FuzzyLumpkins
02-29-2016, 05:38 PM
Ted Cruz likes to say “personnel is policy,” but the single most important personnel decision he’s made on the 2016 presidential campaign has become his most controversial.
Cruz has carefully built his brand on trustworthiness — he stands almost daily in front of signs that read “TrusTED” — but in selecting his campaign manager, Cruz tapped a take-no-prisoners operative well practiced in political dark arts.
Those who have crossed Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, say things like he’s “mean” and a “master of sleazy politics.” He’s also an indisputably talented tactician who has guided Cruz from an asterisk early in the race to one of its finalists. But his calling card has long been win-at-all-costs campaigning.
And now those accusations are ricocheting against Cruz.
As Cruz enters Super Tuesday — “the most important day of this entire primary election,” Cruz said Sunday, when a slate of Southern states long seen as the linchpin to his nomination will vote — his opponents have successfully raised questions about Cruz’s own ethics and honesty, repeatedly calling him a “liar” and accusing him of “dirty tricks.” Along the way, Cruz has lost his base, evangelical Christians, to Donald Trump in three straight states.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-tricks-jeff-roe-219945#ixzz41bDJGEQP
Cruz has carefully built his brand on trustworthiness — he stands almost daily in front of signs that read “TrusTED” — but in selecting his campaign manager, Cruz tapped a take-no-prisoners operative well practiced in political dark arts.
Those who have crossed Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, say things like he’s “mean” and a “master of sleazy politics.” He’s also an indisputably talented tactician who has guided Cruz from an asterisk early in the race to one of its finalists. But his calling card has long been win-at-all-costs campaigning.
And now those accusations are ricocheting against Cruz.
As Cruz enters Super Tuesday — “the most important day of this entire primary election,” Cruz said Sunday, when a slate of Southern states long seen as the linchpin to his nomination will vote — his opponents have successfully raised questions about Cruz’s own ethics and honesty, repeatedly calling him a “liar” and accusing him of “dirty tricks.” Along the way, Cruz has lost his base, evangelical Christians, to Donald Trump in three straight states.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-tricks-jeff-roe-219945#ixzz41bDJGEQP