Posted on 07/31/2015 11:08:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Tea Partyer was secretly recorded bashing Romney as the worst GOP presidential candidate on Earth.
When Tea Party firebrand and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz lashed out Mitt Romney yesterday for daring to condemn his over-the-top charge that the Obama administration had become the world’s leading state sponsor of terror by negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation deal with Iran, it was hardly the first time the Texas senator has attacked his party’s 2012 presidential nominee.
According to a new report in the National Journal, during a private speech back in May to the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of top conservative donors and activists whose executive director once boasted “we control everything in the world,” Cruz blasted the former governor of Massachusetts as the least qualified person on Earth to challenge President Obama’s re-election bid in 2012, citing Romney’s own support the so-called blueprint of the president’s signature health insurance law, Obamacare:
The Republican Party, in its infinite wisdom, sought out and found the one human being on the face of the planet who had designed and implemented a program just like Obamacare. Literally—there are 7 billion people on Earth. You could have grabbed any other person and asked them, ‘Excuse me, sir, have you designed and implemented Obamacare? No? You’re a better candidate!’
During an appearance on a conservative Texas radio program yesterday, Cruz argued that Romney “got clobbered” by Obama during the election because he was too afraid to stand up to Obama during the debates to challenge him on the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, choosing instead to “just kind of rearrange the pencil on the podium.”
Romney invited the scorn of Cruz this latest time because he had the temerity to post a tweet condoning Cruz’s rhetoric in opposition to the Iran deal, charging that such language actually “hurts the cause”:
Mitt Romney
@MittRomney
I am opposed to the Iran deal, but @SenTedCruz is
way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge.
Hurts the cause.
But as the National Journal notes, earlier this year, Cruz blasted a potential Romney in run in 2016 as a recipe for a guaranteed loss, arguing that only a principled conservative rather than what he described as a representative of the “mushy middle” could overtake the White House. Cruz is currently polling eight nationally in the race to become the Republican presidential nominee.
I should be upset with Ted Cruz for telling the truth??!?
The results of Romney’s milquetoast campaign speak for themselves!
“. . . bashing Romney as the worst GOP presidential candidate on Earth.”
Was Ted Cruz wrong? No!
Oldplayer
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I hope so! It should be worth a few more points in the polls for Cruz.
Oh goodie, another sewage post from Salon.
I think I’d wait about a year before I start criticizing long-term posters and their threads. But that’s just me.
Salon is scared to death of Ted Cruz. Seems like they come out with a new piece every other day.
The other thing that bothered me about Romney’s running, is that Mormonism has an exceedingly racist history; what a terrible candidate to run against the first black president. I know that most white people are not aware of this, but certainly black people are. A mormon is the last candidate we should have run against obama, it certainly did nothing positive to improve black people’s perception of the republican party.
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