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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.

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.

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.