Boehner calls Cruz 'Lucifer in the flesh'

[Leo2014]

And yet Republicans are supporting Trump in droves.

Sadly, what we have seen is a party that will look the other way when good American families are losing their way of life. A big issue is jobs moving overseas, small towns becoming cesspools just struggling to carve out an existence and many individuals finding themselves force to depend on the assistance of government. Young people will work hard for an education hoping to create a better way of life, yet find themselves strapped with student loans while facing a very tough job market.

Trump comes along pointing out how everything we are doing is bad for Americans. Unfortunately, he is just doing it in the most untactful manner. The anti-establishment sentiment is due to politicians just telling you things are good when they are not.

Worse, conservatives are using the “values” line because nothing else works anymore. Sadly, they have done little to uphold those values and Americans have seen their way of life dwindle.

 

[Peter_J]

after 8 years of Obama, I was hoping for a better group to choose from yhan Trump, Cruz and Kasich!

You don’t like any of those three?

 

[Peter_J]

Do your sources show that Trump is polling well against Hillary?

Conservatives can hardly be blamed for not liking Trump either.

Just wait. I predict that, if Trump gets the nomination and then loses in a landslide in Nov, some Republicans will say that it’s the electorate’s fault for not voting for him.

 

[Peter_J]

She sure does have a plethora of information to work with, and the Republican Party gave it to her. And, if Cruz doesn’t win Indiana, it looks like Trump will reach 1,237 before the convention.

I think that may well be inevitable regardless – once you factor in the fact that a certain percentage of Cruz’s and Kasich’s supporters oppose having a contested convention and will therefore vote for Trump at this point. (IDK what percentage, but I am guessing that it will more than enough.)

 

[7_Sorrows]

You don’t like any of those three?

I would prefer a better choice.

 

[Peter_J]

I would prefer a better choice.

I liked Sen Rubio.

 

[Darryl1958]

An interesting statement on CNN a few minutes ago: “It’s ridiculous for Ted Cruz to try to say he isn’t the establishment when he has Jeb Bush’s endorsement.” (I’m quoting from memory so I may not have the exact wording.)

I believe the person who said that supports Trump, who was endorsed by David somebody or other.

Trump is a golf buddy of Boehner. Boehner and Cruz have had very few dealings with each other.

Donald Trump is not an outsider. Even if he has filled the trough of Democrats more than Republicans.

Want to know why Obamacare is fully funded? Why the meager spending caps enacted in 2011 were busted? Why the debt limit was suspended so Washington could zoom past its $18 trillion credit line? Why Obama’s lawless executive order granting de facto amnesty to illegal aliens is proceeding apace? Why Obama is emptying Guantanamo Bay and planning to transfer detainees into the United States? Why the EPA continues to implement Obama’s climate-change agenda despite a Supreme Court stay of its anti-coal regulation? Why no official was impeached and no funding was slashed when the IRS was used as a political weapon against conservative groups? Why the Justice Department has a $27 billion budget that pays for its paralyzing investigations of the nation’s police departments while the attorney general threatens new legal action against climate-change “deniers” and “anti-Muslim” speech? Thank John Boehner. To fight Obama on these and other progressive priorities would have required exploiting Congress’s constitutional authority, particularly the power of the purse. Boehner and other GOP leaders were given this power because voters believed their promises to fight. Empty promises. While Boehner was surrendering, Donald Trump was backing him to the hilt: a staggering $100,000 contribution to the Congressional Leadership Fund — Boehner’s super PAC,

Read more at: nationalreview.com/article/434787/donald-trump-insurgent-republican-establishment-media

There is a little irony for sure that the base is ‘getting even’ with the establishment Republicans that let them down by voting for the candidate that funded the efforts of Boehner and his ilk.

 

[sallybutler]

Trump is a golf buddy of Boehner. Boehner and Cruz have had very few dealings with each other.

Donald Trump is not an outsider. Even if he has filled the trough of Democrats more than Republicans.

There is a little irony for sure that the base is ‘getting even’ with the establishment Republicans that let them down by voting for the candidate that funded the efforts of Boehner and his ilk.

Cruz was Boehner’s lawyer. Look it up.

 

[Peter_J]

Donald Trump is not an outsider.

I’m not sure many Republicans would care: being an anti-establishment outsider isn’t cool anymore now that Trump is the presumptive.

 

[Darryl1958]

I’m not sure many Republicans would care: being an anti-establishment outsider isn’t cool anymore now that Trump is the presumptive.

