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.”
He’s the most white trash politician around.
1.Posing with thugs. check.
2. Posing in Boxing Gloves. check
3. Ethnic heritage type BS justifying IRA. check.
4. Appeals to segment of Long Island White Trash check.
This idiot who said he would jump off a bridge if Cruz won the nomination talks about others being the lowest common denominator when it’s obvious that he holds that title,
I’m number 1? Yes!!!
I hope he chokes the first time he has to say.. President Cruz!!!
Ted Cruz should challenge him to a toe to toe debate.
Subject: Who is the bottom? Or, what is worse a RINO, or a Constitutional conservative? Or, who is the biggest dickhead?
Send a bullet by mail and tell him to save the body recovery expenses by offing himself at the city dump.
i'm sick of GOP establishment types pulling this sort of crap against other republicans (especially conservatives) during election cycles.
do you ever see the democRATS doing stuff like this to each other? no, of course not.
the GOP establishment knows full well that quotes like these will be picked up and run with by the drive by media for days or weeks, and yet they do it anyway. it's sickening. the GOP needs to be purged. there was a time in the 80's when i thought that Reagan's popularity and success had taught the GOP establishment the error of their ways. that hope died when G.H.W. Bush muttered those infamous words, "read my lips, no new taxes".
it's hard to justify to myself why i'm still a registered republican. they haven't fielded a presidential candidate that represented my views for more than 30 years now (since 1984).
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
Loud-mouthed RINO from Long Island, NY who has outlived his political expiry date by about 1,000 years.
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AMEN!!!!
““I mean, to actually waste 23 hours — I don’t know how many hours his filibuster was on the House floor, about drones””
I know we all lose track of stuff considering what we have to put up with on a daily basis from these pukes in Congress but when did a Senator take to the House floor to filibuster??
What do you have against Dicks?
That’s just so Republican of him.
Oh that’s Rich.
Thanks Fightey Whitey.
Girliemen rinos like this Peter King feel the storm building, and know it’s going to rip their roofs off and expose them. This guy is feeling fear, and only knows to do what he’s now doing.
Just today I saw and heard him praise Hillary's foreign policy positions.
Not kidding.
You got it bud.
Them that disagrees just don’t know Dick.
lol
LOL.
This fellow just tipped his had that he is another progressive with and “R” next to his name.
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