Ted Cruz

[Dawn Meredith]

JVB doesn't believe the Harvey & Lee theory.

Who cares what she "believes". Now she suddenly "remembers" Cruz daddy? Right. Sure. She just makes it up as she goes along. Even her kids do not believe her and are estranged from her due to her delusions. She is really pathetic.
I actually believed her a very long time ago.

Dawn

[Albert Doyle]

Well, OBlazney said her publisher used Harvey and Lee to cover-up her mistakes. I don't think that's true since JVB doesn't believe in the theory.

Yeah, but she presented tax form documents. Only, in her typical way, she didn't make a coherent argument to show what she was actually trying to show by presenting those documents.

I give Pam Brown credit because she raised a good point. The unique form Baker showed for Reily might be due to living in another state that had no state income tax. Therefore the blacking-out with dots of the state income tax field. And maybe the explanation for the weird W-2.


I think the ears are different between the man seen handing out fliers with Oswald and Cruz's father. Baker said "ears grow over time" (you've got to be kidding JVB!)

[Jim DiEugenio]

CTKA chimes in on the whole sideshow of Rafi Cruz:

http://www.ctka.net/2016/jfk-assassinati...ction.html

The stupidity and arrogance of the MSM knows no bounds does it?

Roger Stone has played them like a piano.

[Albert Doyle]

Too bad the name of the man in the leaflet photo can't be found out.

[Magda Hassan]

Baker said "ears grow over time" (you've got to be kidding JVB!)

They do. So does the nose. It is because they are largely made from elastic cartilage which continues to grow over the years. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/...-as-we-age

[Albert Doyle]

Not to the degree you see in the photo. They might grow, but outward while maintaining the same shape.


I'm pretty sure the man in the leaflet photo has different shaped ears, grown out or not.


Too bad someone who was there couldn't tell us who that was.


If you look closely Cruz's father's ears extend well above his eyes. The man in the leaflet photo has rounder ears that stop below the eyes.

[Drew Phipps]

My local paper ran a story from Politifact on this issue. In addition to the rather flimsy character of the evidence, they also cite that, by the summer of 63, Rafi Cruz was anti-Castro, (he originally started out anti-Batista) having visited Cuba on a summer break from the University of Texas and being shocked (in a bad way) about the changes there after Castro came to power. Cruz was not a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (no duh!) They say there's no evidence that Cruz participated in pro-Castro activities, seeing as how his name has never surfaced in serious JFK research, I'd be willing to bet that there isn't any evidence that he participated in anti-Castro activities either.


However, I'd like to suggest that Oswald associated with many anti-Castro types (Ferrie and Bringuier spring immediately to mind), that Oswald was evidently deliberately building a pro-Castro rep for himself, for whatever purpose (and if his professed purpose was sufficiently anti-Castro) he might have enlisted real anti-Castro types to assist him. To me, Oswald seemed to reflect whatever set of political beliefs he thought suited his needs at the moment (for instance, he claimed to have "studied socialist literature" since his early teens, but when he got to Russia he told people he had "never read Lenin and Marx".


I cannot see how Stone or Trump would think that slamming Cruz' dad in this way could possibly hurt Cruz' campaign or reputation:

A. Nobody really believed it.
B. Cruz' campaign had already been fatally wounded by that point in the primary contests, and even the Hail Mary pass of preselecting Fiorina as VP could not have defibrillated his chances.
C. Nobody really liked Cruz as a candidate (excepting the Koch Brothers), he was just the last guy left that might have caught up to Trump.
D. The idea that the Republicans are reaping what they have sown, over decades of fear and hate mongering, is both nauseating and blackly ironic.


I would be interested to learn if the activists that have been disrupting Trump rallies are continuing to appear.

[Jim DiEugenio]

This piece of unproven fruitiness did allow Cruz his best moment of the campaign.

He literally unloaded a battleship cannonade on Trump in reaction to this story.

I can't really blame him.

I just wonder if Madsen really surfaced the story or if Roger Stone gave it to him.

[Albert Doyle]

The Washington Post article said Cruz was 5 foot 10. His father appears to be slightly shorter:




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...&tid=ss_fb



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[Peter Lemkin]

Mostrecently Neil Bush has turned up on the Ted Cruz staff. What do youdo with that?
Russ Baker: (Laughs) It's so interesting because a number of members of theBush family were involved in the collapse of various savings andloans, during that particular crisis, Neil Bush key among them. Theseare people who used their links to their father, or their brother,when they were presidents, and who got most of their opportunities tomake money through that. There are other interesting interactions.Neil Bush is friendly with the family of John Hinckley. Hinckley famously shot Ronald Reagan. And, had Ronald Reagan died,the new president would have been Neil Bush's father, George H.W.Bush. Just…
Peter: They were having dinner together that night. Neil…
Russ Baker: The brother of Hinckley and Neil Bush. These are the fascinating oddcoincidences one runs into.