Posted on 12/16/2014 7:54:00 AM PST by don-o
The notion that Jeb Bush is going to be the Republican presidential nominee is a fantasy nourished by the people who used to run the Republican Party. Bush has been out of a game that changed radically during the 12 years(!) since he last ran for office. He missed the transformation of his brother from Republican savior to squish; the rise of the tea party; the molding of his peer Mitt Romney into a movement conservative; and the ascendancy of a new generation of politicians — Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, among them — who have been fully shaped by and trained in that new dynamic. Those men occasionally, carefully, respectfully break with the movement. Scorning today’s Republican Party is, by contrast, the core of Jeb’s political identity.
In that, Jeb is like ex-Republican Mike Bloomberg and like the failed GOP apostate Jon Huntsman: He’s deeply committed to centrist causes — federalized education, legal status for undocumented immigrants — that alienate key Republican groups; and he’s vaguely willing to go along with vestigial conservative issues that Republicans don’t care as much about, like standing up for Wall Street (Jeb was on a Lehman Brothers advisory board before that bank’s collapse, and now sits on a Barclay’s board) and opposing marriage equality, a stance he’s sought to downplay by focusing on states’ rights.
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Jeb is Mittens without the bad hair rug transplant.
I’d like to encourage all the “moderates” to run. Split their vote.
Can’t we get Gloria Allred to dig up some skank who was a friend of a friend who was an acquaintance of someone who knows someone who knew Jeb who wants her 5 minutes of fame to get on TV and shed tears about something she wished, dreamed, hallucinated that Jeb did to her 20-30 years ago?
It seems to me that Jeb, Mitt and Christie could effectively split the GOPe vote in the primaries which would help a strong conservative.
while all the above is true...
the biggest thing wrong with Jeb ... is his last name!!!
A Jeb BUSH candidacy would COMPLETELY NEGATE Hillary’s biggest negative!!!!
I think we can do better than another Bush or Clinton....but let me say this, as someone who saw two full terms of Jeb: he was a good governor. He is also much more qualified for the job than Hitlery.
The buzz is Jebbo is considering Rick Perry for his running mate.
Rickey already has his own sombrero and serape.
Perry receives a serape from Mexican Gov Enrique Martinez
of Coahuila, as a token of appreciation for Perry enacting
the "Texican Dream Act."
lay off Perry, he has been an amazing governor.
Another “Maalox moment”
Some of the Alamo’s defenders were Mexicans.
It's an interesting thought. We'll have to see if they go ahead and jump in soon as Jebbie did today. What I dread is seeing a bunch of folks that have some good conservative cred (Carson comes to mind due to a whacko "poll" I have seen this morning) jumping in at the same time. There must be no conservative circular firing squad.
Gingrich has been awfully quiet...
We have to face the fact that he ran lousy campaign in 08. If he tries again, he starts out with two strikes.
REFERENCE--Subversive Texas Textbooks---distributed nationwide--- vilify conservative groups;
Breitbart Texas | 09/10/2014 | Merrill Hope / FR Posted by Rusty0604
In 2006, uber-liberal "Texas Rising" stated its mission: "developing an emerging generation of social justice-minded, informed and engaged leaders is essential to the long-term health of our communities and the development of progressive public policy in Texas."
...a sneak peak at the preliminary Social Studies textbook found including distortions, omissions and half- truths all passing for accurate high school US history...
And there's this gem: "The radical right consists of groups that sometimes gather under the flag of militant anticommunism. Often known as reactionaries, they denounce most forms of government regulation, including progressive taxation and restrictions and industry.Examples of political groups on the radical right are the John Birch Society, the National States & Rights party, The Christian Crusade, and the Tea Party movement."
Strangely enough, these cream puff radicals who abhor police power would not hesitate to use government police power to enforce the changes they desire.
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THIRD WORLD INFILTRATION College Board exams changed history answers... revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....
NOTE WELL: This terrifying Third World revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.
The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.
REFERENCE--- Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Texas textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:
<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;
<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,
<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;
<><> using teaching as brainwashing;
<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy idealogy.
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REALITY CHECK A primetime network news segment focused on an "impoverished" latino mother who paid big bucks to get her son coached to take the College Boards---but he was so stupid, he still couldn't pass them. So the C/B summarily "changed" the tests so that Pedro could pass using subversive Third World hate-filled US history.
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The amnesty steamroller--- emptying out the Third World into the US----is turning US schools into refugee camps........w/ big plans to inculcate the savage illiterates w/ hate-America, anti-American ideology....IOW reliable Democrat voters.
Amen, go away Jeb!
Exactly. Run Jeb Run! Run Mitt Run! Run Christy Run! Run Huck Run!
As you so truthfully put it, Perry is a traitor to the USA..
Terri Schiavo taught me ALL I need to know about Jeb Bush.
Hmmm. I missed that too.
Maybe he can run with Liz Warren?
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