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Bush/Palin 2016 called 'the GOP's only chance'
American Thinker via Blog on Washington Times ^ | June 28, 2013 | By Michael Sheppard

Posted on 06/28/2013 6:20:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Earlier this year, Jeb Bush told ABC that both his father George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. recommended he run for president in 2016. Mama Barbara Bush is not keen on the idea, declaring in April that “the nation’s probably had enough Bushes.”

But in the constantly shifting equations of potential Republican hopefuls for future president and vice president, the former Florida governor’s name has been tied with another former governor: Sarah Palin.

The pair have now been framed as a “the GOP’s only chance” in the race by American Thinker contributor Michael Sheppard.

“Would Jeb Bush have as good a chance, or better, than any other prospective GOP candidate? Most certainly he might. As a popular governor of Florida, married to a Hispanic, and who garnered a good proportion of the Hispanic vote, Bush would be in a strong position to carry the state,” he says, reasoning that Mr. Bush, as a southern governor, could also hold sway in Virginia and appeal to Iowa evangelicals and centrist voters in New Hampshire.

Should Hillary Clinton emerge as the Democratic candidate, it could also improve Mr. Bush’s “electability”. Then there is the Palin factor, Mr. Sheppard says. She brings ardent fans with her, of course.

“A Jeb Bush/president - Sarah Palin/vice-president ticket covers all the Electoral College, Evangelical, pro-life, centrist-conservative, experienced governorships, male/female bases,” he notes.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; amnesty; anotherbush; bush; gop; gope; hillary; immigration; jebbush; lessonnotlearned; nomenklatura; palin; stayoutdabushes; stupidparty; suicidalparty; suicide; whatajoke
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To: peyton randolph

LOL, Dan Quayle? That is your attack?

Anyone who thinks that Dan Quayle was ever a Governor Palin, the boldest most effective conservative leader since Reagan, is not playing with a full deck.

Oh, I just checked you home page “”Libertarian on many social issues.””

Gotcha, a social liberal still angry at social conservatism, Quayle and Murphy Brown and so on, I see your discomfort now, it’s the whole anti-conservative thing.


141 posted on 06/28/2013 9:25:53 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: ansel12
the fact that you guys always use the historical icon Reagan to go after Palin, says it all.

Hey, don't include me in that list!! :) I have never used Reagan to go after Palin. I respect and admire them both!!!

142 posted on 06/28/2013 9:28:51 PM PDT by sand88
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To: ansel12
Palin is the individual most responsible for creating and leading this conservative movement in America that came out of 2008.

without a doubt. She has been waging a full time war on the evil left and the arrogant GOP-e.

Absolutely no one on the scene today has the charisma and raw intelligence of Sarah.

Sarah is the one that traitors like Rove, the Bushes, the rest of the RINOs fear the most.

143 posted on 06/28/2013 9:34:50 PM PDT by sand88
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To: ansel12
Dan Quayle? That is your attack?

Not my attack. McCain GOPe staff followed by the media. It worked on Quayle. It worked on Palin too. Conservatives and some libertarians will vote for her.

If she's the GOP nominee, I'll vote for her in the general election.

However, she's been smeared to such a degree that most independents won't vote for her. If Hillary is the Dimwits' nominee, expect the female vote to go 2:1 for Hillary if she goes head to head with Palin.

144 posted on 06/28/2013 9:34:58 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Vice President Quayle five years after he was voted out.

Quayle knew he was toast and didn't hang on long-term for another try at national office.

That being said, I doubt Palin will run. Bet Roger Ailes got assurances on that front before she was able to return to Fox News.

In the unlikely event Palin does run and becomes the GOP nominee, I'll vote for her in the general election.

145 posted on 06/28/2013 9:38:08 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
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To: peyton randolph
You're causing MY head to explode. Ted (Canadian born) Cruz is not eligible to run. He's not a natural born Citizen.
146 posted on 06/28/2013 9:45:04 PM PDT by ASouthernGrl (BHO sucks - literally or metaphorically, you decide.)
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To: sand88

I didn’t intend to include you by any means, but I see what you mean, by pinging two names and me saying “you guys” it looked liked I was including you, sorry about that appearance.


147 posted on 06/28/2013 9:45:13 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They know without Palin there would never be (another) President Bush


148 posted on 06/28/2013 9:46:06 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: peyton randolph

Your going back to minor, nondescript political figures of the distant past to find Dan Quayle and trying to fit him into something relevant to the tea party, and the Palin led conservative movement and her displayed political power as she has involved herself in over a 100 political races, decades later, and to an historical, Reagan like figure of Governor Palin, just doesn’t compute.

