Repub Cruz To Eventually Support JEB/Rubio?

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
If this turns out to happen, I will feel so sorry for Cruz supporters. They don't deserve this.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com...r-ted-cruz-will-endorse-jeb-bush/#more-111461

Tripwire Alert – At 6:30pm Today It Became Official – Senator Ted Cruz Will Endorse Jeb Bush…
Posted on January 25, 2016 by sundance

The Professional Bridge Burner !
Politics is a risky business – a deliberate business – with very specific decisions; and as a direct consequence when you cross a particular line in opposition you point yourself in a very specific direction. Candidate Cruz has also now affirmed himself as a rigid ideologue.

At 6:30pm today, as a direct result of an official campaign position and not one stemming from a Super-PAC, candidate Ted Cruz officially put himself onto a singular path which leads to either:

A) his own victory, or B) a later endorsement of Jeb Bush/Marco Rubio.

Our new TV ad starts airing statewide in Iowa tomorrow… #IACaucushttps://t.co/ntbfiNKtZx
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 25, 2016

When a campaign, and again to repeat this is NOT a pac, attacks a primary opponent in this manner, there is no latter position to fall back upon (change course) to deliver an endorsement of the candidate you are attacking.

This ad does not provide any possibility of candidate Cruz reversing course and endorsing the same candidate being targeted. Bridge burned, no way to reverse. It never happens.

Senator Ted Cruz has painted himself into a corner. If this attack doesn’t work, and if Cruzdoesn’t win Iowa, he only leaves himself one option.

It is doubtful there is a more apropos example of why Ted Cruz is so ineffective as a Senator; and additionally, this approach solidifies everything Professor Alan Derschowitz outlined as the inherent personal character flaw within his former student, Ted Cruz, as arigid ideologue.

[…] He made a lasting impression as someone both arrogant and pretentious, as well as someone unwilling to yield or compromise. (link)

This is also exactly the same behavior Senator Ted Cruz exhibited in October through December 2013, and then forward into 2014 when Cruz and Rand Paul aligned with Mitch McConnell…. That alliance ended with the NRSC attacking Mississippi Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel… Cruz claiming he was hoodwinked by the Senate organization he gave $250k and was Vice-Chairman, but he’s the smartest man in the Senate?

Later, during the debate on Fast Track Trade Authority, again Cruz claims he was hoodwinked…. but he’s the smartest man in the Senate? More bridges burned…. leaves Cruz the loneliest, and least effective, man in Washington DC.
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
Follow the money, indeed! This is best seen at the source for assorted document, charts, and links.





http://theconservativetreehouse.com...ds-pro-cruz-anti-trump-super-pac/#more-111488

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Attorney Heads Pro-Cruz, Anti-Trump Super PAC…
Posted on January 26, 2016 by sundance

This is one of those ah-ha moments when several political variables seem to reconcile simultaneously. For those who doubted the Earlier Tripwire, here’s the evidence.

There is a Super-PAC called “Stand for Truth” registered out of Lexington Kentucky headed by a guy named Eric Lycan. [Here’s the link – search box “Stand for Truth”]

Mr. Eric Lycan was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lawyer during his re-election campaign against Matt Bevin. Lycan also has deep tentacles within the entire GOPe apparatus, including the Chamber of Commerce. You can confirm identity from the filing paperwork and the reported contact information which is the same as THIS LINK to the Dinsmore legal group.

Link to Dinsmore Group Bio

So obviously Eric Lycan is a deep insider within GOPe circles:
 He’s represented, and/or is representing, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
 He also represents clients to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Tom Donohue connection).
 He’s a member of the National Republican Lawyers Board of Governors.
 He was the Kentucky Chairman, Lawyers for Romney in 2012.

There’s no questioning his GOPe bona fides. However, here’s where things get really interesting.
Given his curriculum vitae and the direct connection to Mitch McConnell you might not expect to see this:

It’s a pro-Ted Cruz Super-PAC. The filing above also shows they spent $42,000 to create digital advertising for Ted Cruz, and…
…..wait for it…
….. spent $192,594.00 for “RADIO ADVERTISING”.

It makes a person wonder which radio broadcasters might have picked up some of that Pro-Ted Cruz advertising money?
…and maybe that explains why THIS seemed to have struck such a nerve.

TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2
.@marklevinshow Have you taken any advertising $$ from SRCP Media?
1:39 AM - 26 Jan 2016

But wait, it gets better….
Eric Lycan’s “Stand for Truth” Super-PAC is not only Pro-Cruz, it is also Anti-Donald Trump. Producing and paying for airing of negative ads in Iowa against Candidate Donald Trump (examples found here):

The filing above exhibits spending of $150,000 for negative digital ads in opposition to Donald Trump and $15,750.00 in production costs for the same.

And this is NO SMALL SUPER-PAC, they are spending $2,251,345.00 They are putting out a lot of money. More money than would come from small donors etc.

But again, big picture, why would a Mitch McConnell aligned type of DC insider, with strong connections to the U.S. CoC, be spending millions to support Ted Cruz and spend millions against Donald Trump?
These FACTS, not suppositions, FACTS, blow the “outsider Cruz” narrative a bit, no? These FACTS also seem to run exactly opposite of this Ted Cruz presentation of his relationship with Mitch McConnell, no?
Exactly the opposite seems to be going on. A DC PAC pro-Cruz and anti-Trump, has the very distinct odor of yet another Cruz-like quid-pro-quo (TPA maybe).

*Note* The “Stand for Truth” PAC is also spending money against Marco Rubio in Iowa, but that reconciles when you look at the CV of Lycan and note the “internet and on-line gambling” aspect. Rubio is being backed by Sheldon Adelson . Adelson is spending money on anti-Cruz ads; Lycan is just hitting back.
 

thompson

Certa Bonum Certamen
Thanks for posting these! If you click on the link to either of these two good articles you'll find lots of links and very interesting charts/images.
 
Cruz is a professional politician. He takes Super PAC money and these people will want a return on their investment. No thanks ... I'll go with the genius businessman who pays his own way, Trump.
 

thompson

Certa Bonum Certamen
Cruz has been a genuine disappointment to me as a senator. I had pretty high hopes thinking he was different. Wrong!
 

Now-Later

Veteran Member
Cruz is a true politician by switching from one side to the other and then going to the side that buttered his bread
 
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