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Cruz Suggests "Spanking" for Clinton Role in Benghazi
Texas Tribune ^ | Jan. 8, 2016 | Patrick Svitek

Posted on 01/08/2016 5:39:16 PM PST by Isara

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz stumps in Pocahontas, Iowa during a pre-caucus tour on Jan. 7, 2016. (Photo by Patrick Svitek)
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz stumps in Pocahontas, Iowa during a pre-caucus tour on Jan. 7, 2016. (Photo by Patrick Svitek)
CHARLES CITY, Iowa — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Friday suggested Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, should get a "spanking" for her response to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks.

Responding to an audience member, Cruz said there are still unanswered questions about what the former secretary of state knew about the attacks, which killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. 

“Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don’t know to this day," Cruz said before bringing up an email Clinton wrote to her daughter on the same day as the attacks. "We do know that Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, ‘Well, gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack when we were out telling the American people it wasn’t.'"

"You know, I’ll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the five-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking," Cruz added. "Well, in America the voters have a way of administering a spanking, and I can tell you this: As president ... there will be accountability for Benghazi." 

Clinton has taken responsibility for security lapses at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, though Republicans continue to question whether she is being forthcoming about how the attacks transpired. 

Cruz made the comment during a town hall in Charles City, one of six Iowa stops he was scheduled to make Friday. 


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; canadian; cruz; ineligible; tcruz; tedcruz
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"You know, I’ll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the five-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking," Cruz added. "Well, in America the voters have a way of administering a spanking, and I can tell you this: As president ... there will be accountability for Benghazi." 
1 posted on 01/08/2016 5:39:16 PM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

Bad move, Cruz. Child Protective Services will be at your door any minute. And you’re going to have to explain to a bunch outside of Iowa about corporal punishment.

It’s a different world we live in.


2 posted on 01/08/2016 5:42:31 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Isara

Firing squid would be most appropriate.


3 posted on 01/08/2016 5:42:53 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: Isara
You know, I'm down with that.

Seriesly...

4 posted on 01/08/2016 5:42:55 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Isara

“Spanking”???

That is real masculine talk.

And trivializing the needless deaths that occurred there.


5 posted on 01/08/2016 5:43:31 PM PST by odawg
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To: Isara

Not a good comparison between his 5 year old and the evil Clinton. She deserves prison.


6 posted on 01/08/2016 5:43:33 PM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: Isara

Is Cruz running for President or for author of the next “50 Shades of Grey” book?


7 posted on 01/08/2016 5:43:34 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Isara

Clinton deserves prison, not a spanking.


8 posted on 01/08/2016 5:44:46 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Isara

Hopefully he was joking. Otherwise, the meme about violence against women starts in 3....2....1....


9 posted on 01/08/2016 5:45:43 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trump & Cruz - Together, a Better America!)
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To: Isara

Hillary would like that if Huma administers.


10 posted on 01/08/2016 5:45:46 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Isara

Oh no, the media will call him a perv.


11 posted on 01/08/2016 5:45:47 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Isara
Again:

"You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the five-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking," Cruz added. "Well, in America the voters have a way of administering a spanking, and I can tell you this: As president ... there will be accountability for Benghazi."

12 posted on 01/08/2016 5:46:50 PM PST by Isara
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To: odawg

Oh for Gods sake.


13 posted on 01/08/2016 5:46:59 PM PST by skeeter
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To: doc1019
"Firing squid would be most appropriate."

Well you can't just start firing squid without cause.

American Federation of Labor and the Calamari Industrial Organization will chew your behind.

14 posted on 01/08/2016 5:47:30 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: All

Does anybody read beyond the headline anymore?


15 posted on 01/08/2016 5:48:16 PM PST by Isara
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To: doc1019

‘Firing squid’

That ink they squirt is pretty nasty stuff, isn’t it.


16 posted on 01/08/2016 5:48:25 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Isara

Trump needs his butt beat every time his heart beats.


17 posted on 01/08/2016 5:48:41 PM PST by libbylu
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To: tennmountainman

There’s no hand big enough to spank her giant ass!


18 posted on 01/08/2016 5:49:26 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: billorites

(Oops!) Well, we all know how dangerous squids can be. LOL!


19 posted on 01/08/2016 5:49:29 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: skeeter

“Oh for Gods sake.”

How do you think the parents of the abandoned dead [by Hillary] regard that kind of nonsense?

A spanking? She deserves ignominy and prison. But she is running for president.


20 posted on 01/08/2016 5:50:10 PM PST by odawg
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