Jeb Bush endorses Ted Cruz
Now, this certainly seemed unlikely at the start of the campaign season. But this is what it’s come to:
Former candidate Jeb Bush endorsed Ted Cruz for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying the U.S. senator from Texas represents the party’s best chance of winning the White House.
In a statement, the former Florida governor called Cruz a consistent, principled conservative who has demonstrated an ability to appeal to voters and win primary contests.
“Washington is broken, and the only way Republicans can hope to win back the White House and put our nation on a better path is to support a nominee who can articulate how conservative policies will help people rise up and reach their full potential,” Bush said.
I believe I can predict what Trump supporters and others who don’t like Cruz will say. Originally, the hype was that Cruz was a mean guy everyone hated, who couldn’t work with anyone and didn’t get support from his fellow-Republicans, and for some he was also too conservative, too radical. Now that people like Bush have endorsed him as the best remaining alternative (and those alternatives include the moderate Kasich, by the way), he will be tarred with the “RINO!” and “He’s just an establishment tool!” brush.
GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!
Ted is the furthest from the GOP establishment as one can get.
I’m beginning to think Hillary might win.
It’s reflexive with Trump supporters now, Don’t like or trust Trump? Well, “rino” is among the most tame things they’ll call you.
It appears now that in addition to false charges that “Cruz’s a RINO establishment shill!” we’re going to be treated to an intemperate salting of that meat with “Cruz’s wife the Goldman Sachs bankster suffers from depression and should be instititutionalized!” nonsense, thanks to Trump’s vile inclinations. You’re welcome, America.
I never thought him to be a RINO, nor thought him as mean..
I’d just I work with such people and I understand the establishment mentality that would either block him out force him to compromise what he shouldn’t
Cruz is the reasonable man, which people naturally like more because you always have ability to deal and so negate them on some level
But it’s the unreasonable that make all progress for they will not compromise and do not think such dilution is a win… Only the unreasonable can stick to their guns when ease and compromise should not be
American founders we very unreasonable
To the point of dying before compromise
The left has taught us compromise is better
So we have compromised our values, or children, our future, our republic
We even compromise with evil
And what do we get for it?
Often to the point where the compromise is one sided and we care about whether it was a nice passive peaceful process not caring about the terms
Stalin and the Soviets saw compromise as a way to win a war by slicing the salami on the terms they want and adding it up
Compromise with socialists is letting them win over the long term
Cruz is going to compromise
It’s why everyone wants him
But the middle American blue collar being destroyed as aplank of Marx is drawing a red line in the sand… And the only way to do that is to vote for something other than comfortable reasonable etc
Wanting change without change is not going to work
Change without exposing the bs we are trained to follow, won’t change anything
Even the founders said so
To the more extreme point than Trump in that Jefferson said another bloody revolution is morally OK when the state has gone beyond recovery
By the way taking for trunk people is the derogatory West the left argued
I have noticed that they have done this so much with feminists telling us what men think and blacks trying us what she’s think and now Cruz liberals who claim not being liberal are telling us bs about what we think
Ever thought that this exposes the normalization it the left in that those that claim not to be that way, add that way? That when the opposition starts arguing both sides and silencing opposition by filling in there imagined thought, they are the same as the opposition and the only distinction is wanting other choices not that they stand for better
Take away the voices and the only way they can be heard is to vote in the thing that voices as silenced for. By silencing x as a way to block that which x supports, you push them to make x happen as a way of being heard and respected as those who get to choose
Spell check sucks
I presume the Cruz campaign agreed the Jeb Bush endorsement would be a good thing, as was the Lindsay Graham endorsement. Probably not what they would have preferred but appropriate as they implement their “Plan B”, and Karl Rove and company implement their 100 day plan to stop Trump. I guess we will have to wait to see if Glenn Beck weighs in on how this fulfills “end times” prophecy. Priceless……….
Artfldgr: Your comment above re. Cruz compromising is what I find so odd about your position. All the evidence from their past actions point to the fact that Cruz won’t compromise (govt shut down etc) and that Trump will (because getting a deal is everything).
Artfldgr:
“American founders we very unreasonable
To the point of dying before compromise”
Well yeah. That’s because our nation’s founding fathers were Marxist-method activists before there was Marx and his social economic theory and activism. The founders inspired Marx.
