Cruz picks his fights where it matters...and they usually have to do with what's good for the nation. He recognizes who the real enemy is and what he knows we have to do to stop them. Feeding the media's hype isn't one of them.
Posted on 09/01/2015 10:19:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has responded to a recent report that House Speaker John Boehner called him a "jackass" during a Colorado fundraiser.
The Daily Caller quoted two attendees of an event last week where the Ohio lawmaker purportedly joked that Cruz's presidential campaign kept "that jackass" off Capitol Hill. But Cruz brushed off the criticism, saying that Americans are tired of politicians “bickering like schoolyard children.”
"The speaker is entitled to express whatever views he likes, but I’m not going to respond in kind,” Cruz said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, according to Politico. “And I think the American people are not remotely interested in a bunch of politicians in Washington bickering like schoolyard children. I think what they’re looking for is serious leaders who will address and provide real solutions to the very real problems we’re facing right now.”
The Republican presidential candidate also defended his own name-calling earlier this summer when he blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and accused the Kentucky politician of lying to him over a deal to vote on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank.
"There is a difference between describing the facts and describing someone’s actions, and what occurred, and engaging in a personal attack. I gave, a couple of months ago, an unusual floor speech to be sure," Cruz said. "But I stood up and I said: Here are the commitments that the majority leader gave to me, personally, to every Republican senator, and to the American people, and his conduct today is directly contrary to those commitments that he made. And that is quite different from engaging in the kind of personal attack and insults and profanity-laden assault that so many others engage in."
McConnell and Cruz have never had a thriving relationship.
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Boehner is a drunk with a mouth bigger than his brain. Cruz is right.
Ted is definitely the bigger man.
Good for Cruz. An insult from Boner should be worn like a badge of honor.
Cream rises to the top and I pray next Spring Ted Cruz will be in the lead.
One side suffers the disadvantages of a fraud trying to express himself, while the other person has only to reflect the truth.
Cruz picks his fights where it matters...and they usually have to do with what's good for the nation. He recognizes who the real enemy is and what he knows we have to do to stop them. Feeding the media's hype isn't one of them.
Yep,
Cruz is a Jackass = opinion of drunken liar.
Mitch McConnel Liar = proven.
hahahahahahaahahahahahahaa Well done!
Boehner, like Yeb Bush, a real attack dog ... when it comes to fellow Republicans.
Tan, drunk, and stupid is no way to govern Speaker Boehner
*”The speaker is entitled to express whatever views he likes, but I’m not going to respond in kind,” Cruz said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, according to Politico. “And I think the American people are not remotely interested in a bunch of politicians in Washington bickering like schoolyard children. I think what they’re looking for is serious leaders who will address and provide real solutions to the very real problems we’re facing right now.”*
Now THAT sounds like a Statesman!
*Tan, drunk, and stupid is no way to govern Speaker Boehner*
Short. To the point. Perfect.
I love it!
Exactly right. It's refreshing to see a candidate who doesn't have to tear down others to make himself look better.
Go Ted.
Johnny the jellyfish thinks that he still has the support of the GOPe and he also thinks that they control the party. Nothing to see here, move along because I am still untouchable.
Coincidentally, today I got a mass mailing letter from Boehner with a Republican questionnaire inside.
I wrote a short note that said .
"If the Republican party wants to improve itself, get rid of Boehner an McConnell". and mailed that back. -Tom
Here's Ted working it on the front line...taking Kerry to the mat on the Iran Deal.....
Boehner was misquoted...he said he is a jackass....
Sid’s email really was astute.
And I learned a new word “louche.”
For those that haven’t read the candid description of Boehner:
“’Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference,’ Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. ‘They are repelled by his personal behavior. He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle,’ he added. ‘He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a ‘revolution,’ riding the crest into power,’ Blumenthal continued as he described Boehner, R-Ohio. ‘He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody’s enduring loyalty.’”
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