1. Anyone with the last name BUSH. Na-Ga-Da-It!
2. Lindsey Graham. Too flaming IMO.
3. John Kasich. No, I'm NOT my brothers keeper!
4. Carly Fiorina. She ruined HP, no way in hell she can run a country (Unless it's into the ground!)
5. Mike Hucksterbee. Yes, I said HUCKSTERBEE.
6. Rick Perry. Is he still in the race?!
7. Rand Paul. He's as nutty as his old man.
8. Chris Christie. A heart attack waiting to happen.
9. Bobby Jindal. Not voting for someone who reminds me of Apu from the Simpsons.
10. Marco Rubio. Meh, forgeddaboutit. 11. Rick Santorum. Doesn't have a chance in hell.
12. George Pataki. Declared, and candidacy already deceased.
That leaves Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, and (OMG!) Donald Trump for consideration. Yeah, that's a somewhat eclectic mix of candidates isn't it?
Even with these three, I'm not that happy. Cruz while right on damn' near ever issue doesn't seem to make friends very well. He alienates damn' near everyone.
Scott Walker. I like what he did in Wisconsin but is he really Presidential Material?
Donald Trump: He's 2016's Ross Perot with bad hair, and seemingly just as nutty sometimes. Still -- he shakes up DC and makes alot of the DC Establishment nervous and I like that.
Wishing someone like John Thune would run myself....
Just in case anybody should be in doubt Jeb is my line in the sand. Will not vote for him for any reason. Will never happen.
The GOPe shot the money wad way to early on The Jebster. Now they are stuck with him the grand push sales job commences but good luck convincing any buyers... eheheheh
Sure. post cards and tv adds in the age of internet news, netflix and the DVR are effective uses of campaign resources!
Trump is eating everyone else’s lunch except for Cruz who is using a specific targeted effort to entice the fifty million Evangelicals who do not vote to vote.
JEB! has already spent millions and effectively confirmed the fact that he is a boring and out of touch plutocrat.
He could spend a billion on TV and junk mail and still miss the actual voters he will need to close.
Meanwhile Trump has spent almost nothing on his self financed affair and the more they attack him the more free ink he gets and the higher his poll numbers go. He is a master of publicity and marketing.
Bush is stuck in the last century.
Does that include being nauseatingly boring, because that is how he comes off.
Those are 5 reasons most want nothing to do with him, as they all spell out “establishment”, “professional politician” & “dynasty”. The public is well aware that’s the problem.
The public wants fresh meat.
"He better not freak out!" "We shoved him out
there to tread water, Hillary can easily beat him
unless Biden does!"
The longer the explanation, the less convincing it is.
To me all that is a HUGE NEGATIVE.
Prescott Bush was a douchebag who supported Hitler. The rest we know. I will never vote for another Bush for as long as I live. Ever.
Soros’ Politico wants Bush as the designated loser in the 2016 election.
Jeb just swallows a couple more Quaaludes and chills out.
Reasonable: it’s way, way too early to ‘freak out’.
At this stage Frank Zappa may be re-animated by extraterrestrials and etc....
When Kasich, Christie and Rubio are told to drop out they won’t be splitting the GOPe vote and he’ll move up.
But maybe to just third or fourth place.
Why is anyone/everyone falling for this?
Politico is a democratic party organ—they want the democrat Hillary to win in November 2016.
She—if she lasts—can CERTAINLY beat JEB Bush.
She won’t beat Trump.
That’s the sole reason Politico is running this story.
In their little scared (of Trump) hearts, they’re hoping beyond hope it will be another Clinton versus Bush with Clinton winning again.
Oh yeah, it's just these hot, humid, muggy days of summer and all the irritating, afternoon thunderstorms that are causing around 30% of Republicans and conservatives to just act plain irrational this time of year. As soon as the weather cools and the leaves reach their peak of Fall colors, they'll come to their senses and start supporting Jeb.
They'll forget about 30 years of lies about immigration and the deliberate failure to enforce the law, and all the thousands of plants and jobs that left for cheap labor nations, and the two presidents named Bush who are as responsible for all that as anyone who could be named.
It's just those Dog Days of Summer turning all these folks into "crazies". No legitimate issues are bugging these folks. They'll come come to their senses around December or January and get behind Jebbie.
Caputo and Palmer overlook one important element: the toxic Bush name.
Obama ran against it to get elected — twice.
It is still, maybe even more, toxic than when GW was finishing his last term.
Even Jeb is trying to distance himself by running as Jeb rather than as Jeb Bush or Bush III.
It’s only a flesh wound.
Yeah, I've seen tons of ads against Hillary by that Super PAC for Jeb. They're really going hard against the Democrats.....
Oh, wait...
Hitlery, as you know, is an ardent supporter of Planned Parenthood--the high priests of abortion and infanticide in modern day America.