Posted on 10/11/2014 6:52:44 AM PDT by cotton1706
Jeb Bush is not the most “electable” GOP presidential contender because the family that he represents is not electable now and truly has never been more electable than ideological conservatives. It’s a historical fact.
Bloomberg writer Mark Halperin this week fawningly suggested that Bush is the electable Republican hopeful in the field. Uh, sure. Everyday Republicans are just chomping at the bit to nominate this donor-friendly prepster who would pick up the ball from his brother on federal school reform and give corporations cheap labor with an immigration package. (Why do liberals always feel the need to “help” Republicans out with political advice about who they should nominate? In that spirit, I’ve got a suggestion for them: Howard Dean. 2016 is that guy’s year, man. He’s ready.)
This all fits into the media’s narrative about how the upstart tea party that won the House in 2010 could never run a viable national campaign around a candidate like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. The media thinks that the “uncharacteristic chaos,” as Halperin called it, playing out in the Republican Party right now is something completely new. Therefore, the tea party, in contrast to the permanence of the Bush-dominated establishment, is something completely new. It’s not.
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If the GOP runs an open-borders guy, you’ll see the collapse of the party.
“In addition to Florida, if the GOP can win North Carolina, win back Virginia, and win back Ohio, then that candidate has a realistic shot at winning the White House.”
They need to get back to Ohio and clean up the voter rolls and implement voter ID now.
I heard rumors of such, interesting thanks.
I for sure wish he never ran, we might be in a different country today?
Pro-choice is not my choice and if she likes Jeb, I don’t
The best I can say about voting for Bushes is remembering who I was voting against. Imagine what a mess Gore and Kerry would have made of every thing. After McCain I changed to Independent. Then came Romney. There is just no hope the Rhino party.
> “That is why I find it amusing folly that Conservatives DON’T favor abolishing the Electoral College. Our ONLY chance ever again of taking the WH is the popular vote.”
Now it’s completely clear you are a troll.
I’m done voting against. Voting for wrong, voting for evil, is voting for it, regardless of whom the other side is. I have decided that if a nominee does not believe close to what I believe in, I jump that office and keep moving down the ballot. I did not vote for Romney because I saw him no better than Obama. I’m done with the voting for the less evil. Evil is evil. Period.
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