Quayle was a Dan Quayle, not a political giant and national leader with the charisma and voice and effect of the Governor, who still dominates GOP politics as the 2012 presidential candidate fades into, well, Dan Quayle status.


149 posted on 06/28/2013 9:55:52 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: cherry
please....No Palin....I’ve got a pink baseball cap from her vp run....I love the woman...but she is not going to be elected

The problem with her is the fact that she would probably be a fantastic president. No one seems to want that.

150 posted on 06/28/2013 10:00:20 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ridiculous. That ticket is a dead loser.


151 posted on 06/28/2013 10:03:35 PM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: dforest
In the end, they did not beat Romney. And none of them beat Obama,

In the end they sure did beat Romney, for example, the third or second place guy does not become the presidential candidate, write that down.

McCain couldn't beat Obama in an election that republicans could not win, and 4 years later, Romney could not beat Obama, in an election that republicans could not lose.

152 posted on 06/28/2013 10:04:25 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: ASouthernGrl
You're causing MY head to explode. Ted (Canadian born) Cruz is not eligible to run. He's not a natural born Citizen.

Do you also believe that McIdiot was ineligible to run in 2008 because he was born in Panama?

What about George Romney's 1968 presidential bid? Was he ineligible because he was born in Mexico?

153 posted on 06/28/2013 10:15:22 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
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To: cherry

......”but she is not going to be elected”......and “she’s been Borked”...............

with respect sir, I think you are wrong BECAUSE:....any REAL conservative we put forward (”we” being us conservatives) is going to be, as you say, “Borked”. The left will attack such a person viciously, no matter WHO they are!!

Sarah survived the bastards attacks even though these attacks were far more vicious than anything else known in 200 plus years of American Electoral Politics. I personally believe many good conservatives on our side, observing what happened to the Palins and Gabby Gifford, simply do not have the courage to run for President out of fear of the LEFT’s Attack Machine! Exactly what the left wants!

Now, the left’s strategy works with millions of people that think like you obviously do. They (the left and their media allies) have a large segment of “us” Conservatives ALWAYS wanting a RINO so that the left will APPROVE of our candidate and then “be nice” to us during the election.

Exactly the opposite is needed, the RINO strategy is a demonstrable failure. It has failed all the way back to G.H.W.B. (our first Rino). I admire G.H.W.B. for a lot of reasons but think his Presidency was not so good as he was, in the end, a taxer and a spender as was his offspring. From both the bush’s, all we got was more taxes and profligate spending of borrowed money.

I say Cruz/Palin or Palin/Cruz is my dream ticket! Whatever chance pretty boy Rubio had is gone forever and any talk about a Bush is just maniacal.


154 posted on 06/28/2013 10:15:30 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah in 2016, Piper in 2036!!!



155 posted on 06/28/2013 10:15:49 PM PDT by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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To: dforest

good analysis although I wish she would run


156 posted on 06/28/2013 10:18:30 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will never vote for somebody with the last name of Bush again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me three times, I need to start hitting the alcohol and just avoid elections all together.


157 posted on 06/28/2013 10:26:37 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Should Hillary Clinton emerge as the Democratic candidate, it could also improve Mr. Bush’s “electability”.

If your candidate's electability improves because the other side runs a lousy candidate, then you are doing it wrong. The author of this article knows Bush can't run on his own merits, so he has to use the Hillary bogeyman to prop up ole Jeb.
158 posted on 06/28/2013 10:31:00 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3036605/posts

Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the 2013 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Jeb Bush, the chairman of the Constitution Center, will present the award to Clinton at a ceremony scheduled for Sept. 10.

Both Clinton and Bush are potential contenders in the 2016 presidential elections, for opposing parties. But in a statement, the GOP's Bush only accentuated the positive.

“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” said Bush, the Republican former Governor of Florida, son of a former president and brother of another. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”

159 posted on 06/28/2013 10:36:47 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

WHAT! Bush! Jeb Bush! Rino left of his brother Bush? What are they thinking? I believe they are getting their orders fron the White House—Who could they pick that could lose to a Hillary or a Michele Obama (or 3rd Term Obama) Who would be worst than Mittens? How abou a David Duke/ Mark Rubio Ticket? or lets drag out Ron Paul Maybe McCain would like another shot? 1st—Sarah Palin would NEVER agree to such a mis-match, nor should she. 2rd There must be better—Sober up Perry and he would be good—Heck even Donald Trump could be better—and he would make a TV show out of the whole thing and make money.


160 posted on 06/28/2013 10:43:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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