George W. Bush unleashes on Ted Cruz

Politico ^ | 10/19/15 | ELI STOKOLS

[Lakeshark]

Unbelievable.

He finally steps up to criticize someone, and it's NOT the bamster, or Hillary, or the rat party of Reid/Pelosi.

He saved his ammo for Cruz.

[NKP_Vet]

“So is Laura Bush.”

You’re exactly right and their Bushes involvement with Planned Parenthood goes back to days of it’s founding.

[xzins]

He wouldn’t defend himself, his policies, his administration, his intervention in Iraq, his search for WMDs.

But he will go after Cruz.

The only logic is that Cruz will decide the vote split in too many states...including Texas.

I assume Cruz is knocking Jeb’s plan off track. (After Trump and Carson, of course.)

[JayAr36]

I guess the fight between Cruz and Jeb is over with benefactor is going to back them. We need to know who who they are going to be beholden to before the primaries.

[Lakeshark]

I once thought a lot more highly of him, pretty much supported him until he just went all doormat all the time after the 04 election. His unwillingness to fight the totalitarian left for the sake of the country left me cold. And now he comes after Cruz. Strange family, they all seem to have drunk the Potomac progressive kool aid in huge volumes.

This is probably good for Cruz, but I think it makes Trump a big winner in the dust up of the last week.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Just like Mitt....wouldn’t go after Obama, but would trash Newt, Santorum, etc.

This is what the ESTABS DO.

[FR_addict]

“Dubya has never criticized a single thing Obola has done.
But he has no problem criticizing a Republican.

That’s what I thought. I am not a Cruz supporter, but I thought this was a low blow by Bush. The comment was based on personality rather than substance. Bush is shallow.

Bush’s true character is revealed. Anyone who can consider Bill Clinton another brother has got to be pretending to be a conservative.

[xzins]

Doormat is a great description of GW. I kept thinking it was some kind of rope-a-dope, and then he’d do an Ali and come out swinging. But, no. His was a perpetual rope-a-dope. Even Cheney has recently said that he now considers it a huge mistake.

Which means IT WAS POLICY.

[xzins]

McCain wouldn’t go after Obama, either.

I have no doubt that a Jeb campaign would not go after Hillary on anything.

He’d want to share cookie recipes, maybe. But that might be too in depth.

If you want someone destined to fold, give up, retire, then support Jeb. He will “start slow...and power down.”

[MortMan]

I’m afraid my opinion of W is much darkened by his comments.

[Lakeshark]

So true.

And so disappointing with him going after Cruz. I think he's drunk so much Potomac water he has no idea how this makes him look. Going after a conservative after being silent for so long about the totalitarian left is just plain despicable.

[xzins]

Years and years ago, the Army assigned me, a young private, to DC. This was still “anti-Vietnam demonstration” days, so quite a while ago.

We used to walk from Ft Myer over the Potomac to the monuments and to Georgetown.

The river was filthy then. You didn’t want to get near it. I don’t suppose it’s a mountain spring now. But when they talk about ‘drinking too much of the Potomac’, that’s the picture in my mind.

Polluted, stinking filth.

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

If this is true that GW is saying this about Cruz, then I no longer mind if Trump blames 911 on him, or calls it on his watch whatever.

Strikes me GW reportedly said something very unkind about Sarah but then openly denied that he said it.

So George you are not looking very good in my mind

[Servant of the Cross]

His unwillingness to fight the totalitarian left for the sake of the country left me cold. And now he comes after Cruz. Strange family, they all seem to have drunk the Potomac progressive kool aid in huge volumes.

The GOP is still wrestling with immigration reforms started by the Bush administration, TARP, the GM bailout, John Roberts, and more. Conservatives have grown more and more hostile toward Jeb Bush and his brother’s legacy. So it does not help George W. Bush to give a back-handed endorsement to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as the antithesis of Bush Republicanism.

What’s more, in the continuing scenario where I see Cruz vs. Rubio as the logical outcome of this, Bush also dinged Rubio, but not nearly has hard as he slammed Cruz.

More troubling, I am not aware of George W. Bush criticizing Barack Obama as intensely as he has criticized his Republican Senator in Texas.

What President Bush is doing is signaling that he thinks Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the major threat to the Republican Establishment and the candidate the Establishment fears the most. In a election year where the outsiders are beating the insiders, this will only help Cruz. In the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — the same one showing strong anti-Jeb sentiment — Cruz had made no gains over last month. I expect this news will help him tremendously.

You've hit on all of Erick Erickson's points from this morning. This is very good for Ted Cruz.

[duffee]

I voted twice each for G W and H W, they got my vote by default, another Bush will not get my vote. Senator Cruz is what all the Bush candidates claim and claimed to be, Conservative.

[RinaseaofDs]

Except on immigration. Cruz is all for H1-B, and its variants. No sale.

[EBH]

Just another reason to cheer having a Ted Cruz on the ticket. Cruz-Trump or even a Trump- Cruz

[Theodore R.]

Just think, if the loud-mouthed Clayton W. Williams, Jr., had won the 1990 race against Ann Willis Richards, there would have never been a Governor or President GWB.

[Theodore R.]

Cruz has as much government experience as GWB had in 2000. Counting time as TX solicitor general

[Trumpinator]

Ted Cruz is an accomplished lawyer and academic - smart people rub not so smart people the wrong way sometimes.