People riding the wave of emotions do not have a lot of use for rationality and consistency, so I suppose you are right.
Being an anti-establishment outside was so yesterday.

 

[Peter_J]

People riding the wave of emotions do not have a lot of use for rationality and consistency, so I suppose you are right.
Being an anti-establishment outside was so yesterday.

But the sad thing is that last August, at the debate in Cleveland, only Donald Trump had a good answer when asked to pledge support for the eventual nominee. The other sixteen candidates all said “Yes.”

 

[carpenter383]

Real Clear Politics has Trump behind Clinton by 7 points (down from 11 a couple of weeks ago); Cruz is behind by 3. These polls are pretty useless in terms of predicting what will happen in the general election, after both conventions, world, national events from now until November. Two major things that hurt Romney were the 47% comment and the other one was Hurricane Sandy, which hit the New Jersey coast in the month leading up to the election (Christie bonding with Obama). I remember breathing a sigh of relief after that storm, because the silver lining was that I knew it would help Obama.

Anything can happen between now and November. Trump is high risk, a complete unknown, with a lot of baggage. Cruz is a known, very negative commodity. ** Cruz did not win a county, not a county, let alone a state, last Tuesday. He received 3 delegates. Total. Less than 12% of the vote in some states. This is not baggage it is cement**.

Trump can pull from the center; Cruz cannot; Trump has momentum and can get people behind him; Cruz cannot.

Trump has no chance in those 5 states either, counties don’t matter, the state as a whole does, hillary will win them in a general no matter who the gop candidate is.

 

[Darryl1958]

Cruz was Boehner’s lawyer. Look it up.

cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-says-he-was-just-a-baby-lawyer-when-he-worked-for-john-boehner/

 

[rocklobster]

Also, people are desperate! But we will get out of it God willing!

Germany was desperate after the Depression. And we all know what happened next. That’s right, I’m throwing down THAT card! Come at me, Trump zombies!
Trump zombies: Must elect Trump! Must ignore facts! Must establish Fourth Reich!

 

[mary_bobo]

Cruz was Boehner’s lawyer. Look it up.

That’s misleading. Cruz was an employee of a firm who defended Boehner. He may have worked on briefs, but he was only starting out in practice and I doubt seriously if he even met Boehner at that time.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Cruz was Boehner’s lawyer. Look it up.

Cruz said on the Hannity townhall that his boss was Boehner’s lawyer and Cruz himself did some “editing of briefs and helped write them” I presume regarding Boehner, but regarding him and Boehner, Cruz said, “I don’t know if I ever met him” “we haven’t said fifty words to each other in our lives.”

 

[Wesrock]

The comments are inappropriate. Still, I am not lookong forward to this election.

I simply don’t trust Trump. He strikes me as a man who will say whatever to keep popular attention on him, and has flip flopped on issues in mere hours. Cruz has extreme neo-liberal policies I’m not in favor of. Clinton is a corporatist and holds some unacceptable social policies. Sanders holds some unacceptable social policies.

Kacisch is not going to win the primary, and even if the convention is contested I doubt he’d be chosen. Even then, he wouldn’t be my ideal candidate, but I could vote for him with an easy conscience.

 

[carpenter383]

The comments are inappropriate. Still, I am not lookong forward to this election.

I simply don’t trust Trump. He strikes me as a man who will say whatever to keep popular attention on him, and has flip flopped on issues in mere hours. **Cruz has extreme neo-liberal policies **I’m not in favor of. Clinton is a corporatist and holds some unacceptable social policies. Sanders holds some unacceptable social policies.

Kacisch is not going to win the primary, and even if the convention is contested I doubt he’d be chosen. Even then, he wouldn’t be my ideal candidate, but I could vote for him with an easy conscience.

** You believe reganomics are “extreme neo-liberal policies” ? **

 

[Darryl1958]

That’s misleading. Cruz was an employee of a firm who defended Boehner. He may have worked on briefs, but he was only starting out in practice and I doubt seriously if he even met Boehner at that time.

Yup.

I actually did look it up, and posted the CBS link that shows just that.

 

[meltzerboy]

cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/john-boehner-ted-cruz-lucifer-stanford/index.html

Well, the GOP seems intent on self-destructing - Trump or “Lucifer in the Flesh” being their leading Presidential candidates!

Republican Congressman from New York, Peter King, went one step further by saying that the comparison is insulting to Lucifer. It appears that many of those who worked with Ted Cruz in Congress view him as disagreeable. But Lucifer in the flesh? A bit over the top!