Posted on 10/25/2015 1:49:04 PM PDT by maggief
HOUSTON -- Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went after 2016 rival Ted Cruz over the weekend at a campaign stop in Charleston, South Carolina, by portraying the Texan as hypocritical and two-faced.
"The guy (Cruz) that made this comment was supportive of the guy (John Roberts) he was critical of," Bush told Rep. Tim Gowdy and the audience at Bishop England High School. He was referring to the moment in the second Republican presidential debate in Californiawhen Cruz said, "Yes, it was a mistake" for President George W. Bush to have nominated Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Cruz had weighed in after Bush was asked to account for his brother's nomination of Roberts who some conservatives have derided for upholding Obamacare.
Without ever mentioning Cruz's name -- possibly a sign of tact, dislike, or both -- Bush explained with some sarcasm, "He literally supported John Roberts and then after the fact, with the power of hindsight, this amazing power that only people in Washington have, the rest of us apparently don't have this skill.
"He can opine the way he wants," Bush went on. "Anyway," he paused, "that's what I think about that."
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Oh, shut up, Bush. If you had the cajones and anti-establishment guts of Cruz, combined with your money, you’d be ahead of Trump. As Conrade Birdie once said: SUFFAH!
I’ll say one thing, Cruz has the right enemies.
I thought that Yeb! dosen’t need nor want the Conservative vote. Why bash Cruz? Is Heb! against Hispanics?
Go away Jeb. Take Carson with you.
What happened to the happy warrior/tortoise?
Lil Jebby may as well yell at a rock for all the reaction he’s likely to get out of Ted Cruz.
Poor little Tippitoes is SCARED
after being read the RIOT ACT
from the Bush Family this weekend.
FUJB!
Somebody needs their sippy-cup & a nap.
What a waste...I can not believe this...I am a 100% Trump supporter, as you all know, or should by now...ahem, but anyway...Cruz is a very fine Senator, he stands by what he says, and is most of the time on the perfect side of things, but for someone like this POS Bush to come out and attack Cruz is beyond disgusting, and must be very embarrassing for his family...
Barbara, you best take your son and slap the heck out of him because if you don't its going to make your family look as bad as the Clinton Crime Family does...
Screw you Trump ... I'm going with yeb !
Terri Schiavo was unavailable for comment.
Exactly. Who one’s enemies are says a lot about a person.
sans helmet too !
Tippitoes Turtle
Cruz is willing to look back and learn from a mistake.
Bush defends the mistake as not a mistake and therefore risks repeating said mistake.
And as much as I love Ted, Jeb could win over every last one of his voters and would still be polling in only 3rd place. Add to that, the hard core Cruzers are just about the last people that will ‘come home’ to Jeb. He’d have more luck trying to get the Paulians on his bandwagon.
Jeb going after Cruz at this point speaks to the kind of poor advice and strategy that has doomed his candidacy thus far.
Jeb is such a loser.
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