Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Thursday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went “way over the line” by describing President Barack Obama’s administration of financing terrorism with its Iran nuclear deal.
Cruz, who’s running for the 2016 GOP nomination, made the comments during a news conference earlier this week.
“If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” Cruz said at the time. “Billions of dollars under control of this administration will flow into the hands of jihadists who will use that money to murder Americans, to murder Israelis, to murder Europeans.”
Romney hit back against Cruz, despite his own concerns with the agreement.
I am opposed to the Iran deal, but @SenTedCruz is way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge. Hurts the cause.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) July 30, 2015
Obama has criticized Republican candidates for their comments on the Iran deal, calling their statements on his policies “outrageous attacks.”
Most notably, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) made a Holocaust reference by saying Obama’s deal was marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.”
Watch Cruz’s comments:
I had no idea that my beloved President was footing the bill for the 2016 GOTP clown car.
This is just shocking!
Every other word out of Tailgunner Ted’s mouth is way over the line.
We’re not giving the Iranians anything. It’s their money and it’s being held in banks all over the world, French, British, Chinese, Russian, German. Ya know, the other members of the P5+1 that will move forward with or without the dysfunctional US congress.
Back when the John Birch Society was considered to be a fringe nutjob outfit, even by the standards of a day when both moderate Republicans and liberal Democrat were usually virulently anti-communist, it was a least true that the USSR was actually worth being afraid of in terms of capabilities and in terms of its embrace of oppressive tyranny.
But I swear to god, people on the right were less afraid back in the days when they were fifteen minutes and one “oops” away from being reduced to radioactive plasma than right wing media has managed to make them of having a mosque in their town.
I’m becoming more and more convinced Cruz and Trump are Democratic operatives tasked with destroying the GOP.
It makes more sense than any other possibility.
Poor Mitt. Still trying to be the Gray Eminence of the Rich-Fucks wing of the GOP. Still failing.