Donald Trump?!? Who!? He hasn't paid his dues! He doesn't come to our GOP insider country club retreats! I mean, we've been grooming Jeb Bush for this run since GWB was elected in 2000, barring that we have a fallback with that "clean, articulate" Mitt Romney. But Trump?? No, No, No, we just can't allow that. I guess we're just going to have to show him what happens to people who cross us, just ask that witch lady that crossed us in Delaware last November.
The Bushes tried to do in Rick Perry, too. Perry is pretty much a political hack, but he has been far more sucessful as governor than Bush. The problem is that they backed Kay Bailey, who is not much. They don’t Palin,either. Less so ,since she campaigned for Perry. As for Rove, yes, he is a family retainer.