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“I JUST DON’T LIKE THIS GUY” – GEORGE W. BUSH TRASHES TED CRUZ AT JEB BUSH FUNDRAISER
TheRightScoop ^ | 10/19/2015 | TheRightScoop

Posted on 10/19/2015 8:44:37 PM PDT by gwgn02

nside a sleek Denver condominium, George W. Bush let a hundred donors to his brother’s campaign in on a secret. Of all the rival Republican candidates, there is one who gets under the former president’s skin, who he views as perhaps Jeb Bush’s most serious rival for the party’s nomination.

It isn’t Donald Trump, whose withering insults have sought to make Jeb pay a political price for his brother’s presidency. It also isn’t Marco Rubio, Jeb’s former understudy who now poses a serious threat to his establishment support.

“I just don’t like the guy,” Bush said Sunday night, according to conversations with more than half a dozen donors who attended the event.

One donor in the room said the former president had been offering mostly anodyne accounts of how the Bush family network views the current campaign and charming off-the-cuff jokes, until he launched into Cruz.

“I was like, ‘Holy $hit, did he just say that?’” the donor said. “I remember looking around and seeing that other people were also looking around surprised.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushies; cruz; dubya; failedpotus; george; globalist; gopestablishment; holdonnow; nwo; ohcanada; rinos; tedcruz; w
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To: gwgn02

You are aware that the picture you posted has been ‘edited’ ?


61 posted on 10/19/2015 9:59:01 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: gwgn02

Perfect example of my tag line.


62 posted on 10/19/2015 10:01:21 PM PDT by rhinohunter (The Uniparty FEARS Trump -- but it HATES Cruz)
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To: Helicondelta

Or his play sibling Clinton?


63 posted on 10/19/2015 10:02:15 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (They're inside the wire!)
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To: Cobra64
Yup. You really have to wonder after all these years, not a peep from W on Obama.

Same thoughts here. Have always wondered if Bush's Iraq invasion was more of a vendetta agains Saddam's assassination attempt agains GHWB.

Good bad, or ugly Saddam and his counter to Iran kept stability in the region. As I even said here in 2003, (sometimes unpopularly), we had no reason to invade Iraq, and it was a unnecessary diversion on the WOT. ISIS, and all other kinds of anarchy over there can be tied to this via dominoes.

W, your slam on a good conservative like Cruz, is truly showing how despicable you really are. You are nothing but a turncoat. Hopefully Jeb's utter failure in 2015-2016, will show the Bushes that they have no base left.

64 posted on 10/19/2015 10:04:20 PM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: gwgn02

I waited for him to go on the attack when the Dems started going after him about Iraq and missing WMD. Not a word. Now he attacks an ethical, upstanding conservative.


65 posted on 10/19/2015 10:06:26 PM PDT by usacon (United we stand divided we fall.)
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To: bigbob
the good man I believe President Bush to be.

Thought the same thing, even when he was my governor. Now days, he and his entire family are fully in the GOP(e) court.

66 posted on 10/19/2015 10:07:32 PM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; smoothsailing; MinuteGal; flaglady47

In his response, Cruz showed more class than GWB:

“I have great respect for George W Bush, and was proud to work on his 2000 campaign and in his administration,” Cruz said. “It’s no surprise that President Bush is supporting his brother and attacking the candidates he believes pose a threat to his campaign. I have no intention of reciprocating. I met my wife Heidi working on his campaign, and so I will always be grateful to him.”


67 posted on 10/19/2015 10:10:29 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
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To: gspurlock

“President Bush is a decent man,”

Sorry to have to disagree, no one who acted, and acts like former President Bush could be considered to be in any way decent. Decent leaders don’t send our young people to die and a fool’s mission of “nation building.” The cold fact of the matter is, is that the entire Middle East is a shambles and it’s all attributable to GWB’s ill-conceived policies. The Iraq War was a consequence of and coverup for the sorry state of affairs in our government that started under Slick Willie and continued until 911 under Boosh. He got Saddam, the guy who threatened “daddy,” but the price was way, way too high. As far as “miss me yet,” no, and I don’t miss your father and Slick either.


68 posted on 10/19/2015 10:17:28 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Helicondelta

You mean GWs good buddy?


69 posted on 10/19/2015 10:33:31 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: gwgn02

How any conservative has any respect for the man who gave us Obama escapes me.


70 posted on 10/19/2015 10:35:00 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: McBuff

Or the coke


71 posted on 10/19/2015 10:37:18 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Helicondelta

GW went home in 2008 and never said a single word against obama. He let obama lie about him .. he abandoned those who voted for him .. I would have been glad to hear him speak up against the liar in chief... he did not.


72 posted on 10/19/2015 10:37:27 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: bigbob

You are delusional.Seek help.


73 posted on 10/19/2015 10:40:48 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: gwgn02

Ted Cruz gave one of the classiest and nicest response to a presidential attack that I’ve ever read. He sort of dismissed W’s remarks the way Obama does when Iranian leaders are filmed screaming “Death 2 America!!”


74 posted on 10/19/2015 10:41:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: JulieRNR21

Cruz showed a hell of a lot more class than I would have shown or have for that matter.


75 posted on 10/19/2015 10:43:41 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

Ever since we were able to hold the line on his piece of chit amnesty plan he has had a real hard on for all things and people who are conservative.


76 posted on 10/19/2015 10:46:15 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Pelham
A pox on all the Bushes. Their time is over and dynasty done.
77 posted on 10/19/2015 10:47:40 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: gwgn02

all you need to no about the bushed is that they flew out of the united states all of the will connected Saudi princes at a time when we had grounded every airplane that was not military right after the world trade center went down


78 posted on 10/19/2015 10:52:31 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

George P. is being groomed. Just out of pampers.


79 posted on 10/19/2015 11:17:54 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: gwgn02
Not sure why everyone is accepting this article as the truth. It seems to me that the best thing the libs can do is continue to create turmoil in the other side and make this about GWB rather that Obama and Hillary's dishonesty and incompetence.

Jeb is totally irrelevant at this stage and if this were true Cruz would have been the first to comment.

80 posted on 10/20/2015 12:04:35 AM PDT by JIM O
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