Were dat a Jeopardy answer you is sharin' with us?
Posted on 04/25/2014 8:14:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In late 2011, nearing the eve of the formal start of the 2012 presidential election cycle, America’s liberal commentators had already watched a series of Republican presidential debates and formed their opinions of the prospective GOP candidates. Most determined that former Massachusetts governor and eventual nominee, Mitt Romney, was an unsavory conservative, but he was a preferable alternative to his Republican competition.
In fact, the left-leaning political press was so much more concerned about Romney’s arch-conservative competitors that they were willing to overlook the former governor’s offenses to liberal orthodoxy. According to the left-of-center press, virtually all of the Republican Party’s presidential aspirants in 2012 were literally crazy.
Former Salon writer and current MSNBC host Steve Kornacki called Romney’s approach to the primary process in August, 2011, amid the fleeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s bubble, his “sanity strategy.”
“To be a sane Republican today is to hope that Romney can hang on in Florida and beyond,” The New Yorker’s George Packer wrote in January, 2012. “A sane Republican has to want Romney as nominee in order to rule out any possibility of having Gingrich as President.”
Former MSNBC host Martin Bashir, who would later unfavorably compare the GOP’s presidential nominee to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, called Romney a “beacon of sanity in a sea of stupidity.”
Of course, once Romney acquired the requisite delegates needed to secure the nomination, he promptly grew horns and was accused of complicity in negligent homicide while surrounding himself with virulent racists.
It’s a familiar pattern and it is happening again. This time, however, the “good” Republican is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. This month, a host of MSNBC analysts and contributors – and even a handful of Democratic officeholders – have been touting Bush as his party’s last, best hope for retaking the White House in 2016.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that, if Bush does not run, the 2016 cycle is “almost certainly” already lost to Republican.
“If they’re only going to be the party of older white people, they cannot win at a national level,” MSNBC.com Senior Editor Beth Fouhy agreed. “Jeb Bush thinking of getting into the 2016 race is giving them a glimmer of hope.”
“Jeb Bush would be a strong general election candidate for Republicans,” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza assured MSNBC viewers.
Ronan Farrow named Bush his “hero of the day” for his comments about illegal immigration being “an act of love” as well as a federal crime.
It might be a few weeks late to get in on the ground floor of a trend, but CNN is joining the 2016 speculation game. With the Bush family, as well as the former Florida governor, clearly nursing media speculation around his future political ambitions, CNN’s Gloria Borger recently interviewed Jeb’s brother Neil Bush who revealed that former President George H. W. Bush is supportive of his son’s presidential hopes.
Borger observed that Bush does face an uphill battle in appealing to the Republican electorate, noting that it will be hard for a Bush to sell himself as a change candidate. No matter, interjected CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. Bush is the GOP’s only hope.
“If the Republicans want to win the White House, a lot of Republicans know this, they’ve got to carry states like Florida, for example,” Blitzer said, his argument supported by the fact that Bush last won a statewide election in the Sunshine State 12 years ago.
“Ohio, he would be formidable against Hillary Clinton in Ohio.” Blitzer continued. Why, you ask? Who knows. The only race Clinton ever won in Ohio was limited to Democratic voters and Bush has never even run, much less won, a race in the Buckeye State.
“If you want to win, you’ve got to have someone, presumably, like Jeb Bush,” Blitzer asserted. Borger agreed and added that former Democratic operative Paul Begala shares that authoritative opinion.
Guess who Wolf Blitzer thought was the “most electable candidate” in 2011? You guessed it: Mitt Romney.
Then as now, to say anything else would be to buck conventional wisdom. In 2011, however, at least Romney had polling data showing him to be the most competitive prospective candidate to face President Barack Obama in 2012. But at this absurdly early date, Bush currently polls worse in a general election against Hillary Clinton than the written off, utterly unelectable New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Republicans never seem to get the message, do they?
Watch the clip below via CNN:
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ROTFLOL..good one!
Hillary’s internal polling is bad...the MSM needs to pick the worst Republican to go against her...any RINO will do.
TED CRUZ 2016
The Booby Prize.
Well that's a start ;)
Nope. Been there done that with his brother and his father. By the primaries he will be righter than right. Two days after the election he will be right back where he is right now.
I will never ever vote for another Bush. Period.
Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
Since the Leftist Libs want Jeb to run, maybe they should get him to change parties and run on the Dem ticket.
[They know the Bush name is TOXIC.]
So sayeth the grey bearded Troll with the name (and the teeth)of a canine.
At this juncture.
They can blame me for President Hillary. I don't care. I have broad shoulders.
“The older I get, the more I appreciate Goldwater.LOL”
I voted for Goldwater...and they said if I were to do that the war in Viet Nam would get worse...I voted for Goldwater and that is exactly what happened.
Well, Wolf is a keen political mind, and of course he is right..that is unless, wait a minute...that is unless, the Dems run Al Sharpton. Yeah, that it - only Sharpton can win it for them. Win we much 2016!
Two can play at that game.
I wasn’t old enough to vote. Didn’t pay too much attention to politics back then, but the MSM made him and Phyllis Schafley kinda looney.
When I got through school, and could vote, I started digging into stuff, and trying to understand and be well informed on issues. That’s when I began to have a real appreciation for those two people, and a firmer grasp on what was happening to our freedom.
I heard he changed his name. His mom named him Shark Divebomber.
Yeah, we need advice from Wolfie. If the GOP wants to win,
they need us.
yeah, um, thanks, there, wolff...
Thanks Wolfie. You can go back to your Jello now.
As if we needed more evidence that Jeb should not be the GOP candidate.
Really aggravating that Goldwater didn’t wait for the 68 election. No Republican running against the ghost of Saint John the Kennedy was going to win in 1964.
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