Posted on 08/18/2015 8:55:14 AM PDT by jimbo123
They were supposed to be the dream team.
When the 2016 White House race ignited, the glut of talented, experienced, charismatic, young-but-seasoned and authentically conservative candidates delighted grassroots Republican activists. It was the GOP’s deepest White House field in a generation.
But Donald Trump’s summer surge has stolen the spotlight from these challengers for the conservative crown and left candidates such as Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul struggling for traction.
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Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist who worked for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, said Trump’s opponents should be prepared to engage as a way of courting the 75% of the GOP electorate that does not support the real estate mogul.
“You have to go out and draw these contrasts … the other campaigns have to hit back. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio — they haven’t really hit back and got into a one-on-one right now with Donald Trump,” Madden told CNN.
Bush is still on the fence. The one-time GOP front-runner appeared irritated when asked about Trump’s new immigration plan in South Carolina on Monday.
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Hey Jebby???? does your mama know your out and about????
A deeper field of sh*t is just more sh*t.
Republicans won the the last two congressional elections.
Big.
What’d we get for it?
Let’s try a conservative for a change.
They can’t hit back because they’ve already made it clear that they support the takeover of the US by illgals and the remake of the US into Mexico del Norte. Too late, you guys rhouht we had nowhere else to go, looks like you got tricked, for once the voters aren’t the johns.
Jeb is on the fence alright...he’s sitting on the border fence with a “la bienvenida!” sign handing out maps to the welfare offices.
Bush and the GOP sank their own team by running against the will of the people.
If elected, they will govern against the will of the people.
Dream team ? .... more like nightmare.
LOL. If Yeb was getting even 15% of the vote, novody would be talking about the “85% of the voters who aren’t voting for him”, especially this early. They’d be fitting his crown.
Here’s that “concern” thing again. Establishment Republicanism telling us young rebels that our dream team got sidelined by Trump.....that’s real nice of you guys. I know you only have my best interests at heart (like you did when you bent us over a table and buggered us to vote for your RINO candidates twice before).
The FACT is that the Republican Establishment’s ONLY dream team got sidetracked. That of one quisling, Mexican Jeb Bush. Take your bleats and your lies and your friendly “concern” and stick it up your.....well you know where. You’re always pulling something out of it.
Freddy Kruger was part of a dream team wasn’t he?
Exactly right. Rubio, Paul, et al were only there to provide cover and contrast for jebby. They would have eventually been painted as extremist kooks leaving Jeb the only one standing.
Bush was “frustrated” but I am certainly relieved to see he maintained the proper tone. ;-)
It never was a Dream Team. That is pure media fabrication.
“Sitting on the fence” - yea, like the proverbial turtle on the fence post is more like it. Going nowhere fast.
‘Mitt Romney, said Trump’s opponents should be prepared to engage as a way of courting the 75% of the GOP electorate that does not support the real estate mogul.’
Well Mitt, the chosen one Jeb! also has 100% name recognition and he is distinguished by the fact that 90% of all Republicans do not support him. Thanks for playing Mitt. Loser!
Trump is like King Kong - swatting planes out of the sky when they come at him. In this case, the planes are the other candidates. I have to laugh.
LOL!
The problem is, the GOPe only shows its claws when it’s threatening conservatives. They lie long enough to get elected, they lie on conservative opposition if they’re getting beat (prepare for dirty tricks against Trump as the season progresses, just like they did against Chris McDaniel in Mississippi), then they spit in our faces once they’re re-elected. Maybe I’d have contempt for anyone chump enough to believe me and vote for me as a conservative, if I were them, too. Considering how we could already see how they felt about conservatives, from their actions towards conservative opponents in the primaries. Trump changed the game when they thought we had nowhere else to go. This wasn’t in the cards.
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