What Did Ted Cruz Say at CPAC that Caused John McCain to go on Far-Left MSNBC Demanding He Apologize?
March 8, 2014 By Matthew Burke
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Of course MSNBC, home of hosts who have a proclivity for foot-in-mouth disease, like former hosts Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, along with race-baiter Melissa Harris-Perry, would be thrilled that RINO John McCain would attack Constitution-loving Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz.
Appearing with Obama cheerleader, Andrea Mitchell (see video and full text of exchange below), McCain demanded that Cruz apologize for comments made in his CPAC speech on Thursday. Andrea Mitchell was so thrilled that McCain attacked Cruz, no doubt overjoyed that he’s just given the Marxist-friendly network material to rehash for the forseeable future, that she told him, “It meant a great deal to us.”
In his CPAC speech, Cruz outlined how Republicans can win. Cruz gave a history lesson to the crowd that “moderates” or RINOs (Republicans-In-Name-Only) like McCain abhor, but which highly resonated with the audience at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and it needed to be said. Cruz told the audience to thunderous applause, “You want to lose elections, stand for nothing.”
Cruz pointed out that in elections where Republicans have a don’t rock the boat strategy, as they did in the 2006, 2008, and 2012 elections, they “got walloped.” He then, with tongue somewhat implanted in cheek, talks about those great “moderate” presidents Dole, McCain and Romney.
Here’s what Cruz said that so outraged McCain that he found it necessary to go on far-left MSNBC to demand Cruz’s apology (emphasis added):
“You want to lose elections, stand for nothing. Look at the last four Congressional elections, ’06, ’08, ’10 and ’12 — of three of the four we followed that strategy, ’06, ’08, and ’12, we put our head down, we stood for nothing and we got walloped. The one election that was a tremendous election was 2010 when Republicans drew a line in the sand. We said, unequivocally, we stand against ObamaCare, against bankrupting the country and we won in an historic tidal wave of an election.
And then of course, all of us remember President Dole and President McCain and President Romney — now look, those are good men, they’re decent men but when you don’t stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don’t stand for principle, Democrats celebrate.”
Here’s the full text of the interview, with McCain admitting he called Cruz to ask him to apologize, followed by Mitchell thanking McCain. Please page down to view video. MSNBC’S ANDREA MITCHELL: I think he’s saying that you, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney did not stand for principle.
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: I spoke to Ted Cruz, he and I have a cordial relationship about this. And he can say what he wants to about me and he can say anything he wants to, I think, about Mitt. Mitt’s capable of taking it. But when he throws Bob Dole in there, I wonder if he thinks that Bob Dole stood for principle on that hilltop in Italy when he was so gravely wounded and left part of his body there fighting for our country?
Bob Dole is such a man of honor and integrity and principle. I hope that Ted Cruz will apologize to Bob Dole because that’s — that has crossed a line that to me that leaves the realm of the politics and discourse that we should have in America.
MITCHELL: Senator, did you call Ted Cruz after he gave his speech yesterday?
MCCAIN: I talked to him on the floor. I talked to him on the floor and said exactly what I’m telling you I said. If you want to — you know, say things that are critical of me and Mitt Romney, that’s fine. My beloved Bob Dole, as you know, is not in the best of health and he doesn’t need that in the twilight of his years.
MITCHELL: It just occurred to me as we’ve been speaking, we were playing some video of Ted Cruz and he was speaking like this (waving hands) and I thought, well, if Bob Dole could have used that arm, his whole life would have been a lot different. So thank you for making that point and thank you for being with us today. It meant a great deal to us.
Watch below as MSNBC thanks John McCain for bashing Ted Cruz, “It meant a great deal to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hVISPE82beE
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/03/08/what-...-he-apologize/
