If so, he could've aired that issue in an honest way. But now, it looks like he was playing nice so as not to offend Nikki Haley and others.

[Slyfox]

Anyone can do a robocall and claim it is from the Cruz campaign.

[jeffersondem]

“The thought that you can own other human beings is a social disease. And if that�¢â‚¬â„¢s your culture, is a rotten culture.”

I know so little about history . . . but I know the Confederates were fighting for the Confederate constitution and that it provided for the peculiar institution.

And the Federals were fighting for the U.S. constitution . . . and federal officials, Lincoln included, took an oath to uphold the U. S. constitution.

Did the U.S. constitution provide for the peculiar institution?

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, even Cruz.

[Slyfox]

How does Cruz refute something like that?

You do not know the man.

Robo is something Trump would pay someone to do and it is something Rubio would do.

It is not something Cruz would do.

And don't respond to me about this.

[Ciexyz]

Btt

[j.argese]

Teddy lies to himself. How can he be truthful to you?

[DoughtyOne]

Aww, you poor frustrated Crewzer...

I’m gettin misty.

[jimbo807]

Has he said he didn’t do it? That is pretty easy to do.

[miss marmelstein]

The flag started the war. I guess the way guns and SUVs kill people. The party of science believes that inanimate objects come alive at night.