Posted on 07/31/2015 11:08:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Tea Partyer was secretly recorded bashing Romney as the worst GOP presidential candidate on Earth.
When Tea Party firebrand and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz lashed out Mitt Romney yesterday for daring to condemn his over-the-top charge that the Obama administration had become the world’s leading state sponsor of terror by negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation deal with Iran, it was hardly the first time the Texas senator has attacked his party’s 2012 presidential nominee.
According to a new report in the National Journal, during a private speech back in May to the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of top conservative donors and activists whose executive director once boasted “we control everything in the world,” Cruz blasted the former governor of Massachusetts as the least qualified person on Earth to challenge President Obama’s re-election bid in 2012, citing Romney’s own support the so-called blueprint of the president’s signature health insurance law, Obamacare:
The Republican Party, in its infinite wisdom, sought out and found the one human being on the face of the planet who had designed and implemented a program just like Obamacare. Literally—there are 7 billion people on Earth. You could have grabbed any other person and asked them, ‘Excuse me, sir, have you designed and implemented Obamacare? No? You’re a better candidate!’
During an appearance on a conservative Texas radio program yesterday, Cruz argued that Romney “got clobbered” by Obama during the election because he was too afraid to stand up to Obama during the debates to challenge him on the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, choosing instead to “just kind of rearrange the pencil on the podium.”
Romney invited the scorn of Cruz this latest time because he had the temerity to post a tweet condoning Cruz’s rhetoric in opposition to the Iran deal, charging that such language actually “hurts the cause”:
Mitt Romney
@MittRomney
I am opposed to the Iran deal, but @SenTedCruz is
way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge.
Hurts the cause.
But as the National Journal notes, earlier this year, Cruz blasted a potential Romney in run in 2016 as a recipe for a guaranteed loss, arguing that only a principled conservative rather than what he described as a representative of the “mushy middle” could overtake the White House. Cruz is currently polling eight nationally in the race to become the Republican presidential nominee.
Yeah, they do, just like they thought with McCain and Trump.
Cruz was right. Romney was the only person the republicans could have run that could not attack Obamacare. I thought the same thing at the time.
“...by negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation deal with Iran...
I want the English language back, and I want it now!
He actually managed to win two more states and the Omaha district in Nebraska. Whoopie!
Why estimation of Cruz just jumped another 100 points
If nothing, he is absolutely consistent.
This makes me love Ted Cruz even more.
And Ted was absolutely correct - Romney failed to inspire and voters failed to fight through it to oust Obama - lose-lose situation for the People
LOL. Yes they do. The Salon people just don't understand the Tea Party Mentality. They simply cannot grok us.
I like Cruz even more knowing he didn’t drink the kool aid in 2012.
IN a word - YES!
Cruz will be the most polarizing president since Lincoln. The socialist seeds have been sown in the socialist public schools for decades. Media, law politics and even the church has been co-opted in the socialist-humanism zeitgeist. Cruz is to quote Camille Paglia, a fanatic. In other words he has deep deep convictions that are in opposition to: tyranny, the centralization of power, socialism, feminism, humanism, abortion, homo-normalization, and the radical secularization of society. Ted is not a uniter nor a compromiser, he is a destroyer of the enemy within and a builder of liberty.
I'm all in for Cruze - I fear it is our last best chance for liberty on planet Earth.
Ted Cruz Ping! Don't worry. Salon isn't using much of it.
From the article: Romney invited the scorn of Cruz this latest time because he had the temerity to post a tweet condoning Cruz’s rhetoric in opposition to the Iran deal,
"Condoning"? Maybe the spell checker rebelled against "Condemning" which is what Romney really did.
Cruz:
“The Republican Party, in its infinite wisdom, sought out and found the one human being on the face of the planet who had designed and implemented a program just like Obamacare. Literally—there are 7 billion people on Earth. You could have grabbed any other person and asked them, ‘Excuse me, sir, have you designed and implemented Obamacare? No? You’re a better candidate!’ “
100% spot on the money!
Love that Dog graphic!
Cruz was right. It was plain for anyone to see. Cruz is still right.
Man’s got a straight razor in his boot and knows how to use it.
That Cruz photoshop poster was spot on.
Ya jest know I’ve gotta
:)
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