“This is Anonymous. This is an open message to you, Senator Ted Cruz. Your lying during this presidential campaign has gotten out of control. You have committed voter fraud to steal votes that do not belong to you. The fraud you have committed against Mr. Carson will not be tolerated. You thought that you would get away with this but Anonymous will not let this go without repercussions or consequences…
You, Mr. Cruz, have been hiding behind some very dirty secrets that lie beneath the surface, secrets that you believed would never haunt you. But as you should know by now, Mr. Cruz, we are Anonymous. We expose the fraud that seeks to have power over our great country. It’s time that America knows your deep and dirty secrets.
We have done our homework, Mr. Cruz, and since you can’t stop your disgraceful and ridiculous political manipulation, it’s time that we tell America what’s hiding behind the curtain. Have you heard the expression ‘candy wrappers?’ Do you recall visiting prostitutes?
Mr. Cruz, we are now demanding that you exit this race for presidency immediately or Anonymous will launch a campaign to release all of the information that we have found.’
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:10 am
by Gob
"Popcorn!! popcorn!! Get your popcorn here!!"
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:02 am
by Bicycle Bill
Funny — I heard that TRUMP was threatening to expose Cruz as payback for a super-PAC ad supporting Cruz that was slut-shaming Melanie or Melania or Melanoma or whatever his third wife's name is. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -Cruz.html
You know, one would think that the Mormons in Utah would be supportive of a man who had more than one wife. I guess the difference is that he wasn't married to them all at the same time. -"BB"-
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:27 pm
by wesw
is it wrong to want to shoot people who wear guy fawkes masks?
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:27 pm
by Lord Jim
Anonymous has been going after Trump, and frankly that reads like something cooked up by a Trumpanzee, (since it focuses so much on the Carson thing, using the same language Trump himself did about "voter fraud")
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:30 pm
by Crackpot
Wes
Finally something we agree on. Well I'd just like to see then prosecuted. But I see them being just as if not more dangerous as the people they deign to expose.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:35 pm
by wesw
I suspect that we agree on quite a lot, crackpot. we just have to look past our differences.
as it is with big RR, you and I seldom insult each other personally, even when we disagree vehemently. I won t say never, but seldom.
I think we tried it but I suspect that you found it distasteful too.
I find you to be honest in your arguments..., wrong, but honest
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:57 pm
by rubato
I dunno, if all they have is a little infedelio it won't hurt him that much. Conservative crackers love a good redemption from sin story:
As long as the Cruzer likes putting on a little performance set-piece.
yrs,
rubato
Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:11 pm
by RayThom
I won't believe it until I see the vid. Maybe Gawker will expose his dastardly deeds.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:19 pm
by Scooter
It's interesting, this has been out for a few days now, perhaps the Cruz campaign is choosing not to dignify it by responding. But if he could truthfully say, "these guys are talking out of their hats, I've never been with a prostitute in my entire life," I don't see the downside to getting it out there and over with. Unless such a declaration would be in the same league as "I did not have sex with that woman".
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:23 pm
by Sue U
There's an old story about Lyndon Johnson (as I heard it) in one of his early campaigns. He told his campaign manager to spread a rumor that his opponent had been having sex with livestock. The campaign manager said, "But boss, there's absolutely no truth to that." "I know," said Johnson, "I just want to hear him deny it."
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:29 pm
by Lord Jim
"these guys are talking out of their hats, I've never been with a prostitute in my entire life," I don't see the downside to getting it out there and over with.
I sure see the downside...
Why draw media attention to the a charge made by a nameless, faceless group like this when no legitimate media source is covering it? I certainly wouldn't...
A group like this can say anything about anyone. Suppose they were saying they were going to out him as a child molester? It sure as hell wouldn't be in his best interest to come out and say, "I've never had sex with a child in my entire life"
I'm not a Cruz fan, but no politician has an obligation to publicize accusations made against them without one single shred of proof being offered.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:31 pm
by Scooter
Hmm, yeah I guess "I never had sex with a prostitute" is still going to leave some people wondering if he had.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:35 pm
by Scooter
Lord Jim wrote:A group like this can say anything about anyone. Suppose they were saying they were going to out him as a child molester? It sure as hell wouldn't be in his best interest to come out and say, "I've never had sex with a child in my entire life"
I suppose I saw that there was a righteous indignation angle to doing so - being so incredulous that anyone could make such a scurrilous accusation, and then the story becomes which of his rivals was sleazy enough to put it out there.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:43 pm
by Lord Jim
Frankly I'm surprised Trump hasn't tweeted it...
Maybe because he's had his own problems with Anonymous...
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:06 pm
by Scooter
He wouldn't if he is behind it and wants to appear to keep his distance from it.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:11 pm
by Lord Jim
As I said earlier, I think there's a good chance of that...
Or at least that some supporter of his is behind it...
What makes me most suspicious is "Anonymous" referring to that sleazy stunt the Cruz campaign pulled on Carson as "voter fraud"...
That's exactly the (inaccurate) way Trump kept insisting on referring to it...I don't recall anyone but Trump and his devotees ever calling it that...
Awfully coincidental that this "Anonymous" character decides to use the same phrase...
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:45 pm
by Gob
You guys are so morally uptight over there!
Here's a picture of a young George Osborne with a prostitute and some coke.
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:19 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
That does rather ruin the reputation of the nice hooker, don't it just? (Who the hell is George Osborne?)
Re: Could this be real, or just a bluff?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:40 pm
by Gob
Meade!
George Osborne is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2010 and Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001
