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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/30/2015 4:40:52 PM PDT by Isara
“If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said this week of the multinational nuclear agreement with Iran.
“Billions of dollars under control of this administration will flow into the hands of jihadists who will use that money to murder Americans, to murder Israelis, to murder Europeans,” Cruz explained to a group of supporters.
Cruz, apparently competing for the title of Republican presidential candidate who has said the most outrageously offensive thing of the week, faced some stiff competition from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who compared the deal to President Obama “marching the Israelis to the oven doors.” Nevertheless, Cruz’s accusation that the Iranian nuclear deal would make President Obama a sponsor of terrorism was explosive (pardon the pun) enough to garner a rebuke from the President.
“We’ve had a sitting senator, who also happens to be running for president, suggest that I’m the leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Obama said during a press conference from Ethiopia earlier this week. “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines, but it’s not the kind of leadership that is needed for America right now,” he insisted.
Well this morning, President Obama got some back-up against Cruz from an unlikely source. 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted his disapproval of Cruz’s remarks, calling out Cruz for going “over the line” and claiming the Tea Party senator had “hurt the cause”:
I am opposed to the Iran deal, but @SenTedCruz is way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge. Hurts the cause.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) July 30, 2015
Cruz, who a week ago attacked Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor as a “liar,” was quick to fire back at Romney. Business Insider notes that Cruz appeared on a Texas radio program today, where he dismissed Romney’s criticism and defended his charge against the White House as “speaking truth to power.”
“So Mitt Romney’s tweet today said, ‘Gosh, this rhetoric is not helpful … John Adams famously said, ‘Facts are stubborn things.’ Describing the actual facts is not using rhetoric; it is called speaking the truth,” Cruz said.
Cruz then went for the jugular, citing Romney’s infamous quarrel with Obama during one of the general election debates over the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, as the reason why Romney “got clobbered” in the 2012 election:
Part of the reason that Mitt Romney got clobbered by Barack Obama is because we all remember that third debate where Barack Obama turned to Mitt and said, ‘I said the Benghazi attack was terrorism and no one is more upset by Benghazi than I am.’ And Mitt, I guess listening to his own advice, said, ‘Well gosh, I don’t want to use any rhetoric. So OK, never mind. I’ll just kind of rearrange the pencil on the podium here
Cruz argued that his take no prisoners, anti-establishment approach was the only way a conservative could take the White House in 2016:
We need to stand up and speak the truth with a smile … The truth has power and every time we have Republicans who shy away — who don’t want to engage, who don’t want to speak the truth — we lose.
FUMR!! Go, Cruz, GO!!
Quit yer whining Mitty.
Ted Cruz Ping! Romney is Obama’s BFF - in 2012 and now.
Ted Cruz must be smaller than Willard...
Bully Boy Willard has a history of beating up men who are smaller than him...
Willard has no useful tactical nor strategic wisdom to spread around.
The Milquetoast candidate ... didn’t have the will to pin obozo about Benghazi when he should have ...
One big problem for the GOP, it looks to losers to guide the party.
What exactly does Mitt Romney think the Iranians are going to do with their windfall of cash?
They’ve already indicated a shopping list of weapons and their proxies in the Middle East are eagerly awaiting their arrival.
Designated Loser.
Do they have a school that teaches obtuseness?
No kidding! If only the GOP-e would attack Dims with such ardor.
Oldplayer
Salon loves Mitt Romney sometimes
If they ever side with Ted Cruz, it’ll be a day of wailing and gnashing of teeth in THIS house
The truth hurts, but I think Cruz is correct. What other conclusion can any reasoning person come to when billions of $ is released to a state sponsor of terrorism???
I liked Cruz the minute he announced his candidacy, the more he talks the more I like him. I am ready to work for him in my state.
Why is Mitt coaching Ted on how to lose?
Willard needs slapped live on t v
The sissyman would not even defend his son
when Lawrence O Donnell threatened to fight his son,no,Willard apologized
Willard-the-Rat RomneyCARE imposed Obama on America twice.
First, by attacking Gov. Palin on the eve of the election
through his surrogates; and then in 2012 by giving up
for Obama and (Romney’s partner in JET Blue) George Soros.
“Slams”? “Rips”?
Mitt Romney????
Puh-leeze.
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