Ted Cruz: Renegade Outsider?

By Chris Rossini

If there are two words that sum up every presidential election, they are "false advertising". Presidential campaigns are largely a contest composed of lies, lies, and even more lies.

Let's single out Ted Cruz for a moment. He's constantly portrayed as some kind of renegade outsider, or a real non-establishment maverick. But nothing could be further from the truth. Cruz is about as establishment as they come. Glenn Beck's messianic theatrics hold no water.

Cruz is intertwined with the neocons and Bush family. 

When Bill Kristol says: “I think at the end of the day a Ted Cruz administration would follow a foreign policy that I would be pretty happy with,” you know you're not dealing with anything even remotely close to an "outsider". 

It doesn't stop with Kristol either. Cruz's campaign manager is Chad Sweet. Infowars tells us about Sweet:

[Sweet] co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Sweet, as a leader of the Chertoff Group, “advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection,” according to his bio on the risk-management and security consulting company’s webpage.

“Mr. Sweet formerly served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to becoming Chief of Staff of DHS, Mr. Sweet worked as an investment banker at the firms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as well as served in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service,” the bio continues.

That's just Cruz's campaign manager!

Infowars continues:

Cruz’s foreign policy advisor is the notorious neocon James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA during the Clinton administration. Woolsey is connected to the now largely defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think tank with an agenda formulated by top neocons William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC was at the forefront of the Bush administration push to invade Iraq. He is a former vice president of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and an advocate of the neocon hardline on Iran.

Ted’s foreign policy team includes Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, a trailblazing neoconservative ideologue. Abrams was a key adviser on Mideast policy at the National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush presidency and also a staunch advocate of the Iraq invasion, the hardline on Iran and military strikes against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Are you getting an "outsider" feel from this?

Still not convinced?

Here's Roger Stone on Ted Cruz's extensive ties to the Bush family:

The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for president. A top policy adviser, Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission.

Ted’s a Bush man with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and wife Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq.

​Heidi then went to the Bush U.S. Trade Representative as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, who wired Heidi’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and job at Goldman Sachs. The bailed-out bank [Goldman Sachs] then loaned Cruz $1 million secretly to finance his Senate race. Cruz would also borrow an undisclosed $1 million loan from Citicorp.

Elections are something else aren't they? And the U.S. government has (for decades) been trying to militarily force this "system" of ours down other countries' throats.

Lies, lies, and even more lies.

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