Posted on 04/01/2014 7:20:31 AM PDT by Qbert
Big money GOP donors are reluctantly leaning toward former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for president in 2016, said talk show host Joe Scarborough.
"The whispers are out there. You hear it among top [Republican National Committee] donors. There is not an excitement. I'll be really honest with you. Nobody's going, 'Oh, we got to get Jeb,'" Scarborough said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday.
Donors are eyeing Bush because they see him as the only nominee who could beat presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Scarborough said, adding that contenders like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz aren't considered viable against the former secretary of state.
"None of these big donors think Rand Paul is going to win. None of these big donors think Ted Cruz is going to win. None of these big donors think, fill in the blank, you name it," Scarborough said.
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I hope Jeb Bush is simply demonstrating a “Trial Balloon.” It would be the death of the two party system-which due to the influx of foreign voters is dying anyway.
"not gonna vote again for a non conservative like the Bush’s Be that Jeb or whomever."
Jeb Bush could pick Palin or Ted Cruz for VP (not that he would, of course), and I wouldn't vote for him. I'm just being honest and upfront. Under no circumstances will I vote for an amnestybot presidential candidate.
Cruz has a Natural Born Citizen problem. Should he be the nominee you can bet your bottom dollar the Rats will play that card everyday in every way including the courts. Plus with the Senate in Rats hands you can bet Harry Ried will play that card too on the floor of the US Senate. If Cruz wants to run then he needs to deal with the NBC thing first.
If the G__damn party idiots would rally around the top conservatives and unite, 2016 would all but be in the bag. They are flailing from one loser to the next, and eventually will talk themselves into either Jeb or Christie.
Instead of championing movement leaders, they look to destroy them and keep losing elections. Last time we had a movement leader, we won almost 50 states.
Independents voted for Romney. That’s not where the problem lies. A good candidate can win independents. Jeb is on the wrong side of two major hot button issues. He’s horrible on education and supporting the Common Core micromanagement of education by the far left on a national level, and he’s atrocious on immigration.
I’m not even remotely concerned about it.
NBC no longer has any meaning to me whatsoever.
The GOPe is all about protecting the “Status Quo”. They would vote Rat before they’d vote conservative. The only way a conservative gets nominated is via a ground swell of support so great that the party leaders can’t fight it. Other then that conservatives do not have a chance at the national level. Way to much money involved to risk electing an honest conservative.
Jeb might last about as long as ‘presumptive’ Giuliani lasted in 2008. What does he bring to the table that a dozen other candidates don’t have? Daddy and Bro — neither of which were ‘great’ presidents. Daddy lost to upstart Clinton. Bro was noted as open-checkbook George and the economy actually broke on his watch — where the bailouts started.
I have doubts that Hillary will be the Dem nominee. She got sidelined in 2008 on her way to her coronation then. There is a sizeable faction who do not like the Clintons.
We just have no one that can win right now. But it is still quite early.
Well it is the law of the land so whether it concerns you or not is of little matter. The Rats heads will explode should the GOP nominate Cruz after the stink the birthers made about Obama. I like Cruz and I’d love to vote for him but he really really needs to deal with the issue before 2016, way before 2016.
Investing donor dollars into a Jeb Bush campaign, they might as well light up the checks or money with a blowtorch. The GOP and RNC clearly have not learned after two strikes with RINO candidates that the third strike is at hand with another such candidate. There truly is no cure for stupid handlers, advisors and supporters of more RINO presidential candidates.
We, the people, will not vote for another RINO presidential candidate - period.
Their heads always explode.
Who cares.
I’ll vote for Cruz, or I won’t vote at all, because no one else even deserves my vote.
That’s just the way it is.
Buy a ticket and go see Jeb speak...he couldn't sell a snow cone in the Sahara. Here in the Bay Area last week, Rand Paul at UC Berkeley, yes Berkeley, had students on their feet applauding his defense of privacy. Ted Cruz regularly has the same response among the young. And without such enthusiasm, the GOP is dead.
Unfortunately, Governor Races is where one needs to be concerned as winnable it seems to me and hope Federal Government Overreach can cease. Republicans are Governors in something like 30 of the States.
It will be hard for even the best Republican candidate to overcome some obstacles, winning big-population states like Ohio or Pennsylvania for example though maybe it can be done. It’s just a sad situation in this country, most Red States will remain so. States like Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas would vote for whomever the GOP had on the ballot. Maybe Wisconsin, Nevada, etc. can be won by the GOP.
2012 realistically had a bit of a weak field, that’s past, there is no reason to go into it, some of the candidates were good but had a flaw that held them back.
Well I’m close, I’ll vote small government conservative or I won’t vote either. My only point on Cruz is that if he intends to run then he needs to get the NBC issue off the table first or he will be beaten about the head and shoulder everyday over it. That is my only concern with Cruz, whom I would be happy to vote for. Maybe get the House (since it is in GOP hands) to pass a resolution or something? Start the debate early enough so the issue is not in play by 2016.
Stupid party strikes again.
What some people don’t say about Rand Paul going to Berkeley is that he was addressing young Republicans to begin with. I read some story that noted that, not sure if that is true or not. So, this would still be a receptive audience to Rand Paul.
Walker and Perry definitely have accomplishments as Governors.
One has to look hard to find real legislative accomplishments with the Senators who are running. But they do give good speeches and their popular views do take up the slack.
There’s a few others I’d vote for too, but the list is short.
“contenders like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz aren’t considered viable against the former secretary of state”
This kind of moronic thinking is a lot of what’s wrong with the Republican party. Hillary is old, sick and unattractive. It will be a miracle if she ends up running at all. If she does run there is a plethora of negativity to pound her with and Billy Jeff is sure to screw up and embarrass her along the campaign trail.
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