Ted Cruz fires back at Mitt Romney: You got 'clobbered' by Obama for a reason

MSN / The Business Insider ^ | July 30, 2015 | Colin Campbell

[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)

[Pagey]

"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."

This is my new line to say to everyone I know. Love It!

[2ndDivisionVet]

So former Governor Reagan was a loser in 1976?

[US_MilitaryRules]

Well then I guess mittens was not a loser. lol

Cruz has to win the primary and then I’ll make the next judgement after he wins or loses the presidential election.
Then we can call Cruz a winner or loser.

Reagan 1976. That was a primary. mittens lost the presidential election. mittens is a winner and then a loser.

[BruceS]

If Romney is tweeting about Cruz, Cruz has every right, and responsibility, to respond.

Romney lost and is history. If what he says bothers Cruz so much, he is too thin skinned to be president.

Who is your candidate and what do you have against an actual conservative like Cruz?

I don't have a candidate yet. I also am not the arbiter of what an "actual conservative" is, but apparently you are.

You sure you're on the right website?

I wasn't aware that I had to agree with you on everything to be on this website. When did you stage the coup?

[Washi]

Yeah, I am an arbiter of what is an actual conservative.

I’m also an arbiter of what is B.S., like when someone joins a thread for the sole purpose of bashing a specific candidate, and then claims not to support any other specific candidate.

[BruceS]

I don’t care to respond to you any further. I choose what I comment on, not you. Get lost.

[relentlessly]

The time for being nice is long past.

I second that motion.

[gogeo]

Doesn’t Cruz have better things to do than worry about what Romney is tweeting? If he doesn’t, he should drop out now.

I'm sure he'll give your advice the attention it deserves...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Mitt hit Evander Holyfield harder than he hit Obama.