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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/06/2015 10:39:05 AM PDT by jimbo123
Though it's not even out yet, tea party firebrand Ted Cruz's new book is already irking at least one member of the Republican establishment: Karl Rove.
The veteran GOP strategist is denying Cruz's assertion in his forthcoming book that Rove pressed him not to publicize former President George H.W. Bush 2009 endorsement of Cruz's then-campaign for Texas attorney general. Cruz writes that Rove was then raising money for George W. Bush's presidential library, and top donors were backing another Republican in the attorney general race.
Now a senator from Texas seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Cruz also writes that Rove suggested "that the elder Bush was too old to have good judgment anymore."
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I question why anyone pays any attention to dough boy.
Ted Cruz Ping! Karl Karl .. Karl... stfu.. go jump tandem with him sometime.
The old man still has more sense than you ever did.
How many seats did you help win in the Senate last go around? a lot of good it did anyway.. so far..
A decade ago, many FReepers liked Rove. I remember thing like “ Oh Rove! You magnificent ba4tard!!”
To which I would always post “ Please delete “magnificent”
Cruz and Rove don’t get along. Which makes me like Cruz more.
If it makes Karl Rove angry then it must be pretty good.
Cruz is not afraid to define and expose the enemy within, he honors Reagan’s 11th Commandment but not for the dishonorable.
Boldly fighting the enemy without and within... CRUZ 2016!
I think I will go with the Cruz version on this little happening. How about you?
What is interesting to me is why Cruz used this little anecdote at all. Was it just to tweak Karl Rove, I don’t really think so. There was probably a larger purpose served in Ted’s mind, and I do wonder what it was exactly.
BTW, I didn’t read the context and haven’t yet read the book. Maybe after knowing the context the purpose for the remark would be clearer.
GHWB is a liberal, a progressive, therefore and ergo, he is not capable of reasonable judgment.
I heartily agree. Boy where they offended when you’d say that.
Today they disagree with you too, but sadly they don’t remember the Rove thing. They sill think you’re wrong, even though their track record is the blemished one.
Well... This is one time Rove was right. Bush 41 chose to listen to Colin Powell and pull out of Iraq, instead of taking out the Dictator, his allies and his WMDs.
Colin Powell is a major POS and cost the US many thousands of dead and injured as well as many billions of $$.
Too bad 41 couldn’t see through that pacifist’s charade. Bush 43 made the same mistake and made Powell SecDef.
Bush43 made Powell Sec of State, not Sec Def.
You’re correct. ....My mistake. ...DOH!
I meant to say it was too bad that 41 had made Powell Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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