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AGANSTTED
Why Ted Cruz is A Disaster
Wait ing to Happen.
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I. On the campaign trail in South Carolina, Ted said
that "[m]ore tooth, less tail ? that will be our
guiding philosophy? when it comes to military
spending--and proposed hundreds of billions of
dollars in new military expenditures. He has
criticized "the failed Obama/Clinton military
strategy that has created global instability,"
because "we will lose the ability to guarantee our
safety at home and abroad." Ted says America is
at risk due to cuts that reduce the number of
active duty soldiers, aircraft, and watercraft.
II. Ted likes to mention that he fought to defeat the
Gang of Eight amnesty bill. Ted claimed during
one of the GOP debates that he has "never
supported legalization" of illegal immigrants. He
claims that he will end Obama's amnesty on day
one, increase deportations, and wrote in the
Conservative Review that he will "make it
impossible for anyone, including and especially
those who seek to do harm, to enter or remain
here illegally. "
III. When it comes to legal immigration, Ted says he
would suspend the H-1B visa system, which
provides visas to foreign high-skilled workers,
and initiate substantial reforms to the H-1B visa
system.
I. Each year in the Senate, Ted voted wi th devout
socialist Bernie Sanders and isolationist Rand
Paul
against
the National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA), the annual bill that funds our
Nation's military (
See
Roll Call votes on H.R.
3304; H.R. 3379; H.R. 1735). According to an
article by Mike Pompeo, published in the
National Review
, the only budget Ted ever voted
for allocated
less
defense money than President
Obama's military budget, which gutted military
spending and put our nation at risk.
II. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Robert De
Posada, founder of the Latino Coalition (a
conservative Latino organization), called Ted's
statement "just a flat out lie. Period." De Posada
and many of Ted's previous colleagues said that
"finding a way to offer immigrants a way to
remain in the United States and gain legal status
was central to the work Cruz did." In other words,
he was dedicated to making a pathway to
citizenship possible for those here illegally.
III. In the Senate, Ted tried to amend the Gang of
Eight Amnesty bill to increase the total number of
H-1B visas 500%--from 65,000 to 325,000,
which would have taken 260,000 jobs from
hard-working Americans.
The Two Faces of Ted Cruz
On the Campaign Trail Behind Closed Doors
Fool me once, shame on you...
Fool me twice, shame on me.
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In an interview with
The Huff-
, Wilson claimed that
Florida was a must- win for
it.
The impact that such allega-
ign would functionally be over.
Assuming that such a video
have a hard time reconciling any
allegations of an extramarital af-
fair.
For one, there is no reason for
Ted to go to the Capital Grille as
frequently as he is reported to go,
because in a March 16, 2016 inter-
view with
US Weekly Magazine
,
Ted explicitly said that "[w]hen
I?m away from the family, in
Washington, D.C., my dinner is a
can of soup. I have dozens in the
pantry." Sure, eating out every
once in a while is understandable,
but eating out twice per week, es-
pecially with someone other than
your wife, is suspicious if you
claim to only eat soup.
Also, why would anyone need
to go to a hotel twice per week,
especially if they have a personal
residence in that same city? More
importantly, though, why would
anyone visit a hotel on such a con-
sistent basis with someone other
than their significant other?
Putting the pieces together, one
must ask: If the woman that Ted is
visiting on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days is someone other than a mis-
tress, then why would it be neces-
sary to also visit a hotel? After all,
if they were just occupying their
time with friendly chatter, there is
no logical reason why they would
need to go to a hotel in addition to
the restaurant. Moreover, even if
they did need to go to a residence-
like environment, there is no per-
suasive reason why one would pay
money for a hotel room when one
has a private residence they can go
to for free.
We next turn to the inevitable
threshold question of whether
The
National Enquirer
is, or has ever
been, a reliable source of
information.
Is the Enquirer Reliable?
Understandably, before dis-
cussing the piece in
The Nationa
Enquirer
, we must assure our-
selves, and the reader, that the
publication is a source of reliable
information. Many Ted supporters
and other commentators attempted
to cast doubt upon the publication
by pointing to examples of wild
headlines that have appeared on its
front cover, such as "Macedonia
Manufactures Metallic War Spi-
ders " and "Japanese Spacecraf
Attacks Hawaii with Earthquake
Weapon "
But while these headlines
might make one second guess the
reliability of The National En-
quirer
, resting one's criticism
solely on that point alone over-
looks two, much more important
factors: (1) The National En-
quirer's long history of exposing
political sex scandals, and (2) re-
cent internal changes made to the
procedures in which The Nationa
Enquirer gathers evidence and
verifies information from sources.
