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Peter King: Rand Paul And Ted Cruz “Appeal To Lowest Common Denominator”
Buzz Feed ^ | 5/20/2015 | Anfrew Kacynski

Posted on 05/20/2015 2:35:58 PM PDT by VinL

Rep. Peter King says Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are in a “race to the bottom” of the Republican field. King, the Long island Republican who said he’ll decided whether to run for president in “next month or so” said the pair appeal to the “lowest common denominator.”

“I’d say it’s a race to the bottom between Ted Cruz and Rand Paul,” said King, asked who the worst Republican candidate was, adding that he judged them on “their policies, and also how they’d do in the general election.”

“They both appeal to the lowest common denominator,” he said.

King said he was bothered most by Paul’s foreign policy.

“Starting with Rand Paul, I would say that — well, you asked me the thing that bothers me the most — I would say that he has this ‘blame America’ foreign policy, talking about America being an imperial power,” said King.

King called the Kentucky senator’s filibuster a waste of time.

“I mean, to actually waste 23 hours — I don’t know how many hours his filibuster was on the House floor, about drones — I mean, he’s really worried about CIA killing an American drinking coffee at Starbucks? You know, the enemy is al-Qaeda, and that to me is just creating unnecessary fears in people, and such a distortion.”

“For him to say that Gen. Clapper belongs in jail, with Snowden, and to be saying anything good about Snowden at all — here’s a guy who has put so many American lives at risk. And basically, I would say it’s this moral equivalency he shows between the CIA and the NSA on the one hand, and the enemies of America on the other hand — to me, this is a Charles Lindbergh isolationism of the 1930s.”

Turning to Cruz, Peter King said he was bothered most by Cruz’s “irresponsibility” relating to the 2013 government shutdown.

“As for Ted Cruz, I would say it’s the irresponsibility, going back to when he brought about the government shutdown in 2013, on the funding of Obamacare,” said King. “Somehow he got people in the House to go along with that, then when it came to the Senate he admitted he had no answer to it. So you have the government shut down, there was no way out of it other than to re-open the government, at a loss of revenue to the government.”

King added he “no idea” why House Republicans listened to Cruz on shutting down the government.

“People at a — again, causing Republicans, from a political perspective, our numbers dropped so dramatically during that time. And it was all because of him, with this totally false narrative of his that if the House just shut down the government over Obamacare, he’d be able to take care of it in the Senate. And why people listened to him, why they followed him over the cliff, I have no idea.”


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Oh, my....I think I've just been insulted. I know what "low" and "common" mean, but I have to look up denomruminator.
1 posted on 05/20/2015 2:35:59 PM PDT by VinL
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To: VinL

I know who he is but no one else does. Who the F is Peter King?


2 posted on 05/20/2015 2:37:12 PM PDT by Williams
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To: VinL

Peter King Appeals To Lowest Common Denominator


3 posted on 05/20/2015 2:37:37 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: VinL

It is funny how he never tells this to their faces.
One of these days he is going to make a mistake an do exactly that.


4 posted on 05/20/2015 2:39:13 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: VinL

Your now on the list dick.


5 posted on 05/20/2015 2:39:15 PM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: subterfuge

You’re now on the list Dick.


6 posted on 05/20/2015 2:40:02 PM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: VinL

Did this fool just call us out and refer to us as the “lowest common denominator”? Yes, he did. Good luck Peter you idiot. Hope you cherish the two votes you get in Iowa if you even get that many if you run.


7 posted on 05/20/2015 2:40:11 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: VinL

He is the lowest common denominator.


8 posted on 05/20/2015 2:41:23 PM PDT by nomad
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To: VinL

So the man who supplied weapons to the Irish Republican Army is talking lowest common denominator


9 posted on 05/20/2015 2:42:43 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: VinL; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

10 posted on 05/20/2015 2:44:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: VinL

They must have serious appeal to Peter King.


11 posted on 05/20/2015 2:45:26 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: VinL

He is just spouting the GOP line of BS. This is truly what the GOP thinks of its voters. Pi$$ on them. On second thought, I wouldn’t pi$$ on any of them even if their gums were on fire.


12 posted on 05/20/2015 2:45:49 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: VinL

FUPK


13 posted on 05/20/2015 2:45:54 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Republican elites are as useless as bacteria in a flea's butt!!)
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To: Williams
I know who he is but no one else does. Who the F is Peter King?

Loud-mouthed RINO from Long Island, NY who has outlived his political expiry date by about 1,000 years.

14 posted on 05/20/2015 2:47:33 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: dware
On second thought, I wouldn’t pi$$ on any of them even if their gums were on fire.

I would.

15 posted on 05/20/2015 2:50:26 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: VinL

Pete King never lets an opportunity go by to embarrass himself.


16 posted on 05/20/2015 2:52:55 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: VinL

And if I had tapeworms, they would turn their noses up at Peter King.


17 posted on 05/20/2015 2:53:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: VinL

No, King Peter.

You and other RINOs who support amnesty, at the expense of legal
American jobs are lower and more slimy than slugs.


18 posted on 05/20/2015 2:54:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Williams
I know who he is but no one else does. Who the F is Peter King?

The King of Peters.
19 posted on 05/20/2015 2:54:38 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: VinL

“....I’m Ted Cruz, and I approved this message...”


20 posted on 05/20/2015 3:00:30 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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