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N.H. GOP honcho: Ted Cruz ‘will not darken our doorstep’
The Boston Herald ^ | March 12, 2015 | Owen Boss

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.”


TOPICS: New Hampshire; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bush; cruzzzz; cullenfergus; election2016; faggot; fagslovehamsters; ferguscullen; fufc; gop; iheartjeb; newhampshire; tedcruz; texas; yankeerino
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Odious Team Romney CONTINUES its Palinization of Sen. Cruz
and any other conservative who does not bow
to Obola and Soros.

21 posted on 03/12/2015 6:38:51 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first two states are Obama +6 in 2012.
So we’re letting the Dems have an outsized influence.


22 posted on 03/12/2015 6:39:40 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NH is a suburb of Boston and is truer than blue.


23 posted on 03/12/2015 6:42:37 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: A CA Guy

I often wonder of some of these so-called GOP leaders are actually Dem Manchurian plants!


24 posted on 03/12/2015 6:42:43 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: cripplecreek

Nor will I.

Ever.


25 posted on 03/12/2015 6:44:17 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Obviously Cullen hasn’t been listening to what Cruz is saying. Or maybe he doesn’t like constitutionalists.


26 posted on 03/12/2015 6:45:54 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is very little likely hood that Bush wins the nomination and even less that he wins the Presidency.


27 posted on 03/12/2015 6:47:19 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Obadiah

Fergus Cullen has demonstrated without any ambiguity that he unfit for his office. Who does he think he is to pass judgement on fellow Republicans? He’s a party hack, an apparatchik, a functionary, a go-fer, only fit to organize mass mailings.

As a “spokesman” he ought to keep his pie hole closed.


28 posted on 03/12/2015 6:48:11 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: right way right

So much for the slogan of New Hampshire: “Live free or die”.


29 posted on 03/12/2015 6:49:47 PM PDT by shove_it (Hillary Clinton - Deleter of the Free World)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is no longer Meldrim Thompson o rGordon Humphreys New Hampshire GOP.


30 posted on 03/12/2015 6:49:54 PM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: saleman

Time was when the citizens of NH had a strong desire to Live Free.


31 posted on 03/12/2015 6:51:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Like many other fine locations, it has obviously absorbed Democrats...sadly.


32 posted on 03/12/2015 6:52:54 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: nascarnation

I’ll write in Ted Cruz..otherwise I’m totally done with the GOP.


33 posted on 03/12/2015 6:53:40 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


notice the hypocrisy...Cullen calls for unity while trashing Cruz.
I’ll happily vote 3rd party if any leftwing Republican gets the GOP presidential nomination just to stick it to this p.o.s. who wants to turn the GOP into a Dem lite party.


34 posted on 03/12/2015 6:54:18 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So when did Cruz start campaigning, and when did he announce he was
running for President? Hmmm?
35 posted on 03/12/2015 6:55:21 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"firebrand"

A very common and very distorted description of Cruz, intended to marginalize him. He is actually quite articulate, controlled, and genial.
36 posted on 03/12/2015 6:57:55 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did I miss something, or is he Not trashing any Dems....


37 posted on 03/12/2015 6:58:16 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did not realize we has so many nut cases in the GOPe.
38 posted on 03/12/2015 6:58:19 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: cripplecreek

“Third time’s a charm”

*** ducking ***


39 posted on 03/12/2015 7:09:32 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If God prefers Ted Cruz to be our next president, no measly former GOPe Chairman is going to interrupt His plan.


40 posted on 03/12/2015 7:11:38 PM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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