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Jeb Bush Endorses Ted Cruz
I thought my iPad was hacked when the WSJ notification popped-up earlier this morning, so I searched the Internet. And what do you know? Jeb Bush endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for president this morning.
I am trying to wrap my head around what this means and how many fun scenarios or reasons there are to contemplate the why? and why now? For what it’s worth, Bush’s non-president brother, Neil, already endorsed Cruz and joined his campaign.
Bush’s endorsement of Cruz — while more robust than Mitt Romney’s last week — is also primarily about stopping Donald Trump:
Ted is a consistent, principled conservative who has demonstrated the ability to appeal to voters and win primary contests, including yesterday’s Utah caucus.
As I said from the moment I launched my presidential campaign, the stakes in 2016 couldn’t be higher.
Washington is broken, too many families are stuck in poverty and Western civilization is under attack from radical Islamic terrorists, as evidenced by the horrific attack in Brussels, which was preceded by attacks in Paris and California.
For the sake of our party and country, we must overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, this fall.
While the endorsements may appear luke warm and not-full throated backing of Cruz’s priorities or Senate tactics, I respect both governors for their constructive positive approach.
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It was all over for Trump when Cruz got the coveted Lindsay Graham endorsement. Devastating, just devastating. Surely electoral landslide looms.
I’ll take it too. The Washington Post editors may be next after its session with Trump this week. Trump did not make the deal it seems. I’m sure Trump is paying or making promises to people like the Carson, Christie, et. al. It would be inline with how he does business.
I have no idea what the impact of the endorsement would be.
I learned during the Clinton years that I have no political instincts whatsoever. That’s been reinforced this year.
And this guy. (around 2:50)
https://youtu.be/S5fm09f8X3A
The next primary is in April. Trump will get news coverage during that period but Cruz needs something to cause news. A weekly endorsement would be good. Bush couldn’t even get this timing right.
It would be a great way to increase bickering and bad faith among election officials, too.
When you’ve seen some of the petty squabbles election judges already get into over minor misspellings of voter names or other mismatches (in my experience, often mismatches any reasonable person would be willing to explain away after a little patient inquiry), the prospect of suchlike officials judging how to count all votes as write-ins, despite inevitable eccentricities of spelling, handwriting, and so on, becomes pretty dismal.
If it’s a veil, then it’s a woman. If it’s a woman, then it’s Carly.
This may be more important than many seem to realize. If this goes to a contested convention, all those delegates (even Trumps) are insider establishment types. The more “acceptable” Cruz becomes the more likely he takes the convention nomination. Just sayin’.
Carly?
A poll taken in AZ about 2 weeks before the election showed that 47% of GOP voters had already voted, 16% of them for Rubio. Early voting, in this instance, was unwise.
FYI, my wife and I each received an early ballot about a month ago — but we filled them out on election day and dropped them off at our polling place.
Nah, Jeb is simply doing the Responsible Republican Thing as long as the endorsee is not a disloyal former protege who did not wait his turn behind the Master.
I agree. To avoid that kind of mess, we’d better bring back butterfly ballots and hanging chads;)