First, during the 1988 Presi-
dential race, The Miami Herald re-
ported that the married Democratic
front- runner, Gary Hart, was inti-
mately involved with a Miam
woman other than his wife. As The
Washington Post reported at the
time, Hart famously issued a chal-
lenge to the media regarding the
allegations: "Follow me around . .
I'm serious. If anybody wants to
put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd
be very bored." Accordingly, The
National Enquirer
quickly pub-
lished the now- famous cover of
mistress Donna Rice sitting atop
Hart's lap on his yacht. Ironically
Hart's yacht was named "Monkey
Business."
Next, in the midst of the 1996
Presidential election cycle,
The
National Enquirer
first reported
that Republican candidate, Bob
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younger Cruz had called her 'a
fearless, principled conserva-
tive.'"
A source told the National En-
quirer that Cruz "supposedly had a
romp with her in a closet at a Re-
publican state convention[.]"
Pierson took to Twitter to ve-
hemently deny the affair calling it
"stupidity on all levels" and fol-
lowing up with a tweet clearly in-
dicating that "Of course the Na-
tional Enquirer story is 100%
FALSE " Pierson did suggest,
however, that the story was only
false as it pertained to her, saying,
"I only speak to myself, however."
The next alleged mistress is
Amanda Carpenter, who according
to
Gawker
, is the "former Ted
Cruz communications director"
was accused of being one of the
Cruz mistresses on national televi-
sion when she and Adriana Cohen,
a Pro- Trump
Boston Herald
columnist, appeared on
CNN
to
discuss the Twitter feud between
Trump and Ted.
As The Washington Post head-
lined, this was the "exchange that
took the Ted Cruz affair rumors
from the tabloids into the main-
stream."
The folks at Breitbart reported
the exchange in full:
KATE BOLDUAN, co- host of
CNN?s ?At This Hour?: Adri-
ana, are you ready for Trump
to move on?
COHEN: Oh, absolutely I
think we should move on.
Where we should move to is
The National Enquirer story
that has reported that has Ted
Cruz has had affairs with at
least five mistresses, including
you?ve been named as well,
Amanda.
BOLDUAN: I?m sorry, I don?
think that?s moving on at all,
Adriana.
COHEN: No, I would like to
know ? if we?re going call
Donald Trump?s character into
question, I would like Ted Cruz
to issue a statement whether or
not The National Enquirer
story is true, that he has had
affairs with many women, in-
cluding you were named,
Amanda. Will you denounce
this story or will you confirm
it?
(CROSSTALK)
BOLDUAN: It will come as no
surprise to our viewers, CNN
has no reporting on what
you?re talking about coming
from The National Enquirer
Amanda, go ahead.
CARPENTER: What?s ou
there is tabloid trash. If some-
one wants to comment on it
they can talk to my lawyer. It?s
categorically false. You should
be ashamed for spreading this
kind of smut. Donald Trump
supporters should be held to
account for it.
COHEN: I?m not spreading
smut.
CARPENTER: I will not be in-
timidated. I will continue to
make my thoughts known
about Donald Trump. I?m no
backing down.
Carpenter is believed to be de-
scribed by
The National Enquirer
as "'a hot babe who once worker
on one of his campaigns."
Many have pointed to a string
of odd, yet potentially suggestive
tweets that Carpenter sent refer-
encing Cruz.
The first was either foreshad-
owing, or just a coincidence. On
April 1, 2014, (April Fool's Day)
both Carpenter and Cruz displayed
tattoos of Winston Churchil
smoking a pipe. The joke was tha
the tattoos were obviously fake
Cruz had his tattoo on his arm
while Carpenter had hers on he
left shoulder blade. But several in-
teresting things are being pointed
out about this "prank": (1) The
placement of Carpenter's tattoo
would almost certainly require the
assistance of another person..
(Perhaps Cruz?); and (2) The exac
tattoos both Cruz and Carpente
bore are sold in packs of two..
(Couple's tattoos?)
The second tweet was sen
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uggests that "time is of the
sic] Wireless Subpoena
Sibley makes clear in a foot-
and addresses of eight hun-
C. clients of the D.C. Madam?s
scort service."
It is speculated that there is a
First,
Ted worked in Washing-
job that lasts for only one court
term (one year). Then, from 1997
to 1998, Ted worked for, what is
now, Cooper & Kirk law firm. In
1999, Ted joined George W.
