The vast majority of Tea Partiers cannot afford exclusive country club memberships. But they can console themselves by recognizing that, even RINO Republican Presidents have a good record of delivering excellent Supreme Court Justices. If the Democrats were to control the Supreme Court from 2016 to 2024, life would be unbearable for patriotic Americans.
How many of them are left? Are they really the same as the old East Coast Republican Establishment? From one point of view a wealthy country clubber from Utah or Alabama may not be so different from the East Coast Rockefeller Republicans of a half century ago, but something has definitely changed in the country and the party.
Wealthy Republican Catholics have also lined up behind Jeb, because he is the first Catholic (although a convert from Waspish Protestantism) with the best chance to become a Republican President.
First I've heard of it. There may be a tiny bit more of a cultural affinity with Jeb than with Ted or Rand or Scott, but I don't see Catholic Republicans lining up to contribute or vote for Jeb. It's not like he's Al Smith (or Rudy Giuliani or even Chris Christie). White bread Jeb just doesn't rock the ethnic thing.
If Jeb does win the nomination it would be because he made himself appear to be mainstream, non-confrontational and vanilla, while other candidates identified too closely with specific factions in the party and destroyed each other.
Sure, he'd have more money, but that doesn't have much to do with religion. After all, however important Mormon seed money was, most of Romney's campaign money must have come from non-Mormons. Jeb's aiming at being more moderate than the other candidates and the money people like moderates.
No mas Booshes por favor.
I will never accept that scumbag as my President!!!!!
“Why Jeb Bush is Likely to Win the Republican Nomination”
If true, your next article will be titled, “Why Jeb Bush lost the election to a immoral, corrupted Democrat who should have been easily beaten”
Jeb Bush will generate the worst electoral defeat the GOP has seen in a generation. Jeb Bush is nothing but Hillary’s insurance policy. What a sickening state of affairs.