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Reports: Jeb Bush Asking John McCain How to Win Without Conservative Vote
Breitbart ^ | 12 December 2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 12/14/2014 9:42:30 AM PST by Bettyprob

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is doing opposition research on himself and asking Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about how he can potentially win the GOP presidential nomination without conservatives.

Bush, who has said he would make a 2016 decision in "short order," recently said that a candidate must be "willing to lose the primary to win the general [election]." And he has reportedly "begun conducting opposition research on himself to identify any potential issues that could arise" in a potential presidential campaign.

And According to a New York Times report, Bush recently visited McCain, who is often reviled by conservatives, to ask him how to win the nomination without the conservative base. McCain won the 2008 nomination after his campaign almost imploded because of his support for comprehensive amnesty legislation. When McCain teamed up with President George W. Bush and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to push an unsuccessful comprehensive amnesty bill in 2006, his support dried up, and McCain had to lay off most of his staff and carry his own bags in coach class en route to campaign events in New Hampshire.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; jebbush; johnmccain; mccain
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“Lock up the center and let them fight it out on the right.”
1 posted on 12/14/2014 9:42:30 AM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

Just like trying to put toothpaste back into its container.


2 posted on 12/14/2014 9:43:21 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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Jeb Bush Asking John McCain How to Win Without Conservative Vote

Because McCain perfected that move in 2008.

3 posted on 12/14/2014 9:43:58 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Bettyprob

He could run as a democrat.


4 posted on 12/14/2014 9:44:13 AM PST by Waryone
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To: Bettyprob

have either of these clowns graduated from a tricycle to a bicycle yet?

blind leading the blind


5 posted on 12/14/2014 9:44:20 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: Bettyprob

Stay outta da Bushes!


6 posted on 12/14/2014 9:44:35 AM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushes)
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To: Bettyprob

John McCain is probably the worst person to ask ‘How can I win by betraying the American people. Obama is the go to guy on that question.


7 posted on 12/14/2014 9:44:45 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Perdogg

Great. Ask a loser how to win.


8 posted on 12/14/2014 9:45:11 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Bettyprob

Run for the Democratic nomination. You’re welcome.


9 posted on 12/14/2014 9:45:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dumb and Dumber


10 posted on 12/14/2014 9:46:10 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Bettyprob
Go running to McCain for advice?

Another black mark against Jeb

11 posted on 12/14/2014 9:47:16 AM PST by TYVets
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To: Bettyprob

Losers united are still losers!


12 posted on 12/14/2014 9:47:58 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Bettyprob

Jeb could ask Jon Gruber how to do it, but we will still never vote for him in a million years.


13 posted on 12/14/2014 9:48:14 AM PST by uncitizen (our government is treasonous)
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To: Bettyprob

Very much like asking Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper) how to win over women without ‘game’...

... He couldn’t help you and had no interest in winning anyway.


14 posted on 12/14/2014 9:48:47 AM PST by sayfer bullets (“I didn’t leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me.” - Ronald Reagan)
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Go running to McCain for advice?

In Bush's defense, McCain did win the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, I assume with a low percentage of the self-described conservative vote.

15 posted on 12/14/2014 9:49:08 AM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

you cant, so GO AWAY you fat basteedo.


16 posted on 12/14/2014 9:49:20 AM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

How would McCain even know the answer to this question???

He has NO experience in this area


17 posted on 12/14/2014 9:49:34 AM PST by corbe (mystified)
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To: Bettyprob

Anyone who’d actually ask McCain how to win has zero common sense and would probably hire Wile E Coyote to advise how to hunt birds. Loser. Loser. Loser.


18 posted on 12/14/2014 9:50:33 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Bettyprob

Yes, ask John McCain how to win....


19 posted on 12/14/2014 9:52:03 AM PST by oblomov
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To: Waryone

*snort*


20 posted on 12/14/2014 9:53:16 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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