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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/senator-blasts-ted-cruz-for-sandy-hook-campaign-ad-it-makes-me-want-to-throw-up/#.Vj48w3hJW8Y.facebookSenator blasts Ted Cruz for Sandy Hook campaign ad: It makes me want to throw up
07 Nov 2015 at 12:02 ET
Calling it sick and saying it made him want to throw up a senator from Connecticut ripped into Republican presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz and a PAC that supports him over an ad using the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school as a reason to support his candidacy.
According to the Hartford Courant, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) issued a blistering statement condemning the ad that trades on the deaths of the 26 people 20 of them children to commend Cruz for standing up for gun rights after the horrific mass shooting.
If Ted Cruz wants to brandish his pro-gun credentials to Republican primary voters, thats his right, Murphy said. But its sick that he thinks hell win votes by specifically pointing out that in the wake of 20 dead first-graders, he was the face of the fight to ensure no action was taken to stop more deranged killers from walking into elementary schools with military-style assault weapons loaded with 30-round clips of ammunition.
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The new Ted Cruz ad makes me want to throw up, and Im pretty sure thats a feeling shared by many who lived through the horror of Sandy Hook, Murphy said.
Murphy added that showing off how callous he was in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting may win him some right-wing votes that get swept up from Donald Trump or Ben Carson, but it disqualifies him in a general election.
Middle-of-the-road, common sense voters support measures like expanded background check, Murphy said. But more importantly, they wont be impressed by a campaign whose opening pitch to voters is portraying the candidate as the one senator who took on the parents of Sandy Hook in the wake of the most horrific mass shooting in our lifetime.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)To make such an ad is disgusting.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)I think I'm going to hide under a rock until mid-November, 2016.
spanone
(135,844 posts)i fear his kind.
paul ofnoclique
(81 posts)In fact, there's historical precedent for it, since Stalin was born in Georgia not Russia and Hitler was born in Austria not Germany.
niyad
(113,344 posts)paul ofnoclique
(81 posts)I hope you enjoyed Samhain. (If I've made a faulty assumption based on your avatar, I apologize.)
niyad
(113,344 posts)MMBB
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Ghouls.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)The new Ted Cruz ad makes me want to throw up...
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Cruz is a coldhearted bastid.
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)Murphy is someone that we should look to as a national candidate?
Gotta' love how he sticks up for the right things!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Call them out for what they are...power hunger men of evil supported by a few thousand brainwashed
Christian extremists.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)antisocial, narcissistic, psychopathic, sociopathic - one or perhaps all describe him.
He is a very dangerous person.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Cruz is a very dangerous man.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)the man does not have genuine feelings - he's a classic sociopath
edhopper
(33,587 posts)"Ted Cruz makes me want to throw up
DVRacer
(707 posts)Carnival Cruz makes me want to puke! The man is unstable mentally and should be seeking mental health care. It bothers me when I overhear people here in Oklahoma say they consider him as an option it makes me question their mental health.