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Chris Christie: ‘I don’t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz’ on GOP Attacks
Dallas Morning News ^ | 7/5/15 | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 07/06/2015 12:44:15 PM PDT by VinL

Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz has no right to tell Republicans to stop attacking each other.

“I find it ironic that Ted Cruz is giving lectures on Republican-on-Republican violence,” said Christie on Fox News. “I mean with all due respect, I don’t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz.”

Christie called Cruz “hypocritical” for saying he refuses to attack Republicans even though he worked with the Senate Conservatives Fund. In the 2014 midterm elections, the political action committee supported primary challengers to incumbent Republicans they deemed to be too moderate.

Christie said he took issue with SCF’s targeting of Tennessee’s Sen. Lamar Alexander, whom he said he admires.

Cruz told his Republican colleagues in 2014 that he wouldn’t participate in SCF’s efforts to kick them out of their seats, according to Politico, and did not get involved in incumbents’ primary races.

The SCF never directly endorsed or raised funds Alexander’s primary opponent, state Rep. Joe Carr, but ran ads in 2013 criticizing his vote in favor of a budget resolution that funded Obamacare, according to The Hill.

“Governor Christie is a good man and we appreciate his taking the time to point out Senator Cruz’s unceasing efforts to help get more conservatives elected to Congress,” said Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier in an email.

Christie’s comments came when he was asked about Donald Trump’s claim that most Mexican immigrants were rapists or drug-smugglers, and Cruz’s defense of Trump’s “bold, brash” way of speaking.

Other Republican presidential candidates, including Christie and former Texas Gov, Rick Perry, condemned Trump’s comments.

Cruz praised Trump for drawing attention to illegal immigration and said he refuses to commit “Republican-on-Republican violence.”

“It seems the favorite sport of the Washington media is to encourage some Republicans

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To: bkepley; Servant of the Cross

DOESN’T flinch... DOESN’T flinch...DOESN’T flinch!!!

Sorry guys, just screwed up in posting/


21 posted on 07/06/2015 12:51:54 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: ZULU
Christie is unfit for higher office

... in all respects (mentally, ethically, physically ...)

22 posted on 07/06/2015 12:52:37 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: VinL
Yes he does.

Over and over again.............

23 posted on 07/06/2015 12:52:47 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: VinL

Of course Christie is going to be offended by Cruz, he’s offended by conservatism and conseratives.


24 posted on 07/06/2015 12:53:53 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: VinL
"Governor Christie is a good man and we appreciate his taking the time to point out Senator Cruz’s unceasing efforts to help get more conservatives elected to Congress,”

LOL nice.
25 posted on 07/06/2015 12:55:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Shaddup, you fatass.

Thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth.

26 posted on 07/06/2015 12:56:40 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Diogenesis

“Mr. Donut is bridging the strawman issue
after being programmed to backstab conservatives
for his latest pillow-love, Bishop RomneyCARE.”

Bridging.. I get it. Good one.


27 posted on 07/06/2015 12:56:53 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Change the Defense of Marriage Act to the Defense of Holy Matrimony Act. Game, set match.)
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To: VinL

So, the fat slob for New Jersey is trying to makes his bones at the expense of the gentleman from Texas!

Christie should know better than to take on the man who’s without one doubt a million times smarter and unafraid of him!


28 posted on 07/06/2015 12:57:38 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless)
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To: VinL

A humble man takes advice.


29 posted on 07/06/2015 12:58:13 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: VinL

Krispy Kreme Kristy couldn’t hold Ted’s jock strap.


30 posted on 07/06/2015 12:58:56 PM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: Servant of the Cross

It was actually a jab. “Thanks for pointing out they we work on getting conservatives elected.”


31 posted on 07/06/2015 1:00:19 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

Exactly. Clearly NOT a “flinch”.


32 posted on 07/06/2015 1:01:12 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: South40

All you need to know about Christie! Fat Bastard with Black-eyed Pea!


33 posted on 07/06/2015 1:01:24 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: circlecity

Telling that Christie and the GOP think participating in democracy is “attacking Republicans.”


34 posted on 07/06/2015 1:01:54 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: VinL

Good job, Christie. Cruz didn’t even mention your name. You took it personally and made his point.


35 posted on 07/06/2015 1:02:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: VinL

Christie is so outclassed by Cruz. He really isn’t helping himself by attacking someone who has been nothing but gracious to everyone else. I guess he thinks a wise guy persona makes up for his many inadequacies.


36 posted on 07/06/2015 1:02:28 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: South40

A worthless POS liberal fat whale blubber politician walking hand in hand with an anorexic Aids infected transgender homo. I’ll let you decide which is which.


37 posted on 07/06/2015 1:03:28 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: All
With all due respect folks, there are some overweight FReepers here who deserve our respect. I dislike Christie as much as anyone, but using terms like "Fat bastard, fatass, fat slob" can hurt our fellow FReepers.

I ask, respectfully, that you think about that.

Carry on.

38 posted on 07/06/2015 1:04:54 PM PDT by South40 ("I probably identify more as a Democrat." ~Donald Trump)
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To: cripplecreek

It is amazing to me that Cruz painted Gov. Christie as a big- government liberal with such gracious rhetoric, that the governor didn’t realized he has been punked.


39 posted on 07/06/2015 1:06:17 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: ZULU

Christie might even worse than that other NJ icon, Mr. Wilson.


40 posted on 07/06/2015 1:07:01 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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