Posted on 10/12/2013 2:49:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Appearing on MSNBC on Friday, Congressman Peter King continued his epic verbal assault on Ted Cruz — and, to a lesser extent, Rand Paul — by describing the Texas Senator as a “RINO” (Republican in name only) and a “fraud.”
Speaking with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, King called the ongoing government shutdown “the strategy of Ted Cruz” and wondered aloud “why more Republicans around the country didn’t join me in denouncing Ted Cruz” before the shutdown began. “We cannot allow our party to be taken over by the likes of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul,” King continued, describing Cruz and Paul as “isolationists” and “RINOs” who “don’t represent traditional Republican principles.”
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
How did “Eternal Vigilance” do last year, btw?
Exactly the way I made very clear I believed any third party would do -- beaten by either a leftist Democrat or a leftist Republican. I also made it very clear that I was voting third party and rejecting leftist liberal Romney not because I had any illusion a third party candidate would win -- I knew as well as you did AND I MADE IT QUITE CLEAR that the vote was ONLY to deny a majority mandate to whichever leftist won.
You voted for Romney. You voted FOR leftism, liberalism, and FOR making leftism more powerful in the Republican party. THAT IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR, period. You deny it, but it is true that you voted FOR leftism to grow stronger in the Republican party.
You are all broadcast and zero receive. You are totally driven by emotion. One hundred percent -- you have failed utterly to comprehend what I've been saying here.
However, judging by the ways elections have been going, many, many Republicans are turning to the same page that I am on. You, meanwhile, are still stuck on doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Hey, Kansas, I FOLLOWED your advice for decades. You were wrong.
YOU allowed Obama.
Romney would not have allowed Bengazi, Romney might not have gotten rid of Obamacare completely, but it would have been trimmed way back, maybe only to a national “high risk pool” of those with preexisting conditions. Romney would never have cut off death benefits to widows of our heroes who die in combat. Romney would be much better on taxes and the economy.
Get yourself a good mirror if you want to look at yourself so much.
Politics is not designed to give you someone exactly like yourself, that will never happen.
You voted for Obama.
I did not vote for Obama.
The primary purpose, the REAL purpose of any vote is a vote AGAINST the worst evil on the ballot.
You allowed the worst evil on the ballot.
Rep. King: GOP pushes impeachment at its peril
But Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who has come out for censure and against impeachment, said Sunday that there are not enough votes in the full House to impeach Clinton -- and that the GOP is pursuing that course at its own peril. "It's going to make it harder to get our agenda across. We have to show that we can lead, that we can bring an end to this," he said on "Meet The Press."
The quisling traitors in the Republican party are scared for their very existence. They’ve been backed into a corner by a lone Senator shining the light of truth upon them and their co-conspirators on the other side of the aisle.
Ted Cruz has proven that we don’t need a third party to win. We only need a half dozen more like him elected to Congress, and the whole character of the GOP will change.
You are angry at me because I refused to vote for a liberal who supported FIVE MAJOR ISSUES that I had been voting Republican for 35-plus years to oppose. And you have the sad gall to accuse me of rejecting him for a reason so petty as that he wasn't "someone exactly like" myself. The ol' purist charge, another emotion-driven knee-jerk angry response. In all my years on Free Republic, I have never see one single solitary purist, not one. However, I have seen hundreds of emotional and bitter FReepers who accuse those who refuse to vote for leftist Republicans as being "purists."
Voting for Romney was as nuts as voting for Obama; I voted for neither, but you in your emotional frenzy, say I voted "for" Obama and that you voted "against" him, both fanciful mathematical illusions at best, malicious lies at worst.
I hope you’re right, Windflier, I really do. I also hope I win the lottery. :^|
and this guy thinks he is a Republican?
If that guy is a Republican then there really is no difference between the 2 parties.
Traditional Republican Principles of Peter King??
Capitulation
Surrender
5% slower road to socialism
hate for conservatives
Its part of Western middle Long Island
If it ain’t him or another RINO
It will be a dem
Looks like I will be calling kings office.
In the ‘90s, Peter King was one of the most outspoken supporters of fornicator / adulterer / perjuror Bill Clinton. I’ve never trusted him since then.
by describing the Texas Senator as a “RINO”
You can’t have anymore proof than that. King is a liberal socialist Demcorat.
They were made for each other...Too bad the people in those states don’t see them for what they are...
I believe the country would survive better without them in the picture up in D.C.
They would make wonderful dog catchers back in their home districts...
As Cruz hews to hard line, other 2016 contenders go mute on shutdown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3077997/posts
[snip] ...in the aftermath of Cruz’s fiery speech... The shutdown went unmentioned by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), both early champions of the defunding battle. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is working toward a compromise with the White House on the shutdown and debt ceiling that does not erode ObamaCare, made a short argument for his alternate plan in Friday afternoon video message to the group... Paul’s and Rubio’s dodges, and Ryan’s implicit rebuke, demonstrate that they are seeking to avoid being tainted by the fight’s fallout while avoiding any confrontation with the party’s base. Cruz used his speech to frame the debate over ObamaCare and the government shutdown in stark terms, painting it as a key battle in the larger war for individual freedom. [/snip]
You did not leave the Republican Party.
The party left you.
I don't believe that for a minute. What Repub, in their right mind, would ask the Zero King to tell them what their own party is doing? Do they think he would tell them the truth? Has Obama ever told the truth?
Media spin, pure and simple!
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