Post by pavel on Jan 21, 2016 16:10:31 GMT -6
MILFORD, New Hampshire — By way of impression or praise, John F. Kennedy — a Democrat, of all people — made frequent, flattering cameos in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s stump speech during a bus tour across New Hampshire this week.
“Look, JFK campaigned on tax cuts, limiting government, standing up and defeating the Soviet communists,” Cruz told supporters jammed into an Italian restaurant Sunday night. “JFK would be a Republican today.”
Throughout his five-day tour of New Hampshire, the GOP presidential hopeful from Texas couldn't resist referencing, or performing impressions of, the 35th president, a native of nearby Massachusetts.
Cruz sprinkled his remarks with other New England references as well: engaging in self-admitted pandering over the Patriots football team; painting late U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill of Massachusetts as the defeated political villain of the Reagan years and invoking the Gipper's “Irish wit.”
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/01/21/cruz-gambles-new-hampshire-trip/
“Look, JFK campaigned on tax cuts, limiting government, standing up and defeating the Soviet communists,” Cruz told supporters jammed into an Italian restaurant Sunday night. “JFK would be a Republican today.”
Throughout his five-day tour of New Hampshire, the GOP presidential hopeful from Texas couldn't resist referencing, or performing impressions of, the 35th president, a native of nearby Massachusetts.
Cruz sprinkled his remarks with other New England references as well: engaging in self-admitted pandering over the Patriots football team; painting late U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill of Massachusetts as the defeated political villain of the Reagan years and invoking the Gipper's “Irish wit.”
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/01/21/cruz-gambles-new-hampshire-trip/