If GOP establishment picks Jeb Bush for 2016, conservatives should bolt for another party

Absolute Rights ^ | 12/26/2014 | Jon E Dougherty

[SleeperCatcher]

Some conservative political analysts have opined that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced recently that he was further exploring his options to run for the GOP presidential nomination as a means of pre-empting all other potential GOP candidates. Many of the same analysts say there was an additional, not-so-subtle message, and it was aimed primarily at conservatives: ‘Don’t bother running; the monied GOP interests (i.e. the donor class) have spoken and Jeb Bush is who they want.’

Over the Christmas holidays I have had a number of people ask my opinion about Bush, and what I have told them, essentially, is this: Jeb Bush, like all the Bushes, is an inherently decent man. He has been a governor of a mostly red (but sometimes purple) state. He shares lineage with a storied political family. But if the goal is to restore some semblance of constitutional government to our republic, Jeb Bush is the wrong candidate, for he – like his father and brother before him – is no conservative.

[matthew fuller]

I agree that there are Libertarian goals that need to be left to the individual states, rather than making federal laws out of them.

[itsahoot]

“We want to be the party of yes!”

I didn't say it Mitch did.

[dsc]

“I didn’t say it Mitch did.”

You never wanted to call BS on Mitch?