Posted on 12/26/2014 7:20:12 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
Some conservative political analysts have opined that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced recently that he was further exploring his options to run for the GOP presidential nomination as a means of pre-empting all other potential GOP candidates. Many of the same analysts say there was an additional, not-so-subtle message, and it was aimed primarily at conservatives: ‘Don’t bother running; the monied GOP interests (i.e. the donor class) have spoken and Jeb Bush is who they want.’
Over the Christmas holidays I have had a number of people ask my opinion about Bush, and what I have told them, essentially, is this: Jeb Bush, like all the Bushes, is an inherently decent man. He has been a governor of a mostly red (but sometimes purple) state. He shares lineage with a storied political family. But if the goal is to restore some semblance of constitutional government to our republic, Jeb Bush is the wrong candidate, for he – like his father and brother before him – is no conservative.
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If you've always done what you always did you will always get what you've always gotten.
They'll take us seriously when we burn down their political playpen.
If it’s Hillary vs Jeb, it won’t make any difference to me.
I will still vote on some other offices but I will not vote for president. That or I will vote 3rd party.
It will mean a long march in the wilderness and many lean years. But it will save a Nation.
Trouble is, in the year 2014 Americans do not want to make a lifelong commitment, they want a solution by the end of the TV miniseries.
I would wonder about a “sin on purpose” strategy
“....but the truth of the matter is that the Republicans are Democrats....”
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Yup, sadly enough, you’re right.
My only contribution goes to the Tea Party and no longer to the GOP.
What do you mean?
I'm certainly not advocating that, or the lesser of two evils
crap — I'm advocating voting for someone, ignoring the (R)-branding as meaningless [they refuse to stand for anything] and looking at what the candidate is about.
Hey, at least in China they're apparently willing to let Christianity grow; here Christianity [and religion in-general] is anathema to our ruling elite.
(See America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, a long read, but it explains things well.)
It wasn't even that for 2014; remember that we were being told by the party-leaders/-elite that they were going to get amnesty done… right up until and during the election.
> Then it reverts back to being the Chamber of Commerce Wing of the Progressive Party, in “opposition” to the Organized Labor and Welfare Wing of the Progressive Party.
What's quite telling, IMO, is that the Chamber of Commerce Wing
and the Organized Labor and Welfare Wing
have essentially the same structure in mind, the same policies, and the same worldview. — Both hate you and think that you need to be managed, or at best 'farmed'.
>>Both hate you and think that you need to be managed, or at best ‘farmed’.
“farmed” is the best way to put it. When you think of all the implications of that, it’s downright scary.
Col. West may be being ignored by the gope but I don’t hear too much being said of him here on FR. I think he should be in the discussion.
Well it kind of looks like it is headed that way.
Hey the Democrat on principle can’t be worse than the GOP candidate, and hey the Democrat just kissed his sister on TV therefore he is the better one...
don’t laugh, temptations to such excuses could happen.
Conservatives are winning the battle of ideas... have faith.
“Trouble is, in the year 2014 Americans do not want to make a lifelong commitment, they want a solution by the end of the TV miniseries. “
The real trouble now is that you can’t run any kind of campaign without the money from special interests. By the time an honest candidate gets in a position to run for national or even state office the special interest have that candidate optioned.
I'm voting Ted Cruz.
If the GOP nominates Jeb Bush, Rand Paul will as a third party. I won’t vote for either one.
send money to Ted Cruz now!
a check every payday.....
800 million will do it.
conservatives need to rally around one choice now
or we will get Jeb or Mitt or some other “Stankass” Rino
“Jeb is wrong on Common Core. Would he actually keep trumpeting it when 60% of the people don’t want it?”
Of course. Jeb is the candidate of the GOP establishment and its Big Donors. Sheldon Adelson. Mark Zuckerberg. Michael Bloomberg.
They plan on buying the GOP nomination. What we think doesn’t count.
Well said.
The only way to cut the power of the big money boys is to Move to Amend the Constitution to get rid of the insane concept that corporations are people and money is speech. Money talks and the people walk (away from the big money leadership). Here is an important quote from the above article regarding the budget agreement that conservatives will not be able to influence until the fall.
“Worse, there was a provision in the $1.1 trillion budget to erase previous campaign spending limits for corporations and wealthy individuals (we can thank McConnell for this one); now, the limits were raised from $32,400 per year to more than $777,000 per individual, per year. “That means individuals could give $1,555,200 per two-year election cycle and couples could give $3,110,400 in a cycle, according to several campaign finance groups who have studied the legislative language,” CNN reported.
So, not only is the GOP Establishment working with the establishment wing of the Democratic Party (which includes the president) to fund initiatives conservatives and constitutionalists oppose, they are also working to further diminish the influence of the American people – what little of it is left – on the political process. Both parties seem intent on outsourcing their campaign financing to the richest individuals and corporations, so they can completely ignore their bases (for Republicans, that includes the massive expansion of donor cash; for Democrats, that includes Obama’s signing of legislation earlier this year doing away with all taxpayer-public funding of political campaigns and conventions, tucked deep into unrelated legislation).”
I wonder about the foolishness of a populace that is so gullible that it will vote for the politician it has seen the most ads from. To have the Democrat and Republican so well publicized that even the cats in the alley know about them, would SEEM in THEORY to be most conducive to an educated choice. But people are lazy and we can’t do anything about that except soul by soul.
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