Posted on 12/28/2014 6:10:43 PM PST by Mozilla
o Jeb Bush might be running for president. The rest of the world must be howling with laughter.
Apparently, the American political establishment isn't just afraid of new ideas, it's afraid of new people. It wants things so much the same, it's seeking blood guarantees, like the old Euro aristocracies that sealed military alliances with marriages. It's pathetic, and if Bush-Clinton turns out to be the general election menu, it's going to make kleptocratic paradises like the Soviet Union or the PRC look like vibrant democracies in comparison.
And man, could anything be less exciting, less of an inspiration to get the vote out than that lineup? "Vote 2016! Nothing Ever Changes!" People will stay home and hand-remove their own moles before dragging themselves to vote in that contest.
The news kicked off a heated debate in the blogosphere over what Bush's run will mean for conservatives, who will have spent eight painful years waiting to unseat the black Satan and probably had not planned on settling for anything short of a violent repudiation of his administration. Unsurprisingly, the reaction from the base to Jeb's announcement ranged from mild nausea to outright hysteria.
Probably the funniest bit was on Breitbart.com, where preeminent military-thriller author Brad Thor took time out from talking about himself in the third person and fictionally thwarting elaborate presidential-kidnap plots to denounce Jeb's entrance in the race. "If Jeb Bush is the nominee, I will never vote Republican again," he promised, via Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Are you saying Ni to that tatty old Bush shrubbery?
Oh what sad times these are when passing ruffians can say Ni to old lady RINO shrubs like John Elliot Arbusto.
There is a pestilence upon the land, and and and so forth and so on.
No. Jeb is a Republican. That is where we are all bonking our heads against the concrete wall. Jeb is what a Republican truly is. We can’t make that any different. Continuing to vote for Republicans is as useful as staying home and not voting at all. When conservatives can be voted for in a conservative party then it may be useful to vote again. Conservatives will never get the money to avoid being outspent ten or infinity to one in advertising and smear. The billionaires mostly believe that they will have an honored place at the table with the rulers of the New Fascist State. Actually the best they can hope for is that the Moslem/Communist crocodile will eat them last.
Exactly. I’ve always thought Reagan was the real RINO, a brief blip in the history of the party, along with Goldwater. But other than that, this is pretty much what the GOP is, just Democrat-lite.
I am saying Ni to old lady Jebbery Shrubbery. We wont nie of him and wish him to the hinterlands.
Rinos and GOP-e demand conservatives back their crap candidates.
I swear they’d vote for a democrat in order to prevent conservatives from beign in power. That’s essentially what they do when they put up moderate candidates to split the votes.
VOTE FOR THE UNITARDS!
“Which do you think is better in days of great trial?”
Someone who can’t be swayed and that someone isn’t Jeb Bush.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe some in the GOP party and the Dem party don’t want a republican to win so they together put up someone who just the name alone “Bush” is going to turn many people off. Do you really think any Democrats would vote for a Bush- never gonna happen.
I am not sure if Jeb is going to run but if you see him losing some weight soon then my guess he will be.
not to me you didn’t
Sons of a Read My Lips.
Grow the Extortion-Care Gang economy candidates.
Mrs. Palin, please run this time; our country needs you.
We don’t want the RINOs.
....you should explain it.
sorry. if you didn’t get it the first time, there’s no way repeating it is going to help anything.
I read the whole article. Taibbi makes perfect sense. He tells you who he is. Tells you who we are and points out that neither of the sides control anything, including our own votes. He makes me puke but so does the left/right paradigm that allows the real controllers to steal everything.
Dead on.
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