Why did someone post another thread about a “scandal” that isn’t taking off?
Wishful thinking. This whole story (mistresses + potential hush money) has just begun. It's nowhere near fully investigated.
Are you really that naive? These things have a life cycle. The life cycle of this Cruz story will likely continue until such time as Ted Cruz comes clean with whatever is going on.
If there's nothing whatsoever going on, that remains to be seen. But if that turns out to be the case, then, one day, Ted Cruz will come out and say "I've always been faithful to my wife" and, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, people will accept that and the story will die.
In fact, if the story really is as simple as "I have never been unfaithful to my wife", then it is Ted Cruz himself who has needlessly prolonged the ordeal by mishandling a question directly put to him a day or so ago, where he submissively hid behind Mama Carly's skirt as she "took charge" of the situation.
And when I say "took charge", I of course mean that she deflecTED onto the catch-all boogeyman Donald Trump, just as Ted Cruz did with the totally lawyer-esque statement he initially made (at a moment that called for exactly the opposite).
Such behavior (deflection), in and of itself, is a classical sign that deception is likely occurring. Most experts non-controversially agree on this, even though it is only circumstantial information.
Now, if there is something going on, then there will be the elaborate mea culpa speech, instead of the short sentence noted above.
But a story such as this typically will neither die nor "take off" in less than a week's time.
I haven't as yet heard any explanation whatsoever for this $500,000 transfer between the Cruz and Fiorina camps. Neither a good or a bad explanation has been given, from what I'm aware.
And, again if I'm not mistaken, I believe the FEC may have actually asked for an explanation.
It's a fact that such a transfer happened.
It's also a fact that such a transfer is unusual, to say the least.
It's additionally a fact that one of Cruz's supposed mistresses, (Sarah Isgur Flores, I believe) either joined or already worked in the Fiorina campaign at the time.
And apparently Ms. Flores got at least one lump sum payment in the $150K range, as well as drawing a weekly salary in the 5-figure range.
(Note to self: try to get some employment in a high-end political campaign soon.)
So, on the surface, it's a least plausible that there could be something fishy happening there. To gasp in righteous indignation is disingenuous, if not laughable.
My point, however, is that just this one little facet of the bigger story will logically and reasonably entail some investigative journalism, as will various other aspects of the story, in a likelihood.
Thus, it's rather comical to characterize this story, or any part of it, as "not taking off" at this juncture.
So pardon me if I'm not overwhelmed by your desire to dismiss such sleuthing and just MoveOn.
The media will MoveOn from this story when both the fact-finding and the sensationalism have been exhausted. I don't think we've quite reached that point yet, to say the least...