GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson deems Ted Cruz “too right wing”

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – There are donors, and then there are megadonors. On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz got some quality time with a GOP financier in a league of his own: casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

Cruz sat next to the Las Vegas billionaire Sunday night at the Zionist Organization of America dinner in New York. The next morning, according to the New York Observer, they met privately for two hours at the Palace Hotel.

“According to one source close to Mr. Adelson, the casino owner liked Mr. Cruz but found the senator `too right wing’ and concluded he is a longshot to win the nomination,” the Observer reported.

With a net worth of $32.4 billion, Adelson is the 12th wealthiest American on Forbes’ list. He would be a great friend for any presidential aspirant to have. In 2012, he and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $92.8 million to GOP causes and candidates. Almost single handedly, he bankrolled former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s effort. Any number of 2016 hopefuls have been courting him in what has been dubbed the “Sheldon primary.”

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[truebluegreen]

1. Really? There's a limit on right-wing nuttiness acceptability to a billionaire?

Who knew.

[irisblue]

2. Oh happy day

of course, this will change whenever Adelson wants. It IS good to be the King.

[PDJane]

3. Adelson? There's a limit on Adelson's crazy? Amazing.

So far, he has stated that he doesn't care that Israel is not a democracy, and that Israel never bombs mosques. (Really? That bomb that knocked down the first mosque this summer must have been a figment.)

He's a lunatic, but at least he doesn't support Ted Cruz.

[procon]

4. That's obscene.

It's bad enough that anyone is so wealthy that they can quite literally afford to buy a US president who will agreeably do their bidding, but it's even worse that so many GOP candidates are eagerly queuing up to kiss this hoary old geezer's wallet for a chance to throw out our -- admittedly tarnished -- representative democracy and usher in the new American Oligarchy.

[C_U_L8R]

5. What's a carnival clown to do?

Cruz is just another unfunded fool.

[TomCADem]

6. Mega Donors Handpicking the GOP Nominee

It is both funny and sad that it is so blatant.

[savalez]

7. He's also too born in Canada.

[INdemo]

11. If he should win the Rpuke nod

the SCOTUS would say no problem he is an American because we have a political court not a court of laws or ruling of law.

[KinMd]

8. Similar to Al Qaeda thinking ISIS is too extreme

[Historic NY]

9. Wait too radical for the Zionists...

[Thor_MN]

10. Too right wing, too crazy, Tomato, Tomahto...

[craigmatic]

12. We had nothing to fear from cruz. The real threats on the 2016 POTUS level are bush, rubio, portman,

christie, walker, and kasich. The good news is that only half this list are eligible because some come from the same states.

[Lil Missy]

13. Too bad, I'd love for Carnival Cruise to be the Republican candidate. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. I think what Adelson meant was

not that Cruz was too right wing for his taste - he would love to have Cruz in the White House. I think he just meant that Cruz was too right wing to win.

[anti partisan]

17. Agreed

Adelson is a 2 issue guy - gambling and Israel. Unless Cruz bothered him with something he said about gambling, I wouldn't see what Adelson wouldn't like.

[madinmaryland]

15. Well, it does take a crazy person to know another crazy person.

[avebury]

16. Too funny and too on the mark