Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open

wsj.com ^ | 2/26/15 | Peggy Noonan

[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.

[Old Sarge]

I expect Bush to spend a lot of money - and flop miserably

As do I - because those are his instructions as part of the Uniparty.

It's his turn, after all...

[goodnesswins]

Thanks... I will listen during a long drive today

[Old Sarge]

Now THAT’S a giggle!

[Col Freeper]

Yea, my post is for any FR reader who isn't familiar with Ms. Peggy getting the "vapors" at the mere mention of Obama.

Have a great weekend, and may GOD bless you and your family.

[Col Freeper]

Thank you sir.

We should expose the Presstitutes at every opportunity!

[Col Freeper]

LOL.

Yes indeed!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I mean, in the Primary.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I don’t know which is worse: Peggy trying to stay relevant, or her sad misinformation about the Dauphin Bush not being inevitable?

The blowback on Common Core would be severe enough by itself; and there will be blowback from the idea of a third Bush presidency.

Now that I’ve seen the whole article in dead-tree format, Noonan make an even stronger case - that Jeb, like Obama, is too good for America. And that ain’t gonna play in Peoria. Not in a Republican primary. Not following Obama.

Jeb will have all the money that will do any good, to spend in the Republican campaign. It won’t be enough.