Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted on 02/13/2016 10:08:16 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
White House hopeful Marco Rubio ripped rival Ted Cruz at Saturday's presidential debate for a "pattern" of telling lies, particularly about immigration reform.
"This is a disturbing pattern now. For a number of weeks Ted Cruz has just been telling lies," Rubio said. "He's lying about all sorts of things and now he's just making things up."
The Florida senator said that Cruz had lied "about Ben Carson in Iowa," referring to the Carson campaign's accusations that Cruz's campaign spread false rumors during the caucuses that the retired neurosurgeon was dropping out of the presidental race.
Rubio's comments came as he and the Texas Republican battled over their stance in a 2013 fight in the Senate over a wide-ranging immigration reform bill.
Cruz has repeatedly knocked Rubio for working with Democrats, calling the "Gang of Eight" bill the "Rubio-Schumer amnesty plan," referring to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to be the next Democratic leader.
"The question for anyone on illegal immigration, is where were you in that fight," Cruz added.
Rubio, however, has pointed to amendments that the Texas senator pushed that removed a path to citizenship from the bill but kept work permits.
Asked about his tactics on the Senate's immigration bill, which ultimately stalled in the House, Cruz has said that the amendments were meant to expose Democrats' "bluff" and ultimately undermine the Gang of Eight bill.
Rubio wasn't alone at the South Carolina event in accusing Cruz of lying. Donald Trump also said Cruz "is the single biggest liar. ...This guy will say anything."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Rubio was in the Gang of Eight, Cruz wasn’t. Here endeth the lesson.
Well, Ted started the “Liar, Liar Pants on Fire” thing when he went to the Floor of the Senate and called Mitch McConnell a liar. From then on he was a marked man. Any slight deviation from the truth, any forgotten FEC filling, would open him up, and so it did. :-)
Rubio lied about himself and about Cruz.
Cruz lied about Trump.
I’ll forgive Ted, but I will kick Rubio off his elevator shoes.
Trump will be our President.
Path to Legal Status for Illegals
Cheap Foreign Workers on H1-B visa
Pushing import of Syrian Refugees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7-nLXGoSjpg
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
No, Ted pointed out the fact when the establishment chose to ignore it.
Nice try.
Rubio says these things because he can’t defend his own record.
Watch the Trumpkins run to his defense.
Because it wa the truth. McConnell lied to him and other Senators.
So you’re defending Mitch McConnell? Hahahahaha!
Iowa was the beach getting big as the ocean receded, and Cruz fans cheered.
It started rolling back in during New Hampshire.
The beach will go away in South Carolina.
And the full wave hits shore in March.
Tsunami style.
Rubio = amnesty
Cruz = NOT
This is hilarious coming from the Rube and Mr. Silverspoon.
You are missing the point. Ted Cruz started this business of publicly calling people liars, using that term. So when he reduces Donald Trump’s initially nuanced position of Planned Parenthood, i.e., wonderful for “women’s health issues”, but no federal funding of abortion, to “he supports federal funding of Planned Parenthood,” it is a less than totally honest statement. However, since Ted Cruz started calling politicians liars, and Donald Trump sometimes doesn’t “take the lumps out”, Ted gets called a liar.
When you add the South Carolina push polls or calls that are saying Donald Trump is dropping out, vote for Ted Cruz, well as the song goes, “You don’t pull on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don’t mess around with Trump!”
We are now depending on Mitch McConnell to keep Eric Holder off the Supreme Court. You do realize this? Don’t you?
Then we’re screwed.
Yeah! Time to count the ammo, and the survival food.
We’d be depending on Mitch whether or not Cruz said that Mitch lied to the GOP Senators. (It is an interesting bit of semantics that Cruz did not call him a “liar”).
Mitch is a weasel and no more or less weasely because Cruz called him out. That being the case, call the SOB out for what he is. It can’t hurt a thing, really. Maybe Mitch will want to show everyone that he can actually be tough. I’m not holding my breath, though.
We’re screwed.
Oldplayer
Rubio to Florida voters: I won’t support amnesty.
Rubio in Senate joins gang of eight to push for amnesty.
Rubio as presidential candidate: I won’t support amnesty even though it all depends on how you define it.
Rubio about Cruz: He supported amnesty. WHICH IS TOTALLY FALSE.
So what Rubio says about anything is totally unreliable.
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