5 Reasons Why the Ted Cruz Sex Scandal Story Won't Go Away

Roll Call ^ | April 1, 2016 | Stephanie Akin

[V K Lee]

That’s the point attempting to make here. He is NOT NBC and can never produce any document to prove that he is. So if wishin ‘n’ hopin to be Trump’s running mate or have Trump be his running mate - that is NOT going to happen. The best high chair Ted could possibly be seated is an advisor to the POTUS on the administration staff somewhere. Ted’s phoniness has been his deepest downfall. It turns off a good many voters.To have such a ‘highly educated mind’ and attempt such a stupid plan to run knowing full well he is in no way eligible, punches a boat load of holes in the ‘great mind’ persona. JM2CW

GO TRUMP!!

[Kartographer]

If it was the same smoke and mirrors accusations against Trump started from a magazine who's CEO just happened to be the a friend of any of the other candidates would you be so quick to believe them?

Maybe Cruz is like Trump and he doesn't do anything bad and so doesn't feel the need to ask forgiveness. Funny Trump lives that way and no one every expects him to apologies even when he is wrong, in fact that is one of the things they say that like about him. Yet here they are expecting someone else to apologies for rumor and innuendo. Hope you understand my confusion.

Sorry I won't bet, I am praying that things turn out good for Ted and his family, not because he is 'my' candidate, but because he is a fellow human being and I don't wish what such an outcome would cause anyone even Trump. I understand you words about betting are meant to be lite, but words matter, words have weight, words and the way you say them often revel things about how a person really thinks and words once spoken can not be taken back and can cause damage greater than any weapon wielded by man.

I am sorry if my words seem harsh, but I have watch FR deteriorate to a forum were in rumor and innuendo carry the same weight as fact, where people I know to be good people wish that horrible rumors about another are true and they spread those rumors because they wish very bad things to happen to others, why else would they spread rumor if they don't? I thought FR was better than this, I thought FReepers were better people that this.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Honestly if this was coming out about Trump I would be very concerned and I would expect him to clear it up satisfactorily or I would not vote for him. I take this bird dogging around by Presidential hopefuls pretty seriously. I hate cheating. There is no way I would knowingly vote for a cheater.

[poconopundit]

Maybe not as much of a coincidence as it appears.  Did a little Googling the discovered the following:

• Sabo is an artist who fashions himself as the "Rush of right wing art."  He is known for his provocative political art.
  
  
• A March 2014 story in the Austin Statesman interviews Sabo about the Cruz poster which apparently was created after Cruz made an appearance in Los Angeles where Sabo lives.  Amanda Carpenter was working for Cruz's campaign at that time.
  
  
• Sabo claimed he's a big fan of Cruz -- and he also relates that the poster made him some money and that he was "five months late on this rent" when the poster became popular and made him so good money.
  
  
• In the two articles I read, Sabo claims that he and Cruz had never met before the poster was created.  However, we can speculate that a politician of national aspirations like Cruz would probably want to keep any relationship with an avant-garde artist like Sabo as confidential.  Plus the poster is more marketable if the public believes the work was an artistic "inspiration", rather than a planned work.
  
  
• So I think it's reasonable to infer that Sabo -- a big fan of Cruz -- might contact the Cruz campaign about the idea of creating a poster -- great way for Cruz and he to gain publicity and a potentially lucrative money-maker for Sabo.
  
  
• Then when Cruz was in the Los Angeles area, maybe Sabo and Cruz got together so Sabo could take some candid photos of Cruz with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth among other poses.  It's far easier to create a realistic digital painting if you have an actual photo or two of your subject as a starting point.
  
  
• So if a meeting between Cruz and Sabo did take place, then at that time Cruz could have asked Sabo to insert a tattoo of Amanada Carpenter on the neck of the poster saying, "she works in my campaign, so that tattoo would be a little inside joke among my staff."
  
  

Now I'm not saying this is what happened.  I am simply saying that a Cruz and Sabo collaboration on the image is not as far fetched as it may first seem.  And it certainly worked beautifully for Sabo who became a nationally known artist because of the poster.

At the 2015 CPAC convention, Cruz was selling his posters at a booth, and Sabo also gave a talk at that convention, probably thanks to Cruz's influence.  Below is a picture of Sabo selling his art at that 2015 CPAC event in Washington.

[JudyinCanada]

This is something worth pondering.

If Sabo was selling his poster at a Cruz event, then Cruz is, in the least, happy with the poster. It’s not a stretch to think he had some input. And, yes, that does resemble Amanda. They obviously got the Churchill tat idea from that poster.

[poconopundit]

Hey Georgia Girl,

My wife, myself, and 5 cats will be residents of Georgia in two weeks -- moving from the Pocono mountains of Penn.

Moving to the Athens area to rent for a while till we find a good house to buy.

How 'Bout Them Dawgs!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Hey welcome to Georgia ya’ll. Athens is a real nice town. You will like it there. Avoid moving to Atlanta.

[poconopundit]

...They obviously got the Churchill tat idea from that poster.

Yes, if fact look at the photo of a Cruz Twitter message that Sabo has posted on his website:

[grey_whiskers]

It’s better for him to put this to bed now then later.

Hey, great choice of words there for a sex scandal...

[Hoodat]

She would likely be there with you saying you never cheat on her. Why can’t Ted say those things? It looks bad.

Hillary was standing right beside Bill Clinton when he gave his infamous "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" speech.

[grey_whiskers]

Sucks to be you, doesn’t it?

[grey_whiskers]

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot!

...TROLL.

[catfish1957]

...TROLL.

16 years and 13K posts,? yeah whatever fuzzy.trumpet

[catfish1957]

Oh and I forgot....Anymore more proof of this phony scandal fuzzy?

[grey_whiskers]

So Ted sleeps around. That’s between Ted and his wife.

Unless he has lied about it to the voters!

[grey_whiskers]

When was the photoshop of all the tattoos done, and under what circumstances? Either “artistic license” or “not having time to look at the original” could account for the difference.

[grey_whiskers]

Because she had (back then) red hair, just like Kari Bryon, I’m rating this one as “plausible.”

[VerySadAmerican]

I don’t believe there is anything there. If there is, and the gopE has it, they’ll use it to knock him out after he’s been used to knock Trump out.

Either way there is nothing the gop would like more than to shut Cruz up. And a great way to do that would be to make him vice president behind a rino. He could sit there in the senate with his warm bucket of piss and wait for a tie so he could be relevant. Don’t be surprised if this happens.

[VerySadAmerican]

there is a general feeling in the public that Trump was behind all of this.

I believe the gope is behind it.

[grey_whiskers]

See post Post #119 this thread. Who's the girl on his left bicep in that one?

And why in H*ll didn't they think to tattoo either his mother or his wife on him?