Posted on 01/26/2016 10:42:26 AM PST by conservative98
With the bromance between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump over, the mogul turned GOP front-runner has begun trash talking the senator from Texas. "He's a nasty guy," Trump recently huffed. "Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him." For members of the politerati, this was no revelation. As Cruz has quickly climbed the political ladder, he has left a long line of associates who complain, without much prompting, that he is an insufferable schmuck.
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 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: his personality. "That's exactly what he was: a big asshole," says a campaign veteran who worked with Cruz.
"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 asshole."
The Bush vet goes on: "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."
Reminds me of a joke: Q: What do snowboarders use for birth control? A: Their personalities!
Cruz sounds like one of those brilliant minds that just has no personality.
Put him on the Supreme Court
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Ted has plenty of personality in addition to being brilliant. And THAT is why Donald Trump fears him so. Ted Cruz is perfectly capable of pointing out to the MISGUIDED (I’m trying to be gentle to the gullible people who are being hustled by Trump) followers of Trump that the Emperor has no clothes. Whether those MISGUIDED people are able to recognize Trump’s “nudity” in their mesmerized state is a different manner.
Politics 101 is getting elected. Can Cruz win the General? Not so sure about that.”
President Reagen was unelectable too
So, we keep seeing more evidence that Trump’s role was all along to hijack those disaffected by the GOP elite, and through his candidacy return them to vote in service of him and his unspoken alliance with the GOP elite. The disaffection between Trump and the GOP elite has been a ruse all along, to help solidify to the conservative base that Trump was one of them, which he isn’t. It was candidates like Cruz and Carson, not Trump they were after, because Cruz nor Carson would make a deal with them, but Trump has.
RE: P.S. I will vote Trump if he’s the nominee.
AS will I.
What really turns me off is the fact that one has to attack or demean someone’s personality in order to undermine his candidacy.
I’ve already been reading insinuations about Ted Cruz’s supposed influence peddling for Goldman Sachs ( an illegal activity that should be prosecuted if true ).
Look folks, if you don’t like Cruz, tell us exactly ON WHAT ISSUES. That’s what I want to know.
And If you really think he is corrupt, please produce incontrovertible evidence.
No thanks, I'll pass on Cruz. Too may question marks have come to light in the last month.
Carson is now my second choice after Trump.
ha ha !!
“Not so sure the other Supreme Court justices could tolerate Cruz either.”
Should we pick justices who “get along” or should they be brilliant like Scalia who eviscerates the liberals arguments?
Honestly?
Sometimes you need a logical response. Other times you need an emotional response. It depends on the person and it depends on the crowd.
Her and Steve Smith, I believe his name to be.
| Should we pick justices who "get along" or should they be brilliant like Scalia who eviscerates the liberals arguments? You make a good point. |
Did you work for Time magazine circa March 31, 1980?
Yes. I was 10 years old and brilliant. Thanks for the compliment.
President Reagen was unelectable too
Oh sure a two-term Governor from the largest state in the United States. Oh sure......embarrassing that you would compare the two.
Being liked isn’t the problem as much as him not being respected.
As far as their concerned, he’s just a pest.
So now we’re giving serious consideration to a Mother Jones article?
Ego, ambition, arrogance, narcissism are pretty much a given for politicians. Maybe Cruz's only problem was that at 29 he'd risen to a place that required more wile and guile than he'd been able to develop at that point.
The bad thing is that virtually nobody wants a President who is smarter than everybody else.
The original Constitution is still the only Constitution of these United States and the term "natural born" was not defined within the document itself, therefore your assertion is absurd.
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