Chris Christie, Ted Cruz take shots at Jimmy Carter

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Politico



New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz both took shots at ailing former president Jimmy Carter on Saturday while on the campaign trail for the 2016 Republican nomination.

Christie said that we have the “weakest” president on foreign policy, and that, “[Obama] makes Jimmy Carter look strong,” while addressing an Iowa State Fair crowd from a soapbox.

Cruz, speaking at the Koch-backed Americans For Prosperity event, Defending the Dream, in Columbus, Ohio, repeated a similar version of an attack he delivered Friday at the Iowa State Fair, when he compared the Obama and Carter administrations’ “same failed domestic policies, same misery, stagnation and malaise, same feckless and naïve foreign policy.”

Carter revealed on Thursday that melanoma had spread to his brain and that he would begin radiation treatment immediately.




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/christie-cruz-take-shots-at-jimmy-carter-121633.html

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Christie's an asshole and makes no bones about it, so no comment there.

Canuck Cruz, on the other hand, goes around with his wingnutty poppy and proclaims himself the epitome of Christianity on earth.

Jimmy Carter embodies Christianity at any given second in his life than a sanctimonious phony like Cruz could hope to be in his entire lifetime.

And, last I checked, the "weak" Carter brokered the Camp David accords, ending decades of strife between Israel and Egypt. And he got the hostages home from Iran without dropping a single bomb, despite GOP attempts to creit Reagan for events that occurred before his swearing in.

Compare the GOP reaction to Carter with how they expected everyone to react to Reagan's Alzheimer's announcement. Conservatives used the occasion to proclaim Ronnie above any and all criticism, and guys like Grover Norquist took advantage of his illness to begin the Reagan Legacy Project, in which they lobbied to transform a president who left office as the butt of jokes into the rightwing equivalent of Kennedy.

Republicans have tried in vain to make Carter's name into a slur, because they, know, deep down, that Saint Ronnie's legacy is empty, and feel that the only way they can build Reagan up is to tear Carter down and blame him for the mess he inherited from conservative icons Nixon and Ford.

[Botany]

1. They are not worthy of saying the man's name

Jimmy Carter: "I'd Like to See the Last Guinea Worm Die Before I Do."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141183475

[hollowdweller]

2. Carter was smart. So was Reagan.

Carter could have started a war with Iran over the hostages or bombed them or some other militaristic BS.

Reagan could have invaded Lebanon after the Marine barracks bombing.

Both apparently knew it would be a clusterfuck.

[gregcrawford]

24. Wait a minute!

Did you just use the name "Reagan" in the same sentence as the word "smart?" You're kidding, right? Please say you're kidding... Oh, sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, PLEASE say you're kidding!

[eggplant]

25. Carter *is* smart.

Reagan was not particularly smart. He was just in the right place at the right time (sometimes).

[jmowreader]

31. Reagan DID invade Grenada after the Marine barracks bombing

[Chemisse]

3. Talk about kicking a man when he's down.

They wait until is is very ill with cancer, then bash his presidency. That is cruel.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. Just as Jesus would have done!

[jtuck004]

4. Carter spent 0 time giving a flying rat's ass what people like this thought. He was too busy.n/t

[LiberalElite]

9. Still, the crap coming from these chuckleheads

infuriates me. In a thousand lifetimes they couldn't do 1/10th of the positive uplifting constructive things Carter has done for others. It's just another measure of the man's greatness that he isn't concerned by the likes of THEM.

[jtuck004]

11. To be honest, I really can't know what he was thinking. But what I can know, with 100% confidence,

is that during the time he might have been thinking about it, he was, for sure, building homes or causing them to be built with other people.

Doing things for others.

The measure of his greatness was that he did something about the object of his concern. That makes all the difference.

[LiberalElite]

12. yes he just keeps going... he will be

known for that among other great things. THEM? not so much.

[Rainngirl]

32. Especially well said! eom

[SamKnause]

5. Par for the course.

Republicans are vile hateful people.

The two of them are not qualified to scrape dog shit from Carter's shoes.

[oldandhappy]

6. I sent an email to the RNC

I suggest you let the RNC know that their candidates have violated reasonable ethics for campaign comments. Bringing an aging ill past president into the conversation of today's issues is beyond the pale.

[MBS]

7. your commentary is perfect.

[NYCButterfinger]

8. Both Cruz and Christie are pathetic

Making fun of a ill man. Their base will eat it up.

[SoapBox]

10. Fuck off assholes!

Of all the nerve...real "Christian" of ya.

[narnian60]

15. Well said.

[hedgehog]

13. People under 60 aren't going to recall the Carter Presidency

but rather the Carter Legacy - Habitat for Humanity etc. Good luck to the GOP trying to attract young voters by attacking Carter!

[Judi Lynn]

14. They remind us regularly they are both the lowest scum on the planet,

and grifters of the most rapacious, odious, destructive degree.

The U.S. symbol, the eagle, might be a predator, but it's certainly not a maggot.

[Devil Child]

17. Classless pieces of trash

These examples of human refuse have no character, class, integrity, or humility. Jimmy Carter represents everything they are not and never will become, a good and honest man.

[LibDemAlways]

18. i have a couple of FB "friends" who are

misguided rightwingers. One goes back 50 years to junior high days and the other is a distant relative. I mostly ignore their political stuff figuring they watch too much Faux News and don't know any better. Anyhow, both have refrained from making any negative comments about Jimmy Carter. Rather, they have posted that they are keeping him and his family in their thoughts. If those two can set aside the partisan shit on behalf of an elderly man suffering from cancer, what the fuck is wrong with Christie and Cruz? Just a couple of soulless assholes gleefully demonstrating their inhumanity. Truly the lowest of the low.

[vanlassie]

19. Jimmy Carter builds houses for the poor,

George Bush paints pictures of himself in the bath.

[Hiraeth]

20. lower than worm shit, the both of them.

[PatrickforO]

21. Ted Cruz and Chris Christie?

These two numb skulls will NEVER even hold a candle to Jimmy Carter. Carter is legitimately a GREAT man.

Christie and Cruz are little more than Lilliputians compared with him.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

22. I'm surprised it's only 2 of the clowns that did this

I would have expected the Huckster to be in the mix somewhere.

[rladdi]

23. While Cruz and Christie are the weakest of the GOP candidates. Neither will get the votes and

support to win the GOP primary. Both are incompetent and just say what they think there backers want to hear. Christie is most corrupt.

[Gothmog]

26. There is a special place in Hell for Carnival Cruz and Chris Chirstie

[chillfactor]

27. amen!

I could not have said it better myself..what a waste of human flesh these two asshats are!

[fredamae]

28. Two Crazed Delusional Bullies

pouncing on a 90 year old Christian man and former POTUS who is dying of cancer.
What GOP prowess.(sarcasm)

I maintain, the smaller the victim, the Sicker the mind(s).

[lark]

29. Fucking bullies

They have no kindness in their hearts at all and hate those who do. Carter showed the world what a genuine, caring person is and they can't stand it that he upstages both of them by miles. They aren't fit to breathe the same air. Both are totally despicable politicians, drowning in their own hate and bile. I hate them both since I am not nearly as good a person as President Carter.

[TBF]

30. I object to those 2 clowns being pictured

with our nobel peace prize winner.