Posted on 05/20/2015 2:35:58 PM PDT by VinL
Rep. Peter King says Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are in a “race to the bottom” of the Republican field. King, the Long island Republican who said he’ll decided whether to run for president in “next month or so” said the pair appeal to the “lowest common denominator.”
“I’d say it’s a race to the bottom between Ted Cruz and Rand Paul,” said King, asked who the worst Republican candidate was, adding that he judged them on “their policies, and also how they’d do in the general election.”
“They both appeal to the lowest common denominator,” he said.
King said he was bothered most by Paul’s foreign policy.
“Starting with Rand Paul, I would say that — well, you asked me the thing that bothers me the most — I would say that he has this ‘blame America’ foreign policy, talking about America being an imperial power,” said King.
King called the Kentucky senator’s filibuster a waste of time.
“I mean, to actually waste 23 hours — I don’t know how many hours his filibuster was on the House floor, about drones — I mean, he’s really worried about CIA killing an American drinking coffee at Starbucks? You know, the enemy is al-Qaeda, and that to me is just creating unnecessary fears in people, and such a distortion.”
“For him to say that Gen. Clapper belongs in jail, with Snowden, and to be saying anything good about Snowden at all — here’s a guy who has put so many American lives at risk. And basically, I would say it’s this moral equivalency he shows between the CIA and the NSA on the one hand, and the enemies of America on the other hand — to me, this is a Charles Lindbergh isolationism of the 1930s.”
Turning to Cruz, Peter King said he was bothered most by Cruz’s “irresponsibility” relating to the 2013 government shutdown.
“As for Ted Cruz, I would say it’s the irresponsibility, going back to when he brought about the government shutdown in 2013, on the funding of Obamacare,” said King. “Somehow he got people in the House to go along with that, then when it came to the Senate he admitted he had no answer to it. So you have the government shut down, there was no way out of it other than to re-open the government, at a loss of revenue to the government.”
King added he “no idea” why House Republicans listened to Cruz on shutting down the government.
“People at a — again, causing Republicans, from a political perspective, our numbers dropped so dramatically during that time. And it was all because of him, with this totally false narrative of his that if the House just shut down the government over Obamacare, he’d be able to take care of it in the Senate. And why people listened to him, why they followed him over the cliff, I have no idea.”
Peter King is “the lowest common denominator.” He is POS RINO.
Peter King is from New York. Steve King, who is a conservative, is from Iowa.
NE RINO who won’t get a vote below the Mason Dixon line
” Peter King is “the lowest common denominator.” He is POS RINO.”
I have always despised this whore.
Another elitist. I’m glad he thinks I’m such a low-life.
Uh, yeah I know that. I’m saying if Peter runs for president he would be lucky to get two votes in Iowa.
Pete needs to stay in Noo Yawk where he can pass for normal.
King needs a Cluebat if he thinks SENATOR Rand Paul filibustered ANYTHING on the HOUSE floor.
Buzzfeed wrote this? Lol!
Don’t they have some more videos making fat girls think they are sexy to produce to be wasting time on stuff they know nothing about?
Ok, so holding the government to its Constitutional constraints is “the lowest common denominator”. Right.
Pete King is a DC establishment mouth piece and like the rest of his kind in DC needs to be removed from office. We the people are in dire need of a legal mechanism to rid ourselves of these scoundrels without having to wait for the next election cycle. They do not serve the people and they are the reason this country is in decline and therefore should be removed yesterday.
How can he be so right on Rand Paul, and so wrong on Ted Cruz? Criticizing Paul’s foreign policy is not the correct statement to make if he wants to be one of Queen Clinton’s royal advisers.
and utterly unaware of his status as an enraged blind bull
the word putz comes to mind.
If NY is one of the States where you can’t ‘dual run’; I’d even send him $25.
Why does anyone pay attention to King?
A RINO thug who showed his true colors during the Clinton impeachment, but who continued to enjoy the blind support of gullible conservatives for the next decade because he went on nightly talk shows and beat his chest about how pro-life and anti-Muslim he was.
Next question.
Support for the IRA
King began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), many of whom he counted as friends.
King became involved with NORAID, an organization that the British, Irish and U.S. governments had accused of financing IRA activities and providing them with weapons. Regarding the 30 years of violence during which the IRA killed over 1,700 people, mainly combatants, including Lord Mountbatten, Lord Kaberry, Sir Anthony Berry MP and over 500 civilians, King said, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it."
He's a real piece of work!
Peter King is a Dick.
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