Posted on 04/15/2015 12:17:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Forget about the fact that his brother and father have already been president. Even if Jeb Bush was a new face, I just don't get the appeal of the guy.
I think Cruz is going to end up being far more successful than the vast majority (on either side) give him credit for. Just like Reagan back in 1980. I expect the media to try to minimize his air time because he comes off so well - He is incredibly smart, accomplished and articulate. He also has an amazing ability to turn the issues/questions back around against the liberal journalists conducting their attack interviews.
Huge money.
He’ll buy friends.
Look at Romney, who loved that guy (outside of a small cadre of Mormons)?
He had the dough, and got 11m of 19m primary votes.
If they were honest, they would admit it.
/johnny
The problem is this: When you match Jeb up with a single conservative candidate like Scott Walker, the conservative usually does pretty well as Jeb is not well liked among the Party base. However, if you have a dozen or so conservatives running in the primaries, Jeb could win the nomination like most RINOs/GOPEs do, by divide and conquer.
Which is why I talked this morning with Team Cruz about raising up to $2 million dollars. I’m no hedge fund billionaire, pretty much the opposite of that, as a matter of fact, but I’ll do it if it is humanly possible. It’s 1980 all over again, but with a much worse team than Carter/Mondale.
Who the hell is Jeb Bush? Is he a stalking horse?
Never heard of the guy.
Hope is not that governor from Florida...
That guy is an ass....
/S (like I need it)
While this is encouraging, Jeb Bush hasn’t formally announced his candidacy. Therefore, his popularity is hard to measure accurately at this stage of the game.
If Cruz were to win soviet Red Hampshire; it would be an early sign that the elite is losing its grip...
I know I will. The liberal GOP-E isn't going to vote conservative anyway.
/johnny
History shows that Movement Conservatives only win the GOP nomination when they are solidly united behind a single candidate. This has happened only twice in my life time, in 1964 and 1980. I don’t see how or why 2016 will be any different. I do think Jeb will win the GOP nomination if the RINOs and GOPEs are solidly behind him and conservatives are off and running in a dozen or so different directions which is usually the case.
Which is why I encourage everyone here and everyone they know to get behind Ted Cruz now, not later.
well, for one thing, he is a grown up. He has told us so.
Around here doesn’t matter IMHO.
You need to be telling all of the conservative candidates planning on running for president in the GOP primaries who will siphon off votes from your preferred candidate.
I live in CA. My vote won’t count. It never does. Our primary is dead last-—in June. GOP nomination will probably be decided well before then. And of course in the general election, I am one of the few sane voters left in the People’s Republic.
If Jeb can’t manage better than a week third place finish in New Hampshire, he’s done. New England is actually home field for the Bush clan.
I not sure Cruz has even been NH yet, I thought I read somewhere Walker was there, if that’s true Cruz in second is not bad, does anyone no for sure?
Yes, he’s been there.
Santorum or Perry? LOL
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