Posted on 08/20/2015 5:16:11 AM PDT by jimbo123
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's climb up the polls in the GOP presidential race has not gone unnoticed by supporters of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
A spokesperson for New Day for America, the super PAC supporting Kasich, told Fox News late Wednesday that several Bush donors have been in contact with the organization in recent days. The spokesperson declined to elaborate how many donors had contacted the PAC or whether they had donated any money.
The apparent shift comes as Kasich has been collecting endorsements from several key Republican players. Earlier this week, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley threw his support behind Kasich.
However, Kasich's greatest success has come in the early primary state of New Hampshire. Earlier Wednesday, he secured the endorsement of former New Hampshire Republican state legislators Doug and Stella Scamman, whose farm hosted Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign launch.
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I heard on a talk radio show a while back a guy say that part of the legal settlement with ?Prescott Bush-grandfather? Senator I guess, was that:
No more Bush’s would ever be allowed to run for any office.
hmmmmmm
Whatever else the senior George Bush did as director of the CIA, he also cemented his power.
Keep your damn hands of Kasich’s supporter, Jeb! This is gutter politics at its worst.
We used to spell that 'Kuringtons'. It may still be more-than-salient.
HF
This was always the GOPe ticket that they were going to ram down our throats- Bush-Kasich 2016. Looks like that’s going to get Trumped now.
The Arbusto family needs shamnesty so that one day Jeb's son, Jorge Pendejo Arbusto (currently TX Land Commissioner), can become Governor of Tejas as a stepping stone to La Casa Blanca.
Is that it, or do they want Kasich to agree to be Jebbie's VP candidate?
Down goes Yebbie!, down goes yebbie!
The two Bush administrations we already had were both disasters for America, disasters for the Republican Party and disasters for conservatives.
This is great news! It would only be better if we could get the Rube and Christie money people involved in this liberal Republican blood letting. The longer it continues the better.
I wonder if the elitist trash have given thought to the peasants with their pitchforks at their gated community entrances yet?
Geeeee ..??? What happened to Jeb’s $140 mil ..???
He was supposed to be THE ONE .. because of his MONEY.
I’m tellin’ ya, the public is in a rage over the Republican Elites thinking they are the be all, end all of the world.
The problem with the Trump campaign is that right now he is sucking all the [media and financial] oxygen from the smaller and poorly financed conservative candidates, who might shake out early being starved of funding and media attention (which is now deliberately soft "all-Donald-all-the-time").
Bush can afford to be "sitting this out" in the middle of the pack for now and keep raking in money for himself and his and GOP-e PACs, until the field gets a lot thinner and the non-Trump polled start shifting to better-known candidates still standing (i.e., better financed) who will also start getting more "free" media exposure. So then, the polls differential between Trump and smaller field will become much smaller and the "game" for 1-2 will be on...
At that point the conservatives will have lost many of their favorite candidates. Many of them, especially those put off by Trump's crude style or business dealings or his wealth or whatever (he is getting about 25% now, which is impressive in a field of 17 but less so in a field of 3 or 4) will default to Bush - "the name we know" and "he can win" and the other candidate[s] said something nice about Hillary or said something bad about "my" candidate, etc.
Don't underestimate Bush and GOP-e — "the more the merrier" is just fine with them for now, because they are collecting money and potential allies while the "Trump show" is essentially suffocating the smaller conservative fry, because they don't get media exposure (and therefore, financial support) and "normal" people who are not paying much attention to campaigns yet don't get the chance to know them.
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