Posted on 02/27/2015 3:22:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — In a surprise speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) unloaded on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush—systematically dismantling Bush’s push for amnesty and a massive increase in guest workers from around the world.
“Right now, there are two conferences—one of them in public where candidates are out there having to speak and defend and answer questions on their views and on their positions on important issues facing America,” Sessions said to open up his remarks to the Breitbart News-sponsored meet-and-greet with CPAC activists. “Many people at this conference here and watching it from abroad are evaluating them, judging them and asking themselves whether or not their visions, their ideas, their character will be used to advance the interests of the American people and this republic—and that’s the way it ought to be.”
However, Sessions cited a Washington Times article saying Mitt Romney’s former top fundraising aide Spencer Zwick, “praised Jeb Bush’s stance on immigration, saying the party should follow his lead if the party hopes to win back the White House.”
“If someone wants to be serious about running for president, they need to be in a similar place [to Bush],” Zwick said on a conference call with GOP donors organized by Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist—a key figure at CPAC since he is a board member of the American Conservative Union (ACU). The ACU hosts CPAC every year, but the organization under new chairman Matt Schlapp has seen a shift away from the establishment wing of the GOP it had under old chairman Al Cardenas.
“I’ll tell you one thing: It’s the people of this country that run this country,” Sessions responded, pushing back against the donor community’s push for other Republican candidates to abandon their constituents...
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“We need a Jeff Sessions for President grassroots movement!”
from your lips to God’s ears.
That’s why I moved here! Not to mention the adorable accents ;)
Mitt was a lefty, he helped kill it
I think it should be quite obvious that few if anyone will ever vote for those worthless bastards again if Jeb wins control of the GOP.
There really isent anything in it for us. We will as a result have no choice but to go 3rd party because the republican party will be just a clone of the Democratic party.
“However, Sessions cited a Washington Times article saying Mitt Romney’s former top fundraising aide Spencer Zwick, “praised Jeb Bush’s stance on immigration, saying the party should follow his lead if the party hopes to win back the White House.””
Why would we want to win the whitehouse if its just going to replace us as a population with welfare depended voters?
What moron in Jeb’s campaign thinks we want to abandon our country to the control of foreigners who want only to exploit not join us?
If that is the price of the white-house then I don’t want it, i will go down the filibuster and secession rount. At least then there will be a chance Ill have a country in 10 years. Jeb offers no such chance nor does the Democratic party.
“Mitt was a lefty, he helped kill it” Indeed his record demostrated a man skilled in stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Jeff Sessions is a treasure.
I don’t know if Sessions has ever admitted voting for Holder was a mistake. However the man has stood up and been counted when the need was there. To condemn a great man for one thing is kind of short sighted . No person, politician or other wise does not make mistakes. We need to evaluate their whole body of work. Sessions is head and shoulders above most of his peers. I will stand with Sessions.
I agree he is better than most.
The great ones, take Reagan as an example, admit when they are wrong.
I suspect, unlike Reagan, the pollutive atmosphere of DC seduces him to ‘get along’ in spite of his values.
Well Said!
People all the time here in Bama call me out for my Sconnie accent. The Southern hospitality has truly been amazing. I’ve reread some of your earlier comments about being treated so nicely by your neighbors and I can echo the same experiences. And since football is a religion here, I had to choose between Alabama and Auburn. So I chose Alabama, but root for Auburn when they are not playing Alabama in the Iron Bowl. However, I’m still a Badger fan / alumni.
“Jeff Sessions, the Last American Patriot”
The book should be written!
The establishment leaders of the R party don’t want the White House. They like the arrangement of being step-n-fetchits for Dem Dictators. they get all kinds of pats on the back at cocktail parties and loads of fat government contractors from a government that is far more parasitic on the taxpayers when its in the hands of Dem Dictators.
The establishment leaders of the R party are exactly in the same position as corporate CEOs in Nazi Germany.
” Search me, Pal. I got no clue as to what Jeb and the gang are thinking, but I have excellent math skills”
Math this: Big banks can’t make any money off a large middle class with a 750-800 credit score. But if you are an illiterate, unskilled slob with bad or no credit, banks can charge you 21-28.99% for consumer and car loans. With 20 million newly legitimized slobs, that amounts to tens of billions of dollars in profit. Also, it’s about an endless supply of cheap labor.
Aren’t Southerners right out of the 50’s? I just adore my neighbors. One came by today to see if I was ok (hubby is not here yet) and started talking about when he courted his wife. He also said he wouldn’t come inside the house, out of respect for me and hubby- he didn’t want the neighbors to talk. He’s probably 20 years my senior, so that is really cute.
Another neighbor, also a newcomer to the area, called me a few days ago during a snow storm to tell me that Roy Lee, who lives down the holler a bit, asked his sister Shirley, who lives next to him, to check on me. He heard there was a woman alone in the holler and was worried. So Shirley called this neighbor that called me. Shirley promised to come over to meet me when the weather settles down.
Another group of neighbors, a guy who is raising cattle and his wife and daughter, were going to come over when they heard my heater went out. I had to call them to say they didn’t need to because Ray was already there! She called all the time during the storms to see if I needed anything, and said her son in law could come scrape my driveway if I needed to get out.
I went to the optometrist last week - and was in a bit of a hurry to pick from frames. They would have no part of that! I had to answer how I was doing and have a nice little conversation first. This place is great. I will learn to be less impatient (I hope!) and focus on what’s important. And that of course, is finding out how people around me are doing. I think they have it right.
Like I now have to leave for town 10 minutes earlier than I normally would - if I pass a neighbor on the road, I have to stop to say hello. Anything else is just not acceptable! I can’t wait to bake some bread, after I find my loaf pans, and bring it to them. I was worried I’d have nobody here to cook or bake for!
Jeb bush is floundering. He bussed in hundreds to Cpac and bought a lousy 8%. Too bad Jeb. Bushes are not conservative. George 41 was a huge liar and raised taxes at the begging if his sycophant Sununu. GW never vetoed one spending bill and destabilized Iraq over a false pretense. NO MORE BUSHES!!
There is an easier way. Call up the national militia. Offer a bounty on illegals with heavy penalties for false arrest and imprisonment. Put self-taught courses online describing the legal procedure and standards of evidence. There would be traffic jams headed for the border.
The same can be done with jihadis.
“Jeb bush is floundering. He bussed in hundreds to Cpac and bought a lousy 8%.”
Bush got 8.3% of 3007 votes - about 250 in total.
I was at CPAC for all four days, and Bush’s named was frequently booed by the crowd - pretty consistently, and much more than anyone else.
The big exception was when he spoke. A few hours before he spoke a different contingent came and started filling seats. Just next to me, five overweight men in their thirties and dressed in expensive suits, and a couple of attractive women also dressed in expensive business clothes came and sat down. They clearly knew each other, and were passing around a roll of circular red “Jeb” stickers, only to each other. They clapped and cheered very loudly for Bush during his speech, and left right after. I didn’t see any of them in the days prior or after.
At least the Paulistas who pack the house to vote for the Paul’s (Rand now, and Ron before) stay for the whole event, and seem genuinely moved by principle. The Bush supporters did seem to be “astroturf” (fake grassroots), but they seemed to to me to be like K Street lobbyists riding fat expense accounts, rather than the kind of t-shirted union types that often get bussed to events.
I’m afraid Jebbie will win, as there is no more “soul” of the GOP if there ever was.
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