Subject: Stitch — BOEHNER ON CRUZ: 'LUCIFER IN THE FLESH,' 'SOB'; TRUMP'S FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH, CAMPBELL BROWN ON TRUMP & TV
From: Jonathan Allen <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:26:33 +0000
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** THE BIG QUESTION

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Will veteran Republican office-holders and strategists continue to take shots at Trump's policy ideas if he becomes the party's nominee?

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BOEHNER UNLOADS ON TED CRUZ
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Ted Cruz is "Lucifer in the flesh" and a "miserable son of a bitch," former House Speaker John Boehner told an audience at Stanford University last night, according to Ada Statler-Throckmorton's write-up in the Stanford Daily.

Boehner added that he wouldn't vote for Cruz in a general election.
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"Lucifer in the flesh. ... 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.”

—former Speaker John Boehner/Stanford Daily (http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/28/john-boehner-talks-election-time-in-office/)

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It's not surprising that Boehner, who elected to retire rather than face continuing insurrection in the House, has such disdain for Cruz. The Texas senator spent his first few years in Congress trying to block GOP leaders' efforts to keep the government running and credit-worthy, and he often huddled privately with House members to stir up anti-leadership sentiment and action across the Capitol from his own Senate chamber.

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TRUMP UNVEILS FOREIGN POLICY VISION
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DONALD TRUMP pulled out the TelePrompTers and buckled down on foreign policy yesterday in a speech in Washington. He left little doubt about the major tenets of his worldview — some of which are in conflict — as MARK LANDLER & ASHLEY PARKER write in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech.html?_r=0) .
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"Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, pledged a major buildup of the military, the swift destruction of the Islamic State and the rejection of trade deals that he said tied the nation’s hands. But he also pointedly rejected the nation-building of the George W. Bush administration, reminding his audience that he had opposed the Iraq war.

—Landler & Parker/NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech.html?_r=0)

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COUNT REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT MIKE MURPHY among the many political and foreign policy experts who were not impressed. Murphy said on Sidewire yesterday that Trump would have difficulty in a tough interview on foreign policy.
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"Mix of cliche talking points somebody Trump probably doesn't know wrote for him and the usual honking Trump isolationism. I wanna see Trump try to survive a tough long form interview with a well informed foreign policy journalist. It would be #Sad."

—Mike Murphy/Sidewire (https://sidewire.com/politics/dashboard/articles/1c8f160cf13dd068932c4219fac5edc6/commentary/addc8ae3-0410-4b36-ab14-af2f4bfea65f)

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There were a lot of contradictions in Trump's speech, but, I argue in my column for Roll Call today that's because he was trying to bridge the divide between the hawkish establishment wing of the GOP and the isolationist grassroots wing.. That is, the Republican Party is badly divided over American foreign policy (so, too is a Democratic Party on the verge of nominating someone who is simply too hawkish and trade-friendly for much of the party's base).
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"At its core, Trump's address was an effective distillation of the conflicting impulses of the Republican Party: the desire to build up the military without spending money, to make other nations cower without deploying force, to destroy ISIS without relying on allies and to grow the American economy without engaging in trade."

—Jonathan Allen/Roll Call (http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/trump-nails-gop-foreign-policy-impulses#sthash.wCoDaEig.dpuf)

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Generally speaking, reaction was split into three categories:
* It was big and huge and without precedent in the annals of American foreign policy, Trump supporters argued.
* It was the incoherent ranting of someone who knows less about the world than he thinks, said people who would never vote for Trump.
* And, it was fine — no great shakes, but not an embarrassment — said Republicans who are coming to accept that Trump is likely to be their party's nominee.

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TRIVIAL PURSUITS
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ABOUT TODAY

JAMES MONROE, who also spoke about American foreign policy in Washington, was born on this day in 1758.

YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA

SAL WEIR was the first to respond correctly that Grover Cleveland told a 5-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt the following: "My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you never be president of the United States."

TODAY"S TRIVIA

Name the two sitting U.S. senators who were born in Sheffield, Alabama.
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DREAM TICKET: CRUZ NAMES FIORINA AS INDIANA LOOKS LIKE TOUGHER CHALLENGE FOR HIM
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COMING OFF A DEVASTATING set of third-place finishes in four of Tuesday's five primary contests, and facing a backlash against his deal to split up states with John Kasich, TED CRUZ named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate yesterday. That Cruz hasn't won the nomination and has his back against the wall didn't escape anyone's notice.
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"Hail Mary passes are always fun to watch, but they usually fail in politics. Remember when Reagan picked Sen. Dick Schweiker as his running mate in 1976 to break the Pennsylvania delegation his way? It didn't work and Ford won the nomination."

—Ron Faucheux/Sidewire (https://sidewire.com/politics/dashboard/articles/1ed41620e60bb393b4c9dbe68341673b/commentary/be191e38-2252-4cf7-ae0d-0c9c4b90b628)

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MASON HARRISON of CrowdPac explained on Sidewire why Fiorina might be able to provide some measure of help to Cruz, as Re/Code's Dawn Chmielewski reported.
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“'California remains the top delegate prize, and her grassroots connection here matters,' said Crowdpac’s Mason Harrison, who worked on Fiorina’s failed 2010 bid for the U.S. Senate, in comments on Sidewire, an app where journalists and political insiders dissect the day’s news."

—Dawn Chmielewski/Re/Code (http://recode.net/2016/04/27/how-exactly-does-carly-fiorina-help-ted-cruz/)

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BUT CRUZ'S MISSION TO STOP TRUMP may fall apart in Indiana, where a pact announced between his campaign and John Kasich's team on Sunday may have backfired with voters, according to Bloomberg Politics' MICHAEL C. BENDER and MARK NIQUETTE.
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"This backroom double-dealing thing that they put on now, that is going to hurt Cruz. ... Hoosiers like fair."

—former Indiana GOP Chair Rex Early/Bloomberg Politics (https://sidewire.com/politics/dashboard/articles/3d379daeed5b31ed6ca26f1c38bae5ab)

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BLAME TV FOR TRUMP
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That's what CAMPBELL BROWN writes in a piece for Politico Magazine's media issue. It's very much worth the full read, which you can get by clicking here (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-blame-tv-cable-news-media-campbell-brown-campaign-cnn-fox-msnbc-213839#ixzz476MmU5e4) .
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"I really would like to blame Trump. But everything he is doing is with TV news’ full acquiescence. Trump doesn’t force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him. TV news has largely given Trump editorial control. ... Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell."

—Campbell Brown/Politico Magazine (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-blame-tv-cable-news-media-campbell-brown-campaign-cnn-fox-msnbc-213839#ixzz476MmU5e4)

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