[jimbo123]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has hit his lowest percentage during two years of surveys.

[ASA Vet]

Trump is the only candidate since Reagan that I have actually WANTED to vote for.

[EagleUSA]

Yes, the Ailes chorus line at FOX is going to really have a hard time with this....and I, for one, am getting real tired of their anti-Trump efforts. Even though it should be obvious to Ailes that the American public do not want another ESTABLISHMENT RINO....even though Ailes, et al, have an obvious political/financial interest the establishment status quo - the American public be damned.

[gwgn02]

Watch that Cruz surge go!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Yeb! still thinks he’s a shoe-in.
Kind of worries me that he knows something we don’t.

[BigEdLB]

Common core math. Jeb will win. That is why he loves it so much.

[Rockitz]

Couldn’t be happier about the Jeb news. Now we need to get GOPe alternate Rubio down to the same level.

[Bon mots]

[tumblindice]

We dogs still won’t eat the GOPe kibbles. Bad dogs!

[SamAdams76]

In order to fully understand the anger and angst in the establishment GOPe, here is a rough analogy of the current situation to a corporate setting:

SCENARIO

Let's say you are a rising executive for a Fortune 500 corporation. For many years, you have been carefully cultivating your contacts with other rising stars in this corporation, so you are now on a first name basis with all the top executives. The current CEO is retiring but you are not worried because you are sure that nothing will change with regard to your own position. After all, all the viable internal candidates that the board may select as new CEO are your cronies. Your good buddies. So no matter who they select, you are in like flynn.

Hell, the board might even select YOU as the next CEO. You get all giddy with anticipation.

However, your entire world is shattered when you learn that the board of directors is not only considering an external candidate as the next CEO but are actively courting one in particular. One who has an industry-wide reputation of "cleaning house" and putting his own people into the top spots. Suddenly, you are in panic mode and in desperation, you enlist your other cronies in a campaign to damage this candidate's reputation with the board and give them second thoughts.

That is the situation Karl Rove and the GOPe are in now. The board (voters) are considering an external candidate which would surely mean an end to the carefully constructed world that they have put in place for themselves - and for their own benefit.