Posted on 03/01/2016 1:16:32 PM PST by drewh
A long-time political insider just made a bombshell announcement about conservative Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is running for President.
This Republican operative, who has worked on 9 different presidential cycles, couldn’t keep it quiet any longer after being in talks with key leaders of Cruz’s and Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) campaigns.
The insider is Roger Stone. He once worked for Donald Trump, and passed along his report to a popular radio host that Cruz used a high-priced attorney to confidentially request that Rubio’s team promise Cruz a Supreme Court appointment in exchange for Cruz exciting the race. This is in addition to recent reports that the candidates’ wives have been in contact, discussing why someone dropping out is essential.
This is unprecedented, but Cruz has to be well aware that the political establishment is lining up behind Rubio. Fox News has a pro-Rubio tilt, and the powerful Koch brothers just sent a number of their top operatives to Team Rubio in hopes of defeating Trump during a contentious convention fight.
Cruz has been a bold conservative voice in the United States Senate who has been willing to filibuster Obamacare and take on his own party. But while he’s a constitutional scholar with solid principles, it’s clear that after his team messed with Dr. Ben Carson, he is also willing to play dirty tricks.
However, those tricks haven’t changed Trump’s nearly insurmountable lead, and Cruz doesn’t want to face even more legal battles about his former dual-citizenship with Canada. Cruz, who is a former Supreme Court law clerk, may see a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court as the perfect exit strategy!
As Roger Stone once noted about Cruz, he is the ultimate Nixonian politician:
Vladimir Lenin said, “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” I can’t think of a better description of Ted Cruz’s relationship with the DC-Wall Street Establishment – Cruz being the scoundrel of course. Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” […]
Despite his ability to lie with a straight face (sadly Nixonian) on his support for amnesty and TPP, he got nailed by Senator Marco Rubio on the debate. Acting like a prick in the U.S. Senate was the core of Ted’s disciplined effort to bury his old school ties and reinvent himself as a modern-day Jesse Helms and supposed Conservative outsider. It’s a ruse. It’s clear that something dramatic has to happen this week, with 12 primary elections happening on Super Tuesday. Without deals like this, nothing can stop the Trump Train.
What do you think about Ted Cruz allegedly offering to drop out of the race?
Roger lies.
Rubio is going to lose. How could he give Cruz a SCOTUS appointment. He’d have better luck with Trump.
Roger Stone works for Don Trump.
Roger Stone, a Trump lackey, is supposed to have inside information on Cruz and Rubio? Color me skeptical...
This article is rubbish. It tries to claim Ted is for amnesty when he’s the main guy that killed the gang of 8 bill.
when Cruz camp repeats CNN saying Carson is getting out...to Trump that’s a lie.
When Trump guy makes up crap about Cruz getting out—that’s not a lie.
Trump logic.
Rubio will never be in a position to name a Supreme Court Justice.
Cruz will never be confirmed, in any event.
How about Rubes drop out instead? Pres. Cruz or Pres. Trump can hire him on as a TSA agent. He’d get a spiffy uniform and maybe even a walkie-talkie.
Cruz’s problem is that he has no leverage. A possible SCOTUS appointment is something out of the deal...
I guess you missed the part where the Go8 passed the Senate and only died when Cantors career in the House did.
Ridiculous! This is garbage!
Sen. Cruz is gonna lead the Texas secession movement from Pres. Trumps Administration and become TEXAS’s second President in the vain of Gen. Sam Houston.
Desperate Times call for desperate measures.
BS
Almost sounds like what they did to Carson before Iowa.
Voters should vote their candidate until he officially withdraws
The title needs a barf alert.
Another “don’t waste your vote on him, he’s quitting” jujitsu move. I guess Ted earned that.
:: This Republican operative, who has worked on 9 different presidential cycles ::
First cause to disregard every f**king thing this knob says.
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