Posted on 04/05/2015 3:22:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....In January, Mr. Bush’s allies started using the phrase “shock and awe” to describe his plan to lock up as many of the party’s major donors and policy experts as possible. The intent was to make him the sole credible contender for the blessing of the Republican establishment. Mr. Bush was successful in driving the 2012 nominee,Mitt Romney, from trying another campaign. And few doubt that he leads in fund-raising, though his organization will not have to disclose its finances until July.
But while Mr. Bush continues to position himself as Republicans’ best hope in the general election, recent polls show him performing no better against Hillary Rodham Clinton than Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin or Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. And he is well behind Mr. Walker in Iowa, which has made a habit of rejecting candidates seen as their party’s inevitable nominees.
“If he’s going to run for the presidency because his father and his brother were president, is that why we should support him?” asked Colleen Platt,a City Council member in University Park, Iowa.
There is also lingering suspicion of Mr. Bush among the Tea Party grass roots, which arose while Mr. Bush was focused on business and philanthropic interests.
Ovide Lamontagne,the Tea Party candidate in the 2010 Republican primary for the Senate in New Hampshire,suggested that Mr. Bush had not reached out sufficiently to conservatives there. “A good number of candidates” have approached him, he said,but Mr. Bush has not.
Many big fund-raisers continue to shop around. Paul Singer,one of Wall Street’s most sought-after Republican donors,is holding a series of dinners to introduce his associates to various candidates.
And John A. Catsimatidis,a New York Republican,contributed $50,000 to a super PAC backing Mr. Bush and recently gave him a ride to Florida on his plane—but has also contributed to Mr. Walker’s political organization...."
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Don’t look too deep at Cruz
http://people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm#ref02
In Inglis v. Trustees (1830) and Elk v. Wilkins (1884), the Supreme Court ruled that a child born on U.S. soil, of a father who owes allegiance to a sovereignty other than the United States, is not a U.S. citizen at birth; the citizenship of such a child is that of its father, not its place of birth [20]. Consequently, the U.S.-born child of a foreign-citizen father cannot be a natural born citizen [41].
Tell that to Precedent Obama. Before 2008 I believed as you do, but that is now a moot point. Not one of our elected or judicial officials raised a finger to defend Art. II Sec. 1, it’s dead.
If the 2016 Presidential races is a Clinton-Bush affair, They can go ahead with out me.
I will be out looking at grave sites.
I second that motion.
Terri Schiavo.
nough said
Jebbie must be sharing a dinner table with Poppin’ Fresh himself...Karl Rove. They are going to wind up on that ‘Separated at Birth’ website if they aren’t careful...
Even the NYT knows that the GOP base has figured out that Jeb is a looser.
I expect the NYT to start pushing Carly and/or the Huckster next.
Agreed.
Both are quality candidates.
The rest, not so much.
Every Fox News panel tells us that Bush, Rubio or Walker are the top tier candidates.
Since Fox News is part of The Ministry Of Propaganda doing the bidding of The Cheap Labor Express, that tells me that all of their acceptable candidates are on board The Cheap Labor Express.
Everything is aimed at making sure we do not elect a President who will stop the cheap labor importation.
Carly, Huckster, Grahamnesty, Perry and any others that jump in are in as blockers for The Cheap Labor Express, designed to stop conservatives coalescing behind Cruz.
I have doubs about Cruz’s leadership ability, though I have to say his vaulting of Paul is a beautiful thing. My other concern is that he buys far too much into the libertarian untested wingnuttery, I’m practical and take a conservative economic approach, I’m no ideologue.
“Poppin’ Fresh himself...Karl Rove.”
Heh, heh! Actually both the Jebster & Rove have that Pillsbury Doughboy look.
CRUZ or Lose!
He’s the only one that strikes me as capable of doing the job. I’m completely with you on NOT giving tax incentives to businesses to import workers rather than hiring workers from the market they are trading in. We are not a free employment training program for the rest of the world. Thing is the only power the president has there is to sign or not sign traitorous and short-sightest legislation of this sort, if I’m not mistaken.
BTW- add Walker and Cruz to your list.
The President is supposed to enforce the laws currently on the books, hard to believe watching the current one protecting fraudulently documented forigners from the laws instead.
We must elect a President who will enforce the laws. The reason we have 30 million illegal aliens is we have not had any enforcement since the last amnesty.
You are right, I stand corrected, we shouldn’t assume a president will not reject the country’s legal reality and substitute his own.
Its OK for us to break the law because they did it?
Ted Cruz. Accept no substitute.
I wonder if the sales pitch for a Jeb vote will be the always fresh and original “He’s not perfect, but if you don’t vote for him, you’ll help elect a democrat.”
It’s a rationalization never before heard in prior elections, and the GOPe really ought to consider using it to sell this BS mediocrity.
It’s tragic how the country has gone from having leaders offering a bright positive vision of America to a burnt out shuffling wheeze bags repeating worn out exhortation to reward mediocrity so that something even more mediocre doesn’t get the prize.
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