Posted on 12/21/2014 9:48:28 PM PST by Steelfish
Jeb Bush’s Ties to Donors Put Rivals in a Bind Network of GOP Contributors Could Hamper Other Republicans’ Fund-Raising By PATRICK O’CONNOR and BETH REINHARD Jeb Bush’s announcement that he will explore a White House bid threatens years of painstaking spadework by other Republicans who have cultivated many of the wealthy donors loyal to the former Florida governor’s family.
Mr. Bush is heir to a vaunted network of Republican contributors built over his family’s two presidencies, his own governorship and other campaigns. It is one of the most formidable assets in GOP politics and could...
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You really don’t know Mitt Romney, and if you read my post, you would have read that no one as radical left wing as Mitt Romney has ever reached so high, not Dole, not HW, not Jeb Bush if he does, and not Nixon, nor Ford.
Mitt Romney is in a class of his own and unlike anything we have ever seen in the GOP.
If you don’t know that, then you must be one of the ignorant souls who only knows Romney’s image of the last few years as he spent 100s of millions of dollars and 9 years to try to convince you that he is merely a rino.
Romney is no rino, he only wants you to think that he is that far right.
The Koch Brothers, and all of the other supposedly huge donors, along with many liberal illegal alien supporters made a $100 million ad-buy during the roll call on the Senate Amnesty, and in the subsequent days when they attempted to get the House to cave. Despite pumping most of those millions into targeted ads on Fox News and Talk Radio, they did not move conservative opinion an inch.
To win the primary, Jeb needs votes, not money. He already has the name recognition that gets him an early lead by virtue of his father and brother -- neither of whom would ever have been President if it had not been for Ronald Reagan. His numbers will not move even a percentage point from where they are right now.
Wednesday morning November 9, 2016 the conservatives will simply say.....see we told you so.
We will have our first woman president and will be able to thank the GOPe
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Even if they’re RINOs, I honestly can’t understand why they think Jeb is a good bet. Bush 41 gave us the Clinton administration. Bush 43 gave us the Obama administration. The bush brand makes Christie, Romney, and McCain look like a bunch of winners
Maybe why he’s running so early
Anyway. The big donor boys lost big in the midterm primaries
Let’s not forget. They haven’t forgotten
True. The thing about it is, though, that the wonks, politicos, pollsters, professional campaign managers and advisors, Media all get paid. They got by for years with this “gotta go moderate” stuff and “it’s the independents.”
It makes one wonder exactly how would a candidate actually decide just how to trust one of these Rovians?
The real pulse of America is not in some Fox Studio with a white board, or on a DC political show set, or even in some reporter’s laptop. Yet, these seem to pass - weird....
Worth repeating...although the odds are Jeb Bush does better in New Hampshire with it's open primary than Iowa.
Jeb Bush Hopes You Don’t See This Email
http://nationalreport.net/one-email-jeb-bush-hopes-tea-party-latinos-african-americans-dont-see/
“The thing that these idiot tea baggers don’t understand is that the Republican party needs those brown votes. We can’t survive without them. We’ve already screwed ourselves at the darkest end of the color wheel; we can’t afford to do that again. If these uptight white guys from the midwest are so worried that a Mexican is going to come steal their job, then maybe they should get off their fat asses and get a better education. If we can put some things in place that make it easier for immigrants, and convince them we are on their side (who cares if we really are) we will essentially be importing votes. We can’t let the dems beat us to that.”
Jeb Bush has one major problem. His last name.
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