Posted on 04/08/2014 11:02:53 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
It's not hard to understand why. Even without a replay of the Bachmann-Cain-Gingrich-Perry-Paul GOP primary freak show of 2012, the party is heading into its confrontation with Hillary Clinton at a serious general election disadvantage. Some of the weakness has demographic roots that no single candidate can change in a single race. But the rest is a product of the party's rightward lurch over the past six years — and a restive base that demands absolute ideological purity on the part of candidates.
The result, as in 2012, is likely to be a primary contest devoted to winning the Real Conservative trophy. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul already spend most of their days trying to out-Tea Party the other. Marco Rubio would be doing the same thing if he wasn't preoccupied with figuring out how to distance himself from his role in drafting a failed immigration reform bill that was wildly unpopular with the angry white grassroots of the party. And so it goes down the line, with Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, and other wannabes bringing up the rear — all of them desperate to earn the support of the party's populist foot soldiers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Jeb Bush – 2016’s Obligatory Sane Republican?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3141807/posts
Dear Mr. Linker,......PUT......THE PIPE......DOWN.
Here we go again....we HAVE to vote for Jeb...he’s the ONLY Republican that can win...
Yes siree. That’s a gen-you-eyne opinion there.
Thanks for sharing. :-p
If he is, goodbye Republican Party.
. Even without a replay of the Bachmann-Cain-Gingrich-Perry-Paul GOP primary freak show of 2012
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The only freak in 2012 was Willard and he is strangely missing from the lineup..
Is this author a RomneyBot wanting to pimp his master again in 2016 ???
Definitely not Bush...I’m thinking Cruz.
NO!
HELL NO!
Abso-freakin’-lutely no!
My cat is a much better option.
That's been the plan for the past 2-3 elections.
The media is “giving us the new bob dole/ john McCain”
what I this “the week”
is this the deceased newsweak magazine?
jeb bush is the 100% WRONG candidate and is only a republican NYC could like.
I would say this article deserves a barf alert, but I note the author himself states he finds a Jeb Bush candidacy to be depressing. The moderate/centrist (aka Democrats in all but party affiliation) Republicans might very well push Jeb Bush to the top, and I find that depressing, too. What a great candidate to inspire the base—NOT! He’s just another big government amnesty pimp like his brother.
No one ever said there was only one loon around! :)
What makes Jeb so different from a democrat?
Amnesty, He doesn’t like the Taxed Enough Already party, obamcare he hasn’t been urging its repeal in the media...ho hum why vote democrat lite?
Fixed it.
Read My Lips. I will never vote for Jeb Bush.
Is Jeb going to have a thumb war with Romney over the nomination?
The RNC cut the primary down to only a few debates and shortened it’s time so Jeb or Christie can wrap it up fast without being questioned.
So we have to see that old bag Martha again?
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