Posted on 10/20/2015 11:19:10 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
Is it bad that I like Ted Cruz MORE now that we know George W. Bush disapproves?
For someone who has had a pretty good record of being a classy guy this is quite perception shattering.
“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...Bush took a harsh view of Cruz’s apparent alliance with Trump, who stood with the senator at a Capitol Hill rally last month in opposition to the Iran deal. While Trump, the current GOP poll leader, has attacked most of his competitors in the 2016 field, he has avoided criticizing Cruz.
One donor, paraphrasing the former president’s comment in response to a broad question about how he viewed the primary race and the other Republican candidates, said: “He said he found it ‘opportunistic’ that Cruz was sucking up to Trump and just expecting all of his support to come to him in the end,” that donor added.
All of this is rich coming from a Bush. In addition to his mere disapproval beefing up Cruz's conservative bona fides, this was a stupid thing to do for three reasons:
1. Like it or not politics is all about strategy and opportunity and alliance. I actually thought it has been a stroke of genius for Cruz to cozy up to Trumps populsm with the most support. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. I don't know if it will pay off for Cruz, but Trump has been tapping the untapped and Cruz is planning to be there if (and when?) Trump's campaign (inevitably?) falls apart. A war president, of all people, should understand something this elementary.
2. This comes across as sour grapes. Yes Cruz's resume as an elected official is pretty thin compared to Jeb's, so I'm guessing there's some resentment that records aren't mattering and that if they did Cruz would be DOA. It should be noted that much of Jeb's resume is padded with the family name, which brings me to...
3. I don't want to hear about opportunism from ANYONE named Bush. The reason W was elected governor of Texas, the ENTIRE impetus for him running for president, is based solely on his father's name and all that came with it (Congressman, CIA director, Vice President, and President).
What is so opportunistic about building something outside of daddy's shadow? Nothing.
George needs to realize that this, more than anything else is why Jeb's campaign is faltering. If you put those two next to each other on a stage I'd bet most people would say Jeb would be a better president, but the shadow of the Bush name has grown long and dark over the last 25 years, name recognition isn't enough this time because there's also a record attached to it that nobody wants.
Good catch! I never new that George Junior’s administration so explicitly sided with Mexican murderers and against their victims.
W lost me when he referred to the Minutemen as “vigilantes” and ISLAM as the “religion of peace”.
Read the post.
No It means he sees what is wrong, and fixes it.
Thank you. It is the biggest reason I'm growing quite tired of this site, at least with the comments (not the articles and references per se). Far too many people gobbling up whatever these media-type sources (e.g. Politico) are feeding them. I'm not saying this story is or isn't true, just that I don't give the authors the benefit of the doubt. I had a meltdown recently with a bunch of people here at this site automatically (and I believe conveniently) buying what the Rolling Stone had to say with little or no reluctance, which really boiled my blood. Took a while for me to even read a damn comment here after that. The onus should on the authors or other author's providing more proof of what the contention is.
W lost me when he referred to the Minutemen as “vigilantes” and ISLAM as the “religion of peace”.
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Yes, those two “policies” were shameful and made it clear that W was NOT a great leader when America and the West needed a GREAT leader.
W’s most recent pettiness (his STUPID attack on Cruz) made it crystal clear to me that W was a firm practitioner of NEPOTISM and CRONYISM. IN OTHER WORDS, GEORGE W IS FIRMLY IN THE GOPe CAMP NOW.
two groups of traitorous idiots here:
The Bushes and the donors who ran panting to the media, eager to talk trash about TED.
The GOPe has received my last vote, for anyone, anywhere against ANY opponent.
Bush’s NWO colors starting to show again.
Bush political family or Clinton's there's really not a penny worth of difference between them politically nor likely in character. 12 years of a two NWO Bush White House, 8 years of Clinton's, and finally what will be 8 years of the one to complete the sum total of damage done Obama, have all but destroyed our nation. GW Bush always struck me and an arrogant, snobbish, globalist political hack put there by globalist special interest. What people saw in him in 2000 and in 2004 I have absolutely no earthly idea. I see the same blind following with Trump as well. GWB's so called Bright Idea's were all precedents that were set for Obama to use against us. The most comical part of it was the phoney spats with Obama.
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