Posted on 08/30/2015 7:38:04 AM PDT by rocksblues
MINNEAPOLIS — The Republican that Democrats fear most isn’t Donald Trump. It’s Jeb Bush, with John Kasich coming on fast.
Ask members of the Democratic National Committee whom they least want to face in the 2016 presidential election, and they often joke how they hope Trump stays hot.
“We are all Trump supporters,” Glen Maxey, a DNC member from Texas, said with a laugh. The DNC ended its three-day summer meeting Saturday, and members see Trump’s high negatives and penchant for controversy as lethal in a general election.
The insiders most respect those who have succeeded politically, and Trump has never won public office. That’s why Democrats often name as their most difficult foes Bush, a former governor of Florida and part of a family that’s won three presidential elections, and Kasich, second-term governor of a key swing state, Ohio.
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“Attorney General: Trey Gowdy”
Rudy Giuliani. Trey Gowdy hasn’t done sh*t with a great hand, and I keep getting emails from him about what he’s about to do (but he needs money).
AG isn’t a job for a bigmouth. It’s a job for a hardass. Rudy is the man.
The person the Democrats should fear most is Bernie Sanders.
In 2000 and 2004, Bernie’s counterpart as the leader of the Far Left — Ralph Nader — took merely a few percentage points away from presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry, which was enough to defeat them and send Republican George Bush to the White House for an eight-year term.
Today, Bernie Sanders is polling at 25% of all Democrats, leading Hillary in New Hampshire, and a mere 7% points behind her in Iowa.
If the attendees at the recent DNC mini-convention in Florida were realistic, they would have used the occasion to commit mass hari-keri, knowing their chances in 2016 were virtually non-existent.
However, since the Democrats have never been realistic, they’ll wait until their convention next year, when Hillary, Joe Biden, and Bernie will have been at each other’s throats for a year, to conduct a three-way Armageddon among the three candidates’ delegates, which will hopefully finally destroy the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and mass welfare-state poverty and homelessness once and for all.
This group is not the sharpest knife in the drawer...just saying
Freegards
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No, it's John Ellis Bush (JEB)
Jeb Bush would be John Ellis Bush Bush.
Yes, I do support Ted Cruz, and I don’t care what people think about it. I’ll support Trump for the presidency if he gets the nod, but while it’s fun to see him trash the establishment and go on Twitter to troll people (btw some people such as Bush and Kelly deserve it) I’m not going to support a man who is a political chameleon and an opportunist that cashes in on anger the right has on liberals and the establishment.
Heh. Like watching a tidal wave prepare and being worried about the little mouse on the floor.
As it turned out McCain was the most beatable Republican Obama could have faced.
She was practiced at the art of deception.
This is how dumb they truly think we are, LOL
“She was practiced at the art of deception.”
...exactly.
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands.
Of course Democrats fear running against Jeb Bush more than any other Republican candidate - Jeb and Democrats compete for the same basic liberal constituency. The Democrats and establishment Republicans are so much alike they just can’t stop fighting.
John McLaughlin: Wrong! Eleanor-gee-I-think-you’re-swelleanor!
Trump is also getting democrat support. People who are sick and tired of being lied to. He’s a populist. If the GOP does not blackmail him (and that’s the only way he’ll quit), he’ll be the next president of the United States.
Meanwhile, I wonder how big of a check Jeb had to write to Hillary's campaign to get them to pick him as the ‘most dangerous man in the election’?
Pretty much. I Still remember back in 1979, when the Carter people said the one they really wanted to meet was Reagan. Well they got their wish - a 49 state slaughter. Chortle!
Cause if they have to debate Jeb, he will put the audience to sleep, so that Hillary won’t have her sterling points heard over the din of snoring.
Actuallu Mondale was defeated 49-1 Carter actually won 6 states: RI, WV, GA, MD, MN, HI
Exactly. In McCain the Obama campaign got the candidate they wanted to run against. They couldn't control the veep pick, and while Palin on the ticket was never enough for the win she did help keep it from being even worse than it was.
In 10 min, I could come up with a 30 second ad which would end Jeb’s political future forever.
If I could figure it out, the Clinton Machine already has.
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