"My approach is to smother them with love," has never sounded more like a serial killer's confession. pic.twitter.com/7hSwZxaRqd
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) December 10, 2015
Per the NYTimes, “Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump’s ‘Judgment’ to Be President”…
… [I]nside a conference room Wednesday in a Madison Avenue office, with about 70 people pressed around a table, Mr. Cruz gave his assessment of the race, lumping Mr. Trump with another candidate whose supporters the Texas senator hopes to poach, Ben Carson.
“Both of them I like and respect,” said Mr. Cruz, according to an audio recording of his comments provided by one attendee. “I don’t believe either one of them is going to be our president.”…
On the audio, after he described the “challenging question” facing Mr. Trump and Mr. Carson, Mr. Cruz went on to explain: “So my approach, much to the frustration of the media, has been to bear hug both of them, and smother them with love.”
He added: “People run as who they are. I believe gravity will bring both of those campaigns down” and “the lion’s share of their supporters come to us.”…
Mr. Cruz, questioned about the remarks on Thursday after a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, said he was “not going to comment on what I may or may not have said at a private fund-raiser.”…
oh damn, @maggieNYT and co. got their hands of AUDIO of Cruz’s Trump comments: https://t.co/iO6xLdVQS1
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) December 10, 2015
In a decent world, that audio clip would be the 2016 version of Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” fundraiser speech, if only because listening to Ted Cruz for even five minutes is an ordeal, and not just because of his revolting politics.
Trump now has his pretext for his preferred counter-attack: Ted not being nice
https://t.co/hd95VzodiS
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) December 10, 2015
Unless, apparently, one is a Talibangelical hustler drafting on Rep. Steve ‘Pig Muck” King’s slice of the electorate:
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