Everything, and I mean everything, Ted Cruz does feels like a calculated political gamble that tested well in a focus group. He’s the most disingenuous candidate seeking the presidency since Hillary. From his senate filibusters to make a name for himself to his lame attempts at sardonic wit aimed at Trump to his painfully awkward talk-show appearances to his Tea Party talking points on the stump to his “pact” with Kasich and now his choice of Carly Fiorina as Vice President feel as genuine as a $3 bill (on which his face belongs). Everything Cruz does is nails on the proverbial political chalkboard. Remember when his wife Heidi said she felt God told her husband to run for president? I think it was so God could expose Lyin’ Ted as the self-proclaimed, yet anything but, “anti-establishment” candidate. I can’t wait until Trump wins Indiana, crosses the 1,237 delegate threshold in California, and Cruz fades into the annals of primary history. Go back to Canada, hoser.
Teri
I heard bits and pieces of Trump’s foreign policy speech yesterday. It was definitely non-interventionist, almost Ron Paul-ish. No wonder the war mongering establishment is having apoplexy and pulling out all stops.
kokoda
Trump’s foreign policy speech was ‘Presidential’.
Greg in NC
If there were any doubts as to the true colors of Ted, it should be clear now that he announced a running mate after mathematically being eliminated. What a douche.
nkit
“Cruz is Lucifer in the flesh and a miserable son of a bitch” ~ John Boehner
John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz “A Miserable Son Of A Bitch, Lucifer In The Flesh”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2016 09:34 -0400
Is the establishment’s fervent hatred of Donald Trump starting a U-turn? It’s still too early to know, however at least one core Republican, former house speaker John Boehner, has made it very clear he is not a fan of Ted Cruz. At all. So much so that according to NBC the former Republican House Speaker told an audience at Stanford University Wednesday that the Texas senator is “Lucifer in the flesh” and a “miserable son of a bitch.”
When asked about the 2016 presidential candidate at a forum hosted by Stanford in Government and the Stanford Speakers Bureau, Boehner drew laughter for making a face of disgust, according to the Stanford Daily.
“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner said cited by the paper. “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.”
Boehner’s shocking statement came because he was urged by the event’s moderator, Professor David M. Kennedy, to be frank because the event was not being broadcasted. Perhaps Boehner did not realize people were still taking notes.
Curiously, and an indication that the GOP faithful may be turning in their support for Trump, the former Ohio lawmaker had kinder words for his “texting buddy” Donald Trump, with whom Boehner has played golf with for “years.”
And a surprising admission: Boehner said he’d vote for Donald Trump in the general election if he were the Republican nominee, but he would not vote for Ted Cruz.
Actually we take that back: the establishment is turning in their support of Trump.
Boehner also said John Kasich was a “friend” too, although he suggested that the relationship takes “more effort” than others. “[Kasich] requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends … but he’s still my friend, and I love him,” Boehner said.
As the Hill reminds us, Cruz was a thorn in Boehner’s side during several standoffs with the Obama administration, and some of his actions likely cost Boehner support from his own conference. Cruz met with House members of the conservative Freedom Caucus — an unusual move for a freshman senator — in 2013 and pushed them to fight to defund ObamaCare. The effort eventually led to a government shutdown that hurt the GOP. Boehner reportedly called Cruz a “jackass” over the issue.
At Stanford, a Boehner unburdened by the shackles of the office reportedly garnered laughter and smiles from the attendees as he struck a more informal tone than in most of his past previous appearances.
Bea Lever
Admin- Is Stucky OK? Has his dad taken a turn for the worse? I wish he would pipe in just to let us know if he is well.
I haven’t heard from Stuck. He rarely looks at email, so that would be pointless.
Anonymous
Cruz pretends to be anti Establishment to his supporters.
How does appointing someone that fully represents everything the Establishment stands for boost that image among his supporters and gain new ones?
Maybe there is a Cruz supporter there that can explain that to me in simple and logical terms I can understand. I can’t quite figure it out for myself, maybe I’m a little slow and need some help here.
kokoda
Boehner is a RINO; talked a lot about opposing Obama but never did anything. I can understand why Cruz was a thorn in his side.
