Ted Cruz Criticizes Jimmy Carter a Day After His Cancer Admission

[patricia92243]

Ted Cruz Criticizes Jimmy Carter a Day After His Cancer Admission

In his "soapbox" remarks at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz criticized Jimmy Carter's presidency - a day after Carter's moving public admission about his cancer.

"I think where we are today is very, very much like the late 1970's. I think the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are uncanny, same failed domestic policy, same misery, stagnation and malaise, same feckless and naive foreign policy. In fact, the exact same countries, Russia and Iran, openly laughing at and mocking the president of the United States."

When asked about the timing of his remarks, Cruz said, according to Bloomberg News: "We can always have a discussion about public policy."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-criticizes-jimmy-carter-day-after-his-cancer-admission-n413956?cid=sm_fb
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Just when I think the republicans can't be more repulsive - they prove me wrong!

[malaise]

1. Why would you think that ReTHUGs can't be more repulsive

That's a given.

[pinboy3niner]

5. No US troops died in foreign wars during Carter's tenure

That's a HUGE plus for Jimmy in my book

[malaise]

6. The war profiteers count dollars not bodies

Carter was a great president - not an Ugly American like the new flavor of the month -Trump

[sarge43]

13. They're all in a race to the bottom of the septic tank. Cruz just pulled ahead.

Vicious creeps

[roguevalley]

22. I think Cruz gets some news in his empty head and just says things. I don't think he even thinks

about it, the foreigner.

Don't hate on me, my Canadian relatives.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I think that deep inside, Cruz is an evil man, son of another evil man.

I can picture both standing back and watching others being beaten for incredibly mundane actions, with those awful smirks on their faces. Both give me the creeps. The younger's eyes show his evil soul. The elder is so horrible, I won't look at him.

Am I alone in this? There is something wrong with both.

[malaise]

8. Nasty despicable scumbags

and vulgar snake oil salesmen aka hustlers

[olegramps]

15. You are dead on.

Todays Republicans have demonstrated that they are completely devoid of any shred of decency. They are zealots who wouldn't hesitate to commit the most treacherous act to achieve their goals.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Rafael needs to return to his homeland, Canada, and STFU.

Nasty asshole.

[spanone]

4. fuck cruz. he's excrement.

[MiniMe]

7. There is a time to criticize former Presidents

That was not the time to criticize.

[patricia92243]

10. Bingo!

[TBF]

9. This just shows what a disgusting person he is -

I can handle his criticism of the Iran deal. I may even agree a little. As someone who cares a great deal about Israel we have to be very careful in these negotiations. But, like Bernie, overall I would like to see diplomacy.

But the criticism of a 90-yr old humanitarian and Nobel peace prize winner as he struggles with brain cancer is beyond the pale.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. Cruz made jokes about Biden right after his son died in June.

[bullwinkle428]

14. Bingo - was just about to make the same point. This shitheel just can't

help himself.

[patricia92243]

18. I didn't realize that. So he has a history of being insensative and crude. :(

[RoccoR5955]

12. So he is against a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Can I take that to mean

that he is against the concept of peace as well. I think I shall.
To hell with Cruz. He should go back to his homeland in Canada!

[Boomerproud]

24. Canada would never take him back.

As for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Pubbies crap all over it when a Democratic president or politician is awarded it. They always say the same thing "Hitler was nominated too." Since the committee never says who was nominated I don't know where they get their information. Cruz is a creep inside and out.

[BeanMusical]

16. That's beyond disgusting.

[Chef Eric]

17. It wasn't an "admission." It was an announcement. nt

[DhhD]

19. Seems like Cruz is going to campaign with Trump to pick up where Reagan left off; rounding up

immigrants to send to FEMA camps to use as slave labor to build a fence/wall across the border with Mexico.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107828001

What a horrible reality it was to leave the care of President Jimmy Carter for the Ronald Reagan era. Even more horrible is the thought of a return to a Trump/Cruz/Reagan presidency.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Cruz is frantically grasping at straws

while his campaign slowly sinks into the political quicksand.

[blackspade]

21. Cruz is a piece of shit.

[niyad]

35. pretty sure that is insulting to pieces of shit.

[blackspade]

37. You got me there!

[MBS]

36. that pretty much sums it up.

he is the worst of the worst.

[pscot]

23. Ted Cruz is a soulless asshole

[YoungDemCA]

25. Stay classy, Ted Cruz

nt

[HassleCat]

26. Seems fair

We criticize Ted Cruz even though we know his IQ is in the low 70s. I don't blame him for lashing out once in a while.

[Hortensis]

27. Actually he makes me nervous in part because he is very intelligent, very talented, very ruthless.

[Hortensis]

28. On a more inspiring note, Carter joined to eradicate guinea worm disease and today there are less

than a couple dozen cases, 15 reportedly, down from 3.6 million. The CDC says those are found in only 4 countries, down from 198 areas in the 1980s. I learned this from Jonathan Alter, who said the "serpent" on the staff on the symbol of medicine is believed to be a guinea worm, which was plaguing the human race back in biblical times.

I hope President Carter lives to see this disease officially eradicated, but all the people who were never crippled and suffering are already a magnificent legacy, and only one of many.

[patricia92243]

30. Isn't it wonderful that one person could make that much of a differance in the world!

[Hortensis]

31. ! That this leader used his power for good, setting a very high standard for successors. Remember

when common thought was an ex-president should show up for state funerals, keep their mouths shut and out of sight the rest of the time, and die quite soon please, maybe with a beloved 5-iron propped by the bed? They certainly weren't supposed to exemplify the difference between hypocrisy and honor for another 30+ sharp, engaged years.

[Thinkingabout]

29. Cruz has the class of a piss ant, no one wants him around.

[blackspade]

38. Not even close

Both ants and piss have a useful biological functions.

Cruz isn't fit for compost...too contaminated. An intellectual superfund site.

[Thinkingabout]

39. I have to agree, if you want to know the wrong answer listen to Cruz.

[DFW]

32. Ted Cruz has the mores of a jackal and the sensitivity of a garden slug.

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We have some low forms of life in Texas. With Cruz, a lower one was introduced as a pest from elsewhere.

[Eleanors38]

33. Cruz: Bad fart, good VW, cold day.

[niyad]

34. ah, the benefits of speed dial.