Cruz may not win the presidency, but he'll surely win the dirtiest campaign in modern history award. pic.twitter.com/dJnuqGifWJ
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) February 22, 2016
… Low-rent ratfvcking and Talibangelical Bible-humping. I first saw the story in the Washington Post last night:
… The 21-second video offered an exchange unthinkable for a candidate trying to court evangelical voters as he seeks to consolidate support among the Republican establishment: Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) dismissing the Bible.
In the video, Rubio confidently strolls into a hotel lobby past Rafael Cruz — the father of rival Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) — and a man identified as a Cruz staffer reading a book. But not just any book: the Good one…
But it was soon revealed that the video was incorrectly subtitled. The actual exchange:
Rubio: “Got a good book there,” Rubio said to the staffer.
Staffer: “Yes, sir.”
Rubio: “All the answers are in there. Especially in that one.”…
"Even if it was true, we are not going to question the faith of another candidate," Cruz told reporters re: the Rubio story.
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) February 22, 2016
Full details at the link, including video and the original source for same — a pro-Cruz college newspaper. (So at least the original ‘reporters’ have the excuse of being too young to know any better.)
If we’re going to talk about the Media Village Idiots’ all-important “Narratives”, the one coalescing around #Failgunner Ted is, shall we say, unflattering to the aura of a Christian Conservative…
Just in — @marcorubio campaign responds to @tedcruz asking for Rick Tyler's resignation: pic.twitter.com/GVGidNBSmE
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) February 22, 2016
Good news for You-Know-Who, of course…
The reason that Ted Cruz lost the Evangelicals in S.C. is because he is a world class LIAR, and Evangelicals do not like liars!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016
And popcorn futures! Munch, munch…
have we tried turning this election off and on again
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 22, 2016
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