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.

[LoneStar42]

Probly.

Camp Ben McCulloch is in June. We fly the Navy Jack.

[grania]

I found a source for Cruz's past statements about the Confederate flag. In the New York Times, on June 20, 2015, Michael Barbaro wrote an article under "Campaign 2016" summarizing some candidate views about the Confederate flag issue. Cruz is quoted as saying it was up to South Carolina to decide. Then he said two different views. One which could be quoted to one side of the issue. One to the other.

Thus, the robocall was misguided. It isn't an issue where Cruz clearly stood in favor of the Confederate flag, in fact seemed to acknowledge that he wasn't going to disagree with Nikki Haley.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Cruz has idiots working for him.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Agree. It was not a good idea. Regardless of what side of the discussion people are on, the flag issue brought division in SC. Bad idea for the Cruz campaign.

[Psalm 144]

That oily, blobby, lawyerly thing is what is going to kill of the ooze campaign.

I just read that Beck is fasting for ooze. If these people were serious, they would go full flagellant.

[cmomm44]

Cruz is a Bible waving liar——the worst kind-—if his pacs are doing this he should repudiate everyone of them right now-—I used to believe he was an honest man but no longer—maybe it is being a politician that makes good people do anything to get elected?

[jacknhoo]

Regardless of what the Confederate Flag has come to symbolize or what it truly symbolizes, the fact remains that the Confederate Flag was the flag of the southern Democrats.

[central_va]

The more Trump campaigns the South the less Yankee he is becoming. Could be a fake but he is growing learning that there is life off of the island of Manhattan. Running for President is an eye opening experience. Especially for the “Islanders”.

[central_va]

The 19th century Democrat Party was the traditional conservative party. The Republican Party was the party of wild eyed liberals.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Somebody should tell Cruz to quit wearing Jeans with a large belt that accentuates his “Big Rubber Tire” above the belt line. Sends a “Slob” message.

[jacknhoo]

Yeah, the little l liberals.

[John S Mosby]

They are already tearing down monuments, defacing tombstones and even un-aligned monuments to the era, spray painting breaking markers, covering them with tape and tarps. Not to mention the city council of New Orleans voting to remove the statues of former governors and leaders of Louisiana, for historical rewriting by the “newspeak” southern marxists. They have even voted to remove a marker for a southern labor activist— who happened to be anti-reconstruction, and was pro-black labor. Imagine that.

This is not racially aligned unless it can be posed as that— it IS marxist communist-Statist aligned and.... Black Lives Matter white neo-marxists who are funded by foreigners like Soros.

[FreeReign]

....where he told voters Ben Carson was dropping out of the race and lied that the news came from CNN.

This article lies twice in the first sentence.

[TXSearcher]

Well, the Confederate flag, as it relates to a rebellion, IS my flag from my family's history. They fought and DIED in that rebellion against the Federal Government.

BTW, Hrafnkell Haraldsson, you ignorant LIBERAL hack, my people were NEVER slave owners. In fact, most of them worked along side slaves since they were dirt poor....or had their own "minority" status to deal with as people with Spanish/Indian heritage.

Only a Liberal/socialist would applaud the ban of a historical flag that represents half the country's revolt against an overreaching Federal Government's authority.

Also, in my opinion, people who post articles by liberals/socialists like Harladsson, in an attempt to degrade an opposing Republican candidate, are also quite interesting.....since I thought being a Freeper meant we were FIGHTING AGAINST Socialists/Liberals/Marxists, not jumping on their bandwagons.

[pollywog]

” I like the mandates”
“ I will remove mandates”
“ I’ll end abortion”
“ I am for abortion in some cases... DEPENDS”
“I’m for returning illegals home”
“ I’m for returning illegals to the USA that are GOOD”
“I will destroy ISIS”
“ I like muslims; I would consider one on the Cabinet”...

Talk about two faced!
Donald TRUMP

[Lagmeister]

Cruz weasels and slimes through his PACs so he can claim purity. His fan base believes it, if nobody else does.

[Kegger]

You do realize that these calls were not done by Cruz or his campaign, right?

[Vaquero]

This is not racially aligned unless it can be posed as that— it IS marxist communist-Statist aligned and.... Black Lives Matter white neo-marxists who are funded by foreigners like Soros.

Waiting, not so patiently, for Soros, the Nazi collaborating Jew, to achieve room temperature.

[altura]

So... on top of fighting the Iraq war, you people want to fight the civil war?

[Echo4C]

PoliticsUSA is a far-left (communist) website, not surprising that Trump supporters actively arguing against conservatism on other threads would use it to attack Cruz.