Meet Ted Cruz's Karl Rove: "He Leaves a Path of Destruction"

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It was no surprise on Monday when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) formally announced his presidential bid. By last summer, he was making key hires for his campaign crew. And this included recruiting a controversial Missouri-based political operative named Jeff Roe, who is known for his ruthless, bare-knuckled style and who has recently been in the news due to a tragic death.

Following the apparent suicide last month of Missouri state auditor Tom Schweich, who was a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Republican legislators and party elders in the state denounced the toxic culture within the state GOP and pointed to it as a cause of Schweich's death. And some cited Roe as a prime purveyor of the political hardball and scorched-earth tactics that have transformed many Missouri elections into mud-drenched campaigns of personal destruction. There's no evidence linking Roe to the anti-Semitic "whisper campaign" that seems to have deeply troubled Schweich in the days prior to his death. But Roe's merciless style has been legend in Missouri for over a decade. And now he is poised to practice his brand of political blood sport against Cruz's 2016 rivals."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/meet-ted-cruz-karl-rove-jeff-roe

[villager]

1. May their primary attacks on each other be all-out, relentless, and career-destroying!

Full speed ahead, Clown Car!

(By which I mean, the scary kinds of clowns, from horror films)

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2. This asshole used to make obscene phone calls to my house.

I went college with this asehole.
This asshole is an alumni of the same fraternity as I am.

He and Ted Cruz should be a pair of assholes.

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3. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/christian_nation_A.jpg

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4. https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg

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5. http://jeffsharlet.com/images/jeff_sharlet_07.png

"THE FAMILY - THE SECRET FUNDAMENTALISM AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN POWER"

[MaxRobes]

6. Meet his three foreign policy advisors per Josh Rogin and Josh Marshall

Here are the links: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-23/ted-cruz-tea-party-hawk

Link: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-cruz-troika

Here are a few paragraphs:

First is Elliot Abrams, a respected neoconservative foreign policy hand. His view may not be your cup of tea; they're not mine. He is a good exemplar of the first term Bush foreign policy. There's the Iran-Contra stuff thirty years ago. But he's no crazy person. Alas, he heads up what you would have to call the moderate-Realist wing of the Cruz foreign policy troika.

After Abrams, respected neoconservative, you have John Bolton, who might be charitably called a clownish warmonger. He now spends the time he's not on Fox News sending crazy emails to raise money for his PAC, John Bolton PAC. (Yes, I get them.)

After the respected neoconservative and the clownish warmonger you have a guy who might simply be certifiable: former CIA Director James Woolsey, perhaps the champion at being the biggest purveyor crap in the lead up to the Iraq War, which is saying something because the competition is intense. He may be the only former high level official still holding on to Saddam Hussein being the mastermind of 9/11.

[area51]

7. If he's Canadian Cruz's Karl Rove,

does that mean he's a deeply closeted gay may who's in love with Cruz?

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8. Kick for visibility