{"id":16891,"date":"2013-04-11T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2013-04-11T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:38:06","slug":"liberal-anti-gun-ads-target-ted-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16891","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Anti-Gun Ads Target&#8230;Ted Cruz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>Obama<\/del>Organizing For America is using anti-gun ads to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2013\/04\/obama-group-launches-ads-targeting-lawmakers-on-guns-161139.html?hp=perryvsworld\">target Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some mighty fine political ad targeting you&#8217;ve got going on there, Lou.<\/p>\n<p>The same Ted Cruz that pantsed David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff because Dew wasn&#8217;t conservative enough?<\/p>\n<p>The same Ted Cruz who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=11597\">endorsed by Gun Owners of America<\/a>? (You know, the gun rights group that&#8217;s like the NRA, but not so squishy and eager to compromise.)<\/p>\n<p>The same Ted Cruz who beat his opponent in the general election by 16 points?<\/p>\n<p>The same Ted Cruz whose been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16230\">walking point on Second Amendment Rights<\/a> in the current congress?<\/p>\n<p>The same Ted Cruz who isn&#8217;t up for reelection to the Senate until <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018\">2018<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a use of liberal money that I&#8217;m sure is going to be <i>super-effective<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I hope OFA dumps all their money into ads against Cruz, since it will garner them squat and weaken their ability to place ads elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perryvsworld.com\/item\/1728\">Rick Perry vs. The World<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ObamaOrganizing For America is using anti-gun ads to target Sen. Ted Cruz. That&#8217;s some mighty fine political ad targeting you&#8217;ve got going on there, Lou. The same Ted Cruz that pantsed David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff because Dew wasn&#8217;t conservative enough? The same Ted Cruz who was endorsed by Gun Owners of America? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,38,11,12],"tags":[1900,2864,2868,2860,1901,950,2861],"class_list":["post-16891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-guns","category-media-watch","category-texas","tag-attack-ads","tag-democrats","tag-guns","tag-media-watch","tag-organizing-for-america","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16914,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions\/16914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}