Cruz: I Didn't Compare Defund Obamacare Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers
Source: Talking Points Memo
"The premise of your question isn't true. I didn't make that comparison," Cruz said when asked by Meet The Press host David Gregory if he regretted the comments. "I went through the centuries where, over and over again, when facing big challenges, Americans have risen to the occasion... At every stage, there were the voices of conventional wisdom that said this can't be done, and every time, Americans have risen to the challenge."
Here's what Cruz said Tuesday during his floor speech, as TPM reported.
"If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany," Cruz said. "Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, 'Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We can't possibly stand against them.'"
"And in America there were voices that listened to that," he continued. "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on TV and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-i-didn-t-compare-defund-skeptics-to-nazi-appeasers
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)and "raising the minimum wage cannot be done"... and so on and so forth
Wait!...Those weren't real Americans.. those were Republicans!
Archae
(46,327 posts)You know what groups were Nazi sympathizers and appeasers, and willingly sold resources to the fascist Japanese, up until Pearl Harbor?
You got it.
Conservatives!
It was FDR and liberals who put into place the "Lend-Lease" act and other anti-fascist acts.
dougolat
(716 posts)...he might have stayed away from that particular subject, but when one talks that long things slip out, eh?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)What a fucking jackass.
This idiot's grasp of history is deplorable.
The larger context to his analogy is just fucking stupid.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)And to this Brit of Jewish origin, it is SICKENING!
By the way, it's also historically inaccurate; as all this happened in the late 30s, not the 40s. The war in Europe began in 1939, and Chamberlain was replaced by Churchill by the end of that year, so Cruz doesn't even know his basic facts.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Not in Europe. But yup, appeasement was the order of the day... League of Nations condemned Japan's military incursions into China in the early 1930s... Japan exited the League... the Marco Polo Bridge Incident is considered the start of the war in 1937...
(edited for correction in facts)
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)No, wait we are just getting starting to get along with them. It would be cruel and unusual punishment for the poor Iranians.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)It causes brain damage. Cruz also keeps yakking up the phrase that Obamacare has already hurt many Americans. Who is this imbecile talking about? Also in Texas, you have this brain damaged Rep John Culberson comparing fighting Obamacare to fighting the 9/11 attackers on United flight 93.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/gop_rep_compares_fighting_obamacare_to_fighting_911_attackers/?source=newsletter
Do drug stores in TX sell stupid pills?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It has no effect on us Texas Liberals
I suspect the water continent-wide does the same thing as the entire country has brain-damaged republicans. The water must have some kind of memory and is able to discern when it comes across a conservative brain and a Liberal brain.
For that matter, it must be global. Just take a look at what the water is doing to Canadians and Australians...
Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)One can only hope that Texas has had enough of the Republican dopes.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)...when you're talking BS or using a children's story to perfectly illustrate your own pea-brainery.
So we all know what you said, Douchenozzle.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)They're reproducing.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts).....scary idea. Thanks, now I can't get it out of my head.
andym
(5,443 posts)Cruz is no dummy: Princeton and then Harvard Law, where Dershowitz called him "off-the-charts brilliant" (according to Wikipedia). He knows EXACTLY what he is doing, when he is distorting facts, and he is doing it for a reason, probably his own self-advancement. But he is Fox News populism embodied and is very dangerous as can be seen in the current government shutdown scenario, where he played a key role.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)on republican BS mountain.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)doesn't even have the guts to stand by his word or apologize. He's a fucking worm!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)the rest of the day he integrity free.
47of74
(18,470 posts)What a fucking idiot. Cruz makes me fucking sick. He really does. Hasn't he and the rest of the Republican fucksticks out there ever heard of video recording?
Lasher
(27,597 posts)Hope Cruz gets another Pants on Fire judgement against him.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/ted-cruz/