Posted on 07/06/2015 12:44:15 PM PDT by VinL
Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz has no right to tell Republicans to stop attacking each other.
“I find it ironic that Ted Cruz is giving lectures on Republican-on-Republican violence,” said Christie on Fox News. “I mean with all due respect, I don’t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz.”
Christie called Cruz “hypocritical” for saying he refuses to attack Republicans even though he worked with the Senate Conservatives Fund. In the 2014 midterm elections, the political action committee supported primary challengers to incumbent Republicans they deemed to be too moderate.
Christie said he took issue with SCF’s targeting of Tennessee’s Sen. Lamar Alexander, whom he said he admires.
Cruz told his Republican colleagues in 2014 that he wouldn’t participate in SCF’s efforts to kick them out of their seats, according to Politico, and did not get involved in incumbents’ primary races.
The SCF never directly endorsed or raised funds Alexander’s primary opponent, state Rep. Joe Carr, but ran ads in 2013 criticizing his vote in favor of a budget resolution that funded Obamacare, according to The Hill.
“Governor Christie is a good man and we appreciate his taking the time to point out Senator Cruz’s unceasing efforts to help get more conservatives elected to Congress,” said Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier in an email.
Christie’s comments came when he was asked about Donald Trump’s claim that most Mexican immigrants were rapists or drug-smugglers, and Cruz’s defense of Trump’s “bold, brash” way of speaking.
Other Republican presidential candidates, including Christie and former Texas Gov, Rick Perry, condemned Trump’s comments.
Cruz praised Trump for drawing attention to illegal immigration and said he refuses to commit “Republican-on-Republican violence.”
“It seems the favorite sport of the Washington media is to encourage some Republicans
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Well said.
Ok, I love you again.
Christie, Christie , Christie.... Stay in Joyzee.
I am sorry that this is going to get very ugly— VERY UGLY with people like Christie, bush and Rubio attacking Trump for telling the TRUTH!!!
I suggest you all find a position on one side or the other because this is going to be a bloody battle. Don’t get caught in the middle. These men have thrown the punches first— not Trump!! They must now fend off absolute statistical evidence. Good luck !!Ha
Makes one wonder.
Hey 113, can you believe I messed that up??? Well, as long as I’m forgiven — now I can get a good night’s sleep. -:)
Shut up, Cristie.
were the donnie in that scene we’d have ..Lumpy Dumpy and Trjmpy
I called Christie what he is. Which is basically that he is a fat slob who does not take care of himself. It is not something I made up. It is a fact. A fact that has nothing to do with anyone else.
If I would have said "many illegals are rapists and murders" which is another fact could you conflate that in to "all illegals are rapists and murderers?" I guess so because that seems to be how you think.
I've been here for many years, I could not tell you the race of most of the people here, their sex or their weight. If a Freeper is short I would not know.
Freepers are not shy, so far you are the only one that has made a comment or emailed me.
I am so tired of this PC garbage.
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