Former Texas Governor Rick Perry recently took a jab at fellow Republican and 2016 potential candidate Ted Cruz.
As reported in the Washington Post:
Rick Perry said in an interview Thursday that his long tenure as governor of Texas will set him apart from his potential rivals in the 2016 Republican presidential contest, pointing to President Obama's legislative career as a warning against picking a senator as the GOP nominee.
When asked how he differs from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a conservative firebrand, Perry cited his extended run as governor and his handling of several state crises.
“I think it’s one of the selling points, if you will, to the American people as they decide who is going to follow Barack Obama,” Perry said in a joint interview with The Washington Post and the Texas Tribune. “I think they’re going to make a rather radical shift away from a young, untested United States senator whose policies have really failed.”
In a recent interview on CNN, Ted Cruz responded to Perry's not-so-subtle dig.