GOP Senator: I’d Support Sanders Over Cruz In General Election

Daily Caller ^ | 1/21/2016

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr told supporters at a private fundraiser that in a hypothetical general election match-up, he'd support Bernie Sanders over Ted Cruz.

Burr isn't the only Republican member of Congress who takes issue with Cruz. New York Rep. Peter King told the Associated Press this week that Cruz is a "fraud" and that he doesn't, "know of anyone else in Washington, certainly, who gets this opposition from his own people... I'm talking about people as conservative as he is who just can't stand him."

Cruz has previously drawn ire from fellow Republicans for calling Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor.

Burr is running against a conservative opponent Greg Brannon in his senate primary, and saying he'd support a self-avowed socialist is already coming back to hurt him. Brannon put out a press release titled, "BURR GOES FULL SOCIALIST - THREATENS TO VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS OVER CRUZ."

The AP originally reported Burr's comments, and while Alex Johnson, Burr's director of strategic operations, said "It's completely inaccurate," the AP is sticking with their reporting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The GOP-wing of the Democrat party drop their masks.

[Bogey78O]

We wonder why we lost so many battles only to find out years later why.

[nickcarraway]

Being a Senator is just bad for the soul. Burr used to be okay. Why would he even say this?

[justlittleoleme]

Burr for Trump. Conservatives for Cruz.

[Parley Baer]

Story out earlier with Burr denying this happened.

[Perdogg]

Burr is a RINO.

[Cen-Tejas]

If Burr said this he should resign or his constituents should recall him.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Burr is begging to be Cantorized

[G Larry]

So...uh....its time to primary Burr!

[ETL]

If it's commies he likes, he'd be much better off going with Trump.

Trump endorsed Marxist Bill de Blasio for NYC mayor in 2013 (my title)

"... Fred Dicker: What is it going to mean for Donald Trump to have Bill de Blasio as [New York City] Mayor?"

Donald Trump: "He's a smart guy that knows what's going on really big league and I think he is not going to want to destroy New York."

Voice Over: That was Donald Trump a little over two years ago, endorsing PC Socialist Bill de Blasio for New York Mayor.

Donald Trump: "I think pretty strongly that he'll end up being a good mayor, maybe a very good mayor."

Voice Over: De Blasio ran on class warfare, sanctuary cities and ending stop and frisk. De Blasio's sided with looters and cop killers against the police, with teachers unions against schoolchildren and with PC liberals to let the homeless run wild on city streets.

Donald Trump: "I think he is going to want to make New York great. ..."

http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/19/trump-endorsed-bill-de-blasio/

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America's First Openly Marxist Big City Mayor [Bill de Blasio]

Cliff Kincaid - November 5, 2013

Described by CNN as the "unabashed liberal," de Blasio is actually to the left of Barack Obama, in the sense that de Blasio didn't disavow his communist background once it came to light. At least Obama tried to cover up his ties to communist Frank Marshall Davis.

De Blasio had scrubbed the Marxist connections from his campaign website, an omission that momentarily captured the attention of The New York Times. But once these connections and controversies came to light, he embraced his sordid history. He still embraces [communist] liberation theology and his work for the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

Nobody believed the purpose of his "honeymoon" to Cuba was actually a honeymoon, but the media didn't even bother to check into how he made the illegal trip and whether the FBI had developed a file on the candidate.

De Blasio was so open about his Marxism that on Sunday, he campaigned with Harry Belafonte, who during the Cold War sang at a "Concert for Peace" in communist East Germany, where he attacked President Reagan's anti-communist foreign policy. A long-time supporter of the Castro dictatorship, Belafonte was also an ally of the late Venezuelan Marxist ruler Hugo Chavez. ..."

-snip-

De Blasio can be expected to side with Soros and his "progressive base," rather than the police.

De Blasio can also do a lot of damage in the area of surveillance of potential Muslim terrorists. He made a campaign promise to a Muslim group that he would stop the practice of sending informants into mosques and Muslim student organizations.

Going further, if he moves to dismantle the NYPD's counter-terrorism programs, the city and nation could suffer through another 9/11.

Pamela Geller, a New Yorker, comments that the kind of journalism that we saw in the mayoral contest "is not just irresponsible; it endangers us all."

more at:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/americas-first-openly-marxist-big-city-mayor/

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DeBlasio upon arriving in Central America, 1980
[to support the communist Sandinistas]

[ETL]

Trump: "I think its fine. I think its fine, but we should have made a better deal"...
"The concept of opening with Cuba is fine."

A Better Deal with Cuba, says Donald Trump
Humberto Fontova | Jan 16, 2016:

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2016/01/16/a-better-deal-with-cuba-says-donald-trump-n2105426?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

[cableguymn]

many of us knew. this just confirms...

[DakotaGator]

How do you tell a RINO? If it has an R behind its name, talks like a Democrat, votes like a Democrat, and lies like a Democrat, it is a RINO!

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I’d support Sanders over Burr, that’s for sure. Tillis too for that matter. At least Sanders wouldn’t pretend to be on my side while stabbing me in the back.

[Theodore R.]

If anyone can convince the undecided to go with Cruz it is Peter King and now Richard Burr.

[napscoordinator]

Burr is a RINO.

eh, just add to the list. It has lost it’s flavor. When you use a term for everyone, it loses it’s punch. The list of RINOs is long and wide which is really becoming humorous and worthless. I have heard Trump, Rubio, Sarah, Rush, and just about everyone except Cruz as a RINO. Very silly. Just because a person is against Ted Cruz does not make them a RINO.

[TBP]

This proves what we’ve all said about the GOPe for years.

[Theodore R.]

New Yorkers never met a commie that didn’t attract their eye. The only gave William F. Buckley, Jr., 13 percent in 1965.

[John S Mosby]

Isn’t that lovely— the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he would support a freaking Democratic Socialist/Marxist over his own party’s Conservative Constitutionalist. What an a@@ and an oxyMoron-intelligence.
The cartel Cruz speaks of is squealing loudly— from their troughs.

Peter King, Linda Graham, Mcswine,McConnell, Burr— the soft underbelly of the gop-e.