Ted Cruz says it was President Obama who was 'Russian bootlicker'

[RandySF]

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, used a protester’s outburst Saturday to riff on how unhinged the left is, how the display of anger was evidence of the tough race he faces against U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the fall, and how it was really President Barack Obama who colluded with Russia, while invoking a favorite line from his favorite movie, “The Princess Bride.”

The interruption came early in Cruz’s conversation onstage with conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson on the second and last day of Erickson’s Resurgent Gathering, a conference for movement conservatives being held at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol.

Holding up a cardboard sign with the words, “Cruz: Russian bootlicker,” a young man stood and shouted toward the podium, “You’re a coward, Ted. Fight the trade war. Stand up to Russia. Stand up for all Texans.”

Finishing up as he was being hooted at by the audience and led out of the hall, the young man chanted, “Beto, Beto, Beto,” a reference to Cruz’s Senate campaign rival, Democrat Beto O’Rourke of El Paso.

Cruz suggested the man needed a dictionary so he could look up the definition of the word, “coward.”

“It reminds me of ‘The Princess Bride,’ ” said Cruz of a movie whose dialogue he has been known to recite verbatim, “You keep on using that word. It does not mean what I think you think it means.” That line is uttered by Inigo Montoya when another character, Vizzini, uses the word, “inconceivable.”

“It seems to me the very definition of cowardice is standing up and screaming like a child and being afraid to engage in any substance, not knowing any substance, which is why you’re afraid to engage in any substance, and just yelling, ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ which is what I guess the fever swamps of the left have told him,” Cruz said.

“The irony of course is that eight years of Obama were eight years of absolute appeasement,” Cruz said.


https://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ted-cruz-says-was-president-obama-who-was-russian-bootlicker/OyspYXfp1fxAQrFkyT9cGO/

[lsewpershad]

1. And you sir

have become a trump ass kisser.

[lsewpershad]

2. When is your

trip to Russia?

[marylandblue]

3. The definition of cowardice is licking the boots of the man who insulted your wife.

[duforsure]

4. Ted Cruz is using putin and trump's playbook

Wonder just how much money ted got from putin for his campaign , and how much his campaign paid Cambridge Analytica , or got NRA funds from russia? Is he accusing others of his stuff like trump now maybe? teds in deep trouble in Texas, and getting desperate but it'll catch up to him. Nobody lies that much that isn't corrupt. Wasn't he backed also by the Mercers? Don't trust ted , he's like trump .