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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Hey, those rop donors know a lot more about candidate viability than we do, you know?
I mean, they backed President McCain and President Romney, dint they?
LOL.
“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”
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaw of victory!
In the words of Jesse Jackson, who voiced “out da Bushs!”
“Why do republicans hate Bush ?”
Maybe because old man Bush said, “read my lips no new taxes” and then taxed the hell out of us, which brought about Bill Clinton.
Then there was GWB who surrounded himself with backstabbers like Colin Powell and Condi Rice and didn’t listen much to Cheney. His failure to fight scum like Schumer, Pelosi, Reid et al. after they continually dumped all over him. He did nothing to cut spending and guess what, he gave birth to Obama.
” stay outta da bushes. “
That makes perfect sense, those people are proven morons.
NO!!! to the murderer of Terri Schiavo.
Jeb Bush was GOVERNOR. It was his duty to intervene and save Terri from murder. He was too cowardly to do his duty.
Any guy who MURDERS without batting an eye - needs to GO AWAY ----------> FAR FAR AWAY
Any candidate who favors putting illegal aliens on a track to receive the right to vote, or who supports Common Core, can forget my vote.
NO
Some Republicans have a political death wish.
FMCDH(BITS)
Don't forget, he was the first POTUS that I know of who pushed NWO...(new world order).
Look it up.
FMCDH(BITS)
Walker still has to win re-election. He is running in a liberal state where sentiment overpowers logic.
Technically speaking, America's not a democracy either. Until the regime gets around to changing it, we're still a representative republic. And at the top levels, a kakistocracy.
Walker won his recall election by a larger percentage than he won his initial election. Wisconsin is running a huge surplus and he'll be a great running mate for Ted Cruz.
I'm old enough to remember the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. Reagan had the votes, and the blue-blood Nelson Rockefeller wing couldn't stand it. They tried to push Gerald Ford as the Vice President, but in actuality they wanted to anoint him as the "co-president", with Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State and Alan Greenspan as Treasury Secretary - if you can believe it.
Reagan, thank God, said no way, no how.
Then, less than 24 hours to go before the announcement, they went searching for George HW Bush. They found him in a bar in the Joe Louis Arena, drowning his sorrows over his primary loss. He was the great white hope for the country club patrician Republicans, who would balance out the crazy cowboy Ronald Reagan. The rest is history, except that the liberal GOP hasn't given up on destroying conservatives.
The Democrats have turned hardcore radical left, and the GOPe, your current Republican Party, with no core principals to anchor them, have gotten swept away in the undertow.
“kakistocracy”——heh-—good one.
I'm pretty much with that so far. It's still early.
FMCDH(BITS)
no more Bushes. I couldn’t even tell you what primaries he’d win. the base wins primaries and he don’t have that.
I like Martinez from NM in a veep slot. She brings all a bunch of demographic positives.
I would have loved Palin but i know people who even right leaning dismiss her. I don’t know if her image ever gets rehabilitated across broad swathes of the country. I know shes got all the tools but one can’t go into a national race to win if the whole job is convincing people you have the smarts. Obama is an idiot but he was granted that without ever having to prove it. She has a different hurdle to meet.
It in 2015. Its interesting because he could decide not to run for gov and go all in for pres. It would look presidential too. Focused and not thinking about a fallback position.
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