Jeb Bush Can Be Beaten

dailycaller.com ^ | 2/18/15 | W. James Antle

[cotton1706]

On the same Chicago trip where he gave his “I am my own man” foreign policy speech, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was set to raise “north of $4 million.”

That’s in one day.

Jeb Bush’s team denied reports they planned to raise $100 million in the first quarter to scare other potential candidates out of the 2016 Republican primaries. But there is no denying that they are raising money and snapping up staff at a fevered clip. They seem to have only gathered steam since muscling Mitt Romney out of the presidential race.

Now Jeb is setting himself up nicely to be the Republican Party’s inevitable nominee, according to the conventional wisdom.

Don’t believe it. Jeb Bush certainly can win, but he’s arguably the weakest Republican frontrunner since Nelson Rockfeller in 1964 — the year Barry Goldwater won the nomination.

The latest CNN poll of national Republican voters doesn’t even have Bush in first place. Mike Huckabee leads with 17 percent of the vote, Bush is in second at 12 percent, Scott Walker and Rand Paul each get 11 percent and Ben Carson takes 9 percent.

Jeb Bush is essentially a rounding error away from Ben Carson.

Obviously, the state-level polling in the early caucuses and primaries is more important the national polling. It just doesn’t look much different. Bush has a three-point lead in the NBC/Marist poll of New Hampshire and is a point behind Huckabee in their Iowa survey.

[b4its2late]

Jeb Bush Can Needs To Be Beaten

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The reason Jethro and the rest of the GOP oligarchy are so panicked is because of Ted.

They started the GOP presidential nomination season a full year early because of him.

[Kartographer]

Jeb Bush Can Must Be Beaten

There fixed it!

[Tupelo]

“Jeb Bush Can Be Beaten” by damn near any Democrat, because he will not get more than 50-55% of the normal Republican votes. Even in the general election.

[Liz]

Jeb Bush awards Hillary Defender of Liberty Medal on eve of Benghazi anniversary

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) will honor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with this year’s Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center.

The award will be presented to Clinton on September 10th, the eve of the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States mission in Benghazi that killed four Americans.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Bush, a potential GOP contender in the 2016 presidential race, is chairman of the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center located in Philadelphia.

“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Defender of Liberty Medal.”

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Bush’s decision to honor Clinton, who is considered by some to be a likely Democrat candidate for president in 2016, was condemned by the Independence Hall Tea Party Association of Philadelphia. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the organization released its own statement Monday, referring to the event as “extremely distressing,” and offering, instead, an opportunity for another Liberty Medal recipient.

According to the statement: As all of you undoubtedly know, much of the blame for the Obama Administration’s failure to contain the Benghazi attack and the scandalous handling of its aftermath, can be traced directly to Ms. Clinton.

Indeed, a Congressional investigation regarding Ms. Clinton’s role in the cover-up of the Administration’s failure is still ongoing.

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A newly formed organization, the Independence Hall Foundation, will hold a “What Difference Does It Make” press conference on Independence Mall, September 10, 4 PM, to denounce the selection of Ms. Clinton as the 2013 Liberty Medal recipient and to offer an alternative award (details below). During the conference, the Foundation will name its choice of recipient(s) for the 2013 Defender of Liberty Medal. Dom Giordano will headline the presser and we certainly hope you will consider joining us. (SOURCE: BREITBART.COM 9/9/13)

[Menthops]

Jeb Bush is the GOPe’s anti-TEA, anti-TED candidate. His main purpose is to keep the TEA party movement from winning control of the GOP.

Walker is the GOPe’s back up anti-TEA, anti-Ted candidate in the event Jeb Bush crashes.

[BlackAdderess]

I don’t think it’s necessarily Cruz as it is the prospect of the blue-collar populists on the left uniting with the Tea Party that has the globalists who have taken over both parties wetting themselves. Such a coalition is a majority.

[wolfman23601]

Who are all these people supporting Huck? I live in Pat Robertson’s back yard and have yet to hear anyone mention his name.

[Iron Munro]

“I am my own man”

I'll believe him when he demands that all illegal aliens be immedialtely deported.

[BlackAdderess]

Good question, he supports amnesty doesn’t he?

[bassmaner]

Yeah, he'll be beaten alright.

By the Hildabeast.

[WMarshal]

I will never vote for another Bushie. He is a mealy-mouthed agent of the “new world order” heralded in by his puke father. He is also the bitch of the Chamber of Commerce and a rabid fan of flooding the US with illegal aliens and crushing the middle class.

[Gaffer]

From my perspective there isn’t a conservative who values the sovereignty of this country who would vote for him. GOPe and their big bucks backers think we’ll all just step back in line and hold our noses and vote for the lesser of two evils.

All I can say to them is nominate him and try me.

[roamer_1]

YAY! By hand, or can we use clubs?

[DiogenesLamp]

Run! Don't walk! Run away as quickly as you can from anyone suggesting Jeb Bush.

A Dumber idea cannot even be conceived.

[SharpRightTurn]

If Jebbie’s push to force Willard out, lock up the big donor class early, and try to create an atmosphere of inevitability sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it is familiar: it’s what Jorge did in 2000.

Even though from PMSNBC, which we all assume as a default conclusion (rightly so) to be wrong, this portion of an article by Steve Kornacki is correct:

“The model for Jeb Bush’s campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is obvious: his brother.

“Sixteen years ago, George W. Bush joined an unusually cluttered and formless Republican field in a race considered more wide open than any the party had ever seen. Within months, though, Bush had imposed order on the process by raking in previously unimaginable sums of cash and racking up an all-star roster of endorsements. By the end of 1999, before a single primary or caucus vote had been cast, Bush had intimidated six separate rivals out of the race, with one poll putting him 48 points ahead of his nearest remaining rival.

“This rapid trajectory — from untested legacy candidate to overpowering front-runner — is exactly what Jeb Bush and his team are aiming for now with their “shock-and-awe” strategy, a belief that a massive cash haul will produce a self-fulfilling narrative of inevitability.

“The $100,000-per-head Park Avenue fundraiser that Bush’s PAC held last week illustrates this strategy in action, as is a Washington Post report that the former Florida governor is “far-eclipsing” his would-be opponents in the early chase for dollars. And with his declaration that he’s “willing to lose the primary to win the general election,” Jeb is making the same bet his brother did in his 2000 bid: That after eight years of being locked out, Republicans are willing to excuse an ideological apostasy or two in order to win back the White House.

“The 43rd president, in other words, is the biggest single reason why his younger brother may fall flat on his face.”

“But there are already signs that what worked so brilliantly for W may be futile for Jeb. The former Florida governor faces fiercer competition on his right and far stiffer resistance from the base; the mood of the party is far less pragmatic today; and even an obscenely fat bank account may not be enough to save him.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-and-the-ghost-w

The billionaire/millionaire donor class and Chamber of Open Borders are obviously in the tank for Jebbie. But can Jebbie, with his big war chest, fool enough low information Republican primary voters to bring it off?

Ted Cruz 2016!

[Travis McGee]

Ivy League Certified!

[circlecity]

If Bush is the nominee he most certainly WILL be beaten. The conservative base will stay home on election day in number much greater than they did with McCain or Romney.

[jjotto]

Bush II in 2000 was indeed the frontrunner before the primaries kicked off on the strength of a huge war chest.

However, Bush II won the the Iowa caucus straw vote, was second in New Hampshire and then won the South Carolina. As the primary season developed, McCain was the only alternative.

2016 will not be remotely similar except for a Bush with early money.