Former Speaker Boehner Calls Cruz 'Lucifer in the Flesh'
Source: NBC News
John Boehner is not a big fan of Ted Cruz.
So much so, in fact, that 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."
Asked about the 2016 presidential candidate at a forum hosted by Stanford in Government (SIG) 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, according to 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."
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/former-speaker-boehner-calls-cruz-lucifer-flesh-n564081
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Sometimes I like Boehner.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)I wouldn't go that far.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Then I slap myself a few times in the face.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)if Cruz and Co. hadn't had John's hands tied. Of course, it was Boehner and Co. that let those malformed creatures into DC in the first place.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Whereas Cruz is Lucifer incarnate, Boehner is a lesser but important demon, possibly Belial.
I agree. Let's keep things in perspective and avoid a mini-love fest for Boehner. He's right about Cruz but we remember his actions too or should I say non-actions?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)to what they have now.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)he seems to be accurately describing Cruz. People who have worked for him or with him universally despise him.
Even his kids don't want to get near him.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)so while I would have agreed with you pre-Cruz/Fiorina, I'm gonna have to hold off a bit longer post-Cruz/Fiorina. I'm not yet confident Cruz won't grow a set of wings and start toasting opponents with his fire breath (Carly probably prefers them well-done).
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)enid602
(8,619 posts)Well, Lucifer's grandpa should know!!!!
Coventina
(27,120 posts)Cruz is
7962
(11,841 posts)A lot of folks just dont like that dude.
keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Good one.
Jim__
(14,076 posts)thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)HAHA! Beyond delicious.
But why do Boehner and the religious goody two shoes characterize
everything as religious?
Lucifer? really?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)in everything.. yin yang, third law of physics... etc.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)of him. Even Trump is preferable to this evil turd. Worse than Nixon.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Maybe he shouldn't take the organizer's statement that he should be extra frank because this isn't being broadcast so literally next time. Not that I feel sorry for him.
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.
Hekate
(90,686 posts)...to take the oleaginous senator seriously.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)1) Ted Cruz has obviously been ostracized by the Senate, in less than four years.
The Senate--even Republicans, to some extent--plays by the rule of "comity," meaning that you get along with others and listen to minority dissent, or you get cock-blocked from ever doing anything important there. Republicans routinely violate the rules of comity en masse, but never outside of the herd, or they risk being blocked from ever having legislation passed, ever being invited to co-sign important (and politically rewarding) bills, and so on. For Senators to speak so poorly of Cruz, and to refuse to endorse him when a scumbag like Trump is winning, means Cruz has to be a dirtball like none other. A dirtball in the opinion of racist liars, insider traders, career politicians, serial infidellists, and paedophiles (recall that before Hastert, the Senate had its own pedophilia scandal, which was covered up). What in the hell does that mean?
2) House leadership, including Boehner, hates Ted Cruz.
Since John Boehner isn't a good or responsible person by any objective measure, it means Ted Cruz must have done something really shitty to Boehner, personally. The obvious answer is that Cruz must have been instrumental in kicking Boehner out of the Speaker's position, probably by using his alcoholism (and, presumably, other uninhibited behavior) against him.
3) NOBODY wants to talk about what, exactly, Ted Cruz has done.
This almost certainly means that Cruz crossed the line into using the excoriable personal behavior of Republican Members of Congress for his own personal gain. He also did it while maintaining a harem of at least five mistresses, which is the hallmark of a severely anti-social person and which is normally the first thing Congress would use against him (Remember Bob Livingston?). Normally, Congress has an array of ways to deal with loose cannon such as Cruz, and we already know he's hardly above reproach. But they're not touching him... yet.
From these things we have to conclude that Ted Cruz has a huge and highly damaging file on many or most of the Republican Members of Congress, and that he's already threatened to use it. Trump was willing to call Cruz out on his mistresses, but Congress won't touch it--probably because they're on the hook for something much worse, and by much worse I mean it's gotta be dead girls and live boys, insider trading on terror warnings, and other awful stuff like that.
For years now I've been arguing that the Republican Party is a criminal organization, already at the mercy of other criminals who are willing to threaten disclosure. I'm pretty sure now that Ted Cruz is one of those extortionists who is using something huge and unforgivable against the Republican Party at large.
Obviously, we need to find a way to maneuver Cruz into disclosing what that is.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)rurallib
(62,415 posts)How much does this drunk get paid for his "speeches"?
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)After this comment, and the video clip from the White House Correspondents Dinner (wiping away a tear while watching a movie and offering President Obama a cigarette), I'm beginning to realize how the GOP machine could poison one's spirit.
He may still have a soul -- or fragments thereof -- but the Repuke party is totally devoid of any redeeming qualities. Or, in contemporary parlance, a melding of Sauron, Voldemort and the latest Ghostbusters' slime.