Posted on 03/12/2015 6:18:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Former New Hampshire GOP Chairman Fergus Cullen is preparing to host a meet-and-greet at his Granite State home for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — but said firebrand Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz represents “everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.”
“Ted Cruz is someone who will not darken our doorstep ... He doesn’t seem to be very interested in campaigning to all of Americans but only seems to be interested in appealing to a fringe,” Cullen said during an appearance this morning on Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” program. “I think he has been irresponsible in Washington and I think he is sort of everything that is wrong with the Republican Party in Washington these days — so he’s not welcome.” Cruz is due in New Hampshire for campaign events on Sunday.
When pushed by hosts Jaclyn Cashman and Hillary Chabot to elaborate on why Cruz was among the 2016 presidential hopefuls who wouldn’t be invited to schmooze voters at his home, Cullen said “I’ve got no patience for his approach to politics.”
“Politics is a team sport and No. 1 you have to be able to get along with your teammates and Ted Cruz clearly does not play well with others and is proud of that,” Cullen said. “If you just want to be a bomb-thrower, be a bomb-thrower but if you’re running for office and you’re serving in the United States Senate, I expect you to want to actually get things done and not just to be going from cable TV news appearance to speaking engagements across the country to rile people up without actually trying to do anything.”
Cruz went up against members of his own party to spearhead the government shutdown in 2013, making him an instant Tea Party darling but also a symbol of Washington gridlock and a magnet for the ire of congressional leadership.
Cullen said Bush’s planned appearance is an indicator that he is going to take a different approach to wooing New Hampshire voters than his brother, former President George W. Bush.
“Obviously Gov. Bush comes into this process with a famous name but he doesn’t have personal relationships with elected officials, with party leaders, with activists and so part of what they’re clearly signaling is the kind of campaign he is going to run I think will be different from (the one) that his brother ran,” Cullen said. “It was much more of a coronation when George W. Bush ran, it was characterized by big events with a thousand people — he did not do many house parties at all, he did one town hall meeting and people didn’t appreciate that, and that’s part of why John McCain was able to defeat George W. Bush in New Hampshire and do so handily back in 2000.”
Getting face time with Granite State voters will go a long way toward launching Jeb Bush’s presumed run for the Oval Office, Cullen said.
“He’s made it clear, I think, in his early going that he is his own person,” Cullen said, “that he has his own record that he is going to be running in a different style than other Bushes people are familiar with.”
And I will not darken the little oval next to Jeb Bush’s name on my ballot.
Ever.
And I will encourage as many people as I can to join you.
The GOPe are going to lose to Democrats a long time then. This could be the plan though.
No Jeb, no way!
But you have to! Its the only way to save the republic! Bush the 3rd is our only hope!
There is more but i just threw up a little in my mouth. Right there with you.
“I think he has been irresponsible in Washington and I think he is sort of everything that is wrong with the Republican Party
No. Fergus Cullen(what?)
YOU are what’s wrong with the Republican party.
Compromise. Going along to get along. Not telling the truth. Glossing over the real problems in the name of Political correctness. No principals. Pandering to the folks that will never vote for you anyway. And on and on and on.
President Reagan would love Ted Cruz. And you always hated Reagan.
We have seen how effective our congressional leadership is: apparently Cruz is just what we need. Hope he names some great folks to his team and runs with it.
Why do I get the sense that Fergus Cullen is a “Log Cabin Republican”?
It’s always good to hear from democrats
Yes, nothing will stand in his way to nominate another perennial loser from the GOPe wing.
Gotta keep those corporate dollars flowing.
Well I’m convinced. Cruz has my vote.
Well, of course Cullen has the right to say what he wants. However, I’d love to see if he’d be willing to debate Ted Cruz.
“Cruz went up against members of his own party to spearhead the government shutdown in 2013, making him...a magnet for the ire of congressional leadership.”
And it was so utterly terrible for the GOP that they took over the Congress in a landslide in 2014.
I would sooner vote for the HILDABEAST then vote for that POS, and I`d never vote HILDABEAST! He wins the nomination I most definitely will vote thir.., I mean second party!
Up yours, you blue-blooded, left-wing RINO racist scumbag.
Now that Hillary is tanking I think Jeb Bush could have a real shot.
He is running for the Democrat nomination, right?
The GOPe, communists, socialists, progressives may hunger for power over the US citizens, and while they may win elections I am convinced they are doomed to hell. And if they die a natural death it is a shame.
Cruz should bypass this dinosaur and take his campaign directly to the people of NH with Cullen’s remarks as his badge of honor.
Amen to #19
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