You'd even have to like the former president after this:
Inside a sleek Denver condominium, George W. Bush let a hundred donors to his brother’s campaign in on a secret. Of all the rival Republican candidates, there is one who gets under the former president’s skin, whom he views as perhaps Jeb Bush’s most serious rival for the party’s nomination.
It isn’t Donald Trump, whose withering insults have sought to make Jeb pay a political price for his brother’s presidency. It isn’t Marco Rubio, Jeb’s former understudy who now poses a serious threat to his establishment support.
It’s George W. Bush’s former employee — Ted Cruz.“I just don’t like the guy,” Bush said Sunday night. ...Politico
No, really! It's not just a damaging grenade tossed into Cruz's 2016 campaign. It's building a border fence between Ted Cruz and the Republican party. It's separating W from the tea party. And damaging bits of grenade have also found a home in the Republican party itself. Republicans are watching as elements of their 2016 strategy seem to backfire. Benghazi, Cruz today... then...?
Oh, and W was dissing Cruz to an audience of Republican donors in Colorado. The message is undoubtedly seeping through to Republican donors around the country. Who may be a little harder to tap, if this is an accurate description:
The donors at the event were a mix of establishment stalwarts like former Gov. Bill Owens and business executive Larry Mizel as well as a number of young professionals, who were offered reduced $250 tickets at the last minute in an effort to fill the room, according to an email the organizer circulated among potential supporters and obtained by POLITICO.
"Effort to fill the room..." Uh-oh.
