Posted on 04/14/2016 2:46:34 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz stands by his claim that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a liar arguing, Every word I said there was true and accurate.
In a town hall on MSNBC hosted by the moderator of Meet the Press Chuck Todd on Thursday, Todd asked Cruz, You called Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate floor. That has not sat well with your colleagues. Do you regret calling him a liar on the Senate floor?
You know, Washington is an amazing place, Cruz said. When somebody stands up and lies to you, and someone else points out that they lie
Todd interjected, He lied to you. You still stand by it?
Every word I said there was true and accurate. No one has disputed a word I said, Cruz argued. The reaction in the Senate is How dare you say that out loud? Theyre not upset that somebody lied to them. I mean, thats the amazing thing.
If thats the case, how do you stand working with somebody who lies to you? Todd asked. And how can you work with him going forward?
What I have done from day one is endeavored and its a promise I made to the people who elected me, Im going to tell the truth, and Im going to do what I said I would do, Cruz said.
In July 2015, Cruz said about McConnell, What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what [McConnell] told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Pot married kettle : )
I think Mister Trump is an inarticulate, unqualified weasel.
That said, I would vote for him if he were the GOP nom (NOT an indy, it must be clear.)
And as low as my regard is for 9/11 truther and Planned Parenthood aficionado trump, I maintain a high regard for the trump supporters hereabouts. (That said, I get some very nasty insults directed in my direction. I learned to ignore all those wayy back in basic training.)
We are all on the Conservative team.
At this point, my worry is not that my candidate will not win the nom.
My major worry is that someone will run as an indy, and split the vote, and hand Hillary our fine country for her to wreck.
“And yet, you yahoos call him establishment. Confuse yourself much?”
Nope, unlike you, The Obtuse One, we have street brains, and know that Lyin Ted is in Goldman Sach’s underwear.
LOL
No, I just regret that he lied and it needed to be pointed out.
Some things are not worth saying. I liked it when Ted did that, I liked it a LOT. But I don’t believe for a second it did the cause of advancing conservatism any good whatsoever. Here’s a great article about it;
You need to read this article;
Honesty versus Brutal Frankness
http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Stolyarov/Honesty_versus_Brutal_Frankness.shtml
You end up harming yourself more than anyone else by saying things that though true harm your own self interests in a dishonest way. Like this;
.Ted Cruz talks about watching hardcore porn with his daughters in the audience (at the family town hall) .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6lpDP8c20
T. CRUZ: He would be someone that you would be a fool not to look at seriously. Hes very, very talented. And, you know, you asked if Marco and I are friends. Let me tell you a story.
So last year, I wrote a book called A Time for Truth. And in the book, one of the chapters is talking about the year I spent as a law clerk at the Supreme Court. And it describes the chapter begins with me watching pornography on the Internet with Sandra Day OConnor, which was a bit of a bizarre experience.
(LAUGHTER)
It was the first of the Internet porn cases to go to the court, and the court librarians were showing the justices what the Internet was, and theyd pull it up, and the story I told, I was clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist. They paired the chief justice and Justice OConnor and their law clerks were in this little room looking at this computer screen that pulls up hardcore porn. And Justice OConnor I still remember, she leaned forward and she squinted and said, Oh, my!
But the Marco piece of this so the book comes out and there were some you know, reporters thought that was a funny story, so they wrote about that story. And Im on a plane and Marco texts me and says, Holy cow, you watched porn? Our oppo researchers missed that.
(LAUGHTER)
Now that was funny. And listen, hes got a good sense of humor. I laughed when he sent that text.
http://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-cnn-family-town-hall-full-transcript-new-york-city-447880
What a contrast to the Trump family town hall.
FULL Interview: Donald Trump & Family at CNN Town Hall, Anderson Cooper, April 12, 2016
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3420377/posts
“Way too much venom and vicious infighting in the conservative ranks.
I think Mister Trump is an inarticulate, unqualified weasel.”
I swear you can’t make this stuff up....LOL!!
Clearly, my good FRiend, my issue is with Mister trump (weasel, etc.), and not with his very fine conservative supporters, with whom I will agree on nearly every major issue, and who I choose not to insult.
Trump is a deductive thinker - he begins with the goal and works back from there - no wasted motion - only what contributes to the result.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Guys like Cruz are inductive thinkers. They are so obsessed with the ideological front end, the actual result is an afterthought.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Imagine that, a liar calling a liar a liar.
LOL
I bet Old Tortoise head has been httin’ on all those DC hookers.
Cruz will “endeavor to persevere” - Chief Dan George in THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
Why is it courageous?
They can’t take you out back and shoot you. He can’t be kicked out of the Senate. And on top of that Mitch is still majority leader.
In the end it seems like Cruz supporters hold this up like it was the most incredible event in the history of congress.
i’m voting for Trump btw.
Why is this article posted as bad.
the poster never posts anything positive about ted, so it must be intended as an insult.
i’m not saying it’s an incredible feat, but why is the poster interpreting it s bad in the comments
I was thinking the same thing
LOLOL!!
Amazing, isn’t it?
I bookmarked it : )
65K Coloradans voted--they just voted against Trump. That's 11 elections in a row we've won.
#WhiningIsntWinning https://t.co/m0NrRh5mFu— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 11, 2016
I think petty jealousy drives a lot of it. You don’t get to where your private company is worth 10B and you sign 22k paychecks on the FRONT being what all these people call Trump. It’s would be impossible. Like Donald JR says “politicians like Ted and his ilk “wouldn’t last five minutes in business.”
They haven’t got a clue.
” Like Donald JR says politicians like Ted and his ilk wouldnt last five minutes in business.”
As a guy in business for over 30 years, I absolutely agree.
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