Posted on 09/25/2013 7:56:36 PM PDT by Viennacon
Congressman Peter King has been one of the strongest Republican voices opposing Ted Cruzs fight against Obamacare, frequently calling him a fraud. On CNN Wednesday night, King continued hammering Cruz, telling Anderson Cooper that despite how much Cruz may view himself as a conservative folk hero the majority of the country is rallying behind, those Ive spoken to think hes crazy.
King likened this to the Charge of the Light Brigade and said Cruz is a kamikaze pilot, ultimately finding his tactics to be destructive to the Republican party. He continued to call Cruz a fraud and a medicine man selling goods he knows are phony goods.
Cooper asked why King is taking the unusual step of being so critical of a member of his own party. King said he has no loyalty to Cruz, adding that Cruz was trying to intimidate Republican members of Congress in the past few months to vote his way with explicit threats of primaries.
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Most people I talk to ay “who is this King guy?”
the ones who know him have called him both a giant douche and the bag it came in.
A New York state problem goes national ? As of my posting 21 only 1 identifiable New Yorker responding. A guy like King laughs at this.... If your not from the state minimize these blowhards...Here’s a suggestion
Another east coast LOOK AT ME nobody example for the need of term limits working the the phoney “news” circut
I used to respect this man....now I hope he encounters nothing but primary challengers who make him broke. He is done. Dead to me. I no longer know he is alive. I care not. Him, McCain, Cornyn, Graham....all can go to hell.
They ARE all going to hell... and their deception will END.
Like I’m saying, JUMP! GOP-E! JUMP or be PUSHED!
Peter King isnt worthy of being called a scumbag. You insulted all scumbags by raising him to their level.
Pete supported the IRA terrorists. He supported the terrorist Muslim Brotherhoods take over of Lybia and Egypt and now wants to arm Al Qaeda in Syria.
He hates the Second Amendment and really hates the Fourth Amendment. Hes all for the government spying on Americans with no probable cause and no warrant.
He thinks its fine for the ruling political class to commit perjury. He defended Clintons perjury and Clappers perjury.
Why Hannity gives this sewer rat air time is beyond me.
What has King ever done in his career?
“Those Ive Spoken To Think Hes Crazy..”
Everyone I have ever spoke to thinks Peter King is crazy. His behavior during the Syrian debate proved that he isn’t rational.
The establishment Repubs are going to be handed their rear ends and watching McCain and King destroy their buddies is a true pleasure.
It is time for a change, it is in the wind and feckless old buzzards like McCain and King know their time has come and gone.
Senator Ted Cruz is a patriot...
He puts up a facade of Scooby Doo investigating on radical Mosques every 2 years, but in the face of him arming terrorists in Syria, he is exposed as a fraud.
Poor baby King got upstaged by Cruz and is lashing out in jealousy.
This big blow-hard condemns Cruz. I guess he’s too stupid to realize it was the House that sent the CR to the senate. It must be stupidity. Otherwise, why isn’t he calling the Tea Party republicans in the house names.
Beyond me too. What’s more, he’s radical totalitarian when it comes to giving the executive branch power. He would love running a FEMA camp.
[Primary this RINO!!!!] Peter King is a typical NY liberal from Lon Gaisland masquerading as a Republican.
I stood up for Peter King. Somebody said he eats $#¡+ on toast. I said he doesn’t like toast.
Bet Rat King is getting his phone burned up thanks to Cruz. What a turncoat.
-PJ
You’re right.
This is Sarah Palin 2.0 in the way they are immediately trying to disparage and diminish the Texas Senator.
A LEADER may have been born. His name is TED CRUZ.
I didn’t used to think he was that bad, at least for a NY Republican he seemed fairly typical. But Billyboy had it right all the time. This is one of the worst pieces of crap to wear an “R”. If I could get rid of any RINO he’d be near the top of the list, even if he is good on a few issues, it’s more than outweighed.
As for his district (and I remember people saying the same thing about Mark Kirk’s district, a swing seat that some people liked to pretend was actually in Chicago) it was Republican leaning, the last redistricting made it less so and Obama narrowly carried it under the current lines, but it’s still definitely a seat we should have.
King’s contempt for Cruz has earned our contempt for King if it wasn’t there beforehand.
The GOP establishment’s support for cloture is a sign of one or both of two things: 1) support/indifference for Obamacare, 2) abject cowardice. There’s not a strategic 3rd option, not even in the delusional sense.
And if you’re reading this, King, Cruz is just a new voice to an existing sentiment — you’re late on the disparaging foolishness.
Re: King’s NY-02, it indeed was made less Republican in 2012, and not only was it carried by Obama by 51.6% to 47.2% over Romney, it voted more Democrat than the adjoining NY-01 and NY-03 that have been held by Democrats Tim Bishop and Steve Israel for years.’ In an open-seat situation, it would be very, very competitive.
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