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.”
Fergus = Jim Jeffords, Lincoln Chaffee, Susan Collins, and so forth...in other words, your typical Red England Republican. Red Hampshire should be the LAST primary.
So who is this guy except some [expletive]?
Who says he's important except a houseful of schmoozing GOPe types?
Conservatives are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT *NOT WELCOME* in the Republican party.
He's pretty much telling us, "Look. We do NOT want your vote. If we win, and we got your vote, we won't even take the elected position. Your vote is repugnant to us."
When you say “Not me,” you mean that in 2006 - 2007, you thought it was likely that McCain was going to get the nomination?
Yes. He was the Next Republican inline. It was his turn. The Republicans have been doing this forever.
What is amazing is that it looks lie the Democrats are pulling a Republican and putting Hillary up simply because it is her turn. She is the next in line. The Republicans are the ones with fresh blood now and lots of it.
I hope the Democrats ‘next in line’ works out as well for them as it always does for the Republicans.
He probably hired the twerp.
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