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Tony_FLADEM

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 03:14 AM Nov 2012

Ted Cruz: Mitt Romney ‘French-kissed’ Barack Obama

Sen.-elect Ted Cruz believes Mitt Romney got a little too close to Barack Obama in the third presidential debate.

“I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama,” Cruz said in a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual conference Friday.

Cruz said that conservatives failed to make their case to the American people, leaving Romney no choice but to move toward the president. “We didn’t win the argument, we didn’t even make the argument” throughout much of 2012, Cruz said.

But in the first debate, he argued, that changed.

“It was the one time we actually contested ideas, presented two viewpoints and directions for the country,” he said. “And then inevitably, there are these mandarins of politics, who give the voice: ‘Don’t show any contrasts. Don’t rock the boat.’ So by the third debate, I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83989.html#ixzz2CeOC8kqo

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Ted Cruz: Mitt Romney ‘French-kissed’ Barack Obama (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM Nov 2012 OP
Cruz is one smarmy bastard Skittles Nov 2012 #1
yep libodem Nov 2012 #2
The psychology of the remark intrigues. WinkyDink Nov 2012 #3
Once again Texans find the dumbest person on the ticket and elections him LynneSin Nov 2012 #4

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
4. Once again Texans find the dumbest person on the ticket and elections him
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 01:15 PM
Nov 2012

Well about 50% of them anyways.

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