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Jeb Bush Can Win but Party Splits Won't Make it Easy
NBC News Meet The Press ^ | June 16, 2015 | Perry Bacon, Jr.

Posted on 06/15/2015 11:11:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has an obvious route to the GOP nomination: get the more moderate Republicans who voted for John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 behind him this time.

Bush, like McCain and Romney, is the kind of wealthy, establishment, conservative-but-not-too conservative figure the Republican Party traditionally nominates.

Bush's father and brother also both won the party's nomination, but those are not great analogies to 2016. George H. Bush was the obvious heir apparent, as the sitting vice-president in 1988. During George W. Bush's 2000 primary, the GOP was not as divided as it is today between its traditional and Tea Party wings.

McCain and Romney are much different men, but they won in the same way. Each lost in the deeply-conservative Iowa caucuses, but carried moderate New Hampshire. They lost in states full of evangelicals and very conservative voters like Alabama and Georgia but offset those defeats with wins in blue states like Illinois and Florida....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bush; immigration; teaparty
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1 posted on 06/15/2015 11:11:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FUNBC


2 posted on 06/15/2015 11:13:07 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush wins. America loses.


3 posted on 06/15/2015 11:14:02 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll say over and over.

What GALL for a family to think they can run for president every eight years!!!

They are NWO in bed with the Sauds. Wont get fooled a fourth time.

And why weren’t dems called out for voting for an extremist?

Like I said, if jeb wins the nomination, then my interest in the election is over. As is the cuontry.


4 posted on 06/15/2015 11:14:45 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

Yep. I’ll sit my @ss home.......like they care.


5 posted on 06/15/2015 11:18:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Attention mainstream media: You know you're the only people in America talking about Jeb Bush and you know you're only doing it because (a) he has lots of campaign dollars and you need the advertising and (b) you know he's never going to win in a million years.

We know this also. So stop the flood of Bush articles. Nobody's buying it.

6 posted on 06/15/2015 11:20:37 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain and Romney won the nomination, but neither won the general election,which is the vote that counts. Obviously the Party learned nothing from those failures.


7 posted on 06/15/2015 11:23:04 PM PDT by kalee
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Who says they wanted to win? McCain’s taking a knee was obvious.


8 posted on 06/15/2015 11:32:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Yep! In cahoots.


9 posted on 06/15/2015 11:34:41 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bush isn't winning anything.

We've had a bellyful of losers.

10 posted on 06/16/2015 12:56:05 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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Gotta say the liberal media is way hotter for Jeb than for Hillary. It was literally exploding with glee upon Jeb’s announcement, all day. That says it all to me.


11 posted on 06/16/2015 12:56:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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Who says they wanted to win? McCain’s taking a knee was obvious.

Taking a knee is the best description I've heard of that farce of a campaign.

He took a dive so obvious it would embarrass Sonny Liston.

12 posted on 06/16/2015 12:58:54 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny, I don’t recall the media portraying and treating McCain or Romney as “moderates”

At least after they got the nomination.


13 posted on 06/16/2015 1:22:13 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Win precisely what?


14 posted on 06/16/2015 2:47:34 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: onyx

The chance to lose to Hillary?


15 posted on 06/16/2015 2:49:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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As much as the Bush and Clinton dynasty believes they are the shoeins. They need their base to win.
Clinton is losing to Sanders
Bush is losing to one of many candidates.
Ain’t gonna happen.


16 posted on 06/16/2015 3:01:50 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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That’s right. All in the family ya know, according to stupid Barbara Bush.


17 posted on 06/16/2015 3:25:04 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush will lose 45 states if he gets the nomination. I will actively work to discourage people from voting.


18 posted on 06/16/2015 3:28:45 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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To: dp0622
Oh, LOOK! A tag team match. And the opponents? The Constitution and the rest of us unelite, great unwashed!!

Is America so devoid of qualified, talented and freedom loving people that we HAVE to elect retreads?? If so, we really ARE DOOMED!!

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19 posted on 06/16/2015 4:02:48 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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Amen!! Dont go away mad guys, just go away!!

The good thing is she is DEFINITELY beatable. Barely holding on in swing states already and republican candidates aren’t even well known.

There is no wonder boy from Kenya to save them this time.


20 posted on 06/16/2015 4:05:28 AM PDT by dp0622
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