If war is politics by other means, then activism is war by political means. And martial means to, if it comes to that. Like war, there is more than 1 kind and degree of activism. Also like war, the objective in the activist game is to win the contest by whatever means necessary because woe to the loser.
Oops. Fix: If war is politics by other means, then activism is war by political means. And martial means
totoo, if it comes to that.[Cruz] “will be tarred with the “RINO!” and “He’s just an establishment tool!” brush.” neo
I’ve seen it for quite some time now.
On the other hand, “Tuesday, Cruz began his short press conference by saying:
“It’s striking that the day after Donald Trump called for America weakening NATO, withdrawing from NATO, that we see Brussels, where NATO is headquartered, the subject of a radical Islamic terrorist attack. Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that America should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand [Russian President Vladimir] Putin a major victory, and while he’s at it, hand ISIS a major victory.”
That is an intentional misstatement of Trump’s position, which is that the other NATO nations should pay their fair share of the costs of NATO, which they have never done. Very disappointing. Especially as no amount of help can save a Europe unwilling to save itself.
“American founders we very unreasonable” Artfldgr
Historical documents demonstrate otherwise. Prior to the revolution, the founders bent over backwards in making entreaties to the Crown and Parliament. Once England made war unavoidable, then the founders were ‘unreasonable’.
Eric,
I’m having a bit of trouble with the assertion that, “our nation’s founding fathers were Marxist-method activists”. Have ALL activists been Marxist-method operatives? Are you defining activism itself as inherently Marxist? How does the founder’s publicly speaking out against the injustices they endured, qualify as Marxist?
As GB notes the founders were very reluctant to rebel. And Paine as a marxist style activist seems a bit of a stretch.
Now that many of members of the gope have come to their senses and realize the need to boost Cruz to head off the possible DJT disaster in November; it is time for serious arm twisting aimed at Kasich. The message should be stop your campaign, you will never win an open convention, and if you refuse you will be viewed as an outcast.
There is only one option to stop Trump. This was Cruz’s play the entire time, and in fairness, most of the field’s. Get it down to you and Trump. But he can’t seal the deal as he needs 80% of the remaining delegates with Kasich doggedly hanging on. (But Rubio! 😉 )
So, best he can do is get a contested convention and hope Cruz has maneuvered enough of the uncommitted delegates his way. If not, I nominate Rick Perry. Or Mitt Romney.
Anyone but Cruz/Kasich/Trump if it goes beyond the 2nd vote.
The Convention’s most likely outcome is a variation on the 1960 Democratic Convention.
Kennedy and Johnson — ran on the same ticket.
It was not a love match.
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I’m astounded that Ted is so tone deaf as to waste words on Trump.
His faithful are totally invested in the Donald.
The only votes up for grabs or the not-Trump voters that are wasted on Kasich.
Every speech must be oriented towards that faction.
The LAST thing you want to do is create even more division within the GOP — as it’s all too likely that Trump will head the ticket.
Which is unfortunate.
You have to hand a LOT of the blame to the GOPe — which permits open primaries in the critical early states… or early voting…
Hillary is an un-convicted felon many times over — yet Trump is considered — by many — to be far more dangerous.
She’s already knocked over the apple cart in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Libya…
ALL of those civil wars have bread crumbs leading straight to Foggy Bottom — and Hillary.
And folks yet say Trump is WORSE than Hillary ?
I told Eric that his Marxist activism thing is the wrong branding. It has bad connotations. Should just call it activism or guerilla warfare.
That’s what it is, 4th generational warfare.
And I told Eric from long, long ago that conservatives will not sign onto his activist method because it isn’t in their nature.
He seems to think they’re persuadable.
Not persuadable, exactly, but necessary to engage in insurgency, resistance, activism, etc. Fighting back or punching back, as Breitbart might term it. I think that’s also necessary, but if anyone can do activism then… it’s not Marxist activism. Especially if they weren’t the first ones to use it. That would be Founding Fathers activism or Tea Party activism.
But I always preferred the war take. Anyone can do war, right, even one big with a tomahawk hunting down Indians that killed his wife. Oops, cultural appropriation trigger alert.
As for Thomas Paine.
And Paine as a marxist style activist seems a bit of a stretch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
Paine became more and more of a radical socialist later on in life. But he started out as a demagogue, albeit an Enlightenment derived one.