Posted on 07/31/2015 10:21:21 AM PDT by Isara
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz fought back Thursday after Mitt Romney criticized him for saying the Obama administration would become the “leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism” if Congress approves the Iran nuclear deal.
Romney had taken to Twitter to say that Cruz’s comment was “over the line.”
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
In a blunt response on KFYO radio in Lubbock, Texas, Cruz hit back at the 2012 Republican nominee, saying: “One of the reasons Republicans keep getting clobbered is that we have leaders like Mitt Romney or like Jeb Bush who are afraid to say that.”
Cruz said the nuclear deal would allow for more than $100 billion to go to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and that the same money would also end up in the hands of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other radical Islamic terrorist groups.
“When you send billions of dollars to jihadists trying to kill Americans, you bear responsibility for the murder they carry out with the money you have given them” Cruz told host Chad Hasty, adding that the Iranian supreme leader routinely leads chants in which he shouts, “Death to America.”
Cruz previously characterized the deal as “catastrophic” and said that it poses the “gravest national security threat” more than anything else for three reasons.
“One, if it goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars will flow to Iran that they will use to fund radical Islamic terrorism to murder Americans. Two, because it leaves four American hostages languishing in Iran. The last president to leave hostages in Iran was Jimmy Carter [and] that appeasement profoundly weakened America,” Cruz said. “But three, this deal accelerates Iran’s acquiring nuclear weapons, and they have pledged to use those nuclear weapons.
Listen to Cruz defend his comments below (relevant portion begins around the 12:00 mark):
Romney is getting to be quite the douche.
"Obama is our lawful wedded King."
Ted may be taking a page from the Donald, who has proven that you CAN say what you mean and mean what you say, AND that you will survive afterward to keep on speaking your mind.
Unless Andrea Mitchell shows up wearing a bomb belt, what’s to fear?
CRUZ or lose in 2016!
Mitt should spend more time studying and behaving like Captain Moroni than acting like a Gadianton appeaser.
he always was
bump!!
Hehehehe. Got to love these guys who tell it like it is. Go Ted. Go Trump. Go Sarah.
Ted was doing it in this and previous elections before Donald even got into the race. Intellectually, Ted is far beyond Trump. What’ll be interesting is to see how they debate each other, their styles are so different. Ted’s a master of the facts, Trump is bombastic and often doesn’t really have facts to back up his positions.
Ted Cruz Ping! Great article over at
http://canadafreepress.com/article/74184
in case you missed it.
Sit down Mitt, you had your 15 minutes. You wasted them.
+1 :-)
Indeed he is and is smart to do so. Of course that strategy is a natural for Cruz. He just had to turn up a few db, maybe 10 db or so.
Huckabee is the only other candidate following the Trump lead with his ovens/holocaust comment the other day.
“Hurting the cause?” Hurting the cause Mitt? Like Romneycare? Like taking out fine conservative candidates? Like being a squishy liberal who let Obama walk all over him in the debates. LIKE LOSING!!! How the hell are you considered a leader of the GOP? Go away Mitt.
He’s always been a douche, it’s just that now he can be more vocal since he’s speaking against a Republican rather than a Democrat.
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