shortsighTED
Posted on 03/23/2016 2:35:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If I told you at the start of the 2016 race that Mitt Romney would vote for Ted Cruz in the Utah caucuses and that Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham would endorse the Texas senator's presidential campaign, you would have laughed. Probably loudly.
Cruz was -- and is -- hated by the Republican Party establishment, who view him as a grandstander with little interest in any of the niceties of politics. Cruz is the guy who doesn't play well with others, and whom others dislike -- a lot -- for that unwillingness to go along to get along.
And yet, here we are. All of those things have come to pass with Bush's endorsement -- he called Cruz a "consistent, principled conservative" in a Facebook post Wednesday morning -- the latest domino to fall. What is now beyond dispute is that Ted Cruz, the most hated man in Washington Republican circles, is the establishment GOP candidate in the presidential race. As Cruz put it this morning in an appearance on CNN: "If you think about it, in the last 10 days we've been endorsed by Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Lee and Mark Levin. I mean, you want to talk about a broad coalition [that is] ideologically diverse? That covers the entire spectrum of the Republican Party."(continued)
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I hope Ted Cruz can pull ahead.
I’m not surprised at all that Jeb Bush, Glenn Beck and Lindsey Graham are supporting Ted Cruz.
Good grief....
TED! = JEB!
Guess that only leaves one outsider.
You're not alone here, my FRiend.
The GOPe has adopted Cruz now, BECAUSE UNLIKE TRUMP THEY KNOW HE'D LOSE TO HILLARY.
We have a new candidate in the race: Teb! 2016
All true political outsiders come from the Bush administration. LOL
Cruz is not a candidate. He is a spoiler.
“You’re not alone here, my FRiend. “
About 12-15 depending on which one of you gets suspended.
But there aren’t many people here cheer-leading for a gOPe stooge.
TEB!
I’m gonna steal that one from you....
Only at FR is Cruz the Establishment.
I remember a few short months ago EVERY establishment figure hated Ted’s guts.
Oh, how times change.
You’re kidding, right? Suspended for supporting Cruz?
I guess all the Fascists aren’t on the left.
TEB! looks like a sappy, hapless bum when he tried to be the everyday man.
Have you noticed he has changed to wearing suits almost exclusively...ala Trump?
Mail.
Never underestimate the powers of the Crony Capitalists.
America’s opening salvo from the Crony Capitalists was old Abe Lincoln.
These same “people” are NOT above another stunt X10.
excellent post 3
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