Jeb Bush (and GW bush) got to work on Bush 41’s campaign in 1980 and 1988 and 1992. He also got to see alot of what DC is about when GH was VP for 8 years and potus for 4 and then his brother was potus for 8. He has been vetted by the democrats when he ran for gov of FL and lost and when he ran twice more for gov and won.
Plus, the volunteers, donors, experienced staff and gope all know him very well and are holdovers from potus 41 and 43. He has that infrastructure to start with.
For example, in Ohio, Obama never closed his 2008 campaign office. He had the money to keep his entire infrastructure in place in key states. This showed up in 2012 when Obama won Ohio by 2% less in 2012 vs. 2008, yet he lost neighboring Indiana by 14 points to romney when he beat McCain in Indiana 49-48.
Jeb will have a lot of 41’s and 43’s infrastructure still intact. Same with Santorum having his people intact from 2012, same with romney and same with Ryan.
The next gop nominee will be one of those four.
The real battle is for who will be “NEXT” in line after 2016. In 2020, next will be the vp nominee, Jeb, or the guy who finishes next in 2016.
It is the same in virtually any field. You usually get to the top by being “a 20 years of hard work, overnite success”. Getting to the top is not easy. You usually have to fight and slog through preliminaries and then you get to the quarterfinals and then the semifinals and then maybe you get to be NEXT.
• Married her high school sweetheart to whom she remains married and with whom she is apparently still in love.
• In the harshest of climes, started a small business with him.
• Saw the public schools were not doing a good job in educating her children, joined the local PTA and was so effective there that the people who knew her best – and in small towns like Wasilla there are very few secrets – elected her to be their mayor.
• Mayors of the other small towns and big cities elected her president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.
• Highly successful as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
• Ran an uphill battle against entrenched Republican governor; elected to the top position, Governor, of the largest state in the nation.
• 80% approval ratings.
• Selected as Republican 2008 VP candidate in mid-40s.
Governor Sarah Palin is a self-made women with an impressive career who broke into politics without the head start of a powerful husband or father and has a history of being a reformer and taking on powerful interests for the benefit of ordinary people. City council, mayor, Governor, oil and gas commission, VP candidate, already vetted, been scrutinized every way possible and still standing strong. Long list of accomplishments and over 20 years of experience.
As Governor Sarah Palin didn’t just cut spending; she saved, reformed, and prioritized like a good fiscal manager. She invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding, paid down debt, invested $2.6 billion in an education fund for the future, and funded a Senior Benefits Program to provide support for low-income Alaskan seniors.
In stark contrast to President Obama and other governors whose fiscal records are dogged by credit downgrades, Palin left Alaska with an improved credit rating during and following her tenure as governor. Standard & Poor’s raised Alaska’s credit rating from AA to AA+ in April 2008. Then in 2010, both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s upgraded Alaska to AAA for the first time in the state’s history due to policies enacted by Palin that made the state’s finances more than solvent.
Taking on corruption and crony capitalism has always been a cornerstone of Sarah Palin’s agenda; in Alaska she did take on the old-boy network — the oil companies and her own party. As oil and gas commissioner, Sarah Palin called out the unethical practices of members of her own party. As Governor, she sought to end the back room deals and improper relationships between oil companies and politicians.
After the 2008 election Sarah Palin helped lead Republicans to the greatest congressional victory in several generations during the 2010 election with her endorsements and rallies all over the country ;she has endorsed 73 candidates for the US House of Representatives and Senate; state governors and attorney generals. Her success rate is at 69%. 18 out of 20 targets in her Take Back the 20 campaign ; this is a 90% success rate! Sarah Palin also had a very strong hand in the party’s few successes during this election . Sarah Palin campaigned for constitutional conservatives like Ted Cruz, Deb Fischer, Paul Gosar, resulting in 5 conservatives being elected to the Senate and 32 conservatives to the House. She has repeatedly been a leading voice against the dangers of ObamaCare and the risks of President Obama’s approach to energy and was the first Republican to make a high-profile critique of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing, though even earlier she had marked the collapsing value of the dollar as one of her issues.
Sarah Palin has offered many statements on issues such as health care, the Federal Reserve’s money printing in funding our federal deficit, Crony Capitalism, energy independence, foreign policy, etc)