Posted on 12/03/2015 12:28:12 PM PST by Isara
"Why deny it?"
Asked during a presidential forum on Thursday to address critics who point out that he is, like Barack Obama, a first term U.S. senator with no foreign policy experience, Ted Cruz explained that he could do so in two ways.
The rising GOP primary candidate first noted that he finds it odd when reporters bring up his supposed similarity to Obama as though it is a negative.
"When the media asks, 'Gosh, aren't you like Barack Obama?' My reaction to reports is, 'I thought you thought that was a good thing,'" he said. "Last I checked he won two presidential elections."
It was not Obama's resume, Cruz said, that made him a bad commander in chief - it is the fact that he is an "unmitigated socialist."
Watch the video of Ted Cruz answering to the 'gotcha' question.
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.@TedCruz says @POTUS is “an unmitigated socialist who won’t stand up and defend the United States of America.” https://t.co/L6t65voiM9 - CSPAN (@cspan) December 3, 2015 |
The line earned him some social media praise among fellow conservatives.
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Byron York
Cruz at RJC: Obama a 'Chamberlain,' 'unmitigated socialist,' 'apologist for radical Islamic terrorism.' Setting anti-Obama bar high. |
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@ByronYork Get back to me when Cruz says something controversial... - Tom Gregg (@TomG_380) December 3, 2015 |
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@ByronYork what do you call USA POTUS w/unhealthy obsession, crush, fixation for ideology bent on destruction of USA? Why deny it? - Uncle Buck Bailey (@tpb_50cal) December 3, 2015 |
Cruz continued his answer to cover the “broader point” that there is one key characteristic behind the nation’s most transformative presidents. Over the last half century, he said, the “two moments that had the greatest impact on human liberty” were the elections of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
He noted that, though they represented opposite ends of the freedom debate, they “shared one thing in common.” According to Cruz, both Reagan and Obama “believed profoundly in their principles [and] had they courage to fight for them.”
In order to correct the nation’s course, he concluded, “we need to nominate a candidate for president as committed to conservative principles as Barack Obama is to liberal principles.”
Watch the video. Fantastic response.
Ouch: Watch Ted Cruz Perfectly Reveal Who Obama Is With Two Words
A*s Hole?
Liberal “principles”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? More like liberal foolishness.
I can’t wait to see Hillary in prison.
Ted is clearly the smartest man in any room at any time. Love him.
I prefer Cruz to Trump.
Ole Cruz done slicked em again...
LOL! My first thought as well, though I thought it was only one word.
I’d pay good money to see that.
I can reveal who Obama is in one word - TRAITOR!
Or, as Dennis Leary put it, two words.
Nuclear F**king Weapons.
A*****e Traitor works fine.
One thing that Ted Cruz has done as a senator that Obama didn’t do is make himself a household name. When Obama started running for president most of us had never heard of him.
Hillary introduced him at the 2008 Rat Convention.
Correction: it’s not “liberal principles”, it’s “Bolshevik principles”.
The Left only used “liberalism” as a facade/tool to get their otherwise intolerable views accepted/tolerated by the population at large until they achieved a tacit majority support - then pivoted to full-on Bolshevism (socialist majority rule, Constitution & individual rights be d@mned).
Is “Ouch” the new “Boom!”?
Someday he may very well be our president, but not now, although I very much want him to be a major part of a Trump presidency.
LBJ fought hard against Kennedy, as Bush, Sr did against Reagan. Both were later tagged for VP.
Cruz, is by far the most qualified person for VP, in my opinion. I’m sorry, he is not better than Trump for the job.
Trump brings history of having lived in an America before Kennedy was killed. We are a different country now, but only the baby boomers know that first hand.
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