Posted on 02/27/2015 5:13:44 AM PST by cotton1706
Thoughts on the 2016 presidential primaries:
No one expects anything from the Democrats. They will back, accept or acquiesce in a coronation. This will not be called passive but disciplined. But when you think about it—one of our two major parties, in a time of considerable national peril, will settle its presidential nomination without vigorous debate—it is weird and disturbing.
Republicans are the action, and will draw all the lightning. A read on where the base—huge, broad and varied, including but not limited to attendees of this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference—is:
Republicans this year are not looking for Reagan. They’re looking for Churchill. They’re looking for the guy who knows the war is already here, not the guy who knows the war can be averted if we defeat the guys who would wage it. What is “the war”? Everything from scarily sluggish economic growth to long-term liabilities and deficits; from the melting away of the post-World-War-II order to the Mideast to domestic terrorism. Every four years there is frustration and argument; this year there is urgency.
What the Republican Party needs in a presidential candidate is not a centrist who can make the sale to conservatives in the primaries; it is a conservative who can win over centrists in the general election. That means the Republican nominee should be a man or woman who can redefine conservative thinking for current circumstances and produce policies that centrists and independents will find worthy of consideration.
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I don’t know which is worse: Peggy trying to stay relevant, or her sad misinformation about the Dauphin Bush not being inevitable?
I don’t know Peggy, I’d settle for a Reagan.
Go back to Florida Jeb.
She is actually saying the exact opposite of that: that a Bush nomination is NOT inevitable, and that the field is wide open.
Oh, I know Peggy is a total dud. But the Establishment read the Journal. It’s good to see they’re recognizing that their latest golden boy isn’t a shoo-in.
NO MORE BUSHES!
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 American.
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)
Ah, but that’s not what the rest of the media is telling us: that the rise of the Dauphin (because it’s HIS turn, doncha know) is to be rejoicified.
All that said, the wetback progress is such that The election in 2016 is probaboly already decided.
This is jaw dropping. The second hour of the show is scary. Levin may get it put up as a transcript of what the woman caller said. She was apparently a surprise to him and he kept her on for a long time. This immigration ptoblem is far advanced beyond what any of us have thought. Obama is apparently using money as if Congressional appropriations simply go into a common pot from which he can draw to do whatever he wants. He is defying the court and is creating a real and immediate INVASION reminiscent of Camp of the Saints. Think 14 million new Democrat CITIZENS before the nest election witth many millions more being brought in.
That’s the 26 February podcast.
ya, and I have a billion dollars in the bank..
Saying so does not make it so.
The GOPe has a strong track record of getting “their guy” at the moment, that “guy” is yet another bush.
We will see won’t we? Jeb Bush(who has more name recognition than anyone else in the GOP primaries), is not looking too good in the polls right now. And, unlike anyone else, he can’t blame lack of name recognition either.
On C-Span last nite there was a CPAC discussion about ObamaEd, a.k.a. “Common Core.” The speakers asserted that - Republican or Democrat - parents are learning about the scam, the gutting of parental, local and state control, which is the essence of ObamaEd. That awareness at the grass roots level means that all politicians are hearing it, at all levels. Therefore the danger Rotten Core represents politically is not that the Republicans will run against it and fail, it is that the only one Republican who supports it will benefit from the fratricide of all the others, who do not. And then, in the General, that Republican will face a Democrat who doesn’t have any fingerprints on CC and who will run to “the right,” in terms of this issue, of that Republican. And the Democrat will win.You are saying that Bush will achieve that dubious distinction, being the winner of the primary because all the others - and a majority of Republican voters - hate his CC position too much. But I say that Jeb is already overextended and doomed because of that issue.
He is doomed because he - like his father before him - has made it his mission to be “the education president.” And “No Child Left Behind” is a bitter legacy of his older brother’s administration as well. So Bush will be promoting federal ed at the very moment that not only the Republican Party but the entire country will be receptive to the slogan "Abolish the DoE.” Even if Jeb himself hadn’t voluntarily put himself in that spot, 41 and 43 have put that imprint on the Bush name, and that makes it a toxic brand.
Another aspect of the problem is his Mexicaphilia. And because he is married to a Mexican, that again is part of his identity and nothing he could finesse even if he wanted to.
I expect Bush to spend a lot of money - and flop miserably.
The GOP elite is offering us an excellent candidate and are trying to market him. The only problem is, the Republican voters don't want him.
The GOP elite is offering us an excellent candidate and are trying to market him. The only problem is, the Republican voters don't want him.
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