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When Jeb Bush Goes Down, He’s Taking The Rest Of The GOP Field With Him
newrepublic.com ^ | December 4

Posted on 12/04/2015 6:05:25 PM PST by Helicondelta

When Jeb Bush goes down, he’s taking the rest of the GOP field with him (except Donald Trump).That, at least, is what will happen if Mike Murphy, the head of Bush’s super PAC Right to Rise, gets his way.

Right to Rise has $75 million in the bank, and Murphy’s not going to let it go to waste, according to Politico:

According to another source close to Right to Rise, Murphy has been floating another tactical shift to potential supporters, suggesting that he might spend the bulk of the $75 million to carpet bomb Rubio, Cruz, Carson, Christie—everyone but Trump. The thinking: making the race into a binary choice between Bush and Trump might be the only way a majority of primary voters go with Bush.

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To: Democratic-Republican
I'm in California. My vote for President is immaterial. So the answer is no. I'll probably vote Constitution Party or AIP just to throw them a bone.

I think this is all a show on Trump's part. I think Bubba put him up to this, although he's certainly enjoying it. I don't think he's doing it to be President, but to drive a stake into conservatism by telling them what they want to hear and then shafting them into oblivion. If he wins, he'll do the Kay Baily Hutchison 2007 Operation Touchback amnesty bringing the illegals right back in. Or he may do the RINO swan dive for his friends the Clintons and in the media right on cue, saying something so outrageous that it will offend the voters against Republicans permanently. He is, after all, a media creation.

81 posted on 12/05/2015 9:10:41 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: skeeter

How is Cruz an outsider? He is a professional politician. He has spent almost his entire adult life in government much of it in Washington DC. His wife Heidi is a CFR member and a leading executive at Golden Sachs, a most influential Wall Street firm. I do not get the Cruz is an outsider thing. He and she are very much insiders.


82 posted on 12/05/2015 9:22:15 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: jpsb
You are really confused. All politicians are not "insiders," as the term is being used in the present Presidential campaign. And certainly all people who work for major Financial firms are not "insiders," in such a context.

The gaggle that political pseudo "experts" such as Karl Rove, have assembled to direct the Republican Party, and the sheep they are still able to program, are what most of us consider to be the Republican "insiders." In no sense is there any evidence that the Cruzes are part of any such cabal. The Senator has repeatedly challenged their leadership; repeatedly exposed their folly.

83 posted on 12/05/2015 9:35:57 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: Lady Heron

A stupid tactic to be sure. But who is suggesting that the subject individual is particularly well endowed above the neck?


84 posted on 12/05/2015 9:40:32 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: jpsb

Insiders don’t call the Senate leader of their own party a liar from the well of the senate.

You like another candidate, I get it. But lets acknowledge reality.


85 posted on 12/05/2015 9:59:45 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Carry_Okie
so outrageous that it will offend the voters against Republicans permanently.

Most of are already at that point, but thanks for the help with those like yourself that haven't yet awoke.

86 posted on 12/05/2015 10:09:34 AM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

There will be a mandate and coattails


87 posted on 12/05/2015 10:12:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Carry_Okie

LOL!! Says you, the sage of FR.

Sounds like you aren’t having any fun. You should be used like this. Skunking the field for six months has been nothing short of a blast.

Now THAT is the way WE “deal with it”. How about you, toots? Is your guy hanging it out there for six months straight, or lapping the field yet, or even cracked out of single digits in any sustained way?

Do get back to us when you can compete, at some level beyond your active imagination.


88 posted on 12/05/2015 10:24:34 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: ducks1944

Yes. Yes. And, yes! These are real issues and because they are swept under the rug for now does not mean they won’t be brought up eventually.


89 posted on 12/05/2015 10:26:40 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I’m with YOU! Trump loves Carl. Surely, he won’t stick him in Treasury, but you know there is untold power at Treasury, including martialing and investigative powers.


90 posted on 12/05/2015 10:28:19 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: poinq

Trump does not seem like the type to have a VP doing essentially nothing. Seems like he will pick someone who can actively help in his plan to fix this country. JMO


91 posted on 12/05/2015 10:35:58 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: RitaOK
Now THAT is the way WE “deal with it”. How about you, toots? Is your guy hanging it out there for six months straight, or lapping the field yet, or even cracked out of single digits in any sustained way?

I don't have a guy.

Do get back to us when you can compete, at some level beyond your active imagination.

Imagination is all you have. Enjoy your fantasy world.

92 posted on 12/05/2015 10:46:48 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: itsahoot
Do get back to us when you can compete, at some level beyond your active imagination.

Your projector is out of focus.

93 posted on 12/05/2015 10:48:10 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Another deep and detailed and thoughtful analysis from the cheap seats. Is this all you’ve got?

Do get a rhetorical act together that’s a little longer on facts and shorter on TDS, so you can play too.


94 posted on 12/05/2015 12:27:26 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Carry_Okie
Your projector is out of focus.

Sorry Carry not this time.

95 posted on 12/05/2015 12:37:24 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: central_va
There will be a mandate and coattails

Looks like it to me baring anything unexpected like martial law.

96 posted on 12/05/2015 12:42:29 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot
Sorry Carry not this time.

Read this and bet on that.

97 posted on 12/05/2015 1:49:18 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: itsahoot

A lot of lower level elections the R’s are going to jump on the Trump bandwagon/juggernaut. Hasn’t happened yet, but it will.


98 posted on 12/06/2015 4:53:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Duchess47

The President has hundreds of jobs to fill. The VP is not exactly necessary for anything other than helping the President get elected. It would help if he understood the Senate. And he could be trusted to give speeches without putting his foot in his mouth. The reality is the President has no authority over the VP and vice-a-versa.


99 posted on 12/06/2015 2:21:39 PM PST by poinq
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To: Helicondelta
When Jeb Bush Goes Down, He’s Taking The Rest Of The GOP Field With Him

Except the conservatives like Trump and Cruz that is.

100 posted on 12/06/2015 2:38:54 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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