Posted on 12/31/2014 11:48:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Before Jeb Bush announced he was “actively exploring” a presidential bid came news he was just as actively seeking a way to avoid appealing to conservatives. (The Bushies prefer the word “pandering.”)
The would-be King Bush III consulted one of the country’s foremost experts on excelling in the Republican Party without being too conservative: Arizona Sen. John McCain.
“I just said to him, ‘I think if you look back, despite the far right’s complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,’” McCain told Bush, according to The New York Times.
It’s definitely true that the establishment candidate usually wins the Republican presidential nomination. The only two exceptions since World War II are Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
But taking McCain’s advice is easier said than done. Conservatives have been inching closer to taking down the establishment in the GOP presidential primaries....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Bush? Ha!
If he were the poster child of conservatism (he is not) he still would be the wrong choice because of his last name.
Jeb, switch parties - you can beat the witch. Then it would be a fair fight of a liberal Democrat vs hopefully, a conservative Republican.
McCain is certainly the guy to talk to about winning a national election. Smart move there!
Fock McLoser. He’s a Liberal DemocRat. A worthless POS. Palin, Cruz, or LOSE. The Gelded Old Pansies are DEAD if they nominate another Booshie.
Bush can’t bypass us and we don’t want him!
He can through corruption.
The MSM is setting up a Bush vs Clinton match to make history.
Sorry, our country’s survival isn’t about a matchup between dumb and dumber.
Want to get rid of Clinton for 2016? Make sure Bush doesn’t run. If he runs he will end up like his dad. This time Rand Paul will be the spoiler instead of Perot.
Bush / Clinton 2016!
Clinton / Bush 2020!
Uniparty Rules!
(Fixing up a new tagline...)
He can’t bypass conservatives and he damn sure can’t join them.
I will hold my nose and vote for any number of R’s less conservative than myself. I won’t vote for Bush.
“I just said to him, ‘I think if you look back, despite the far right’s complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,’”
And loses the election.
Thomas Jefferson pretty well summed up the qualifications for being President of the United States under its Constitutional limits.
Maybe Bush should just consult a former President, not a former wannabe. He might just settle for reading Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural, as quoted below:
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
‘I think if you look back, despite the far right’s complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination’
Worked so well you won the presidency...oh wait!
With one rather glaring exception participated in by TJ himself.
He’s hoping to use the Romney strategy — gather about 34-35 percent of the vote and count on conservatives splitting the other two thirds.
This is why we MUST discourage too many conservative/libertarian candidates and encourage as many RINOs as possible to run.
I stand with Ted.
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