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.”
You are aware that the picture you posted has been ‘edited’ ?
Perfect example of my tag line.
Or his play sibling Clinton?
Same thoughts here. Have always wondered if Bush's Iraq invasion was more of a vendetta agains Saddam's assassination attempt agains GHWB.
Good bad, or ugly Saddam and his counter to Iran kept stability in the region. As I even said here in 2003, (sometimes unpopularly), we had no reason to invade Iraq, and it was a unnecessary diversion on the WOT. ISIS, and all other kinds of anarchy over there can be tied to this via dominoes.
W, your slam on a good conservative like Cruz, is truly showing how despicable you really are. You are nothing but a turncoat. Hopefully Jeb's utter failure in 2015-2016, will show the Bushes that they have no base left.
I waited for him to go on the attack when the Dems started going after him about Iraq and missing WMD. Not a word. Now he attacks an ethical, upstanding conservative.
Thought the same thing, even when he was my governor. Now days, he and his entire family are fully in the GOP(e) court.
In his response, Cruz showed more class than GWB:
“I have great respect for George W Bush, and was proud to work on his 2000 campaign and in his administration,” Cruz said. “It’s no surprise that President Bush is supporting his brother and attacking the candidates he believes pose a threat to his campaign. I have no intention of reciprocating. I met my wife Heidi working on his campaign, and so I will always be grateful to him.”
“President Bush is a decent man,”
Sorry to have to disagree, no one who acted, and acts like former President Bush could be considered to be in any way decent. Decent leaders don’t send our young people to die and a fool’s mission of “nation building.” The cold fact of the matter is, is that the entire Middle East is a shambles and it’s all attributable to GWB’s ill-conceived policies. The Iraq War was a consequence of and coverup for the sorry state of affairs in our government that started under Slick Willie and continued until 911 under Boosh. He got Saddam, the guy who threatened “daddy,” but the price was way, way too high. As far as “miss me yet,” no, and I don’t miss your father and Slick either.
You mean GWs good buddy?
How any conservative has any respect for the man who gave us Obama escapes me.
Or the coke
GW went home in 2008 and never said a single word against obama. He let obama lie about him .. he abandoned those who voted for him .. I would have been glad to hear him speak up against the liar in chief... he did not.
You are delusional.Seek help.
Ted Cruz gave one of the classiest and nicest response to a presidential attack that I’ve ever read. He sort of dismissed W’s remarks the way Obama does when Iranian leaders are filmed screaming “Death 2 America!!”
Cruz showed a hell of a lot more class than I would have shown or have for that matter.
Ever since we were able to hold the line on his piece of chit amnesty plan he has had a real hard on for all things and people who are conservative.
all you need to no about the bushed is that they flew out of the united states all of the will connected Saudi princes at a time when we had grounded every airplane that was not military right after the world trade center went down
George P. is being groomed. Just out of pampers.
Jeb is totally irrelevant at this stage and if this were true Cruz would have been the first to comment.
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