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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"If this election is about how we're going to fight to get nothing done, then I don't want to have any part of it," Bush told a Republican gathering in South Carolina Saturday. "I've got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around and be miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that."

I'm not a Yeb! fan by any stretch, but I agree with him. The Republicans spend far too much beating on each other, and far less on policy and philosophy. The fault lies, of course, with the GOPe who figure that's how they get their designated loser by having the media report endless horse race stories of this poll and that poll along with allowing them to run the debates where they ask questions from the left and play one against the other.

3 posted on 10/27/2015 11:34:23 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Dahoser
I'm not a Yeb! fan by any stretch, but I agree with him. The Republicans spend far too much beating on each other, and far less on policy and philosophy.

Trump could not have possibly run a traditional "let's exchange our views on the issues" campaign. Basically, he has had to demean his opponents and to demean their traditional, centrist philosophies. He has had to argue that his opponents are completely unacceptable. Thus, he has called them losers, low-energy sloths, idiots, etc. They are absolutely, totally unacceptable for personal reasons that cannot be changed.

Without this strategy, Trump would be nowhere. And, most of his opponents have no idea how to respond. He has driven Jeb crazy.

9 posted on 10/27/2015 11:41:01 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Dahoser
Don't think that Jeb said exactly or even approximately what you just said. But I basically agree with the latter, not the former.

That said, I would let up on Jeb for a few days, to allow him to withdraw gracefully, if he does not do well in the most favorable forum that he will have--the CNBC debate. I do not ever like to kick anyone who is down. (But he is fair game in that debate--do not misunderstand my point. The fact that the CNBC regulars have been very partial to Jeb certainly does not entitle him to be babied.)

10 posted on 10/27/2015 11:41:06 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Dahoser
Hey, it (the same strategy of taking down conservative alternates to RINOs) worked for W, McCain and Romney in the past, why change the strategy for JEB?

RINO establishment have treated conservative candidates naïve enough to think they had a chance against the establishment, got their comeuppance from the USCC!

Absolutely no moral objections from Dole, W, McCain or Romney, when they were handpicked to make a run for Prez, letting the advisors smear and attack even innocent family members of families the establishment needed to remove!

That's politics in the U.S. from both parties but the GOP seems better at it, don't they.

24 posted on 10/27/2015 12:16:58 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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