Bush's campaign team as a domes-
tic policy adviser. After Bush took
office, Ted worked as an associate
deputy attorney general in the Jus-
tice Department, and as the direc-
tor of policy planning at the Fed-
eral Trade Commission. Ted fi-
nally left Washington in 2003
when he was appointed as the so-
licitor general of Texas.
Ted worked in Washington for
six of the thirteen years that Pal-
frey operated her escort service. In
its third installment about the
scandal,
The National Enquirer
spoke with investigative journalist,
Wayne Madsen, who personally
reviewed "thousands of the phone
numbers - and thinks Cruz should
be concerned," and went on to
suggest that if Sibley "has what he
says he has, it has to be Cruz." The
National Enquirer also spoke an-
other with Washington investiga-
tive reporter, Dan Moldea, who
also reviewed the documents.
Moldea told The National En-
quirer that he would have recog-
nized all of the other candidates
names, but "[t]he only name [he]
would not have recognized at the
time was Ted Cruz "
U.S. News World Reports
also spoke with Moldea, who re-
peated what he told
The National
Enquirer. However, U.S. News
World Reports spoke with re-
searcher Matt Janovic, who claims
to have a copy of the Verizon sub-
poena response. Janovic told U.S.
News World Reports said he did
not see Ted's name in the Verizon
documents. When confronted with
Janovic's statement, Sibley said
"I'm not going to confirm those
guys have what I have. I don't
think they have the entire response
because I've always kept some
back."
By process of elimination, al
suspicion is reasonably directed a
Ted, as he was practically a no-
body his first time around the
Beltway, and would not have
raised any eyebrows back then, i
he popped up on the list.
Second
, Ted's wife Heidi could
also reasonably be the bombshel
found within the records, because
they contain the names of both the
customers and
escorts
. Likewise
as
Vanity Fair
reported, Palfrey
only hired women above the age
of twenty-three, and were "profes-
sional, intelligent women." Palfrey
explicitly said in an interview with
Vanity Fair that the typical escor
she employed "needed to pay of
college loans, or put themselves
through college or their children
or pay for that condo their day jobs
couldn? get for them."
Heidi worked in the Bush ad-
ministration from 2000 until 2004
which means she could also be
someone named on the list, not as
a customer, but as an escort. He
role, like Ted's, was also behind-
the- scenes, for the most part
working under then- Secretary of
State, Condoleezza Rice.
Indeed, the circumstantial evi-
dence surrounding the allegations
is overwhelming. It appears tha
whatever bombshell is in the re-
maining D.C. Madam phone
records, it relates to Ted and/o
Heidi. Unsurprisingly, the fifth
mistress, who at this point remains
unidentified, is "purported to be a
'$1,000-a-night' Washington, D.C.
call girl," according to The Na-
tional Enquirer
.
Aftermath of the Allegations
Ted responded to the allega-
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dentify as "very conservative"- -
pport Ted.
While this scandal has not yet
The National
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irmly Grasp It... Just Not in My State
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Ted, who has been referred to as a "warrior for smaller
In 2007, as Texas solicitor general, Ted vigorously
devices . . . is presumed to possess them
Ted's brief in support of the law, filed in the United
on the most intimate decisions one can make- - a
the government has an interest in
preventing you from masturbating, or engaging in any sor
of sexual conduct that does not lead to procreation.
It is not difficult, of course, to understand why Ted's
arguments ultimately and utterly failed in court. Taken to
its logical extreme, one could argue that prohibiting con-
traception, including both birth control and condoms, is
permissible, because its use is entirely grounded in "the
pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation."
This kind of contradiction is precisely why Ted is no
electable. Not only does it call into question what he means
by "small" government, but it also is an indication into
what he views the role of government. The position tha
government has a role in determining whether, and with
what, one masturbates is the reason why many young peo-
ple, and true believers in the principles of limited govern-
ment, think Ted is "crazy." Indeed, this position is reminis-
cent of the nosy parent that believes your business is also
their
business. But do not hold out that you will be able to
convince Ted that he is wrong; every attempt to do so is
met the same: a laugh, a scoff, and a statement lacking any
factual basis in reality.
In sum, Ted's fantasies about the role of governmen
are troubling, revealing, and cause one to question: How
can we trust someone who wants to get government off o
our backs, yet defends a law that places the watchful eye o
government squarely into the most private and intimate o
decisions? The short answer is that we cannot.
ook back at that t ime Ted t ried to take your sex t oys
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