Posted on 12/16/2014 7:54:00 AM PST by don-o
The notion that Jeb Bush is going to be the Republican presidential nominee is a fantasy nourished by the people who used to run the Republican Party. Bush has been out of a game that changed radically during the 12 years(!) since he last ran for office. He missed the transformation of his brother from Republican savior to squish; the rise of the tea party; the molding of his peer Mitt Romney into a movement conservative; and the ascendancy of a new generation of politicians Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, among them who have been fully shaped by and trained in that new dynamic. Those men occasionally, carefully, respectfully break with the movement. Scorning todays Republican Party is, by contrast, the core of Jebs political identity.
In that, Jeb is like ex-Republican Mike Bloomberg and like the failed GOP apostate Jon Huntsman: Hes deeply committed to centrist causes federalized education, legal status for undocumented immigrants that alienate key Republican groups; and hes vaguely willing to go along with vestigial conservative issues that Republicans dont care as much about, like standing up for Wall Street (Jeb was on a Lehman Brothers advisory board before that banks collapse, and now sits on a Barclays board) and opposing marriage equality, a stance hes sought to downplay by focusing on states rights.
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“Cant we get Gloria Allred to dig up some skank who was a friend of a friend who was an acquaintance of someone who knows someone who knew Jeb who wants her 5 minutes of fame to get on TV and shed tears about something she wished, dreamed, hallucinated that Jeb did to her 20-30 years ago?”
Of course we can, but since this is a candidate that conservatives do not want, that wont happen until after the primary
Just no. Enough Clintons and Bushes. And, basically, he stands for nothing attractive.
well, we can both agree on that!
Perry did run an absolutely terrible campaign in 08, and if he repeats such a performance then he doesn’t deserve the nomination in 2016. But I say give him a chance, and lets see what a fully prepped non-medicated Perry can do.
A Jeb BUSH candidacy would COMPLETELY NEGATE Hillarys biggest negative!!!!
I feel like it would increase discussion of why a democratic country has to have these political dynasties and why there has been a Bush or Clinton running for president or on the ballot in almost every presidential election since 1980. So perhaps that would hurt Hillary if the Democrats had another viable candidate. But maybe they don't.
The Democrats have no one really, just the fat old wife of a has-been president.
After her... nothing.
Well, don’t just rag on Perry, give us full disclosure. Who is your candidate of choice?
I don’t care if the article was from the early part of the year, Jeb is rattling his RINO saber now. As for Terry, Jeb just stood there and refused to intervene but should’ve done much, much more. Your point rings true.
I’ll never vote for that piece of crap jebbush. I’ll vote and support a strong 3rd party conservative even if it takes away votes from the GOPe candidate.
No more “lesser of two evil argument”. In a three way race, the Dim would likely win, but at least we would have rid ourselves of the lesser evil.
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