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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> “ But, the Cruz Campaign does flinch: “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,” “
Why do you call that a “flinch”? I don’t see this as a “flinch”, I see it as an opportunity to steer the narrative.
Christie makes a statement about Cruz. Cruz campaign must/should respond.
Christie says “Cruz yada yada yada blah blah blah, Cruz bad, Me good, so there it is.”
Cruz Campaign responds: “ We thank Gov Christie for pointing out how GOOD Ted Cruz has been for conservatives.”
It’s a game.
The media is watching all the candidates and what they say and what they say about each other.
So every press release is an opportunity for free campaign publicity.
Christie says something and bam! there’s a free campaign sound bite offered for response. Christie talks about SCF this and Lamar that...Lamar who? SCF what? To respond to Krispy Kreme about SCF, Lamar would be stupid. Take the free sound bite offer and steer the narrative to something positive that Ted has done.
Trump flushes out the RINOs quite well.
“I find it ironic that Ted Cruz is giving lectures on Republican-on-Republican violence,”
Why is it ironic fatso? Who has Cruz ever attacked? I cannot find a single instance besides politely pointing out a policy difference with another.
The New Jersey loudmouth needs to go away.
I call him Krispy Kreme, is that fair game?
He's unfit for alot of things, like walking.....much less running for anything.
The Cruz campaign didn’t flinch, the responce was just the right of condescension towards Chrissty the fat ass bufoon. He is lucky Trump is around, taking the heat off of his buffoonery
By the looks of this pic, I can assume Christie swallows.
As if anyone doubted what Christie, Pataki, Bush, and Rubio are all about.
This photo does it for me. I will never endorse this guy with my vote. He’s a loser....no strike that. He’s BIG FAT loser.
How about being lectured by Ronald Reagan you RINO. You helped to support Obama and helped him beat Mitt Romney—JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION. That Hug cost America much—4 more years of Socialist Progressives! Admit it—you are in the race only to get Hillary elected—they you will change parties and join your Brother in the Left wing Progs! Hillary has a cabinate post all ready for you.
By the looks of Trumps donations to Demoncrats..he is a rino too.
Sorry, fatso, but that pic of you and Dorkbama has sunk you.
You have touched a turd and are now a POS also.
I don't have any respect for a guy who is such a tub of lard. Call me a fattist. Call me bulkaphobic. Call me anti-blubberist. Say I'm against the plump. The guy should form his own party, the Lipid Party.
Christie is an embarrassment. Slobbering all over that football owner was almost as bad.
If any of our fellow Freepers are Chris Christie (fat chance, get it?) I apologize to them.
One is a truculent loud-mouth LIB asshat while the other is a LIB asshat with few scruples. Guess which is which.
CC would be well advised to look to Cruz for policy, transparency, representative govt and genersl m8ral straightness.
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