Because he is a threat to Jeb’s chance at being President. As if the base would ever vote for another Bush.
So George P. can challenge him in 2018 as the “voice of reason”.
All they care about is the next step to acquire more power.
The original Bushies attacked Ronald Reagan.
He’s too conservative for them.
The family that gave us the DHS and the TSA doesn’t like Cruz.
Particularly the lazy slatterns like Laura, Jeb's Latina, the ditsy daughters, and BarBar. They can't take care of their homes and families, and won't take care of them legally. They need a little army of illegal aliens who get all the love that the Bushes never gave Republicans. The Bushes *hate* conservatives. They love abortion.
Become Democrats, for pity's sake! Leave us alone!
“Why Are the Bushies Attacking Ted Cruz?”
They are diametrically opposed.
It’s all about the dynasty.
Ted Cruz would a been banned from this forum in 2005 or at least under steady harpy fire from howlin sinkspur dane and bayourod and melas
If done properly, nation building works great.
As an example, McArthur’s Japan, which was set up with a constitution written expressly for them, and turned them into an economic powerhouse.
However, it was managed with care, and the assumption that if the Japanese did things the American way, they would succeed. And this was correct, with a few minor exceptions.
But when W. tried this in Iraq, it was problematic, right from the start. A big reason was that we tried to revitalize some of their existing institutions, instead of doing everything from scratch.
The lesson we should remember is that everything we tried to preserve was an utter failure. And everything we replaced in its entirety was more or less a success, at least for a while.
In Japan, the nation was ruled by a US military government, who made things work at peak efficiency. Only very gradually did we turn things over to the Japanese, and then only when they demonstrated mastery of doing things the right way.
But the US was just itching to turn over the reigns of power to a divided Iraqi people, who hated each others’ guts. And doing it too quickly, we used entirely corrupt Iraqis to run their new government, instead of new blood trained from scratch.
Our most success was modeling their military after the US military, for example having US Marines train some units and US Army other units; and setting up a large number of military schools to teach everything to every one of them.
But we tolerated really bad discipline, things like soldiers taking off from their unit on their own. This alone was a disaster. They should have been locked up in their barracks until granted leave.
Just another example of mistakes.
They are politicians and care about power, prestige and perks.
No More F*ing bushes!
Ever!
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That is obvious.
They want Jeb in 2016.
Then, in a dozen years or so, George P. should be ready.
After all, until Obama, GWB was the biggest spender of all US Presidents. GWB may even hold a record for least amounts of vetos. The Bush's love big government.
Some are confused about the difference between Bushies and Bushes
Because everyone knows that the Bush's are the scourge of the universe! Where ya been bro? Damn near everyone knows the Bush's were responsible for the locust plague that destroyed your vegetable crop this summer.
The Bush's were responsible for the foundation leak in your basement.
The Bush's were responsible for your tomatos getting the blight.
The Bush's were responsible for your contracting genetal herpes.
The Bush's were responsible for your recent Comcast outage.
The Bush's were responsible your dentist discovering that you have a new cavity and now need a filling......(OUCH!)
The question that truly needs to be asked is why are the Republicans acting like mindless zombies and attacking any and everyone who doesn't meet the Christ like figure they demand?
Rumor has it that Jesus was about to make His return and run for office but His personal polling showed that He would have been condemned for being a liberal simply for handing out free bread and fish to 5,000 free loaders at the shore of Bethsaida.
"I think we stayed too long, and we got far too involved in nation-building…. We should not be trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland."
That could be an excellent argument for not having conquered Iraq in the first place, but once we went in we weren't going to let whatever happened happen. Once we were there, we had to try to prevent something like ISIS from forming, and that would have meant a long-term presence with something like "nation-building." I don't see how Cruz's vision would have prevented the present situation from developing or have made it less likely.
Cruz is a foreign policy hard-liner, not an isolationist, but he is a tough-minded realist in a party contaminated by the ideological impulse to export America’s political system to the Middle East.
"Realist" can mean different things. I don't know if lot of the people who've been described as "realists" actually think Ted is on the same page.
They’re a “political” dynasty. They want their little Jebby to live in the White House. They want their “NWO” fantasy fulfilled through the advent of Amnesty. Cruz is a threat to that.
Simple. It's Jeb's turn.