Posted on 04/14/2016 12:51:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not very flattering
Short version is Ted talked about himself almost without purpose, left the impression he would run for public office, and his favorite justice at SCOTUS was Roberts.
Exactly the same self centered DC political class politician we have seen on the campaign trail
.Ted Cruz talks about watching hardcore porn with his daughters in the audience .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6lpDP8c20
“A prominent aide to George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked him to discuss Cruz, who worked in the campaign’s policy shop. This person described Cruz as hyper-arrogant and widely despised, and he emphasized—over and over—that the pervasive dislike of Cruz within the Bush ranks had nothing to do with ideology. (Cruz, he noted, never objected to Bush’s call for compassionate conservatism, immigration reform, and national education standards, and no one on the campaign regarded him as an ideologue.) The problem was simple: his personality.”
“That’s exactly what he was: a big a$$hole,” says a campaign veteran who worked with Cruz.
“Ted thought he was an expert on everything,” says this campaign veteran, who asked not to be named. “He was a smart and talented guy, but completely taken with himself and his own ideas. He would offer up opinions on everything, even matters outside his portfolio. He was a policy guy, but he would push his ideas on campaign strategy. He would send memos on everything to everyone. He would come to meetings where he wasn’t invited—and wasn’t wanted.” In fact, this Bush alum recalls, “the quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. People would want out of that meeting. People wouldn’t go to a meeting if they knew he would be there. It was his inability to be part of the team. That’s exactly what he was: a big a$$hole.” by Tim Murphy & David Korn -MJ
Ted Cruz would no doubt agree with much of your post:
“I was a young man in my 20s, and I had enjoyed a lot of success,” Cruz said, “Almost everything I’d laid my hands to had gone well. And I was far too cocky for my own good.”
At the end of the successful campaign, he said, “I desperately wanted to have a senior job in the White House. Frankly, I wanted to be … Michael J. Fox’s character in ‘The American President,’ a young, idealistic staffer in the Oval Office, saying, ‘Mr. President, do the right thing.’”
“And that didn’t happen, and it became clear it wasn’t going to happen because I had burned too many bridges,” Cruz continued. He went on to say that in retrospect, he is grateful he didn’t get the job, because he never would have been able to run his grassroots 2012 Senate campaign if he hadn’t learned a little humility. “You can’t run a grassroots campaign if you’re an arrogant little snob,” he said. “I needed to get my teeth kicked in.”
...and his favorite justice at SCOTUS was Roberts.
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At the time, Cruz was Solicitor General of Texas and was arguing cases before SCOTUS. He was not yet a politician.
Your above comment ties in nicely with the rest of the story:
“The Bush vet goes on: “I don’t know anyone who had a decent relationship with Cruz.” And when Bush became president, his top campaign aides agreed Cruz should not be offered a job in the White House. “No one wanted to work with him,” this source remembers. “George W. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.” This person adds, “It’s a real quandary for Bush campaign people: Trump versus Cruz, who to vote for? And it would be a big quandary even if it’s Cruz versus Hillary Clinton. That’s how much they cannot stand him.”
Isn’t Solicitor General still an elected political office?
1. Go to a town hall
2. Tell your porn story
3. ????
4. President
/lol underwear gnomes
And Bush still hates him. Probably more so when Bush wanted to hand that Mexican killer (Mendelin or something) back to Mexico for trial. But Cruz stood up to Bush and stood up for the sovereignty of Texas and of the United States and won in the Supreme Court. Texas executed Mendelin.
It seems Trump is always criticized for his ego by Cruz supporters, but you are correct who running for high office doesn’t have an ego. No insecure wall flower would run.
No kidding. What a contrast to the Trump family town hall.
FULL Interview: Donald Trump & Family at CNN Town Hall, Anderson Cooper, April 12, 2016
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3420377/posts
That didn't take long - a former student recalling what kind of teacher a REPUBLICAN candidate was in the classroom. We have yet to hear about what kind of teacher the Obama was. Never heard from anyone who even went to school with him, EVER!
You a Cosmo girl?
Ted sCruz is NOT surging in the polls, unless you include he is dropping as a surge in reverse. He will surge to 3rd place in the next 6 primaries.
A lot of Bush people are actively working on the Cruz campaign.
And I know why: they want Hillary to be president. They surre don’t want Ted.
“Johnny Come Lately” Cruz now wants to build a wall along the border of Mexico (yes, him too)”....
As we all know the “wall” was Trump’s idea, Cruz see’s how popular the idea is and jumped on the wagon supporting it. What he has NOT said is who is going to pay for that wall. I’m listening.
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