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GOP donors reportedly working to draft Jeb Bush for 2016 presidential run (NO!!!!)
Fox News ^ | 3/30/2014

Posted on 03/30/2014 2:01:48 AM PDT by markomalley

A group of top Republican donors have reportedly begun an intense effort to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.

A Washington Post report quotes one major donor as saying that the "vast majority" of the top 100 givers to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney would back Bush in a nomination fight. 

The report also claims that a hard press has begun to get Bush into the race because conservative leaders and longtime Republican operatives are concerned about the electoral viability of New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Christie's standing and poll numbers, both nationally and among Republicans, have been damaged by the ongoing investigation into whether he knew of access lane closures to the George Washington Bridge ordered by his staff as apparent political retaliation. 

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Earlier this week, Bush met privately with casino magnate and GOP donor Sheldon Adelson and addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition's senior members at a dinner held Thursday at Adelson's company airport hangar. The Post, citing a donor in attendance at the dinner, reported that the crowd of about 60 guests applauded when one told Bush, "I hope you run for President in 2016."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; bush2016; bushfamily; donors; jebbush2016; stayoutdabushes
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To: markomalley

  <[>     ¡ es BACON!
61 posted on 03/30/2014 5:14:12 AM PDT by greedo
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To: markomalley

There aren’t enough old White millionaires to win elections. If true conservatives stay home, as over four million did when Romney was carrying the moderate GOP flag, the Republicans lose.

Obviously, the moderate millionaire wing of the party is insane, or it wouldn’t try the same failed strategy over and over. If they can’t learn, the party is doomed.


62 posted on 03/30/2014 5:15:15 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Norm Lenhart
Wouldn’t matter. Plenty of Freepers have ARGUED that we vote GOP no matter what.

I know. I've seen it.

If America was Russia in the 1930's, they'd scream "You MUST vote for Josef Stalin! Imagine what the DEMOCRAT will do!"

63 posted on 03/30/2014 5:17:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: exnavy

Republicans suck because they are stupid! Democrats suck because they are evil!


64 posted on 03/30/2014 5:18:53 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: staytrue
In the USA, the sins of a brother do not accrue to the sibling. THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY.

So you'll be pulling the lever for Rand despite Ron then?

65 posted on 03/30/2014 5:20:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: markomalley

Suicide pact.


66 posted on 03/30/2014 5:24:37 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Lazamataz

People don’t want to hear it but we are infiltrated. And people have to make a choice. they can defend their online friends or their country.

This is a propaganda war. People think fourms like this are all fun and entertainment with some knowledge thrown in. But they are the front lines of new (not so new anymore) media. And they are manipulated pawns as long as they choose to be.

Lets face it. We have all seen people rush to the defense of others they dont even know on the basis that they are online pals.

Really? That’s all it takes to flush principle? Your unknown online buddy? Well folks, some of those buddies are GOP and Dem staffers placed here to set you against each other so their candidate slips by in the fighting.

Last election ring a bell? People like me were trashed hourly for standing on principle. I and others have since recieved apologies from once committed Romneybots on threads, not email, telling us we were right all along. And this thread has folks now saying the same things we did over a year ago.

So people can head it off at the pass...NOW...or get set for a rerun. Simple choice really.


67 posted on 03/30/2014 5:26:08 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (I)
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To: markomalley

They can back him, but they can’t force anyone to vote for him in the primaries.

All the whining conservatives do about who may run, would be time better spent getting conservatives to agree on one conservative to back in the primaries.

We do the same stupid thing every 4 years, split our primary votes 7 ways and let the establishment RINO sail into the nomination.

We need to pick one conservative that doesn’t have a ton of baggage, can speak clearly and explain his position, and is smart enough to not say stupid crap about women.

Someone that agrees with the whole platform and has a record to back that up.

In my mind that only leaves Ted Cruz and maybe Scott Walker.


68 posted on 03/30/2014 5:28:16 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Norm Lenhart

The GOPe are well funded, and their fellow travelers and useful idiots will be out in full force this election cycle. I for one have no intention of being cowed.


