Posted on 12/12/2014 6:27:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
From the article:
“I just said to him, ‘I think if you look back, despite the far right’s complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,’” Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, said he told Mr. Bush.
Peculiar how with Republicans centrists are golden while with Dems its the far left radical Marxists.
That’s easy! “Don’t run”
Thought I said that! LOL!
RINO ALERT!
We didn’t really have a conservative last time. Bachman just wasn’t going to work out.
Flubber. Bush should be named flamby like they called French President
The NWO establishment types want and need jebbush because I believe that they want to ensure a match-up between two progressives again.
I think that the uni-party elites know that jebbush would likely lose to any commie Dem, so that a jebbush candicy is progressive insurance.
That’s what I was thinking.
He can’t: Strike 1) Not Conservative, Strike 2) His father and brother played conservatives, then went socialist, Strike 3) He’s consulting with the political class to trick the Republican electorate or make them believe something (unconservative) that they currently do not OR should not.
Easy. Pick one candidate running well to the right of Bush and stick with him. No more parade of seven conservative dwarfs slugging it out with each other while the media and the rest of the Left sits smiling and watches.
The good news is old Jeb knows he’s not going to sail through the process like his brother.
Read my lips: No more Bushes, Roves,.....
Jeb should be asking himself how the Bush brand is going to recover from the torture documents that have just been released.
VOTE FOR JEB OR ELSE HIS BROTHER WILL HAVE YOU TORTURED!
There are no torture documents screw that bs.
It is an “act of love” for patriots to NOT vote for Jeb Bush should he decide to run.
In 2000, McCain came out of nowhere to surprise GWB, the consensus pick of the Republican governors (his real base of support), and win some early primaries. McCain did this by playing the maverick, and attracting independent and crossover votes. Not to mention some adulatory press coverage.
My view was, and still is, that McCain at that point had Bush on the ropes and could have beaten him. Bush was reeling, and he moved right to rally a last ditch firewall among the base. But McCain had the momentum, and the buzz, and a favorable press, and a personal biography that commanded universal respect. To take Bush, all he had to do was reassure the base, by giving rank and file conservatives a couple of things to cheer about.
McCain instead let the press gaggle and bad advisors lead him astray. Instead of rallying the base, he went to South Carolina and picked an entirely unnecessary fight with Christian conservatives. Bush seized the opportunity and never looked back.
Had McCain gone to South Carolina and pushed for school choice or entitlement reform or energy independence or parental notification on abortion -- or any of many other such issues -- he would have won. All he had to do was give wavering conservatives a reason to cheer, not on everything, but on a couple of things to allow them to rationalize voting for a maverick. Instead, he kicked sand in their eyes.
Jeb Bush had better be careful what lessons he gleans from Team McCain.
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