Posted on 07/17/2024 7:59:58 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) needled his rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), on Tuesday while the two were on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tauntingly asking McCarthy when he was slated to speak.
“What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz mockingly asked McCarthy.
“If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he told McCarthy. “You would get booed off the stage.”
Gaetz defended his previous comments in a brief interview with The Hill, saying he was counterpunching.
“He was saying something very untrue and nasty about me to CNN. So, this is a convention floor. I thought it’d be okay to convene a little bit.”
The rivalry between Gaetz and McCarthy is well known. Gaetz was among a group of hard-liners who extracted concessions from the California Republican during the initial House Speakership race in order to deliver him enough votes to lead the House.
But one of those concessions became McCarthy’s downfall when Gaetz led seven other House Republicans in removing McCarthy from his Speakership post, culminating in several weeks of uncertainty as Republicans rushed to find a new House leader.
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He’s on Fox all day long.
Good! I think we should mock and belittle every RINO relentlessly and incessantly
…especially mocking RINOs who fund the Deep State
Childish, even if McCarthy deserves. Be better.
Grow up boys.
The ladies room is in the back, fainting couch and all.
Better to just keep your mouth shut or just grimace, like MTG did when birdbrain was speaking.
Congratulations, Matt. You give the liberal rag, The Hill, a story about petty infighting in the GOP on the day that the convention focus was on unity.
Shoulda punched his face in after the lies McCarthy was spreading.
Perhaps you should be lecturing McCarthy who was trashing Gaetz, even yesterday, on establishment media.
I saw that clip earlier.
He asked McCarthy when he was going to speak at convention.
(Knowing The Head RINO wasn’t going to speak)
Then told McCarthy he would be booed off stage.
Loved it.
with Friends like Matt....
“Childish, even if McCarthy deserves. Be better.”
Like let them burn down cities, desecrate churches, mutilate and indoctrinate our children. We should all just sit down and shut up so we don’t look like them. Kiss my a$$. Gaetz was too nice, a punch in the face would have been more effective.
I’m with you. I’m sick to death of watching the GOP bringing marshmallows to gunfights. Matt was too nice if anything
They hate each others guts. It happens. I can’t stand McCarthy either.
“ Congratulations, Matt. You give the liberal rag, The Hill, a story about petty infighting in the GOP on the day that the convention focus was on unity.”
Bovine Excrement. People like you are who gave us the Bushes and Romney.
McCarthy was the one who was speaking ill of a fellow Republican. Gaetz just called him out as he should.
Being a party of inclusion doesn’t mean we have to be pansy’s.
McCarthy is lucky he didn't get punched in the face. McCarthy is a persona non grata, no better than Paul Ryan. Ryan and McCarthy were born of the name "never Trump" mother. McCarthy is scum.
“with Friends like Matt....”
With Speaker of the House like McCarthy....
McCarthy was making an unprovoked swipe at Gaetz as he was passing by the interview.
Matt Gaetz naturally pushed back.
The GOP needs more congressional members like Gaetz, who actually have a spine.
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