[Publius]

Jeb Bush will be the nominee.

Did you notice that during the 2008 campaign, various people entered the race, but they actually functioned as blockers, as in football, to make sure that McCain crossed the goal line to become the nominee? Without conservatives able to unite behind one man, McCain could not be tackled.

Did you notice the same thing in 2012 with respect to Romney carrying the ball? All this was orchestrated by the Republican Establishment to make sure that another Reagan type, free of their control, could never be nominated.

The same thing will happen in 2016. Candidates will enter the race at the behest of the Republican Establishment to make sure that insurgents cannot unite behind one man and break their control.

Jeb Bush will cross the finish line. At that point, the Tea Party will have to decide whether to go third party or do what they did this year. The bogeyman -- or bogeywoman -- in this case will be Hillary.

[haywoodwebb]

"At that point, the Tea Party will have to decide whether to go third party or do what they did this year."

If that's going to happen, they need to do it NOW!

[Jim Noble]

Jeb Bush will cross the finish line. At that point, the Tea Party will have to decide whether to go third party or do what they did this year

That decision will have to be made in the next 90 days.

[dead]

If the Tea Party, and those sympathetic to its mission, really want to have a viable candidate for the GOP primaries, they need to create some sort of primary-type vetting prior to the GOP primaries.

By the time the GOP primary begins, the TEA Party needs to have already weeded out the conservative field to one primary TEA party candidate, with united conservative backing to fend off the usual Bush/Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney/Bush candidate.

[lu shissler]

If that’s so, you will see 3,000,000 conservative evangelicals sit home again, just like they did this time.

[SamAdams76]

Jeb Bush will be the nominee. Did you notice that during the 2008 campaign, various people entered the race, but they actually functioned as blockers, as in football, to make sure that McCain crossed the goal line to become the nominee? Without conservatives able to unite behind one man, McCain could not be tackled. Did you notice the same thing in 2012 with respect to Romney carrying the ball? All this was orchestrated by the Republican Establishment to make sure that another Reagan type, free of their control, could never be nominated. The same thing will happen in 2016. Candidates will enter the race at the behest of the Republican Establishment to make sure that insurgents cannot unite behind one man and break their control. Jeb Bush will cross the finish line. At that point, the Tea Party will have to decide whether to go third party or do what they did this year. The bogeyman -- or bogeywoman -- in this case will be Hillary.

Glad it didn't turn out that way.