Another plot by the Elite Republicans:

Doesn’t it seem strange that Cruz is picking a fight with Trump before the next state election?  From a woman’s stand point, this whole debacle is an Elite Republican plot to make Trump look bad.  Before the Utah vote:

Step 1 – The Plot:

This is LIZ MAIR who made a smear ad on Trump Using a photo of his wife.Why not use a pic of her for a little ad? pic.twitter.com/kNJb464cFm

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this makes no sense. R2R was a Bush production. Make America Awesome is Liz Mair, who has no connection to Cruz. twitter.com/Ed_Realist/…

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Looks like we have a rat in the trap.  Could the Bush mafia have anything to do with this?

Was Mair working for Romney  (and has a PAC ) released an ad using Trump’s wife?  This was done to cause a feud and when Trump responded Cruz would declare like he did in Iowa with the Ben Carson debacle “I didn’t know anything about it.”  Cruz will pull this same stunt in Wisconsin.

About Liz Mair

Liz Mair is a communications expert, new media adviser, political consultant and blogger, who writes principally about politics, with additional commentary on sports, travel and other assorted topics.

A libertarian Republican and Arsenal FC fan, Liz served as Online Communications Director at the Republican National Committee during 2008, where she led an aggressive and groundbreaking online media outreach effort aimed at electing John McCain, Sarah Palin and Republicans across the country. During the 2010 cycle, she advised Carly Fiorina on online communications. She also consulted for Gov. Rick Perry during his presidential run.

Liz was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and lived in the United Kingdom for ten years. There, she earned an MA in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews and attended law school, ultimately practicing corporate law in the City of London for three years. Liz also holds a certificate in Political and Social Sciences from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

.Following is a letter from a Mormon women about the ad.

I, a Mormon Woman, Hate this Anti-Trump Ad Made for Mormon Women – a Cruz supporter, but I get it. To trump the Trump you have to make the math work.

So what are the powers that be in the Grand Ole Party doing to get us Mormons to rally around Cruz? Appealing to us ideologically? Pragmatically? Spiritually? (Okay. Actually, Glenn Beck *might* be trying to get the corner on that last one. Bless his heart.) Maybe. I mean, it’s possible that’s happening. But it’s hard to hear any of that very relative sanity over the roar of crazy coming from the latest attempt to reach the Mormon voters.

Make America Awesome started a Facebook campaign directly marketed to LDS Facebook users. Created under the direction of Liz “has Mormon family members” Mair, a few of the ads are exactly what you’d expect including the inevitable Romney shout out. (Who is going to tell all these political strategists that Mormons had political convictions before Mitt? Should I hold a press conference about it? Would it get media coverage if I invited Mitt to come up on stage with me? Wait.) Mostly, they seem like poorly written memes with emotional calls to action. You know, political business as usual. There is, however, one image that stands out from the solemn Mitts and smiling pro-life babies.

Enter the Melania anti-Trump ad.

Per Mckay Poppin’s Buzzfeed piece on the ads, “Mair said [the Melania ad] is being promoted on Instagram as well, but only to LDS women.”

Ah, an old naked photo of a candidate’s wife! How did Liz Mair know what to get us? But seriously. Why is she showing us this? According to Mair, “the Cruz campaign has turned the evangelical outreach into something of a fine art. We’re not so sure he has LDS outreach locked down, though and this this is an area where we have a little bit of experience…”

Hey Liz!

You know who has a little bit of experience with the Mormon Utah Woman? Me! I was one for a full decade! I hate to blow up the focus group testing you did with your Mormon family members but, pardon my french here, this kind of shit does not play with my kind.

We’ve got plenty of issues as a faith tradition when it comes to women and their roles. My time in Provo, Utah was not without conflict and I can’t say prevailing Utah culture and I agree on everything. But, and here’s the Mormon God Has a Literal Body truth, there is not one woman out of the hundreds I got to know during my sojourn in Utah that would look at your Melania ad and think,

“You know, this picture of Melania has changed everything! I was thinking about going Kasich but the thought of Melania’s perfectly pert ass in the White House is just the last straw. This cannot stand! VOTE! CRUZ!”

