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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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No, he has a pedigree. It's called Progressive Ass Hat Delux.
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