Posted on 02/08/2014 7:17:01 PM PST by arthurus
And why is that? Because it's beginning to dawn on me that Jeb Bush is probably going to be the Republican Party's nominee for president in 2016.
Consider: With the ongoing implosion of Chris Christie's political career, the GOP establishment has lost its best hope for a candidate who could stop a libertarian-populist insurgency during the primaries. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker the list of viable fire-breathers is longer (and less dominated by incompetents, crazies, and one-note sideshow acts) than establishment types would like.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Aint no way in hell, I am voting for Jeb Bush. Or any Bush for that matter.
The Dem/MSM Regime has designed an ironclad formula. If the Republicans put up a real conservative candidate, the MSM destroys them. This encourages the GOPe to put up "likable" (i.e. liberal) candidates.The MSM still destroys them, and the Regime sees an added benefit of suppressing the conservative vote.
Trying to "please" the Regime is playing the role of the abused in an abusive relationship. Intead, one should set the bed on fire!
Not this time! The Republican establishment has been picking duds for their candidate for some time. They are in for a surprise this time. The people are going to pick this next election’s candidate.
Damon Linker sure is a defeatist.
We could stop it by unifying behind one and ONLY ONE conservative candidate.
Yes.
2014 has got to be the time to turn the socialist tide here or good bye
You could have nominated hard right candidates in 1996 and 2008 and they'd have lost and somebody somewhere would be making the same remarks about them not wanting to win and not wanting a Republican president and about just being nominated being the honor they sought (except those true conservative candidates weren't nominated and probably didn't exist).
TheWeek.com offers space online to bloggers like Linker but they don't put his stuff in the print version.
It looks like the bloggers are trying to attract attention to themselves by writing about potential candidates -- Clinton, Huckabee, Bush III, Romney, Biden, Warren.
None of it is very serious.
Jeb won't be the nominee because too many voters would bolt or stay home if he were nominated. The problem is how to make that clear enough early enough.
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