Frankly, I don’t think Jeb will make it through the debates. He’s EXTREMELY boring, wonky. Even Jennifer Rubin says he doesn’t speak well. I don’t think the Establishment shoring-up machine will be able to work so well this time.
The debates may not prove decisive in the 2016 GOP primaries. With soooooooooooooooooooo many candidates up there on the stage, there were will be precious little time to have spirited in depth debates. Jeb will simply have to hold his own. That’s how GOPEs and RINOs usually win. They consolidate their vote behind a single candidate as conservatives are off and running in about a dozen different directions. History seems to bear this out. In my lifetime movement conservatives have won the GOP presidential nomination only twice, in 1964 and 1980. In both years the conservative grassroots were solidly united behind a single candidate.