Posted on 03/08/2016 1:34:57 PM PST by doldrumsforgop
Ted Cruz on Tuesday nabbed an unlikely endorsement: the backing of a Bush.
Neil Bush, a brother of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, was listed (along with his wife) as one of 13 new additions to Cruz's national finance team. The campaign said the new additions are all former supporters of other candidates, including Bush, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Marco Rubio.
This follows the release last week of a list of several other previous Jeb Bush backers now supporting Cruz, whose hardline conservative approach is generally at odds with the one Jeb Bush took.
Last summer, former President George W. Bush told supporters at a private fundraiser for his brother's campaign that Cruz was the GOP contender who most got under his skin. "I just don't like the guy," George W. Bush said at a Denver fundraiser.
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I’d go with a candidate that hasn’t taken on the Bush campaign apparatus lock, stock and barrel.
Yep - but the Cruz supporters are blind. We give them the truth and they keep their blinders on. Rubio threw in with the GOPE and Cruz is doing the same.
“Cruz is a pukeneo Bushbot sent to screw the gullible.”
Someone say PUKEneo ?
LOL
TRUMP!!!!!
Cruz worked for the Bush administration, he’s a TX politician, no surprise that a Bush would support him over Trump. The Bushes are for open borders, and advocate the North American Union, and that is what Heidi Cruz works for, along with Golden Sacks.
Cruz smells more and more like warmed over Bush.
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How can anybody believe Cruz will send back the illegals or secure the border? Bush 1 is the one who started this whole mess. A Bush would not endorse an anti-illegal agenda.
I expect George IV (George P. Bush) to drop by and see Uncle Neil, to keep is oar in the water.
Being Texas land commissioner is boring. And hard.
Being a political scion is fun. (P’s got loco ojos!)
Welcome to Free Republic.
I think you may have taken wrong turn to get here.
Or Neil might be leaning right...
LOL
True...
Politics make for strange bedfellows.
We believe in a big tent party where the converts are coming to us.
We welcome those afraid of a Trump Presidency to the dark side, to the conservative base side of your party.
This isn’t Cruz selling out to their side. It’s their side, out of desperation, crawling to us.
Isn’t that what we wanted? The party moving forward on our terms. Or, do we just want to blow it all up and hand things over to Hilary?
Who can win in Nov? A Cruz nomination where the establishment came crawling and begging to be included? Or a #NeverTrump nomination where the party fractures.
If they were crawling to Trump right now, his supporters would be exultingly crying about how he is the only candidate that can unify the party on our terms.
So. I’ll say it. Cruz is the only candidate left that can unify the party on our terms. This isn’t a sellout. It’s a Coup d’Etat.
I got that from Liz! LOL
Wasn’t Cruz warned to stay out of the Bushes?
Nice use of the word pukeneo.
New tagline.
I didn’t think you would mind. People always learn from their teacher!
You know what you mean!
Yeah, I thought you would like it.
Glad to see pukeneo is catching on.....
SJB has been my best pupil, so far.
Just managing their property.
Here is Neil Bush. From Wikipedia:
“Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan during the 1980s’ larger savings and loan crisis. As his father, George H. W. Bush, was Vice President of the United States, his role in Silverado’s failure was a focal point of publicity. According to a piece in Salon, Silverado’s collapse cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.[4]
The US Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado’s failure and determined that Bush had engaged in numerous “breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest.” Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement.[5]
A friend who also donated funds to the Republican Party set up a fund to help defer costs Neil incurred in his S&L legal defense.[6]”
Another indicator of Cruz’s character. I see that Glen Beck is still at his side.
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