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Ted Cruz fires back at Mitt Romney: You got 'clobbered' by Obama for a reason
MSN / The Business Insider ^ | July 30, 2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 07/30/2015 3:33:17 PM PDT by 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)

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; iran; obama; romney; tedcruz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am so glad Mitt spoke out on this. It settles everything up
For me and makes clear the errors of speaking in this way
On a serious subject.

haHAHahAHAhaHAhaHahahahahahahahahah!!


41 posted on 07/30/2015 4:19:55 PM PDT by Calpublican (GOP, Representation or we're taking this mo' fo' down!!!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

42 posted on 07/30/2015 4:21:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good for Cruz. Too many pubbies have bought into the meme that conservative males have to act like docile little eunuchs or risk being called “mean.”

The media has effectively castrated and neutralized normal masculine traits.

Cruz is taking a page out of The Donalds book and decided to fire back and keep the rhetorical sword sharp!

43 posted on 07/30/2015 4:21:19 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: BruceS

It’s the social media age. He has to.


44 posted on 07/30/2015 4:21:44 PM PDT by Calpublican (GOP, Representation or we're taking this mo' fo' down!!!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“A hit, a very palpable hit.”

Love, Hamlet.


45 posted on 07/30/2015 4:23:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (This is no deal, Øbama is negotiating terms of surrender)
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To: dfwgator

That is true also. Romney had no problem fighting with white republicans. Black democrats were off limits, had to be treated with kid gloves.


46 posted on 07/30/2015 4:23:37 PM PDT by entropy12 (Make America Great Again!!! Go Trump/Cruz 2016....others are all in pocket of their rich donors.)
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To: paintriot

LOLOL.
Right!


47 posted on 07/30/2015 4:28:22 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: paintriot
Like Randy Marsh?


48 posted on 07/30/2015 4:29:02 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There were actually better quotes. I liked these:

“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.”

Cruz added: “When you send billions of dollars to jihadists trying to kill Americans, you bear responsibility for the murder that they carry out with the money you have given them.”


49 posted on 07/30/2015 4:30:54 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, Marxist Mitt got clobbered for a couple dozen reasons but I understand that Ted was just being gracious.


50 posted on 07/30/2015 4:33:32 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: McGruff
"He got clobbered" Batman TV show photo: Catwoman and Robin CatwomanandRobin.jpg
51 posted on 07/30/2015 4:36:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOPe is obsessed with decorum.

Unless they are attacking Conservatives.


52 posted on 07/30/2015 4:39:05 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: BruceS
If I heard it from Romney....I'd reply.

Doesn't take much time to call a loser...a loser.

53 posted on 07/30/2015 4:40:16 PM PDT by Osage Orange (What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.)
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To: bert

Hey Bert, how does it feel being they guy that still defends the man that helped Planned Parenthood advance in the cutthroat world baby parts business?

Because you and the rest of the excusemakers have a lot to answer for in shaming people into voting for that piece of human garbage.

PS...I and the other hated purists were not wrong. EVER.


54 posted on 07/30/2015 4:41:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: txrefugee

Ted Cruz is wise to defend his character and honor.

* * *

Ditto. Bush didn’t fight against his detractors, Mittens didn’t fight back . . . and you see where it got them. But Cruz is sharp as a tack and can profit from the (bad) example of others — unlike the GOPe, it seems.

CRUZ to the White House!


55 posted on 07/30/2015 4:44:21 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: BruceS
Doesn’t Cruz have better things to do than worry about what Romney is tweeting? If he doesn’t, he should drop out now.

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

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

You sure you're on the right website?

56 posted on 07/30/2015 4:44:40 PM PDT by Washi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz the man way of doing things and the Romney pussy way of doing things. I am thankful I did not vote for that waste of skin.


57 posted on 07/30/2015 4:45:44 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bad move Ted. What’s your point?


58 posted on 07/30/2015 4:45:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cripplecreek

Milt lost because of the demographics involved....and probably a lot of out and out cheating.


59 posted on 07/30/2015 4:47:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Norm Lenhart

as usual, you are continuing to beat a dead horse with a lie


60 posted on 07/30/2015 4:47:01 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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