“Way over the line”: Mitt Romney slams Ted Cruz for unhinged “terrorism” charge against Obama
“If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said this week of the multinational nuclear agreement with Iran.
“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,” Cruz explained to a group of supporters.
Cruz, apparently competing for the title of Republican presidential candidate who has said the most outrageously offensive thing of the week, faced some stiff competition from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who compared the deal to President Obama “marching the Israelis to the oven doors.” Nevertheless, Cruz’s accusation that the Iranian nuclear deal would make President Obama a sponsor of terrorism was explosive (pardon the pun) enough to garner a rebuke from the President.
“We’ve had a sitting senator, who also happens to be running for president, suggest that I’m the leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Obama said during a press conference from Ethiopia earlier this week. “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines, but it’s not the kind of leadership that is needed for America right now,” he insisted.
Well this morning, President Obama got some back-up against Cruz from an unlikely source. 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted his disapproval of Cruz’s remarks, calling out Cruz for going “over the line” and claiming the Tea Party senator had “hurt the cause”:
?Way over the line?: Mitt Romney slams Ted Cruz for unhinged ?terrorism? charge against Obama - Salon.com