Oh, my....
June 28, 2015
“My call to Mr. Cruz apparently didn’t offend him back then because he continued seeking my counsel about his political ambitions, specifically his 2012 bid for the U.S. Senate,” Rove said. “One piece of advice I offered was that he should stop describing himself as the `next Marco Rubio,’ since he did not have Senator Rubio’s outstanding legislative record of accomplishments as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.” (Full statement below.)
The run-in took place during Cruz’s short-lived campaign for state attorney general in 2009. George P. Bush – son of Jeb Bush, and now the Texas land commissioner –offered to introduce him to his grandfather, who turned 91 this month.
Ted Cruz book
Cruz flew to the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. He ended up hitting it off with the 41st president. He scored an afternoon on the boat with him and Barbara Bush with a stop for lobster rolls along the coast. Bush lent him some clothes so he wouldn’t have to wear his suit – including jeans and a belt buckle that read “President of the United States.”
Cruz called it “surreal” to be wearing Bush’s clothes.
Rove – George W. Bush’s longtime consigliore — heard about the meeting and called Cruz, livid.
“He was irate, demanding, ‘What in the hell do you think you are doing?!’” the senator writes. “Texas donors were giving the Bushes tens of millions, including major donors who were supporting the Dallas state rep who wanted to run for attorney general” – Cruz doesn’t name him, but was referring to Dan Branch – and those donors “were now berating Karl.”
Then, in a passage that could – intentionally or not — sow divisions in the Bush orbit, Cruz asserts that Rove denigrated the aging Bush’s mental capacity.
“He suggested that the elder Bush was too old to have good judgment anymore,” Cruz writes. “I was offended by that characterization and knew from my visit with 41 that it wasn’t remotely true.”
Rove demanded that Cruz return the check, but it had already been cashed. Cruz did give into pressure to keep quiet about Bush’s support, though.
WOW!
This needs a thread of its own so that it can be catalogued separately and be more easily to find AND more easily distributed
Thanks for your finds, and onyx, for your blog. I am passing along....
Dickens wrote Heep as a scheming, obsequious character...the paradigm ***-kisser.... secretly plotting, always ingratiating himself into the good graces of his betters.
No one knows this better than Donald.
Notice the ill-fitting suit jacket...Cruz went into his act.....managed to get
it from Donald. He/s used this act before .....to get clothes from GHWB.
