Posted on 11/23/2012 5:16:22 PM PST by WilliamIII
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Now that the Obama and Romney campaigns have closed their headquarters in Chicago and Boston, the attention of the political world is shifting to an office suite tucked behind the colonnades of the Biltmore Hotel complex here.
The suite is where former Gov. Jeb Bush manages his consulting business, his education foundation and, now, the (very) early decision-making process for a possible presidential run in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Unless the Repubs change their nomination process, the liberal media will greatly influence their candidate selection.
No, no a thousand, million, BILLION times NO.
Do you realize that the last time the winning Republican ticket did not include Nixon or a Bush was when H.Hoover won in 1933?
I find that to be an astonishing fact and struggle to come up with an explanation for it. I would say it proves that only hard right wingers can win but the Bushes were really RINOS with that “kinder and gentler conservatism” that brought tax hikes and out of control spending, between the two of course.
1928, not 1933.
Maybe he could takd his old lady and run for President of Mexico!!!
He should leave and quit poluting the US!
Yeah, I fell for some of the Romney as the candidate who can best win stuff because I figured that Romney would win over middle of the road voters in swing states.
But Romney got completely defined as an old rich and out of touch guy quickly. So the middle took the young, hip Obama. And I also think the middle has moved left on social issues.
Whoever we nominate in 2016, I want them to be under the age of 48. I think our only chance is to find a younger, articulate person that will appeal to a new generation. Certainly not Jeb.
Frankly, I think Coolidge is grossly underrated.
Reading through the replies on this thread, I have only this observation:
Four years ago, we were saying the same things about Mitt Romney. And in the end, most of those who were doing the big talking surrendered.
Voting for the “R” was more important than conservatism. Will we learn, or will we never leave the Grand Old Plantation?
My apology for the error and thank you for the correction. Sure would be good to get that 88(will be) year old monkey off our backs in 2016.
But if we have to win with a Bush I will take it.The Repubs are sooooo lost right now.
Our numbers are growing, there may be a dozen or more of us here that feel that war.
Don't you know it is the angry SoCons that caused this. </sarcasm>
Susana Martinez
btt
Then we won’t have a future in America. It’ll become Union of Socialist States of America.
I don’t see age as an issue. After all Dave Mustaine, lead singer of Megadeth was backing Santorum. Kid Rock obviously backed Romney but he would have backed who ever got the nomination.
I didn’t say that they wrote the software, just that H.W. Bush likely spoke about it in his “linkages” speech. In turn, he probably got hold of it when he was the head of the CIA.
Such software is already several generations advanced. It is now used by police agencies to determine criminal associations, and was even brought to Iraq for GWII by reservists, to discover enemy associations, for which it was highly valued.
But this is at the ground level. What the Bush family likely owns is at the national and international level.
And, ironically enough, it is not in conflict with, but is complementary to, the internationalist organizations and think tanks.
Greatly understated, imagine documenting the thousands of known links that exist between just two countries. If you change one of those links in a significant way, it will likely impact the other links, but may also resonate to the links with other countries.
While a think tank may imagine that changing a link will result in some advantage, even their “brains” cannot envision the vast number of side effects. And this is where such data mining software is invaluable.
It helps to answer that most damning of questions: “And then what happens?”
Ironically as all get out, Christopher Hitchens, writing in The Nation, severely criticized H.W. Bush for despising linkages that at the time were common assumptions, even going so far as to call him monomaniacal. But in retrospect, what Bush did was right, and it worked surprisingly well.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/thenation/pdf/9102181601.pdf
Which goes to the software. Ordinary geniuses might be able to play a two dimensional game of chess in their heads, but if you can add a third dimension to your game that they cannot see, you can perform seemingly impossible maneuvers that to them seem irrational, but produce for you decisive results.
How stupid do you have to be to keep doing the same thing over and over that has you losing.
Somebody please give the GOP elite a brain to share between them the next election....better yet pull a Reagan and Tea Party openly run you own candidate in the mix of the elite picks.
Maybe because, when Freepers are focused and not attacking each other, we can make a difference. Remember "Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard [post 47]"?
How so? Did she teach him in the art of wrecking your campaign with gaffes? If so, he must have been her top student.
and had to spend $20,000,000.00 to barely hold on to her seat
That money would only help her if she brought her tendency to gaffe under control. If not, then all it would have done is expose her gaffes to more people. That's why I give her credit for learning from her mistakes.
after serving as an Ed Rollins stalking horse for Mitt, to keep out Palin.
Oh c'mon! Palin made her choice early on, and when did Bachmann point a gun at the voters and force them to vote for Romney.
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