Posted on 11/06/2015 5:01:57 PM PST by Isara
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz praised former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday and said calls for him to drop are "very unfair."
"I think those calls are very unfair," the Texas senator told The Mike Gallagher Show. "I like Jeb Bush, I respect him. I've always thought well of him. I think he did a good job as governor of Florida. And the entire Bush family I've respected for a long time. Jeb's son George P. Bush is a good friend of mine, he was one of my first supporters when I ran for the Senate. And I supported George P. when he ran statewide in Texas.
"You know, I think Jeb has faced a lot of criticism, and much of it has been less than fair, and some of it is just the nature of the media process, that it all becomes a horse race, where somebody's gotta be up, somebody's gotta be down," said Cruz. "You look in the debate, at the question that was asked of Jeb - I think it was the first or one of the first first questions of Jeb - 'ya know, gosh your poll numbers have really slumped, why are your poll numbers falling so far?'"
Cruz continued, "At this point, who cares about national poll numbers. Up a point, down a point, historically those have been largely irrelevant. I think a far better question for a candidate is, what is your record on a given issue? What is your vision on a given issue? How does your record and vision differ from the record and vision of the other candidates?"
Cruz said, at this point, some candidates who have "negligible support" should realize that it may not be their year.
"A number of candidates are getting really negligible support," he said. "And at this point you're not seeing any meaningful support nationally, any meaningful support in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, that starts to be a pretty significant warning sign that this may not be the year for you."
The only candidate to take the high road since Reagan.
[Mortal Kombat voice] “Destroy Jeb NOW, Cruz!!”
Actually he just rubbed the entire Bush Clan’s nose in their attacks on him.
Hard.
Classy and smart!
The longer Yeb stays in, the more it hurts Ricky Ricardo.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Good strategy. RINOs are stronger if Rubio is the last RINO standing. Better to have 2 in the race.
Blecch.Barf.
Yep. Killing them with kindness. Love it.
Smart move, no downside. He also told the 1%-ers to pack their bags without being mean about it.
Want to press ‘Like!’
My first reaction was “DAMMIT!”
Then I realized what he’d just done. He backhanded the whole brood across the room pimp style.
We should just send him a velvet robe ;)
Jeb has negligible support. It isn’t his year. He should drop out now and I don’t care who his friends are.
“Classy and smart! The longer Yeb stays in, the more it hurts Ricky Ricardo. I love it when a plan comes together!”
Yes, good move by Ted.
Thank you,Ted for taking the high road. You’re the best of the bunch.
Everything I needed to know in life I learned from either Idiocracy or Skyrim. In this case, Idiocracy...
“There is no love, like a pimp’s love” ;)
What is Senator Cruz thinking?
Cruz is about the only one of the lot practicing Reagan’s 11th commandment.
Good move politically, as well as a decent thing to say.
There is no need to repeatedly trash the other candidates over and over. The goal is to get their supporters to your side. Some voters have long memories.
from Wikipedia:
Damning with faint praise is an English idiom for words that effectively condemn by seeming to offer praise which is too moderate or marginal to be considered praise at all.[1] In other words, this phrase identifies the act of expressing a compliment so feeble that it amounts to no compliment at all, or even implies a kind of condemnation.[2]
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