Posted on 03/01/2015 7:02:53 PM PST by lasereye
McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed has written a devastating exposé of the brain trust Jeb Bush has gathered around himself in his campaign for the GOP nomination.
In a word, if personnel is policy, Jeb is telling the pro-family community to drop dead.
Coppins points out that virtually every key slot on Bush’s campaign team - campaign manager, chief strategist, communications director, adviser - has been filled by an ardent proponent of sodomy-based marriage and special rights based entirely on aberrant sexual behavior.
When Bush officially launches his presidential bid later this year, he will likely do so with a campaign manager who has urged the Republican Party to adopt a pro-gay agenda; a chief strategist who signed a Supreme Court amicus brief arguing for marriage equality in California; a longtime adviser who once encouraged her minister to stick to his guns in preaching equality for same-sex couples; and a communications director who is openly gay.
To an extent that would have been unthinkable in past elections, one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination has stocked his inner circle with advisers who are vocal proponents of gay rights. And while the Bush camp says his platform will not be shaped by his lieutenants’ personal beliefs, many in the monied, moderate, corporate wing of the GOP — including pragmatic donors, secular politicos, and other members of the establishment — are cheering the early hires as a sign that Bush will position himself as the gay-friendly Republican in the 2016 field.
In addition to Kochel, who is expected to run the national campaign, Bush has hired Tim Miller, a star communications and research operative who is gay; longtime aide Sally Bradshaw, whose support for her pro-gay preacher recently showed up in a New York Times profile ; and Mike Murphy, the veteran GOP consultant who joined other prominent Republicans in signing a 2013 brief calling on the Supreme Court to overturn California’s same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8. What makes this band of operatives unique is not just that they support gay rights, but that many have made it their mission in the past to bring the party along with them.
With his team in place, Bush has attracted a wave of early support from many of the party’s most prominent gay rights advocates. Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee chair who authored the Prop. 8 brief, has reportedly been introducing Bush to donors. At least a dozen of the brief’s 80 signatories have either endorsed him, donated to him, or gone to work for him. Tom Ridge, the former Homeland Security secretary who regularly preaches LGBT inclusion to his fellow Republicans, has declared himself an enthusiastic Bush-backer.
Twice in this piece the dreaded “e” word is used. Bush is said to have “evolved” on the issue in just way President Obama did - just in time to pander to misguided voters and donors with deep pockets.
Jeb himself correctly wrote in 1994,”[Should] sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is No.”
Of course it is impossible for the definition of marriage or the immorality of sodomy to “evolve.” Marriage has not evolved any more than the universe or life itself. It’s definition has been fixed by God since the dawn of time. It was then, is now, and forever will be the union of one man and one woman. God’s moral opinion of homosexual conduct has never changed and never will. It will be a sexual perversion - that is, a perversion of his design for human sexuality - until the end of time.
For a Republican to mess with that is to mess with God, the original purpose of the Republican Party, and the conservative base.
The GOP was founded for two reasons: to preserve natural marriage, responding to a movement to legalize polygamy, and to fight the institution of slavery. Changing the definition of marriage was, to the Republican forefathers, a “relic of barbarism.” The Republican Party platform was right then and it is right now.
If Bush leads the party away from a robust defense of marriage as God designed it and defined it, the Republican Party will have lost its reason to exist. Social conservatives will abandon the party so fast it’ll make your eyes water.
That sound of thunder you will hear will be created by the feet of pro-family Republicans stampeding for the exits. They will be gone and will never return. The GOP will be spent as a political force. It’ll have its precious big tent with nobody inside.
It’s time for social conservatives to armor up. Jeb Bush has thrown down the gauntlet. If conservatives want to save their party, and more importantly save America, step one is stopping Jeb Bush dead in his tracks.
(Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.)
Well, Barky needs to go to the United Nations to ask to be made Emperor of the World. Having marginalized the USA, it is no longer a logical power base.
Pat Caddell is sharp.
The problem is that Bush, supported by all sorts of corrupt money, is going to make the other primary candidates burn up a pile of money dealing with him, money that really should be spent going up against whatever Communist gets nominated by the Rats. And given the rigged primary system that has controlled the GOP nomination the last two elections, it’s going to take a lot more effort than if it were a fair race.
Excellent points. You’re absolutely right. Damn.
“Pat Caddell is sharp.”
He is indeed. And probably the last living southern conservative Democrat.
Yes, he probably is.
That’s my main worry: Bush will spend a huge sum of money deionizing his chief primary opponent(s) over the airwaves for all voters to see. If he gets the nod, there’s no way he wins the general. If his opponent gets the nod, then the nominee’s reputation has been dragged through the mud in public and easily defined as the “extreme” choice when compared to mushy-middle Jeb.
It’s almost as though Jeb has entered the race as a favor to his friends, the Clintons. Too damn convenient.
Miers sole ‘qualification’ was that she is one of Dubya’s cronies. And what little evidence we did have showed her to be a liberal.
Well maybe so... unless Barky really is the antichrist...
Totally agree.
Fratricide has in recent history proven to be a graver danger to the better-than-establishment crowd.
Demonizing or deionizing? I did not know that Cruz and Walker etc. were ionized.
He has a very much glass house to throw those stones in with his gay armada, though.
>I have felt that Supreme Court nominations are the single most critical reason to vote GOP for Prez.<
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BINGO!!!
I often don’t see reason to vote for the GOP because of the ever-present mob of RINOs.
I like toast, but not burnt toast.
JEB BUSH FAILS CPAC, CAN’T EVEN STACK STRAW POLL SUCCESSFULLY
I rarely answer my house phone—too many solicitors and telemarketers call—my friends and family have my cell number. However, I am going to start answering that phone to get polled by GOP survey-takers. I cannot see myself voting for this democrat-light.
GOP needs to understand that although Jebster may have a huge war chest, many voters will sit home. Hillary will win—sadly I don’t see much difference between Hillary and Jeb :(
Here’s the deal: I will not bother to vote if the GOPe puts forth Jeb or any other RINO.
Bingo!
Jeb has apparently newly discovered a fact of life that I have been aware of for decades, that gays always have beaucoup MONEY!
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