{"id":23968,"date":"2016-05-03T05:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=23968"},"modified":"2016-05-02T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T03:36:12","slug":"cruzs-chances-are-hurt-by-republicans-who-cant-stand-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/05\/cruzs-chances-are-hurt-by-republicans-who-cant-stand-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz\u2019s chances are hurt by Republicans who can’t stand him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Ted Cruz\u2019s efforts to win the Republican nomination in smoke-filled rooms are complicated by the fact that so many of his colleagues in the party just can\u2019t stand him.<\/p>\n

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner <\/a>went so far to call him \u201cLucifer in the flesh\u201d and\u00a0that he had \u201cnever worked with a more miserable s__ of a b____ in my life.\u201d \u00a0Boehner said that he would vote for Trump before he would vote for Cruz. \u00a0Now, just days after his own people announced an alliance with John Kasich, Cruz is denying\u00a0any such alliance, leading the Kasich people to denounce him as a \u201cliar.\u201d \u00a0A story on how Cruz made so many enemies after the jump.<\/p>\n

From Sean Sullivan and Ed O\u2019Keefe, \u00a0Cruz\u2019s latest fight with fellow Republicans is a reminder: Many don\u2019t like the guy \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the space of just 7 minutes here on Thursday, Ted Cruz reminded fellow Republicans that he has few friends in the party.<\/p>\n

First he tangled with former House speaker John A. Boehner, a longtime foe who so dislikes Cruz that he labeled him \u201cLucifer in the flesh.\u201d Then Cruz undercut another Republican, fellow presidential candidate John Kasich, who had entered into an alliance with him to stop GOP front-runner Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no alliance,\u201d Cruz told reporters on Thursday, acting as if a pact announced by his own campaign days before had never happened.<\/p>\n

Minutes later, Kasich strategist John Weaver dispatched a cryptic tweet:<\/a> \u201cI can\u2019t stand liars.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Cruz, it was just another day of brawling with leading figures from his own party \u2014 a role that has formed the cornerstone of his short political career. But for many Republicans, it crystallized an overriding problem for Cruz\u2019s campaign: Many people simply don\u2019t like him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Cruz\u2019s latest fight with fellow Republicans is a reminder: Many don\u2019t like the guy \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Cruz\u2019s efforts to win the Republican nomination in smoke-filled rooms are complicated by the fact that so many of his colleagues in the party just can\u2019t stand him. Former Speaker of the House John Boehner went so far to call him \u201cLucifer in the flesh\u201d and\u00a0that he had \u201cnever worked with a more miserable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1879,2756],"class_list":["post-23968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-ted-cruz"],"yoast_head":"\nCruz\u2019s chances are hurt by Republicans who can't stand him<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ted Cruz's efforts to win the Republican nomination in smoke-filled rooms are complicated by the fact that so many of his colleagues in the party just\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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