You know what a Mormons like me will think?

They’ll think you think slut-shaming motivates them. They’ll think it motivates you, too. They’ll think the GOP is happy to embrace misogyny if it means a win for “right” guy. They’ll think you think Mormon women aren’t smart enough to understand the nuances of delegate math, policy positions or even basic political processes.

They’ll think you think the only way to appeal to religious women is by manipulating visceral reactions. They’ll think you think context doesn’t matter. (Is the implication that Melania is going to perform all her First Lady duties naked on a bed sheet?) They’ll think the GOP believes converting the self-righteous is more important than actually being good.

They’ll think you’re only against the commodification of women if she’s your woman. And Melania, you’ve made clear, is not one of your women. (You’re using a woman’s body to sell your cause…you get that, right?) They’ll think you think women who are overtly sexual are somehow threatening. They’ll think you think Melania is just another one of Donald’s bad attributes, not a flesh and blood person who belongs to herself. They’ll think you think it’s alright to shame a woman for her body as long as she sleeps next to a man you don’t like.

At least Trump is honest about his misogyny. You? You’re a woman trying to convert women to your man by tearing down another woman. I can’t decide whether that’s masochism, sadism or a hearty serving of both. Those Utah Mormon women I spent a decade communing with and clashing against? They’re going to think think you aren’t really any better than the guy you’re asking them to help you defeat.

And you know what?

I think they might be right.

Follow Meg Conley on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/_megconley

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Step 2 – The Cruz Rant

Now Cruz’s latest rant and the next part of the Elite Republican plot:

As tensions escalate, Cruz calls Trump a ‘sniveling coward’

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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz, speaks to a crowd of employees at Dane Manufacturing, a small metal fabrication company in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin March 24, 2016. Cruz will be campaigning around the state in advance of the Wisconsin Presidential primary to be held on April 5.

The feud between Republican presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz over their spouses heated up on Thursday, with Cruz calling the party front-runner “a sniveling coward” for threatening his wife on Twitter.

The U.S. senator from Texas also sharpened his attacks on Trump’s conservative credentials, linking the brash billionaire to disgraced New York politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner.

Cruz continued bashing Trump for making Cruz’s wife, Heidi, a target of social-media barbs.

“I have to say, seeing him go deeper and deeper into the gutter, it’s not easy to tick me off,” Cruz said at a news conference while campaigning in Dane, Wisconsin. “But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, it’ll do it every time.

“Donald, you’re a sniveling coward,” Cruz said. “Leave Heidi the hell alone.”

Cruz’s remarks were the latest burst of hostility between the two camps, which earlier this week erupted into full view when Trump accused Cruz of posting a nude photo of Melania Trump on Twitter. Trump responded by threatening to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife, Heidi.

Cruz denied having anything to do with the image, which was part of an attack by an anti-Trump Super PAC, Make America Awesome.

“Donald, real men don’t attack women. Your wife is lovely, and Heidi is the love of my life,” Cruz said in a post on Twitter earlier on Thursday.

Cruz’s tweet followed one moments earlier by Trump in which he retweeted an image featuring a less-than-flattering picture of Heidi Cruz juxtaposed with a glamorous photo of Melania.

The back-and-forth was too much for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a former presidential candidate, who blasted both men in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday.

“Talk about things that people really care about, and knock this crap off because these are serious times, and you’re not behaving like you want to be president of the United States,” he said.

For Cruz, attacking another candidate’s wife may carry some political risk.

(Okay you Elite Republican’s – Cruz’s side kick Romney and Mair pulled the first punch and now you are trying to blame Trump.  Romney is a Mormon and is supposed to be highly religious?  I guess maybe it might be the company he keeps, Glenn Beck.  Or is Beck doing Romney’s dirty work?)

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