(posted by Freeper Beautiful Gracious Skies)
“A prominent aide to George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked him to discuss Cruz, who worked in the Bush campaign’s policy shop.
This person described Cruz as hyper-arrogant and widely despised, and he emphasized—over and over—that the pervasive dislike of Cruz within the Bush ranks had nothing to do with ideology.
(Cruz, he noted, never objected to Bush’s call for compassionate conservatism, immigration reform, and national education standards, and no one on the campaign regarded him as an ideologue.)
The problem was simple: Cruz’s personality.
“Ted thought he was an expert on everything,” says this campaign veteran, who asked not to be named. “He was a smart and talented guy, but completely taken with himself and his own ideas. He would offer up opinions on everything, even matters outside his portfolio. He was a policy guy, but he would push his ideas on campaign strategy. He would send memos on everything to everyone. He would come to meetings where he wasn’t invited—and wasn’t wanted.”
In fact, this Bush alum recalls, “the quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. People would want out of that meeting. People wouldn’t go to a meeting if they knew he would be there. It was his inability to be part of the team. That’s exactly what he was: a big a$$hole.”
“I don’t know anyone who had a decent relationship with Cruz.” And when Bush became president, his top campaign aides agreed Cruz should not be offered a job in the White House.
“No one wanted to work with him,” this source remembers. “George W. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.”
This person adds, “It’s a real quandary for Bush campaign people: Trump versus Cruz, who to vote for? And it would be a big quandary even if it’s Cruz versus Hillary Clinton. That’s how much they cannot stand him.”
by Tim Murphy & David Korn -MJ
Donald has a pleasant personality though, except for when he picks on women, including insulting his opponent’s face, making fun of a military man for being captured, or making fun of a journalist with a disability, or leaving his 1st wife to marry his mistress, and leaving his 2nd wife to marry his new mistress, and I just don’t have time to opine the rest. I would be here FOREVER.
Sorry, I like you Liz, but Donald is just too mean and untrustworthy.
"Inability to be part of a team" may well translate into him recognizing that compromising with bad policy is like adding a little sewage to your drinking water, and behaving accordingly.
Thanks for posting that;I hadn’t seen it before.
Many Adult Children of Alcoholics have personality issues. Growing up in a warped and fundamentally unhealthy environment will do that to a person. Recall the time in the Senate when Cruz wanted to make a motion. Ninety-nine colleagues, and not one would second his motion. He survived a very challenging childhood, but he still has some healing to fo.