Posted on 02/12/2015 3:48:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Club for Growth was among the Beltway groups that battled against the “establishment” and egged on the government shutdown. To its credit however, its business membership stayed out of the immigration fight rather than join the ant-market right-wingers who want to restrict the U.S. labor market. And unlike outfits like the Senate Conservatives Fund (who tended to pick outlandish, losing candidates), the Club for Growth backed Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and now-freshman Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). Under a new president, David McIntosh, the Club for Growth now has a choice whether to be an outlier group or a reform force working inside the GOP tent.
That’s the background for the announcement that it will host a forum for GOP presidential hopefuls. The Post reports: “Six potential 2016 candidates have accepted invitations to speak at the private gathering Feb. 26-28 at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, according to a knowledgeable official who shared the information with The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. They are [f]ormer Florida governor Jeb Bush; Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas; Indiana Gov. Mike Pence; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.” Opposition to immigration reform may be strong in some right-wing quarters, but pro-free market conservatives may be far less hostile to Bush and Rubio....
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“They are [f]ormer Florida governor Jeb Bush; Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas; Indiana Gov. Mike Pence; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.” “
Jeb Bush? I’ll choose an atheist, first.
Marco Rubio? VP, maybe.
Scott Walker? Why so quick to affix a meteoric rise to someone that is fixing everything wrong, with a state that needs to be COMPLETELY fixed. The more he does, and triumphs, is more of a template for the other timid governors, to fix THEIR state, which leads me to:
Piyush ‘Bobby” Jindal?
try this for size:
http://theadvocate.com/news/11576704-123/out-of-tricks-how-louisiana
Mike Pence? Who d’at?
Ted Cruz? Maybe.
“To its credit however, its business membership stayed out of the immigration fight rather than join the ant-market right-wingers who want to restrict the U.S. labor market.”
Ha! If we don’t control our borders, then there is no “U.S. labor market” to restrict. You can’t have a limited market that is not limited.
I only see two on that last with any hope of winning in the general election: Walker and Cruz. The rest are either moderates, who we already know are losers out of the gate, or they have a lot of issues to overcome.
dear boogie,
there ya goes, agin’!
Walker is doing a lot of work to reclaim his state from the loonies. here you come, hot to pull him away from his work, to go play presidential candidate, win or lose!
leave him be, and remain the lightning rod, while somebody else runs and wins the office. the demo’s did it with hillary, so why can’t we?
Ben Carson, maybe.
Allen West, maybe.
Sarah Palin, maybe.
Newt Gingrich, maybe.
there may be others, yet to come out from the curtains.
To its credit however, its business membership stayed out of the immigration fight rather than join the ant-market right-wingers who want to restrict the U.S. labor market.
Importing the workers for the jobs that can’t be exported.
She admits it right there. This isn’t a labor market, it’s our country. We should have some say about them flooding the country with foreigners to drive down wages.
We need a second party.
Good list. Not a full-term goobernator among them.
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