Posted on 10/19/2015 5:20:28 PM PDT by jimbo123
Inside 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.
It’s George W. Bush’s former employee — Ted Cruz.
“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 shit, did he just say that?’” the donor said. “I remember looking around and seeing that other people were also looking around surprised.”
“The tenor of what he said about the other candidates was really pretty pleasant,” another donor said. “Until he got to Cruz.”
Bush took a harsh view of Cruz’s apparent alliance with Trump, who stood with the senator at a Capitol Hill rally last month in opposition to the Iran deal. While Trump, the current GOP poll leaders, has attacked most of his competitors in the 2016 field, he has avoided criticizing Cruz.
One donor, paraphrasing the former president’s comment in response to a broad question about how he viewed the primary race and the other Republican candidates, said: “He said he found it ‘opportunistic’ that Cruz was sucking up to Trump
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>> “He said he found it ‘opportunistic’ that Cruz was sucking up to Trump”
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Never happened.
Trump has sucked yup to Cruz to pick his brain though.
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Easy to identify the outsiders, isn’t it? There aren’t many. :)
A badge of honor for Ted Cruz! Also confirms Trumps criticisms. The Bushes are not on our side!
NO!
“Bush never had a bad word to say about Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton. But he hates Ted Cruz.”
Bump that.
“He was talking about the need to reach out to immigrants and he said, ‘There’s a lot of people in this country who speak broken English’,” a donor recounted. “And then he paused and said, ‘Well, I’m one of them’.”
It was worth reading the article just for that line.
Trump won’t get in.
He has no chance at all with negatives double his support.
Little George is pissed at Cruz because REAL conservative Cruz is doing better than his RINO brother in the polls. RINO George and RINO Jeb. Both establishment hacks. Little George was an absolute disaster for the republican party and he IS THE REASON the fraud-in-chief sits in the White House right now. He started a boneheaded war against the wrong country and never vetoed the first speeding bill till his last couple months in office. He was elected as conservative and governed exactly like a liberal democrat. He also appointed more open sodomites to his administration than Bill Clinton did. He also knew about Clinton selling Top Secret information to the Chinese for campaign cash and did absolutely nothing about it. He also knew Clinton made illegal pardons his last day in office and once again did nothing about it. Ted Cruz is 1000 times the republican than Bush ever was and 1000 times the man. The Clintons and Bushes were absolute disasters for this country.
Yeb’s no G.W., never will be, and that’s not saying much. Senior Bush gave me pause when he gave his famous “New World Order” speech at the repubelican convention in the 80’s. That always stuck in my craw, what does he mean by that? I knew, kind of, but wasn’t really sure.
These years have passed and I now know. There is a plan for one world government and we’re seeing the process unfold before our very eyes.
Time to wake up people, put up or shut up! My English composition teacher would give me a D for cliches but WTF, who cares.
runs around with, and praises, that reprobate sexual deviant bill clinton and then bashes ted cruz as “I just don’t like him” .. W you were a horrible president ...not an ounce of respect left for you ....everyone that said at least you were honorable was wrong
Another of the Boosh turds surfaces in the bowl for a moment! We should all give Trump the thanks he deserves for outing this “crime family!” Personally, I’m glad he’s made the recent statements about GWB, and how he really didn’t “keep us safe!”
And old ¿Yeb? rises to the bait once again giving Trump another block of free air time.
Another of the Boosh turds surfaces in the bowl for a moment! We should all give Trump the thanks he deserves for outing this “crime family!” Personally, I’m glad he’s made the recent statements about GWB, and how he really didn’t “keep us safe!”
And old ¿Yeb? rises to the bait once again giving Trump another block of free air time.
And his buddy, Ted Kennedy.
IOW, he was a little better than the two repulsive men he ran against.
By attacking Cruz, he makes me GLAD I support Cruz. And if he also dislikes Trump...well, I suppose that is a point in Trump's favor.
“W was barely tolerable.”
In 2006 when the Dems and RINOs were in full court press trying to pass “comprehensive immigration reform”, I remember George W. Bush walking somewhere, followed by the press and asked about the chances of amnesty passing.
His reply? “See ya at the signin’!”
The next time I walked by his full color, framed photo—off the wall it came. It is now located on a top shelf and covered with dust bunnies.
Poppy sucks up to them big time. Calls Bill Clinton his son. Disgusting. And I remember how Laura and W were always drooling to be invited to the Kennedy compound. Go away, w.
Poppy sucks up to them big time. Calls Bill Clinton his son. Disgusting. And I remember how Laura and W were always drooling to be invited to the Kennedy compound. Go away, w.
Then surely a forceful denial is on its way from the Bush camp.
Cruz may be a lot of things but RINO is NOT one of them.
Sounds like you’re nothing more than another raging TRUMPOPHILE.
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