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Former top Romney strategist backs Jeb Bush's possible 2016 White House run
Fox News ^ | 3/19/15 | Serafin Gomez

Posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:20 AM PST by ek_hornbeck

A top adviser to Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns has backed a likely White House run by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a Bush aide confirmed to Fox News late Tuesday.

Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman, has been meeting with and speaking to conservative heavyweights in effort to persuade them of Bush's credentials, a Washington-based GOP operative said.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; romney
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This just confirms what we already knew: RNC higher-ups told Mitt to drop out and make room for Jeb's coronation.
1 posted on 02/19/2015 8:08:20 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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figures loser backs loser


2 posted on 02/19/2015 8:09:19 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Jeb should run in the Democratic primaries against Hillary.


3 posted on 02/19/2015 8:10:14 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Weber served as a senior policy advisor on both of Romney's campaigns.

Loser.

4 posted on 02/19/2015 8:10:56 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Vin Webber has been on the patroll of The Cheap Labor Express for years.
The presence of so many of them was why I knew Romney was lying about amnesty, which he confirmed shortly after losing the election.


5 posted on 02/19/2015 8:11:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Vin Weber is a partner at a K-street lobbying firm.


6 posted on 02/19/2015 8:12:01 AM PST by C19fan
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Vin Webber has been on the patroll of The Cheap Labor Express for years. The presence of so many of them was why I knew Romney was lying about amnesty, which he confirmed shortly after losing the election.

About the only thing Mitt Romney said during his 2012 campaign that convinced me to hold my nose and vote for him (instead of just staying home or voting for a 3d party no-name) was his very reasonable suggestion that we can make life so difficult for illegals (denial of social services) that they're self-deport.

Unfortunately, that proved about as sincere as the rest of his feeble attempts at sounding right of center. Once he lost, Romney and his team were all aboard the amnesty (oh, sorry, "path to citizenship") express.

7 posted on 02/19/2015 8:14:09 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Jeb is so far left he makes Pelosi look like Mark Levin. You ever see Pelosi giving Hitlery an award for "Liberty" on the one year anniversary of Benghazi? Well Jeb had no problem doing that did he. To call this guy a Republican is beyond a joke and the GOP can go to hell for even suggesting he is.


8 posted on 02/19/2015 8:15:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 11 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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Let me guess, open borders advocate and pro-Islamist Grover Nordquist is also backing Jeb, right?


9 posted on 02/19/2015 8:15:51 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Lurkinanloomin

payroll


10 posted on 02/19/2015 8:16:05 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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As I said, he’d make a great Democratic candidate. He could even pick his son, La Raza posterboy Jorge Prescott Bush as his running mate.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 8:17:08 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Grover is backing Walker from what I read.


12 posted on 02/19/2015 8:17:23 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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The strategy of encouraging self deportation through enforcement is the right strategy. Romney wasn’t serious about doing it.
We need to find someone who will.


13 posted on 02/19/2015 8:19:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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Of course he does as does the elitist GOP.

If they want to force Biush on us then so be it but they should not complain when millions stay at home again on our side due to yet another RINO poor candidate forced onto us by the money elitist, pro homosexual, no balls, GOP.


14 posted on 02/19/2015 8:23:27 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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The strategy of encouraging self deportation through enforcement is the right strategy. Romney wasn’t serious about doing it. We need to find someone who will.

Illegals mostly exploit the healthcare system by infesting emergency rooms for non-emergency care. That's going to be a tough one to do something about since ER's won't turn people away (the most they can do is give low priority to non-emergency cases).

On the other hand, we can make it impossible for illegals to get driver's licenses, send their kids for state-funded daycare and remedial Spanish-only "education" in our schools, and a whole range of other things that would make them less than comfortable here. Also, we need to put an end to the mantra "we can't deport them all." We can't, but we can make an example of the fraction that we do catch and deport.

As you say, we don't need any new laws, just someone with the will to enforce those that we have. Romney wasn't that, and Jeb Bush sure as hell isn't the one to do so either.

15 posted on 02/19/2015 8:25:18 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Former top Romney strategist backs Jeb Bush's possible 2016 White House run

Tells you everything that you need to know about Bush (and already knew anyway.)

16 posted on 02/19/2015 8:26:28 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Former top Romney strategist backs Jeb Bush’s possible 2016 White House run

Of course he does.


17 posted on 02/19/2015 8:29:26 AM PST by servo1969
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To: ek_hornbeck; Norm Lenhart; JRandomFreeper

Some guy who worked for Romney’s 2012 campaign was posting at a leftwing anti-Freeper site, yukking it up with the liberals. He claimed to have kicked a Freeper out of his office, and declared that Romney did a good job of reining in the right-wing crazies.

Seeing that was confirmation—though I didn’t need it—that I’ve made the right choice in swearing off voting for liberal Republicans.


18 posted on 02/19/2015 8:33:21 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR JEB!


19 posted on 02/19/2015 8:33:39 AM PST by BilLies (This is Balck History Month. ...Seen any praise for the White Union Dead who made it possible?)
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Might as well get someone that worked for the Dole campaign.


20 posted on 02/19/2015 8:34:04 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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