Boehner is a miserable, lying, POS.
Go Trump
Bea Lever
Admin- I will send another MO in the next few days………BOLO.
I have to take my father to a hospital tomorrow … to see a Wound Specialist … who has to dig out the dead flesh in dad’s finger. Sounds like fun. The doc believes that dad is not getting any circulation to his fingertips and so they are dying. His other finger is now splitting open. More tests and other shit being done. It’s fun getting old.
I have also been overwhelmed with selling the house … we have a new realtor … and he suggested certain things be done to spruce up / freshen up the joint. LOTS of manual labor. Been working non-stop for over a week now.
Then there’s normal spring clean-up … clearing old bushes, laying down mulch, planting flowers, replacing a fallen-destroyed gutter as the result of the big snow storm, fixing the 40+ year old wooden fence, and on and on.
Oh, yeah … doing the same shit at my parent’s house. I’ve been SWAMPED with shit.
Oh yeah, dealing with COPFUKS. So, I bought a bunch of 10 foot long 2x4s to reinforce the fence. We have a Hyundai. So, I stick the lumber in the trunk. It’s about 5 miles from Home Depot to the house. Broad daylight. Doing exactly the 35mph speed limit. Less than half a mile from the house I get pulled over … and get a ticket. It seems there’s a law that you need a fucking flag on anything sticking out too far from the trunk. You know … because without a flag some stupid cuntfuk asshole will surely ram my ass! Didn’t even know there was such a law in NJ. Well, there probably isn’t since he gave me a ticket for driving irresponsibly or some shit. I’m gonna fight it because the copfuk didn’t even have a tape-measure with him. Maybe I’ll win. Maybe I’ll lose, but instead of filling this shitfuk town’s coffers, I just spend some time in jail. I hate this fucking country.
Bea Lever
Stucky- We will say a prayer for your dad and a prayer for you to have the strength to deal with all that you have on your plate. Glad you are OK.
Greg in NC says: If there were any doubts as to the true colors of Ted, it should be clear now that he announced a running mate after mathematically being eliminated. What a douche.
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It’s obviously a desperation move to choose Fiorina since she’s from California and the last big play for delegates is there. Carly won the Rep. primary there a while back for the US Senate but lost to Barbara Boxer.
It won’t work.
Bruce
Stucy says.
Oh yeah, dealing with COPFUKS. So, I bought a bunch of 10 foot long 2x4s to reinforce the fence. We have a Hyundai. So, I stick the lumber in the trunk. It’s about 5 miles from Home Depot to the house. Broad daylight. Doing exactly the 35mph speed limit. Less than half a mile from the house I get pulled over … and get a ticket. It seems there’s a law that you need a fucking flag on anything sticking out too far from the trunk. You know … because without a flag some stupid cuntfuk asshole will surely ram my ass! Didn’t even know there was such a law in NJ. Well, there probably isn’t since he gave me a ticket for driving irresponsibly or some shit. I’m gonna fight it because the copfuk didn’t even have a tape-measure with him. Maybe I’ll win. Maybe I’ll lose, but instead of filling this shitfuk town’s coffers, I just spend some time in jail. I hate this fucking country.
Stucky,
We’ve had that kind of law here in Texas as long as I can remember. Most of the lumber yards give you a red strip to flag your over hanging load.. About five years ago I had a dozen 2x6x12’s that hung over the back of the pickup and got pulled over. The cop says ” I stopped you because your lumber was not flagged and it’s over hanging too much to be safe.The lumber yard forgot your flag or it came off. I’ve got some flags in the car so I’m going to put one on for you. After he tied on the red flag he waved me on and shouted out “have a great day”. Things don’t suck as much in Texas as other places.
Cruz and K last tactic does not help them one bit.It does the opposite.Makes them look weak.
Llpoh
Stuck – sorry about your father. Truly.
Re the flag – far as I know that is law just about everywhere. I have nearly Impala myself on steel sticking out the back with no flag. Sometimes it is hard to see. You got caught in one of those laws meant to keep total morons form doing what total morons will do if they are not monitored. Sorry about that too.
