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.)
Jeb: the pro faggot maggot. It’s got a ring to it.
I agree, and I see jeb as a great benefactor of the Conservative cause. He will actually push voters to Conservatives.
I cheered the Roberts appointment. Boy, was I an idiot.
Did you read the article? Too late?
Jim Webb is himself a warp in the current Democrat continuum, and he does have some conservative appeal. He is not a normal dimmacrat. If it comes down to Bush vs. Webb, I really don't know what to predict.
Maybe Jeb is the homosexual member of the Bush family?
And there he was for years and years in the Bush administration.
The fix has been in for quite some time. Big business for some weird reason is perfectly OK with gays and wants the GOP to be okay with gays as well.
Do they have that much purchasing power? Are they that much better than heterosexual women at picking out the proper color schemes for the CEO's office?
Why is it that Big Business is so big on gays? Can anyone explain it to me? I work for a company that is nominally conservative by the types of stuff we build and our leadership is currently falling over themselves to get the highest diversity ratings and kudos from the LGBTIQWTF crowd. It's a complete mystery to me.
hmm... the so called gay Republican... they might as well call themselves communist republicans, ha!
The language of equality is the language of equality, it is socialist and communist. I do not care if Jeb calls himself republican, language is language, as in if it quacks like a duck...
In fact marriage equalitarianists prove Orwell right: some people are more equal than others, and gays that is.
Equality is often used by those who do not want anyone to actually question their narcissistic sense or feelings of superiority. It is a ruse to forbid others from considering them inferior.
Everything these people promote politically is for themselves, not for others.
Already Jeb is suspected of being brainwashed by his latina wife on immigration, but I think it is worse, he might as well ne married to Obama and call himself Republican.
Pro-Common Core, although that could be considered part of the big-government argument.
I can’t believe how tone-deaf he is, with all the money and help he has. He is completely out of touch with the base. This is a danger of being in your state’s cocoon. Scott Walker caught up in a hurry, even though he was path-to-citizenship five minutes ago. But not Jeb.
And unless my ears deceived me, he tried to turn the Terry Schiavo question from Hannity around in his own favor by saying he was pro-life and completely double-talking his answer, at CPAC. He tried to make it sound as if nefarious others wanted her off food and water but he didn’t. Wasn’t it just the opposite?
If I’m right about that, that and his constant playing of the race card against innocent patriots bring him totally out of consideration on character alone.
I was watching coca Cola adds on the disney channel. Big business always needs to advertise and convert new children. The gay business is exactly the same, highjacking the Christian resucitation into a proselytism for free willy consumerism.
Also, big businesses have established military like structures and establishment. You cannot question the engineer. So there is this tendency to like to set people in their spot and to prevent redemption from the business and competition.
This means that in the past it would have been considered racist to utter for a program asking blacks to embrace abortion, being gay and low expectations, but no more, because now it is Politically Correct, and the hypocrites laugh themselves to the bank.
indeed, including Rand Paul and his loony followers is a weak point.
Was Perry married to a Latina like Jeb is?
Jeb is like DeBlasio, ie completely comtroled by an ethniticist communist wife.
Say good bye to the second amendment, because Pubs in Congress willd do everything zjeb tells them to do after Democrats whisper it in Jeb’s ear.
Just as Romney did.
That or to Chris Cristy... Jeb looks like a lunatic compared even to Mitmit or CrispyCreme
poison pill homosexuals, just like with Abortion.... sacrifice child and integrity for money.
Agreed!
Ted Cruz spoke at CPAC and challenged the other candidates to prove they have taken a stand against things like Amnesty and Common Core.
Is Walker going to repeal and reverse 100 percent Amnesty, Common Core and Obamacare?
I think Ted Cruz will do that and I don’t remember Walker firmly opposing and wanting to get rid of all those three things.
Walker caved on Gay Marriage when the federal district judge ruled in favor of it instead of supporting an appeal to a higher court.
I don’t see GM is about GM.
GM is about tyrannizing its opponents forcing all churches and religions, institutions to accept it or else.
People like the Fire Chief in Atlanta, Kevin Cochran and the CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich have lost their jobs for not believing in homosexuality or GM.
Walker is way short on this serious Unamerican, Unconstitutional situation unfolding in our country that also involves the prosecution and persecution of business owners who won’t serve gay weddings and so on.....
My wife asked her sister what she thought the percentage of gays are in the US. She said 25%. If you watch TV you’ll believe it’s way up there. You’d also believe half the people in the US are black.
Not a Natural born citizen! Born in Canada.
” . . . but got dissed purely because she didn’t got to Harvard or Yale law school.”
If there is another Obama appointment to the Supreme Court the nominee will almost certainly be another Harvard, Yale or other elite school graduate. He will also appoint a minority, a female, or a gay so the “discrimination” hammer can be brought out to browbeat any opposition from conservatives based on judicial philosophy. McCain, Hatch, Alexander, Graham and the other leaders of the GOP faux conservative caucus will immediately run for the woods insisting the president is entitled to his nominee.
There is another option. Fight the nomination demanding educational diversity on the court. Attack the current court and the nominee for being too elitist and the Harvard/Yale dominance as being too limiting in terms of perspective. Ask why graduates of state universities and individuals from rural states aren’t being given consideration. Turn the tables on the progressives and accuse them of being exclusionary, discriminatory, bigoted, small minded, elitist, and protectors of the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
A real opposition party would already have a game plan in place to use the tactics of the left to beat back another Kagan or wise Latina. Unfortunately I suspect the only play in the GOP book is to bend over.
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