69 posted on 03/30/2014 5:31:49 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

We have to remember the 2012 election. They will rerun that playbook here on FR and every other right wing outlet.

And if we collectively allow them to get away with it again, if we refuse to fight back, then we deserve the hell. We deserve it. Because we know what’s coming, we know the plan, the tricks and the intent to get more libs into power...Dem and RINO alike.

If we help them, we absolutely deserve it.


70 posted on 03/30/2014 5:39:47 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (I)
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To: markomalley

IN BEFORE THE TERM “PURIST”

(Gotta love those Vichy gop talking points.)


71 posted on 03/30/2014 5:53:26 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns SAVE Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: wiggen
Walker is in my opinion the only one on a national level. I know the love for Cruz or Paul but as of today neither will do more than excite the base. Walker can bring in the middle and lead us to a huge sweep.

I agree! The VP slot could then be used to introduce a more libertarian philosophy.

For regional balance, Rick Perry or (my favorite) Trey Gowdy would bring the South into play.

If Jeb Bush is the nominee, I vote third party.

72 posted on 03/30/2014 5:56:03 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: staytrue

Please continue with that tired old canard that the gop wing of the uniparty is different from the ‘rat wing. It’s amusing if nothing else.

Jeb wouldn’t even be discussed if he wasn’t part of the bush dynasty. It’s not like RINO, pro-amnesty ex-governors are a difficult to find.


73 posted on 03/30/2014 6:00:47 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns SAVE Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: Jim Noble
The Bush-Clinton crime family coalition exists to prevent another Reagan. Let's not fool around any more.

This must become common knowledge.

74 posted on 03/30/2014 6:10:30 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: markomalley
This goes back to ‘92 when Old Man Bush lost to the Big Creep. He was, and is, a dedicated New World Order Rino. He has controlled the GOP nomination process since he left office in January ‘93. That's how we got Dole in ‘96. How could the Old Man get W in 2000 if another republican won in ‘96? He couldn't get Jeb in ‘16 if another republican won in ‘12, so we got Romney, who had virtually no chance of carrying the base. They will pour money into the process when the time is right to get what they want, and what they want is Jeb. Jeb will be a seat warmer for the next liberal dem. Rinos move the country left by not providing pushback when they get elected, which makes them more dangerous than the democrats. It's going to be very difficult to stop them, as they have most of the money, and control most of the process. It will require a determined and sustained effort by many millions of us, but the campaign to discredit all rinos needs to start now, before the ‘14 midterms.
75 posted on 03/30/2014 6:11:35 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Si vis pacem, parabellum.)
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To: markomalley
RE: Another Bush, Clinton, any member of any ruling class family

Examine the causes of the problems in the Republican tract.

Well let's see.. Not enough fiber in the diet (same ol' same ol'), inadequate activity (lazy), immobility (stuck on stupid), stress (why don't the drive-by media like us?), depression (we're becoming outsiders in Washington). Yep. Washington's got bowel problems..

Void the bowels of Washington, D.C. 2014 - 2016

From the Chambers to the chamber pot.

76 posted on 03/30/2014 6:14:32 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: markomalley

Looks like so many people made fun of the article they had to close the comments.


77 posted on 03/30/2014 6:22:35 AM PDT by MrEdd (vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: markomalley
If he runs, he'll get less votes than either Romney or McCain. Well, at least one less vote. I refuse to hold my nose again.
78 posted on 03/30/2014 6:32:02 AM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: kingattax
Time for a new acronym. Just like RINO, we need CINO. Rove, McCain, Graham, McConnell, Boehner, Cantor all spring to mind.
79 posted on 03/30/2014 6:35:57 AM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: markomalley

As a patriot for this nation, I would NOT vote for another Bush, period.

I am a Libertarian, but am reserved on a few points of Libertarian ideology.

I would gladly do unkindness on anyone in this country, that supports, agrees, or is a legal proponent of Communism, or Socialism.

When the last Bush signed The Military Commissions Act of 2006, that was a deed done against all Americans.

We need no repeat of that, nor a smoochbutt of invading illegal immigrants.


80 posted on 03/30/2014 6:39:01 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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