I’m not really sure what to make of this, actually. There is some very odd behavior here on the part of the Cruz campaign that seems more deflection and diversion than focusing in on the base problem.
Likewise, the Trump side isn’t blameless, either.
I do know this: 1) The media actively conspired to hide the John Edwards affair in the proud tradition of Clinton, Kennedy and Roosevelt, 2) The media aches to submit to their own personal advancement agendas but are under unwritten orders to comply on the coverup, and 3) At the first inkling that the dam is breached, they en masse start attacking like hyenas to get their own personal part of that wildebeest.
Maybe there is a real “there” there; maybe there isn’t. The one thing that confounds me is Drudgereport’s silence on this. I have a hard time in believing it is just jealousy against National Enquirer and not wanting to drive business to them.
We shall see what we shall see. This story has legs, warranted or not and it will play out oblivious to what we all think here either way.
I’m astonished at how badly Cruz has handled this. Instead of coming out and counterattacking the National Enquirer, he came out and attacked Trump. In doing so, he basically doused himself with gasoline and handed a lit match to social media.
Now the sharks smell blood in the water, and Trump supporters from NYC to Kathmandu are sifting the internet for nasty nuggets about Cruz’s past, connecting the dots and dredging up all sorts of stuff that I’m sure Cruz would rather they not.
This guy has the worst political instincts ever.
‘The media actively conspired to hide the John Edwards affair ...’
Good memory.
If this report is true, if there’s a smoking gun video with him smooching a rat or something ...
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The media would not be covering for Cruz. It’s all in the timing.
This is how they think:
Don’t let Cruz be damaged during the primary or the GOP would unify.
Then NAIL Cruz after the primary is over. Whether he wins or not.
They time reports all the time.
‘Likewise, the Trump side isn’t blameless, either.’
I’ll end this post with links. It is reportedly a delayed reaction from Team Rubio’s oposition research.
On this issue, I think Pecker [the editor who is also Trump’s friend] probably got his dander up over the ‘slut-shaming’ photo and chose on his own to stick it to Cruz.
That’s how some friends look out for each other. They don’t need to be asked.
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Now for ‘who to blame’ ....
Ted Cruz Cheating Scandal Not Linked to Trump Campaign – Was Started by GOP Elites [a Rubio time bomb]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3413980/posts
Virtually everyone in the blog-o-sphere who supported Marco Rubio was active, tweeting, re-tweeting, or following the events related to #TheThing. Now they’re running for cover and trying to hide their fingerprints.
Anti-Trump Republican operative Rick Wilson tweeted this out weeks ago. (He has since deleted it.)
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More about Rick Wilson and Cruz Mistress Scandal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3413997/posts
... one of the now deleted ‘tweets’ was from Rick Wilson, who stated the owner of ‘The Thing’ should just upload it to You Tube and the reporters could ‘discover it’ there.
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And if there is a rat-kissing video, all the NE did was scoop the competition.
The fact that Drudge, given his propensity to boost Trump, is refusing to pick up on the Cruz story even after it broke wide is the weirdest thing of all.I could see him being jealous that he got scooped, but once a story that salacious is ruling twitter his silence makes me think he's waiting for something else to drop.
One more thing bothers me.
The GOPe, the bushies, Mitt, all run to support Cruz, THEN this thing drops???
Everyone supporting Cruz has egg on their face.
This is just the sort of leverage on everyone in DC.
I am going out on a limb and looking at Hillary and 0bama.