Peter King Takes on Rand Paul, Ted Cruz With New Anti-Tea Party PAC

[jct74]

Peter King Takes on Rand Paul, Ted Cruz With New Anti-Tea Party PAC

By Alex Lazar
Dec 16, 2013 2:35pm

Seeking to unify anti-tea party forces, Rep. Peter King today will form a new political action committee, “American Leadership PAC,” to promote an alternative to staunch conservative Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., he told ABC News in an interview.

“I want to create a presence for those like myself who feel Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are out of touch with the American people,” King, R-N.Y, said. “This is highlighted by the government shutdown, which was one of the worst political disasters we’ve ever had.”

“It’s basically to meet Republicans and find others who share my views,” said King, who refers to Republicans of his ilk as “blue collar conservatives.”

King, 69, also told the New Hampshire Union Leader that the PAC is “going to be a vehicle to enable me to help build a stronger Republican Party and work with Republicans that I feel I have more in common with.”

Cruz’s communications director, Sean Rushton, told ABC News, “Senator Cruz remains focused on making Washington listen by protecting working people from Obamacare and getting the economy growing again. Americans don’t care about bickering from D.C. politicians.”

Paul’s office declined to comment.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...nd-paul-ted-cruz-with-new-anti-tea-party-pac/

 

[FSP-Rebel]

LOL, blue collar conservatives my freakin ass!

 

[eduardo89]

This guy is such a POS.

 

[jct74]

King said the fund is intended “as much as anything to cover travel expense and get around,” as he explores a potential 2016 presidential bid. He was in New Hampshire Monday, his latest in a series of visits to the state at the invitation of local groups.

King says he is weighing a run because he wants to ensure that lawmakers like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), who he accuses of promoting a defeatist foreign policy, do not represent the Republican Party.

King said his American Leadership Now PAC, based in Boston, will be a repository” for funds he may raise at fundraisers where he's asked to speak.

He says he’s raised about $20,000 so far, including $5,000 from his campaign committee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2013/12/king-forms-pac

The PAC, American Leadership Now, aims to boost Republicans who are moderate on domestic issues and tough on foreign policy, King told POLITICO in a phone call from New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation primary state that he has visited five times in the last five months.

“It’s a vehicle that will enable me to go around the country to try to find like-minded Republicans who do not support a government shutdown, who do not support Ted Cruz’s whole idea of a government shutdown, of Rand Paul being isolationist,” he said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/peter-king-pac-2016-election-101204.html

 

[Brett85]

"The PAC, American Leadership Now, aims to boost Republicans who are moderate on domestic issues and tough on foreign policy."

That's the worst combination I can possibly think of. If they're going to be "moderate" on domestic issues, why not be "moderate" on foreign policy issues as well?

 

[acptulsa]

He should call it the Gay Sash Party.

Bet he spends the first thousand he gets on a tiara.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Peter King: the gift that keeps on giving. (And just in time for Christmas, too ...)

“It’s a vehicle that will enable me to go around the country to try to find like-minded Republicans who do not support [...] Rand Paul being isolationist,” [King] said.

Aaah! There it is! I was starting to wonder when King was going to get around to gibbering about "isolationists."

Good ol' Petey-boy never disappoints ...

 

[jct74]

here's the website if you want to check it out and facebook if you want to leave a message

h ttp://www.americanleadershipnow.org/home.php

https://www.facebook.com/Americanleadershipnow

 

[TaftFan]

here's the website if you want to check it out and facebook if you want to leave a message

h ttp://www.americanleadershipnow.org/home.php

https://www.facebook.com/Americanleadershipnow

They will receive my wrath.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

"Americans don’t care about bickering from D.C. politicians."

