Posted on 01/23/2016 11:27:47 PM PST by springwater13
In a reversal from claims made on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is now saying the senator and his family do have health insurance and never lost coverage. The late night Friday revelation came more than 24 hours after Cruz had told a New Hampshire audience that he and his family were without health insurance and were scrambling to obtain new coverage--and used the claim to slam Obamacare for the mess he was in.
In statements to Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal, campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier blamed Cruz's false assertion that his family had lost their health insurance on a misunderstanding. She said an insurance broker told Cruz that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas was dropping his PPO plan, but Frazier said that the broker did not tell Cruz his family was automatically being transferred to the carrier's HMO plan.
"Based on this information, Sen. Cruz believed the family was uninsured and asked the broker to pull quotes immediately for a new policy," Frazier said.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
No, he didn’t lie. You have no evidence of anything but a failure of his broker to communicate with him. Until you come up with actual, actionable evidence he truly lied, I am not the least bit interested in trying to play God and read his mind. Others can do as they please. I will take him at his word.
Peace,
SR
bkmrk
It can't be done like that. His hands are tied. There has to be someone with standing who raises a challenge to him being on the ballot. Otherwise, the state election bureaus are going to let him run. Trump's "concern troll" suggestion he could go out and get a declaratory judgment is either deeply muddled thinking or something darker. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he just doesn't understand election law. Trump's main focus has been construction law, bankruptcy law, and divorce law. So he can be forgiven for making a rookie mistake like that regarding election law.
Peace,
SR
....Yeah...happens all the time...I remember a couple of weeks ago I was looking for my dentures...till I found out I was already wearing them.
Cue the twilight zone music.
In a parallel universe, four years later the family moves to Havana. Ted Cruz is now a "natural born" Cuban! Scare quotes because he isn't a natural born citizen of any country. At birth, he was a citizen of three countries.
As he grows up, he learns a skill. This guy reminds me of Eustace Charleston Haney.
Let’s accept that for a moment.
What can be concluded is that Cruz is such a bad judge of character that he chose as his broker someone who cared so little about Cruz that he let him go out and repeatedly tell a falsehood.
A falsehood on an issue that was a key part of his clients future success. And yet the broker stood by as Cruz sank his candidacy.
You know, I can probably buy that, after all, Cruz chose to believe someone like McConnell. Not a single Freeper would believe McConnell, but Ted was willing to base a very important vote on his own judgement that McConnell was being truthful.
Can you imagine who might be in Cruz’s administration if he continues to use such poor judgment?
Don't. How many of us, when we fell off the Cruz Express, wondered why he just kept pushing harder with the sophomoric excuses and the transparent debate techniques that are used when you can't win on an issue?
I've reached a point where I wonder which direction his delegates would go in if/when it's his like-minded candidates (Jeb and/or Kasich) who use the citizenship situation to disqualify him.
We've been had by an "attractive distractor". The only question is, with his ego, he was not aware of it, or if he's part of the plot to get Jeb nominated.
poor! This guy jumped the shark when he enlisted Beck.
First of all, this is not the sort of thing that is likely to influence anybody. We can all relate to being given bad information by someone we were counting on. I’ve had that very thing happen to me.
Second, every person in this race has demonstrated poor judgment on one or another issue. Trump’s evaluation of Kelo as great, his boosting of his pro-abort sister for SCOTUS, his decidedly unchristian manner of bully insults, his repeated efforts at marriage and bankruptcy are all much more severe defects in judgment in my view.
Now I realize others don’t see those as significant errors in judgment. I get that. But on the grand scale of things, I’m happy with Ted fixing this communication error as quickly as he became aware of it. This is the sort of thing that happens all the time at work too. Half our time in meetings is spent making sure we are all on the same page and even then it can still get off course. It’s just an ongoing part of life. At least that’s how I see it.
But if you think this will stick, then go for it. I think it’s desperate and laughable.
Peace,
SR
Poll FReep: If the election were held today, who would be your first choice for President of the United States?
$20 million last quarter! The smartest guy in the room! Your argument doesn't hold up.
Cruz’ lies are starting to sound an awful lot like Obama’s.
‘And I wonder what else he has lied and lied and lied about too.’
He bold faced lied about Trump bulldozing the granny’s house he took via imminent domain.
Trump never got the house, hence never bulldozed it.
I think the real reason why this is such an issue is that if someone had simply asked him if he had insurance, and he got it wrong due to bad info, well, ok.
But, he brought it up. It smacks of using a victim card, and one that is to scare others about Obamacare. If Ted Cruz can loose his insurance, then I’m in real danger. Of course Obamacare is bad, but don’t manipulate with false information.
“... an insurance broker told Cruz that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas was dropping his PPO plan.”
You Cruz-haters just gotta hate. Assume the worst. To hell with Cruz at all costs. Ignore the details.
Long live hopey changey messiah Trump, beholden to none, savior of all who adore him.
And the hits keep on coming. In retrospect, I’m glad I dropped off the Cruz express early.
As for this so-called shading of the truth, it doesn’t need to be characterized as a lie at all. Just another in a long series of poor judgements. Like being for TPA before you were against it. Like forgetting you were a Canadian citizen. Like allowing a creepy video of you rehearsing a commercial being released. Like running a nonstop fundraising campaign that would give Jimmy Swaggart pause. Like appearing with a talk show host who is anathema to much of your base.
If you find yourself face down in a hole, the best thing to do is to stop digging.
Someone that brilliant didn’t think to ask how long he’d be covered for or other pertinent details?
Sounds fishy.
Those would be the first things I’d ask.
The point isn’t about Obamacare but about an unbelievable story a candidate told, and is now backtracking.
“people are SICK of the carefully scripted lawyer speak!! “
Except this time it wasn’t so careful, LOL
“To this day, you can not get him to answer what he will do with those invading hordes who are already here. He dodges the question, with both fingers in both ears, doesn’t even hear it, singing only one song in reply. Says he wants to “deal†with the border.”
That is why I switched to Trump. Cruz was deafeningly silent on illegal immigration while Trump was straightforward and in your face about it. Even when asked about separating families, he said they don’t need to be separated- they can all leave. Common sense that I’ve been thinking for years and he had the courage to say it, and the journalists didn’t even question him or say how horrible that was.
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