Posted on 10/19/2015 8:44:37 PM PDT by gwgn02
nside a sleek Denver condominium, George W. Bush let a hundred donors to his brother’s campaign in on a secret. Of all the rival Republican candidates, there is one who gets under the former president’s skin, who he views as perhaps Jeb Bush’s most serious rival for the party’s nomination.
It isn’t Donald Trump, whose withering insults have sought to make Jeb pay a political price for his brother’s presidency. It also isn’t Marco Rubio, Jeb’s former understudy who now poses a serious threat to his establishment support.
“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.
One donor in the room said the former president had been offering mostly anodyne accounts of how the Bush family network views the current campaign and charming off-the-cuff jokes, until he launched into Cruz.
“I was like, ‘Holy $hit, did he just say that?’” the donor said. “I remember looking around and seeing that other people were also looking around surprised.”
Senator Cruz’ response is classy, Christian and Presidential. Today I contribute a few more of my hard-earned dollars to his campaign!! Just my small “thank you” for his willingness to fight the good fight, rise above the fray, and do the right thing even when no one is looking....As for the Bushes—I’m done with all of them...Jeb Bush let Terri Schiavo die because he didn’t have the inner strength and backbone to take on the leftists and do whatever it took to save her! I know in my heart of hearts that TED CRUZ, unlike Jeb Bush, would have took the fight to the SOB’s and would NOT have just stood by, full of limp-wristed excuses, letting that poor woman die as she did.
Totally agreed.
Are we safer now than before GW invaded Iraq and deposed the military and Sadaam Hussein?
Fortunately, GWB liking someone is not a requirement to become president.
“Are we safer now than before GW invaded Iraq and deposed the military and Sadaam Hussein?”
I would say Yes. Consider that in 2003 there were 4 state-sponsors of terrorism in the region -Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. All of these states at the time were committed to developing and maintaining WMDs in the face of international treaties, sanctions and UN resolutions. Today there is only one -and look what it has.
The only regret is Libya. It seems Khadaffi figured it out too late to save himself from being marked by the State Department and preyed upon by the Muslim Brotherhood. IMO we took the wrong side in OUP.
Bush lost me when he declared Islam to be a religion of peace when it clearly is not.
Senator Cruz is gracious and classy.
GWB...not so much.
It does not make me happy to have to say that about W :-(
But then again, this certainly shows just how much the Gope fears Cruz.
That’s for sure.
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