Ryan, by contrast, has been more willing to reach out to the same conservatives. Boehner had little patience for conservatives he believed did not understand how the House worked and how compromise was a necessity, not a sin, with a Democrat in the White House and Democrats empowered in the Senate. He pronounced the conservative Republicans in the Freedom Caucus who bedeviled him on Capitol Hill as knuckleheads and goofballs, a sentiment he has also expressed on prior occasions. emerging as a last-minute presidential nominee. Encouraged to be candid, he was downright loquacious in offering his views on everything from Hillary Clinton - “Oh, I’m a woman, vote for me” - to Senator Bernie Sanders’s being a good guy to the possibility of Vice President Joseph R. “You know he generally says what he thinks anyway, and being out of office has certainly not made him any less inclined to be that way,” said David Schnittger, a spokesman for the former speaker. To his aides, this is all just Boehner being Boehner. Although former House Speaker John Boehner has not endorsed a Republican for president, he admitted late Wednesday his preference for commander in chief is. And when he was in exile from the leadership from 1998 to 2006, he was a go-to quote for commentary on the poor conduct of those who were in charge. Boehner would often hold forth, offering his rather spirited views of individuals and ideas, though not always for publication. With a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Mr. Boehner in Washington, the comments, first reported by The Stanford Daily, were no surprise. Trump if it came to that, but not for Mr. Boehner said that they had golfed together, and that he would vote for Mr. Boehner said in the Stanford talk was a “texting buddy.” Mr. He got the opportunity to again burnish his anti-Washington credentials and position himself as a warrior against Mr. Boehner no doubt enjoyed the attention accorded his biting remark on Mr. It was destined to be a nonrelationship forged where Lucifer resides. Cruz deplores as the “Washington cartel,” a much more ominous way of describing the political establishment.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas in a wide-ranging interview on 'Special Report' Tuesday. Boehner as a handy symbol of Washington deal-making and the standard-bearer for what Mr. Former House Speaker John Boehner revealed the reason for his public vitriol toward Sen. Cruz as a self-aggrandizer who put himself above the institution of Congress and even the good of his party. Cruz wooed rebellious House conservatives into a punishing government shutdown in 2013, saw Mr. Cruz told reporters, noting that he had never really worked with Mr. But saying that he wouldn't vote for Cruz in the (unlikely) event that Cruz becomes the Republican nominee is still a very strong statement from the man who was the highest-ranking Republican in office for most of the Obama presidency.“If I have said 50 words in my life to John Boehner, I’d be surprised, and every one of them has consisted of pleasantries,” Mr. He called Cruz a "jackass" at a fundraiser - an insult he later repeated on Face the Nation. While Boehner strived for compromise with President Barack Obama to keep the government open, Cruz believed that compromise was surrender.īoehner wasn't exactly secretive about this while he was in office. The Texas senator made his life miserable in office, exciting Boehner's caucus by championing government shutdowns and debt ceiling fights over Obamacare and Planned Parenthood. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."Īnd if that didn't make the point quite sharply enough, Boehner - who described Donald Trump as a "texting buddy" - said he'd vote for Trump if he were the Republican nominee, but that he wouldn't vote for Cruz.īoehner's dislike of Cruz is well-known, and deeply rooted. "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. "Lucifer in the flesh," the former speaker said. John Boehner, the famously blunt ex-House speaker, left no doubt hes not a fan of fellow Republican Ted Cruz, leaping off the sidelines of the presidential race Wednesday night to unleash a. When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.
The Stanford Daily's Ada Statler-Throckmorton reported: During a candid talk at Stanford University, Boehner unloaded on the Republican senator and presidential hopeful, comparing him to the devil. Former Speaker of the House John Boehner really, really, really hates Ted Cruz.
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