Posted on 01/24/2012 6:48:24 PM PST by Steelfish
JANUARY 24 Draft Jeb Bush A charismatic and accomplished governor can save the Republican party.
Artur Davis
In the early months of the election year, a polarizing president with a lackluster approval rating bided his time as the opposition party unraveled. Its nominating fight dissolved into chaos as the establishment front-runner collapsed, and an insurgent with a talent for galvanizing his party’s base surged, despite persistent fears about his electoral appeal beyond the party’s hardcore.
A protracted primary fight ensued, with the insurgent and the party’s resistant establishment eviscerating each other for months; by the time it ran its course, a president who seemed imminently beatable was ahead by double digits. The story ends with that same president winning by an historic margin over a party that rejected its recent past in favor of a dangerously uncertain future.
This is a recounting of the 1972 election season. If it has the feel of a premonition, it’s because Republicans look dangerously on the verge of repeating the demolition derby that so weakened Democrats that year.
Mitt Romney may be a better-constructed front-runner than Ed Muskie, but he is still a flawed contender whose candidacy seems at odds with his party’s mood and whose own half-answers have made his wealth seem shadowy and amoral. Newt Gingrich may be a far better-known quantity than the hapless George McGovern, but he still seems, like McGovern, more suited to the task of revolution than political persuasion. Republicans are, and should be, very worried.
Enter the last dream date that Republicans may have at their disposal. His name is Jeb Bush, and this time, there is a feasibility around the idea that seemed unthinkable months ago.
To be sure, the Jeb scenario will need more instability in order to flourish. The likeliest path...
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Not gonna happen.
No more dynasties. No Bushes, no Kennedys, no Clintons.
National Review must not be doing very well, or they wouldn’t have those damned, annoying popups, trying to get people to sign up.
I haven’t gone there in some time. Not worth the trouble.
That would cause the second large third party vote.
Give it up, RINOs. Your moment has past.
I would rather vote for Ron Paul-—barf.
No one should be the Republican nominee until they have been totally trashed, smeared and destroyed by other Republicans! It’s the new “norm”! The ‘RATS are lovin’ it!
Draft Jeb Bush, and I’ll write in Terri Schindler come November.
Third time’s a charm! </s>
Never.
And his druggie daughter is going to have a heck of a time with all the exposure from the left wing press.
“Stay out da bushes!” - Jesse Jackson
“Stay out da bushes!”
Artur Davis? Meterosexual name if I ever heard one.
To quote that great black orator, “stay out da bushes”
Bushes are globalists.
Artur is completely and totally insane.
Artur Davis: From Dem star to exile
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69578.html
Yea, well most of this could have been prevented had mittens just accepted the fact that we don’t want him ;-)
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