Ted Cruz: Talk Radio Host Mark Levin Should Be The Next House Speaker

Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a town hall event at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) floated his pick for the next House speaker while campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa: Mark Levin, the conservative talk radio host who worked for the Reagan White House.

“I think the next speaker should be Mark Levin,” Cruz said at a rally Western Iowa Community College on Monday, according to a report by Iowa newspaper Quad-City Times.

The House speaker race is in disarray after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropped out of the race on Thursday. Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) are still in the running as more Republicans are voicing support for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the high-profile chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan has repeatedly said he doesn’t want the position.

Levin said Tuesday doesn’t want the position either.

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  1. OK then Cruz… how about LIMBAUGH for Speaker?
    I mean so we can all see how really screwed up the GOP is.

  2. Unclear whether this is another of Ted’s always-sidesplitting “jokes,” but do these guys not realize that when they propose that someone not in Congress be made Speaker, it’s really disparaging to their own side?

  3. Deez Nuts may be available…

  4. Only if they keep the helium balloons away from him.

  5. Avatar for dswx dswx says:

    All Cruz’ minions think is that it’s “Anti-guvmint, anti-black man in the White House, and anti-Democrat”.

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