Not sure I agree with that sentiment at all. They do care because they want their elected officials to get things done instead of constantly engaging in partisan hackery and debate, as is the case here. Look at approval ratings and say Americans don't care about bickering. They care because they want it to stop. They want things to get done, and many still see the Tea Party crowd as 'obstructionist.' That label sticks because it makes them, and the GOP by extension, look like the do-nothing Party. Never mind that, again, both parties are two sides of the same coin, but folks see the Tea Party as a reason for division. The problem is those folks don't look at the rhetoric or why there's obstruction.

 

[erowe1]

Good luck with that.

I hope it at least makes enough of a ripple to motivate the media to talk about how big of a failure it turns out to be.

 

[acptulsa]

Not sure I agree with that sentiment at all. They do care because they want their elected officials to get things done instead of constantly engaging in partisan hackery and debate, as is the case here. Look at approval ratings and say Americans don't care about bickering. They care because they want it to stop. They want things to get done, and many still see the Tea Party crowd as 'obstructionist.' That label sticks because it makes them, and the GOP by extension, look like the do-nothing Party. Never mind that, again, both parties are two sides of the same coin, but folks see the Tea Party as a reason for division. The problem is those folks don't look at the rhetoric or why there's obstruction.

All we have to do is keep reminding people that the October shutdown was an attempt to kill Obamacare and they will begin to understand. And approve. And wish it had worked.

If Peter King wants to go around thinking the voters care more about kicking Syria's ass than killing Obamacare, well, it's his political funeral. Not ours.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This guy is such a POS.

I used a whole bunch of other descriptors for this cockaroach.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

And wish it had worked.

Key words right there. Had worked. But it didn't, and consider how many probably see Ted Cruz as just all talk and no action, considering his quasi-filibuster didn't stop the ACA from going into effect, shoddy as it's been, and he's seen as one of the architects of the shutdown. And that's just one person whose seen as Tea Party.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The PAC, American Leadership Now, aims to boost Republicans who are moderate on domestic issues and tough on foreign policy, King told POLITICO

Translation: Neo-Marxist/Trotskyite, socialist, big Mommy government neo-conservatives.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This emphasizes that we need to donate to the politicians we agree with.

As for purity, we will lose if we only support the 100% pure candidates, and they vehemently oppose anyone who agrees with us on more than one issue. These big government RINOs don't agree with us on anything!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

And let's get the "national defense" issue out of the way. These charlatans think that "national defense" means giving Halliburton and GE trillion dollar contracts to dig holes and then refill them.

 

[acptulsa]

Key words right there. Had worked. But it didn't, and consider how many probably see Ted Cruz as just all talk and no action, considering his quasi-filibuster didn't stop the ACA from going into effect, shoddy as it's been, and he's seen as one of the architects of the shutdown. And that's just one person whose seen as Tea Party.

Well, you know what, Mr Happy? We have an answer for that, too. The problem isn't that there are too many libertarian Republicans, the problem is there aren't enough. Elect more and we can kill Obamacare without shutting down anything we don't want shut down. See how simple that is?

Libertarian Republicans tried to nip that tyranny in the bud. Only libertarian Republicans will try to repeal it. Even though there weren't enough libertarian Republicans to squash this tyrannical fiasco, they did their damndest anyway. Heroically, even. And if more are elected, We, the People can actually have our cake and eat it too--just the way it should be.

And we on this forum are just the ones to make that sales pitch. Whether you get all goomy and doomy on us or not. If Peter King was having that much luck spreading his horse$#!+ on the national media, he wouldn't be trying to set up a PAC to help him spread his horse$#!+. Would he?

We're waking people up every day. And don't tell us we aren't, because we're right there where we can eyewitness it.

 

[anaconda]

This is the crap we have to deal with.

 

[devil21]

So, in other words, King is starting a PAC hoping all the Israel-firsters fill up his coffers for a potential 2016 run. Right?

It's one of the reasons that Dems keep winning more than the GOP does. King can't just let the winds of change take hold. Gotta keep fighting within the party for the sake of his pet special interests. If he does run I predict Sheldon Adelson will fund his zombie campaign like Newt's.