2016 Postmortem

Stallion

(6,474 posts) Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:52 AM Oct 2016

Cruz Hoisted on His Own Petard

so delicious that Cruz made the politically disastrous decision to surrender to the "ultimate humiliation" 2 days before the entire Republican Party Deserts Trump. He could have come out of this looking great-but he screwed the hooch

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Cruz Hoisted on His Own Petard (Original Post) Stallion Oct 2016 OP

This may be the most awesome aspect of all this.... Turd Cruz , finally endorsing , then whoops- pkdu Oct 2016 #1

Wouldn't it be cool if Pence quit in disgust? He's an asshole dominionist like Nay Oct 2016 #11

So who leaked this thing? Billy Bush, a bit of revenge for the way cousin Jeb was treated? nt MADem Oct 2016 #2

No billy bush didn't.. he's in deep shit himself over this.. here's the story.. Cha Oct 2016 #4

It was someone INSIDE the network..... MADem Oct 2016 #8

Great! I didn't even think of this aspect of it. Well, I never think about Cruz if I can help it :p LeftRant Oct 2016 #3

cruz jumped the gun.. he can go suck on his $24 Billion cat in the hat story.. Cha Oct 2016 #5

KnR Hekate Oct 2016 #6

Thinking someone has buyer's remorse right about now... LAGC Oct 2016 #7

If he hadn't endorsed... Croney Oct 2016 #9

What's intereseting with Cruz is that he wavered for so long. Something told Nay Oct 2016 #12

Turds seem to gravitate to other turds BSdetect Oct 2016 #10

pkdu

(3,977 posts)

1. This may be the most awesome aspect of all this.... Turd Cruz , finally endorsing , then whoops-

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:56 AM

Oct 2016

shit...I did what?

Pence too -, how doe he address this in context of 2020 run ( he WILL be asked NOW now in 4 years)

Nay

(12,051 posts)

11. Wouldn't it be cool if Pence quit in disgust? He's an asshole dominionist like

Reply to pkdu (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 08:02 AM

Oct 2016

the rest of those crazies, but he could actually earn some cred for 2020 if he quit.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. So who leaked this thing? Billy Bush, a bit of revenge for the way cousin Jeb was treated? nt

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:57 AM

Oct 2016

Cha

(297,249 posts)

4. No billy bush didn't.. he's in deep shit himself over this.. here's the story..

Reply to MADem (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:11 AM

Oct 2016

How the shocking hot mic tape of Donald Trump was exposed

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/07/media/access-hollywood-donald-trump-tape/index.html

MADem

(135,425 posts)

8. It was someone INSIDE the network.....

Reply to Cha (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 04:00 AM

Oct 2016

And that person is still anonymous....

Fahrenthold, who has been reporting for months on Trump's charitable donations and the Trump Foundation, was contacted around 11 a.m. on Friday by a source who told him about the footage, according to a Post story about how he got this scoop.
Fahrenthold asked NBC for comment about the tape around noon Eastern time. The producers at "Access," which is based in California, were blindsided by Fahrenthold's call.
According to the Post, Farenthold knows the identity of the person who leaked the video to him, but will not disclose it.
Sources at NBC believe someone inside NBC downloaded the footage from one of the network's video servers. The tape was accessible internally since the "Access" story was already in the works.

Jeb Bush may not have a lot of buddies in media, but George W. Bush does, and so does GHW Bush--especially at NBC....

LeftRant

(524 posts)

3. Great! I didn't even think of this aspect of it. Well, I never think about Cruz if I can help it :p

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:00 AM

Oct 2016

Cha

(297,249 posts)

5. cruz jumped the gun.. he can go suck on his $24 Billion cat in the hat story..

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:15 AM

Oct 2016

Slate
✔ ?@Slate
Watch a souless, broken Ted Cruz volunteer for Trump without saying Trump's name: http://slate.me/2e6l5bo
9:09 AM - 6 Oct 2016
90 90 Retweets 103 103 likes

https://theobamadiary.com/2016/10/06/chat-away-the-debate-edition/#comments

The Schadenfreude is strong with that one

Hekate

(90,698 posts)

6. KnR

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:24 AM

Oct 2016

LAGC

(5,330 posts)

7. Thinking someone has buyer's remorse right about now...

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:47 AM

Oct 2016

Sorry defeaTED. You own him. You own it.

You'll still own it in 2020 when you try to run for POTUS again.

Sleep with the dogs...

Croney

(4,661 posts)

9. If he hadn't endorsed...

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:48 AM

Oct 2016

he could be piously bleating out a shitload of I-told-you-so's. It's sweet.

Nay

(12,051 posts)

12. What's intereseting with Cruz is that he wavered for so long. Something told

Reply to Croney (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 08:09 AM

Oct 2016

him he should not endorse Trump no matter what, but his political ambitions overrode his common sense, if it was common sense that kept him from endorsing. He has ended up jumping in the wrong direction at exactly the wrong time. It's probably going to explode his political career. Maybe he can immediately renounce and retract his endorsement and save himself, but I doubt it.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)

10. Turds seem to gravitate to other turds

Reply to Stallion (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 08:01 AM

Oct 2016

Must be some attraction

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