Boehner: Ted Cruz a 'miserable son of a bitch'

[link to thehill.com]


Former Speaker John Boehner panned Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh” during comments at an event Wednesday night at Stanford University.

“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone,” Boehner (R-Ohio) said, according to The Stanford Daily.

ve for a freshman senator — in 2013 and pushed them to fight to defund ObamaCare. The effort eventually led to a government shutdown that hurt the GOP.

Boehner reportedly called Cruz a “jackass” over the issue.

At Stanford, a Boehner unburdened by the shackles of the office reportedly garnered laughter and smiles from the attendees as he struck a more informal tone than in most of his past previous appearances.

He recounted how he used to play golf with Donald Trump and said they were “texting buddies.” As for the final GOP presidential hopeful, his home state’s Gov. John Kasich, Boehner reportedly was more measured.