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Everything, and I mean everything, Ted Cruz does feels like a calculated political gamble that tested well in a focus group. He’s the most disingenuous candidate seeking the presidency since Hillary. From his senate filibusters to make a name for himself to his lame attempts at sardonic wit aimed at Trump to his painfully awkward talk-show appearances to his Tea Party talking points on the stump to his “pact” with Kasich and now his choice of Carly Fiorina as Vice President feel as genuine as a $3 bill (on which his face belongs). Everything Cruz does is nails on the proverbial political chalkboard. Remember when his wife Heidi said she felt God told her husband to run for president? I think it was so God could expose Lyin’ Ted as the self-proclaimed, yet anything but, “anti-establishment” candidate. I can’t wait until Trump wins Indiana, crosses the 1,237 delegate threshold in California, and Cruz fades into the annals of primary history. Go back to Canada, hoser.
I heard bits and pieces of Trump’s foreign policy speech yesterday. It was definitely non-interventionist, almost Ron Paul-ish. No wonder the war mongering establishment is having apoplexy and pulling out all stops.
Trump’s foreign policy speech was ‘Presidential’.
If there were any doubts as to the true colors of Ted, it should be clear now that he announced a running mate after mathematically being eliminated. What a douche.
“Cruz is Lucifer in the flesh and a miserable son of a bitch” ~ John Boehner
John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz “A Miserable Son Of A Bitch, Lucifer In The Flesh”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2016 09:34 -0400
Is the establishment’s fervent hatred of Donald Trump starting a U-turn? It’s still too early to know, however at least one core Republican, former house speaker John Boehner, has made it very clear he is not a fan of Ted Cruz. At all. So much so that according to NBC the former Republican House Speaker told an audience at Stanford University Wednesday that the Texas senator is “Lucifer in the flesh” and a “miserable son of a bitch.”
When asked about the 2016 presidential candidate at a forum hosted by Stanford in Government and the Stanford Speakers Bureau, Boehner drew laughter for making a face of disgust, according to the Stanford Daily.
“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner said cited by the paper. “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.”
Boehner’s shocking statement came because he was urged by the event’s moderator, Professor David M. Kennedy, to be frank because the event was not being broadcasted. Perhaps Boehner did not realize people were still taking notes.
Curiously, and an indication that the GOP faithful may be turning in their support for Trump, the former Ohio lawmaker had kinder words for his “texting buddy” Donald Trump, with whom Boehner has played golf with for “years.”
And a surprising admission: Boehner said he’d vote for Donald Trump in the general election if he were the Republican nominee, but he would not vote for Ted Cruz.
Actually we take that back: the establishment is turning in their support of Trump.
Boehner also said John Kasich was a “friend” too, although he suggested that the relationship takes “more effort” than others. “[Kasich] requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends … but he’s still my friend, and I love him,” Boehner said.
As the Hill reminds us, Cruz was a thorn in Boehner’s side during several standoffs with the Obama administration, and some of his actions likely cost Boehner support from his own conference. Cruz met with House members of the conservative Freedom Caucus — an unusual move for a freshman senator — in 2013 and pushed them to fight to defund ObamaCare. The effort eventually led to a government shutdown that hurt the GOP. Boehner reportedly called Cruz a “jackass” over the issue.
At Stanford, a Boehner unburdened by the shackles of the office reportedly garnered laughter and smiles from the attendees as he struck a more informal tone than in most of his past previous appearances.
Admin- Is Stucky OK? Has his dad taken a turn for the worse? I wish he would pipe in just to let us know if he is well.
Bea
I haven’t heard from Stuck. He rarely looks at email, so that would be pointless.
Cruz pretends to be anti Establishment to his supporters.
How does appointing someone that fully represents everything the Establishment stands for boost that image among his supporters and gain new ones?
Maybe there is a Cruz supporter there that can explain that to me in simple and logical terms I can understand. I can’t quite figure it out for myself, maybe I’m a little slow and need some help here.
Boehner is a RINO; talked a lot about opposing Obama but never did anything. I can understand why Cruz was a thorn in his side.
