Send him some money, too!
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Posted on 06/30/2015 9:34:33 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Breitbart reports that, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll released yesterday, Jeb Bush is the current leader in the crowded field of Republican presidential candidates. According to the poll, Bush is supported by 22% of primary voters. Scott Walker is second with 17%, and Marco Rubio is third with 14%. Everybody else comes behind (this includes Ben Carson and Ted Cruz).
Although I saw many conservatives on Facebook explode at this news, I’m not worried at all. You see, Bush has only two strengths:
1. He’s a Bush. This is a strength because it means instant name recognition. Additionally, although the media pretend Americans don’t like dynasties, I couldn’t disagree more. They love ‘em. Heck, they’re even obsessed with them.
2. He’ll probably have a boat load of money to spend in the primaries.
The first point will always be a major strength of Jeb’s, but with regards to number two, well, not so much. Firstly, money can’t buy you conservative credentials and, secondly, other Republicans have also proved themselves to be extremely well-funded. Rubio and Walker are raising a lot of money, and the same can be said for Ted, who impressed everybody — both foes and friends — when he released his fundraising totals of the first quarter of this year.
In other words, only the “Bush” part is truly an advantage Jeb has. That’s great for him, but conservatives shouldn’t worry: he’s got some serious weaknesses that his conservative rivals can and will exploit:
1. Voters don’t know Jeb, other than he’s a Bush. 2. The debates have yet to start. They’ll show Jeb for what he is: a progressive. Republican voters will run away from him en masse. 3. Jeb is a progressive Republican...
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Yeah ... don’t worry about it right up until he’s nominated.
22% and moving on up in the GOP Plurality Sweepstakes.
Conservatives better be DAMNED worried.
All too often we think that when everyone else sees what we see, they’ll “get it”. Time and time again they don’t.
I am beyond worrying now that I accept the fact that we no longer have a constitution.
McCain got the nomination with just 33% of the popular vote.
I just wonder if most Republican primary voters have heard of any candidate other than Jebbie, whose last name they can recognize.
(I am beyond worrying now that I accept the fact that we no longer have a constitution.)
Liberals’ control over the language we use (framing) is amazingly powerful. They use the word “living Constitution” to mean pretty much a dead one that they have no problem using as toilet paper.
Which means any right within the Bill of Rights is dead if 5 people on the Supreme Court (a.k.a. our royalty in black robes) decide it’s dead. Starting with the freedom to exercise religion which Roberts so helpfully pointed to within his so-called “dissent”.
Cruz has the money to last until the Texas primary, and beyond.
Damng. Didn’t know it was that low. Well ... this one is going to be even worse.
Ridiculous.
Here is why Jeb Bush is a problem:
1. Hillary Clinton does not have any serious opposition for the democrat nomination
2. Thus, liberals are free to register as a republican, and vote in the republican primary. Or, in states with open primaries, just choose to vote as a republican.
3. Out of all the GOP candidates, who do liberals want? Who could Hillary Clinton easily beat (the Bush name is an easy target)? And if Clinton somehow loses, which GOP candidate is the most like a democrat (Bush. Liberals don’t like Chris Christie).
4. Liberals will cast the deciding votes for the GOP nominee. It doesn’t matter how poorly Bush presents himself.
If the GOP forces me to choose between two democrats, then I will choose a Democrat.
time for conservatives to end their unholy alliance with Fraudulent Republicans? Is it finally time for Conservatives to end this unholy alliance with the GOP? Is it time for the tea party or whomever to step up and begin a real conservative revolution independent of the GOP and once and for all. In Ronald Reagan’s time, as he advocated, a third party might not have been the best option because the GOP was not as washed up as they are now. Maybe times have changes where that it the only option. What do you think?
What I think is this.
If conservatives ever expect to have even a single item of their agenda advanced in this country, then conservatives will have to find another vehicle for that agenda.
The GOP is basically bottling up and containing conservatism, and is insuring that the conservative agenda and philosophy will not so much as even see the light of day, while at the same time going well out of their way to advance the democrat agenda as fast as they can.
Whether or not a third party can succeed is anyone’s guess, and my guess is it probably won’t. In fact my further guess is that any third party will probably be immediately infiltrated by leftists and ruined just as the GOP was. The blueprint for how to destroy from within is now well known.
But it is also obvious that conservatism will never prevail, it will not even have a single victory, by way of the GOP.
Send him some money, too!
PING!
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