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Cruz is 'Lucifer in the flesh'

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Gonad the Barbarian

Lifer
I think someone is jockeying to be Trump's VP pick. 😉
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/john-beohner-ted-cruz-lucifer-222570
When it comes to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, even a few months’ time out of Congress has done little to lessen former Speaker John Boehner’s contempt for his former Capitol Hill colleague.

“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner told an audience at Stanford on Wednesday night, according to the Stanford Daily. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
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How can Ted Cruz be "Lucifer in the flesh" if he has already taken human form as President Obama?

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no way. Boehner is not popular at all! That wold be terrible for trump

It is telling though about how completely desperate Cruz is. Cruz would literally do anything right now to get more delegates. It's quite sad.
 
Lot's of good anti-Cruz material in this Mother Jones article from January:

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 asshole."
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"He fucking hates Cruz," a McCain adviser told GQ. "He's just offended by his style."
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"I just don't like the guy," the former president [Dubya] said in October.
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He [Rep Peter King] has called Cruz a "carnival barker," a "counterfeit" with "no qualifications" who appeals "to the lowest common denominator," and "just a guy with a big mouth and no results."
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[Lindsay Graham said that] Cruz "has done more to allow ISIL to gain a foothold in Syria than any senator other than Rand Paul." Last week, Graham said picking between Trump and Cruz was like having to choose "death by being shot or poisoning," and he said the party would be better off if it picked "somebody out of the phone book."
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On Twitter, [screenwriter Craig] Mazin [Cruz's roommate at Princeton] —who has called Cruz "a nightmare of a human being"—recalled that when he was a freshman sharing a dorm room with Cruz, he would get invited to parties hosted by seniors because the upperclassmen pitied him. Cruz, he notes, "was that widely loathed. It's his superpower."

"I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality," he said on the Scriptnotes podcast.
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Per the Daily Beast, "Several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like 'abrasive,' 'intense,' 'strident,' 'crank,' and 'arrogant.' Four independently offered the word 'creepy.'"
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Per the Daily Beast, "Several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like 'abrasive,' 'intense,' 'strident,' 'crank,' and 'arrogant.' Four independently offered the word 'creepy.'"
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What I thought was interesting was in the same comments he talked about how extreme the Republican Party has become. The most recent speaker of the house basically just said the people of the Party of Reagan would consider Reagan to be a RINO.

Think about how nuts that is.
 
eskimospy said:
What I thought was interesting was in the same comments he talked about how extreme the Republican Party has become. The most recent speaker of the house basically just said the people of the Party of Reagan would consider Reagan to be a RINO.

Think about how nuts that is.
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I don't think the problem is craziness, it's clearly that they aren't conservative enough yet. /s
 
Whenever Boehner would try having talks with Obama in a relaxed/casual setting lunch or golfing, the hard right would go ape shit.

Its not Obama that wouldn't work with Republicans it was Republicans who wouldn't work with Republicans.
 
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It's Boehner's payback with compounded interest for the coup Cruz mounted against him .

The Repubs, true to form, are eating their own.
 
tweaker2 said:
It's Boehner's payback with compounded interest for the coup Cruz mounted against him .

The Repubs, true to form, are eating their own.
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It's definitely crazy time. Unity amongst the ranks, so we can win an election. F that! It's time to get even.

This is so entertaining.
 
Boehner's upset that Republicans such as Cruz stopped him from working with Obama.
Establishment Republicans are more removed from that wing of the party than they are fellow establishment like Hillary Clinton. If they had to choose, they'd absolutely pick their partner in crime, the DNC.
 
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I disagree with the comparison. Lucifer gave man intelligence and the capacity for rational thought. About all Cruz offers man is ignorance and stupidity. Comparing Cruz to Lucifer does him too much credit.
 
Jaskalas said:
Boehner's upset that Republicans such as Cruz stopped him from working with Obama.
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Yes, exactly. Our system of government simply doesn't work if people of different ideologies can't work together. Boehner is ideologically pretty close to Cruz but unlike Cruz he realized that Republicans fundamentally lacked the power to implement their ideology. Cruz's response to this was that it was better to send the US into ruinous default than compromise. Boehner disagreed and we are much better off for it.

Establishment Republicans are more removed that the wing of the party than they are fellow establishment like Hillary Clinton. If they had to choose, they'd absolutely pick their partner in crime, the DNC.
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This is incorrect. Boehner's DW-NOMINATE score was right about the middle of the Republican Party. He was vastly ideologically closer to Cruz than to any moderate Democrat, and Hillary isn't actually particularly moderate.

You are probably right that Boehner would prefer Clinton to Cruz, but that has nothing to do with ideology. It's more a fear that a President Cruz would literally break our government. No policy preference is worth that.
 
That video of Cruz trying to give his daughter a kiss, and her wanting absolutely nothing to do with him tells you pretty much all you need to know about his likeability.
 
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It's Boehner's payback with compounded interest for the coup Cruz mounted against him .

The Repubs, true to form, are eating their own.
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That's exactly the way I see it too; smacks of dick-punching vengeance. 😉

I don't see him wanting to be Drumpf's VP pick though, he's too 'establishment'. That and he was a shitty Speaker. Christie is probably closer in contention, having few friends in the GOP now too, and is a kindred loudmouth bully.
 
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