"American dogs think Romney is truly an idiot."
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.
Ted Cruz is 100% correct
"American dogs think Romney is truly an idiot."
Why is Romney even speaking?
This is why Mitt is on the sideline. He never had a fire in his belly.
Politics is like rugby, they both take leather balls, Mitt has neither.
Salon, Mitt Romney. Ted Cruz; I could write a computer program to spit out the narrative to match 95% what the ‘journalist’ rants about; it’s very predictable.
But did Salon ever ask or allude to the question of just why should anyone listen to a word Mitt Romney has to say about anything?
Without having read more than the first two sentences, I can say with 100% confidence the answer is NO.
Why would anyone even want to hear Romney says??? He’s in full court with the Democrats and liberals.
"I represent the GOP because I took their money
and I support Obama, open borders, breaking laws
if one is a politician, and of course RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE.
That is the essence of the GOP."
Mitt who?
Nothing can get one in more trouble than telling the truth.
What, exactly, did President Romney take exception to?
Oh, wait . . .
Mitt Romney would be intimidated by your average 5 year old boy. Or even girl. He is fatally invested in his “make no waves, be a nice guy” program. Sometimes you have to stand up to who’s in charge if they are wrong. Mitt doesn’t have that in his genome. Cruz does. Goooooooo Ted!
Cruz to Mitt: YOURE FIRED!!
well played.....
BTW, Sen. Cruz is exactly right.
Cruz is absolutely right. It never ceases to amaze me that some people cannot wrap their minds around the concept that money is fungible.
If we are giving money to Iran at the same time they are giving money to Hamas or any other terrorist group, we are funding terrorism. Period. Full stop.
Cruz is right; Romney is wrong. Next question.
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