George Bush appears to acknowledge Ted Cruz's anti establishment cred

Erick Erickson:
I continue to think Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% is on trajectory to be the next President of the United States in a nomination fight against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 92% and George W. Bush may have just handed the whole race to Cruz.

Multiple people have told the Politico that at a fundraiser in Colorado for Jeb Bush, President George W. Bush lit into Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%. Cruz could not have paid for such a sterling moment for his campaign.

A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that more Republicans, upwards of 40%, say they would never, ever vote for Jeb Bush for President, which is more than those who say that about Donald Trump. Along comes the former President in a season of “we’ve already had two Bushes” to promote his brother by bashing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% as “opportunistic” and self-interested.

The GOP is still wrestling with immigration reforms started by the Bush administration, TARP, the GM bailout, John Roberts, and more. Conservatives have grown more and more hostile toward Jeb Bush and his brother’s legacy. So it does not help George W. Bush to give a back-handed endorsement to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% as the antithesis of Bush Republicanism.

What’s more, in the continuing scenario where I see Cruz vs. Rubio as the logical outcome of this, Bush also dinged Rubio, but not nearly has hard as he slammed Cruz.

More troubling, I am not aware of George W. Bush criticizing Barack Obama as intensely as he has criticized his Republican Senator in Texas.

What President Bush is doing is signaling that he thinks Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% is the major threat to the Republican Establishment and the candidate the Establishment fears the most. In a election year where the outsiders are beating the insiders, this will only help Cruz. In the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — the same one showing strong anti-Jeb sentiment — Cruz had made no gains over last month. I expect this news will help him tremendously.
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I think the establishment fear of Cruz is that he actually means what he is saying and is not trying to finesse an issue to fool the voters.   He does not need a focus group to construct an answer to a question is such away that it will become meaningless when elected.  Cruz may not be criticizing Donald Trump as much as establishment candidates, but he has not been criticizing Jeb Bush that much either.  What Cruz has done better than most candidates in the race is connect with the GOP voter base as opposed to the "Washington Cartel."

I still think he has a ways to go to get the nomination but he is in the running.

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