Boehner is a miserable, lying, POS.
Go Trump
Admin- I will send another MO in the next few days………BOLO.
I have to take my father to a hospital tomorrow … to see a Wound Specialist … who has to dig out the dead flesh in dad’s finger. Sounds like fun. The doc believes that dad is not getting any circulation to his fingertips and so they are dying. His other finger is now splitting open. More tests and other shit being done. It’s fun getting old.
I have also been overwhelmed with selling the house … we have a new realtor … and he suggested certain things be done to spruce up / freshen up the joint. LOTS of manual labor. Been working non-stop for over a week now.
Then there’s normal spring clean-up … clearing old bushes, laying down mulch, planting flowers, replacing a fallen-destroyed gutter as the result of the big snow storm, fixing the 40+ year old wooden fence, and on and on.
Oh, yeah … doing the same shit at my parent’s house. I’ve been SWAMPED with shit.
Oh yeah, dealing with COPFUKS. So, I bought a bunch of 10 foot long 2x4s to reinforce the fence. We have a Hyundai. So, I stick the lumber in the trunk. It’s about 5 miles from Home Depot to the house. Broad daylight. Doing exactly the 35mph speed limit. Less than half a mile from the house I get pulled over … and get a ticket. It seems there’s a law that you need a fucking flag on anything sticking out too far from the trunk. You know … because without a flag some stupid cuntfuk asshole will surely ram my ass! Didn’t even know there was such a law in NJ. Well, there probably isn’t since he gave me a ticket for driving irresponsibly or some shit. I’m gonna fight it because the copfuk didn’t even have a tape-measure with him. Maybe I’ll win. Maybe I’ll lose, but instead of filling this shitfuk town’s coffers, I just spend some time in jail. I hate this fucking country.
Stucky- We will say a prayer for your dad and a prayer for you to have the strength to deal with all that you have on your plate. Glad you are OK.
Greg in NC says: If there were any doubts as to the true colors of Ted, it should be clear now that he announced a running mate after mathematically being eliminated. What a douche.
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It’s obviously a desperation move to choose Fiorina since she’s from California and the last big play for delegates is there. Carly won the Rep. primary there a while back for the US Senate but lost to Barbara Boxer.
It won’t work.
Stucy says.
Oh yeah, dealing with COPFUKS. So, I bought a bunch of 10 foot long 2x4s to reinforce the fence. We have a Hyundai. So, I stick the lumber in the trunk. It’s about 5 miles from Home Depot to the house. Broad daylight. Doing exactly the 35mph speed limit. Less than half a mile from the house I get pulled over … and get a ticket. It seems there’s a law that you need a fucking flag on anything sticking out too far from the trunk. You know … because without a flag some stupid cuntfuk asshole will surely ram my ass! Didn’t even know there was such a law in NJ. Well, there probably isn’t since he gave me a ticket for driving irresponsibly or some shit. I’m gonna fight it because the copfuk didn’t even have a tape-measure with him. Maybe I’ll win. Maybe I’ll lose, but instead of filling this shitfuk town’s coffers, I just spend some time in jail. I hate this fucking country.
Stucky,
We’ve had that kind of law here in Texas as long as I can remember. Most of the lumber yards give you a red strip to flag your over hanging load.. About five years ago I had a dozen 2x6x12’s that hung over the back of the pickup and got pulled over. The cop says ” I stopped you because your lumber was not flagged and it’s over hanging too much to be safe.The lumber yard forgot your flag or it came off. I’ve got some flags in the car so I’m going to put one on for you. After he tied on the red flag he waved me on and shouted out “have a great day”. Things don’t suck as much in Texas as other places.
Or most anywhere in the South.
Cruz and K last tactic does not help them one bit.It does the opposite.Makes them look weak.
Stuck – sorry about your father. Truly.
Re the flag – far as I know that is law just about everywhere. I have nearly Impala myself on steel sticking out the back with no flag. Sometimes it is hard to see. You got caught in one of those laws meant to keep total morons form doing what total morons will do if they are not monitored. Sorry about that too.