Posted on 11/16/2012 4:44:24 PM PST by Arthurio
By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 11/16/12 4:38 PM EST
Sen.-elect Ted Cruz believes Mitt Romney got a little too close to Barack Obama in the third presidential debate.
“I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama,” Cruz said in a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual conference Friday.
Cruz said that conservatives failed to make their case to the American people, leaving Romney no choice but to move toward the president. “We didn’t win the argument, we didn’t even make the argument” throughout much of 2012, Cruz said.
But in the first debate, he argued, that changed.
“It was the one time we actually contested ideas, presented two viewpoints and directions for the country,” he said. “And then inevitably, there are these mandarins of politics, who give the voice: ‘Don’t show any contrasts. Don’t rock the boat.’ So by the third debate, I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama.
“I have no doubt that there is a focus group somewhere of undecided Ohio voters who have been living in a cave for the last 30 years, who decided they liked that,” Cruz continued. “‘Don’t show any disagreement whatsoever with the president. Don’t rock the boat. Just be a nice guy.’”
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Cruz won KBHutchinson’s senate seat after a grueling primary against a RINO Dewhurst who was the GOPe’s boy and was endorsed by Perry and had a family bankroll. It went into a tiebreaker, so to speak. Levin got on it, so did other conservatives and Cruz then prevailed.
He has some very conservative things to say.
Here’s from wiki (can’t b ALL made up):
(HE can make fun of the make out king all he wants, far as I’m concerned)
Legal career
Cruz also served as a law clerk to William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, and J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.[15] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[16]
Cruz has authored more than 80 briefs before the United States Supreme Court and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.[17] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the 2003 Texas redistricting plan.[18]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.[19
I agree, but let us all take note of what these criticisms tell us
Christie and Jindahl are attacking Romney from the LEFT
Cruz is attacking him from the RIGHT
If the GOP-e is to take a path, observing why this election was lost, they should listen to Cruz before RINOs like Christie.
Sorry for the long double post.
That Zombie picture Hot Tabasco keeps posting has me a little shaky.
Viennacon, You’re right. Was wondering why this was not bugging me. You nailed it.
Same could be said for many Hispanics in California. But their Republican Party is non-existant.
Romney isn’t really a republican.
Romney never belonged in republican politics.
With Romney it was the little things, like leaving the republican party and eventually coming to support democrats with donations, fundraising, and even voting democrat after rejecting Reagan and his conservatism, and the Reagan revolution.
“I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” Romney said when asked whom in his party he aligned with.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
I am pretty sure you can count on one hand the number of people with hispanic names who were born in Canada.
You are way off base, Cruz didn't stand a chance in Texas until Palin stepped in, Dewhurst was the agreed upon winner in what was to be an easy, race for the establishment and Governor Perry's endorsee.
Meanwhile back at the White house we still have an idiot in charge...
Good for Cruz!
You mean like the GOP establishment marginalizing those who hew to conservatism? Or the talking heads saying that the Tea Party has to be jettisoned? That kind of tearing down?
As a Texan I can vouch for the fact that Mexicans in California are different from in Texas, they are like the New Yorkers of Mexico, and come from a different part of Mexico.
What does that have to do with discussing Mitt Romney and his failed liberalism?
For decades, Romney was anti-Reagan, and recently has spent at least 5 years spreading a rumor on TV and in interviews that Reagan was “adamantly pro-choice”, did you ever speak against Romney for doing that to Reagan, to conservatism, to the GOP, to the pro-life movement?
I know the media hid Baracks flaws and idiocy, but Republicans did not go to the polls in the numbers they did for McCain even.
I will never forgive those that refused to vote for “love of country”.
The truth is that Mitt Romney is an east coast liberal who calls himself a republican. He was my last choice out of everybody in the primary race. When he won the nomination I did vote for him but I do not consder him one of my own. I voted for Cruz also and I think he is correct on this.
I voted mostly for Palin in 2008.
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