GOP Rep. Peter King dismisses Ted Cruz as 'carnival barker'

CNN ^ | March 23, 2015 | Deirdre Walsh, Senior Congressional Producer

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New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who is considering his own bid for the White House, mocked Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's announcement that he was running in 2016 and said the Texas Republican isn't qualified to serve as president.

"Shutting down the federal government and reading Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world," King said in a written statement on Monday.

King's statement references a Cruz speech on the Senate floor that last more than 20 hours, railing against Obamacare in 2013.

The New York Republican has been a vocal critic of Cruz' since the government shutdown that fall, blaming him for the standoff and calling him a "fraud."(continued)

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They're coming out of the wood work.

[rktman]

Notice how much pete king has to offer.

[Parley Baer]

I dismiss Peter King as dimoKKKRAT lite.

[headstamp 2]

No Pete, the carnival barker is already in the White House, sh**head.

[cripplecreek]

"Shutting down the federal government and reading Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world,"

But calling the Israeli PM "Chickenshit" and negotiating nukes with people who are calling for death to America are?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Says the carnival barker.

[Perseverando]

I second that!

[justa-hairyape]

There has never been a carnival that has run up trillions of dollars in debt, until now.

[Logical me]

More reason to support Cruz.

[jazusamo]

Peter King has been a joke for quite some time. Succinctly put: Pete King, has been.

[TADSLOS]

Ted is living rent free inside King's little statist mind.

[Responsibility2nd]

What? Peter King opposes Ted Cruz?

Good.

Just another reason to know we conservatives are right.

[cripplecreek]

Everything I ever needed to know about Pete King, I learned the day he started crying for laws to protect congressmen from their constituents after the Gabby Giffords shooting.

[C. Edmund Wright]

...exactly - “I’m Ted Cruz and I approved this message.”

[Vaduz]

Only person shutting down the federal government was Obama period.

[PoloSec]

The rantings of real loser!

[exit82]

Peter King needs to stop impersonating a Republican.

[alloysteel]

Ted Cruz is barking up one helluva lot better carnival than has come down the pike in the past 30 years.

Ted Cruse is not merely Reaganesque. He is almost Jeffersonian.

[Catsrus]

I’m laughing my butt off at the expected reactions to Ted’s announcement. These people are pathetic excuses for human beings.

[RayChuang88]

If Cruz can pull away the Latino vote, Hillary won’t win California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Florida—and she could even be threatened in New York state.