Posted on 07/30/2015 3:33:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) isn't backing off the tough rhetoric he's used to describe the Iran nuclear deal, despite criticism leveled by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday.
Cruz has steadfastly maintained that President Barack Obama's administration would become a leading state-sponsor of terror if the agreement it struck with Iran makes it past Congress. He and others have argued that Iran would use a windfall from sanctions relief to finance terror abroad.
Both Obama and Romney have called Cruz's remarks inappropriate.
Romney wrote on Twitter early Thursday that he also opposes the Iran deal, but said Cruz's comments were "way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge. Hurts the cause."
Cruz, 2016 presidential candidate, fired back at Romney in a Thursday radio interview with KFYO's Chad Hasty.
"So Mitt Romney's tweet today said, 'Gosh, this rhetoric is not helpful,'" Cruz said. "John Adams famously said, 'Facts are stubborn things.' Describing the actual facts is not using rhetoric; it is called speaking the truth."(continued)
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I am so glad Mitt spoke out on this. It settles everything up
For me and makes clear the errors of speaking in this way
On a serious subject.
haHAHahAHAhaHAhaHahahahahahahahahah!!
The media has effectively castrated and neutralized normal masculine traits.
Cruz is taking a page out of The Donalds book and decided to fire back and keep the rhetorical sword sharp!
It’s the social media age. He has to.
“A hit, a very palpable hit.”
Love, Hamlet.
That is true also. Romney had no problem fighting with white republicans. Black democrats were off limits, had to be treated with kid gloves.
LOLOL.
Right!
There were actually better quotes. I liked these:
“The unavoidable consequence of those facts is that if this deal goes through, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry, will be leading global financiers of radical Islamic terrorism on the face of the earth.”
Cruz added: “When you send billions of dollars to jihadists trying to kill Americans, you bear responsibility for the murder that they carry out with the money you have given them.”
Actually, Marxist Mitt got clobbered for a couple dozen reasons but I understand that Ted was just being gracious.
The GOPe is obsessed with decorum.
Unless they are attacking Conservatives.
Doesn't take much time to call a loser...a loser.
Hey Bert, how does it feel being they guy that still defends the man that helped Planned Parenthood advance in the cutthroat world baby parts business?
Because you and the rest of the excusemakers have a lot to answer for in shaming people into voting for that piece of human garbage.
PS...I and the other hated purists were not wrong. EVER.
Ted Cruz is wise to defend his character and honor.
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Ditto. Bush didn’t fight against his detractors, Mittens didn’t fight back . . . and you see where it got them. But Cruz is sharp as a tack and can profit from the (bad) example of others — unlike the GOPe, it seems.
CRUZ to the White House!
If Romney is tweeting about Cruz, Cruz has every right, and responsibility, to respond.
Who is your candidate and what do you have against an actual conservative like Cruz?
You sure you're on the right website?
Cruz the man way of doing things and the Romney pussy way of doing things. I am thankful I did not vote for that waste of skin.
Bad move Ted. What’s your point?
Milt lost because of the demographics involved....and probably a lot of out and out cheating.
as usual, you are continuing to beat a dead horse with a lie
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