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Jeb struggles to recreate 'inevitability' of Romney run
The Hill ^ | 9/6/15 | Scott Wong

Posted on 09/06/2015 8:56:11 AM PDT by jimbo123

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To: jimbo123

It’s now September. And I have yet to meet a SINGLE Republican who supports Jeb Bush. It is astonishing. In 2011 I met lots of smiling guys in matching suits who were gun ho for Mitt (and said exactly that). But they were just Mormon drones. Jeb has NO real people behind him, only billionaire donors and slave labor-addicted traitors. And you aren’t likely to meet them at CPAC or a Tea Party confab.


21 posted on 09/06/2015 9:26:15 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: jimbo123

The “ legacies” of his father and brother aren’t hurting him, the fact he is a Clymer is.


22 posted on 09/06/2015 9:27:06 AM PDT by anoldafvet (Why is it when Hillary "smiles" , I am reminded of a grinning shark?)
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To: SamAdams76

“Are they tone deaf? Are they just looking to elect another Democrat in 2016? Don’t they understand that another Bush has almost zero appeal with the rank and file Republican?”


They know exactly what they’re doing. They are collaborating with the Democrats to get Hillary or Bernie, or whoever their candidate will be, elected.

And there Bern doing that since at least 2008.


23 posted on 09/06/2015 9:28:08 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: jimbo123

From the article: “Mitt Romney used his inevitability as a tactical weapon. He was very effective at conveying inevitability without seeming arrogant,”....BS! Romney oozes arrogance!


24 posted on 09/06/2015 9:30:50 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Jesus told followers to spread faith through love. Mohammed told followers to spread thru the sword.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Jeb!’s strategy was to exalt money over issues. That won’t work this time. Trump would be winning if he had no money.


25 posted on 09/06/2015 9:31:42 AM PDT by odawg
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To: jimbo123

Whoever wrote this must be high on marijuana because ¡Yeb! is stuck at 9%. There are four others with much less funding who are ahead of him. Even Trump who has spent minimally so far.

EXAMPLE: Ben Carson has minimal funding. I would be shocked if he had more than a million in the bank yet he is far ahead of ¡Yeb!


26 posted on 09/06/2015 9:31:53 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: jimbo123

Jeb, is the dynastic spawn, that believes the job is his BY NAME ONLY.

Speaking ‘American’, which used to be how we, as a nation, would define our language to other nationalities, even up to the time of the Vietnam War, is a requirement in this country.

Any candidate for any elected office, from dog catcher on up, that starts blathering in anything other than ‘American’, is someone that should go “do the dog, again”, for they are no longer a virgin, in that respect.


27 posted on 09/06/2015 9:32:30 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: SamAdams76

They get it. They know we want the illegal alien inundation stopped. They work for The Cheap Labor Express who do not want it stopped.

The purpose of the GOP in 2015 is not to represent consevatives, it is to prevent us from electing anyone who would stop The Cheap Labor Express.


28 posted on 09/06/2015 9:32:31 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SamAdams76
 
 
they hold the people in utter contempt.
 
Yes they do - the constituency has gotten that message loud & clear. There are people who had put out a lot of effort to get Reps & Senators elected last November who were to oppose the Regime in D.C., but got collaboration at every turn instead. The disgust is real and deep and the GOPe fools choose to ignore it thinking they've got some brilliant master plan to override it. They ignore at their own peril.
 

29 posted on 09/06/2015 9:35:49 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: jimbo123

We don’t want “a thousand points of light” “compassionate conservatism” or a North American Union.
We don’t want another Bush.

We want our southwestern border secured and the Democrats and their RINO allies all put in cages.


30 posted on 09/06/2015 9:35:57 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I have this sinking suspicion that ¡JEB! will win the GOPe nomination regardless of how the votes add up in the primaries. The GOPe is in tight now with the dems, and have been assimilating the tactics that the dems have successfully employed to put people in positions where the party wants them to be.

Or put this way: the condescending GOPe pricks will tell all of the TEA party and conservatives that they don't matter, that they'll throw all of their support behind ¡JEB!, OR the GOPe will just drop all pretenses of a two party system and go all in for hitlery or bernie the commie.

Don't put it past them. See Mississippi as an example.

31 posted on 09/06/2015 9:37:16 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: SamAdams76

“Are they tone deaf? Are they just looking to elect another Democrat in 2016? Don’t they understand that another Bush has almost zero appeal with the rank and file Republican?”

Exactly. Jeb has about as much appeal to the convervative base as Roger Goodell has to New England sports fans. It’s really that bad.


32 posted on 09/06/2015 9:39:30 AM PDT by vekzen
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To: dennisw

The funny thing is that the vast majority of the millions of dollars in Jeb Campaign and Right To Rise money have been spent on overhead, rent, consultants, staff salaries, pollsters, hotels, restaurants, travel, etc.

But they have spent hardly anything on advertising and voter outreach.

They’re just lining their own pockets and their pockets of their cronies with their donors’ money.


33 posted on 09/06/2015 9:40:03 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Romney was endorsed by Trump in the primary. Once Bush gets that...


34 posted on 09/06/2015 9:45:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: jimbo123

Maybe they could dig out John McCain or Bob Dole. We could then reject all of them at once.


35 posted on 09/06/2015 9:45:42 AM PDT by kempster
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To: dennisw

The ankle-biters.

They can only get any media attention when they are ankle-biting Trump. And he just swishes them away like the irritating little pests they are.

That includes most of the remain 16.

[I think Cruz is the only one who has not had some major criticism directed at Trump.]


36 posted on 09/06/2015 9:48:01 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: jimbo123

“with loads of campaign cash and a top-notch political organization. “

But bogged down by an unelectable candidate.


37 posted on 09/06/2015 10:01:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: jimbo123

Also lets be real, Mitt Romney looks like George Washington up next to Jeb. Jeb is the worst candidate the GOPe could possibly have found. He has no redeeming feature.


38 posted on 09/06/2015 10:06:14 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SamAdams76

It never has been about the GOP getting our message. It’s always been about us getting the GOP’s message.

They do not care what their base thinks or wants at all.

Every time they are elected, the first thing they do is give us their message.

The American people have spoken, and they want us to work together to get things done. They are tired of the bickering, and they want bi-partisanship.

When, in fact, no one in the base wants that at all, but the GOP wants it desperately.

There is no bickering. The GOP does not ever fight the demonrats on anything. No arguing. Nothing. Conversely, the demonrats never work with the GOP, or give them anything they want, but the truth of the matter is that the GOP doesn’t want anything that is in its platform.

The GOP is nothing but a bunch of liberals trying to fool its base into thinking that they are conservative.


39 posted on 09/06/2015 10:07:03 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: jimbo123

I was unaware of this. Washingtoon DC is a boomtown and it’s all about getting paid. No one works for free. Not with the billions in campaign cash around and the trillions in taxpayer money


40 posted on 09/06/2015 10:10:28 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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