Marco Rubio's staffers seem to understand that this race is
likely to boil down to a race between their employer and Ted Cruz, the senator
from Texas. As a result, they apparently feel the need to smear their guy's
main rival.
They do that by spreading a video in which Ted Cruz appears
to support amnesty -- at least in some cases and for some people.
Shocking, right? Ted Cruz attacks Rubio for being a
pro-amnesty guy, but he shared that opinion only a few years ago! Oh no, what a
liar! What a hack!
There's just one minor problem: as former Cruz staffer
Amanda Carpenter explains, Ted didn't actually support amnesty. He only put
this amendment forward in order to show to voters that the Gang of 8 wasn't
telling the truth about whether or not their amnesty plans would eventually
result in a path to citizenship for illegal aliens:
In 2013 Cruz offered Amendment 1322 to S.744. The amendment
specifically prevents legal status.
In other words, Rubio's staffers are using a trick Cruz used to expose their boss' secret plans to give illegal aliens a path of citizenship against him. They're turning it upside down, inside out, and deceiving conservatives in order to destroy a candidate who is and has always been against amnesty.
This is how the Rubio folks roll: it could've come straight out of Karl Rove's playbook. I guess that proves that Rubio did indeed learn a lot from Jeb Bush; more than he's willing to admit.
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