Ted Cruz has had to pull a super clever ad hitting Marco Rubio because—oops—it turns out that one of the actors has done softcore porn and that is just not on the Ted Cruz message.
“The actress responded to an open casting call. She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the production company. Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad,” [Cruz spokesman Rick] Tyler said.
Prior to the Cruz campaign pulling the ad, [actress Amy] Lindsay told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview on Thursday that she’s a Christian conservative and a Republican. While she emphasized that she did not do hardcore porn and that she also appeared in non-erotic films, Lindsay said she thinks it is “cool” that an actor who has appeared in softcore porn could also appear in Cruz’s ad.
“In a cool way, then hey, then it’s not just some old, white Christian bigot that people want to say, ‘It could be, maybe, a cool kind of open-minded woman like me,’” she said of people supporting Cruz.
Think again! Cool kind of open-minded women like you not so welcome, apparently.
The ad “was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration.” Can you even suppress your admiring laughter at that concept? Another Cruz ad, which has yet to be pulled, is a more traditional attack against Donald Trump, hitting him on his past use of eminent domain to get a widow’s house for a limousine parking lot. Jeb! Bush raised that incident in the last Republican debate, so apparently eminent domain is going to be a key campaign issue.