Posted on 02/14/2015 6:14:59 AM PST by cotton1706
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush may find out that Wall Street money will not buy him the love of GOP primary voters like it does mainstream media elites who are rushing to cast him as the 2016 frontrunner.
As soon as Mitt Romney announced that he would not make a third White House run, the mainstream press immediately anointed Bush as the clear Republican 2016 frontrunner. They made their pronouncements even though Bush had not yet proven with his speeches that he can be a successful candidate in the digital age and neither had the best ground game nor the support of grassroots voters who dominate the early nominating contests.
The Washington Post, for instance, declared that Romney’s “decision to forgo a third try at the White House has settled the question of whether the 2016 GOP presidential field has a front-runner — bestowing a coveted status on former Florida governor Jeb Bush that also raises new challenges and perils” and noted that “Republicans have a tradition of picking an anointed one early.”
Bush does not have the support among conservative voters (they distrust him on immigration and Common Core and view him as another moderate Bush that sides with the establishment over Reagan conservatives) that Hillary Clinton has among Democrats, but the mainstream press often suggest that Bush is just as inevitable because of his vast network of donors. Wall Street loves Bush (perhaps because he supports comprehensive amnesty legislation and Common Core)–he recently raised $4 million at an event that cost attendees $100,000–and establishment operatives with ties to his father and brother support the family brand as well. But that institutional support has not translated into an overwhelming lead in the polls that would warrant “frontrunner status.”
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Under no circumstances will I support Jeb Bush.
Just like they selected Dole, McCain and Romney.
he (Bush) seems to channel Mitch Daniels and Jon Huntsman in his public remarks.
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Political kiss of death.
Don’t you know money wins elections? Voters don’t matter any more.
Polster Frank Luntz was on FoxNews earlier today. He said this is the earliest any presidential campaign has ever started. [So, Frank, who has announced yet?]
He went on to say ‘they’ are polling hourly.
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[This 2016 campaign actually began as soon as Romney conceded to Obama in 2012.]
Major media are salivating for a Bush-Clinton match. They keep pushing for it.
Of course, in 2008, they had Guiliani as the R frontrunner. He never even made it to the debates/primaries.
They had Hillary’s coronation already planned. She didn’t make it through the Dem primary.
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There is a good probability that, by the end of February 2016, the whole field might have changed — when actual primary voting starts.
Jeb Bush: Loo-hoo-zuh-her!
Which is exactly what the Lame Stream Media wants SO BAD!
GHWB was also on the ballot in 1980 and 1984.
The MSM just can’t seem to accept that we are just not that into Jebbie. :-)
Yes, of course ;-)
But only if the have a clown outfit on!
This looks more and more like a Democrat manipulation of the vote as was exposed in Nixon's crimes against an honest vote back in 1974. Obama takes this crime to a new level of sophistication by bribing and blackmailing the reporting media.
Taking a line from Bohemian Rhapsody: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
Lets hope this is true. He is a very dangerous man.
Did Edward Everett or John Bell have degrees?
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