Posted on 09/06/2015 8:56:11 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush is still the GOP establishment favorite, with loads of campaign cash and a top-notch political organization.
But he certainly doesn’t have the same air of inevitability that Mitt Romney had in 2012.
Even some of Bush’s biggest fans in the Beltway are privately wondering whether the former Florida governor has what it takes to out-muscle current frontrunner Donald Trump and emerge next summer with the GOP presidential nomination in hand. Bush is still grappling with the legacies of his brother and father, two former presidents, in a year where voters are rallying behind outsiders. The 17-candidate GOP field is much larger and stronger than what Romney faced in 2012, with popular sitting governors and senators challenging Bush in the polls.
And instead of directing all his fire at Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, Bush has had to go mano a mano with Trump, the hotel mogul who's attacked the Spanish-speaking Bush as soft on immigration.
“I do think he has a shot at pulling off the nomination, and I think he is probably one of the [top] candidates best equipped to actually govern if he is elected,” said a top GOP lobbyist in Washington of Bush. “But due to factors such as these, I’m not sure you can view his nomination as an inevitability — at least not in the same way many viewed Romney as inevitable four years ago.”
One longtime Bush family friend was even more blunt when asked to compare Jeb and Mitt.
“Jeb is not Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney used his inevitability as a tactical weapon. He was very effective at conveying inevitability without seeming arrogant,” said the family friend. “It is very clear that Jeb, so far, has not created any sense of inevitability.
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It’s now September. And I have yet to meet a SINGLE Republican who supports Jeb Bush. It is astonishing. In 2011 I met lots of smiling guys in matching suits who were gun ho for Mitt (and said exactly that). But they were just Mormon drones. Jeb has NO real people behind him, only billionaire donors and slave labor-addicted traitors. And you aren’t likely to meet them at CPAC or a Tea Party confab.
The “ legacies” of his father and brother aren’t hurting him, the fact he is a Clymer is.
“Are they tone deaf? Are they just looking to elect another Democrat in 2016? Don’t they understand that another Bush has almost zero appeal with the rank and file Republican?”
They know exactly what they’re doing. They are collaborating with the Democrats to get Hillary or Bernie, or whoever their candidate will be, elected.
And there Bern doing that since at least 2008.
From the article: “Mitt Romney used his inevitability as a tactical weapon. He was very effective at conveying inevitability without seeming arrogant,”....BS! Romney oozes arrogance!
Jeb!’s strategy was to exalt money over issues. That won’t work this time. Trump would be winning if he had no money.
Whoever wrote this must be high on marijuana because ¡Yeb! is stuck at 9%. There are four others with much less funding who are ahead of him. Even Trump who has spent minimally so far.
EXAMPLE: Ben Carson has minimal funding. I would be shocked if he had more than a million in the bank yet he is far ahead of ¡Yeb!
Jeb, is the dynastic spawn, that believes the job is his BY NAME ONLY.
Speaking ‘American’, which used to be how we, as a nation, would define our language to other nationalities, even up to the time of the Vietnam War, is a requirement in this country.
Any candidate for any elected office, from dog catcher on up, that starts blathering in anything other than ‘American’, is someone that should go “do the dog, again”, for they are no longer a virgin, in that respect.
They get it. They know we want the illegal alien inundation stopped. They work for The Cheap Labor Express who do not want it stopped.
The purpose of the GOP in 2015 is not to represent consevatives, it is to prevent us from electing anyone who would stop The Cheap Labor Express.
We don’t want “a thousand points of light” “compassionate conservatism” or a North American Union.
We don’t want another Bush.
We want our southwestern border secured and the Democrats and their RINO allies all put in cages.
Or put this way: the condescending GOPe pricks will tell all of the TEA party and conservatives that they don't matter, that they'll throw all of their support behind ¡JEB!, OR the GOPe will just drop all pretenses of a two party system and go all in for hitlery or bernie the commie.
Don't put it past them. See Mississippi as an example.
“Are they tone deaf? Are they just looking to elect another Democrat in 2016? Don’t they understand that another Bush has almost zero appeal with the rank and file Republican?”
Exactly. Jeb has about as much appeal to the convervative base as Roger Goodell has to New England sports fans. It’s really that bad.
The funny thing is that the vast majority of the millions of dollars in Jeb Campaign and Right To Rise money have been spent on overhead, rent, consultants, staff salaries, pollsters, hotels, restaurants, travel, etc.
But they have spent hardly anything on advertising and voter outreach.
They’re just lining their own pockets and their pockets of their cronies with their donors’ money.
Romney was endorsed by Trump in the primary. Once Bush gets that...
Maybe they could dig out John McCain or Bob Dole. We could then reject all of them at once.
The ankle-biters.
They can only get any media attention when they are ankle-biting Trump. And he just swishes them away like the irritating little pests they are.
That includes most of the remain 16.
[I think Cruz is the only one who has not had some major criticism directed at Trump.]
“with loads of campaign cash and a top-notch political organization. “
But bogged down by an unelectable candidate.
Also lets be real, Mitt Romney looks like George Washington up next to Jeb. Jeb is the worst candidate the GOPe could possibly have found. He has no redeeming feature.
It never has been about the GOP getting our message. It’s always been about us getting the GOP’s message.
They do not care what their base thinks or wants at all.
Every time they are elected, the first thing they do is give us their message.
The American people have spoken, and they want us to work together to get things done. They are tired of the bickering, and they want bi-partisanship.
When, in fact, no one in the base wants that at all, but the GOP wants it desperately.
There is no bickering. The GOP does not ever fight the demonrats on anything. No arguing. Nothing. Conversely, the demonrats never work with the GOP, or give them anything they want, but the truth of the matter is that the GOP doesn’t want anything that is in its platform.
The GOP is nothing but a bunch of liberals trying to fool its base into thinking that they are conservative.
I was unaware of this. Washingtoon DC is a boomtown and it’s all about getting paid. No one works for free. Not with the billions in campaign cash around and the trillions in taxpayer money
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