It's over: Jeb Bush will be the GOP nominee in 2016

The Week ^ | February 5 2014 | Damon Linker

[riri]

If true, I guess that means the communists win again.

Aint no way in hell, I am voting for Jeb Bush. Or any Bush for that matter.

[Flick Lives]

I don’t think Palin work work. The media have done too good a job of demonizing her. She also motivates the hard left to get out and vote against her. Notice: I am not saying I would not support her just that I think that ticket would have to spend too much time defending themselves against the overt lies about her past.

The Dem/MSM Regime has designed an ironclad formula. If the Republicans put up a real conservative candidate, the MSM destroys them. This encourages the GOPe to put up "likable" (i.e. liberal) candidates.The MSM still destroys them, and the Regime sees an added benefit of suppressing the conservative vote.

Trying to "please" the Regime is playing the role of the abused in an abusive relationship. Intead, one should set the bed on fire!

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Not this time! The Republican establishment has been picking duds for their candidate for some time. They are in for a surprise this time. The people are going to pick this next election’s candidate.

[little jeremiah]

Damon Linker sure is a defeatist.

[little jeremiah]

We could stop it by unifying behind one and ONLY ONE conservative candidate.

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Yes.

[Joe Boucher]

2014 has got to be the time to turn the socialist tide here or good bye

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"Arguably"? I guess. Everything is arguable. But Dole and McCain didn't stand a chance.

You could have nominated hard right candidates in 1996 and 2008 and they'd have lost and somebody somewhere would be making the same remarks about them not wanting to win and not wanting a Republican president and about just being nominated being the honor they sought (except those true conservative candidates weren't nominated and probably didn't exist).

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This most likely isn't going to appear in the magazine.

TheWeek.com offers space online to bloggers like Linker but they don't put his stuff in the print version.

It looks like the bloggers are trying to attract attention to themselves by writing about potential candidates -- Clinton, Huckabee, Bush III, Romney, Biden, Warren.

None of it is very serious.

Jeb won't be the nominee because too many voters would bolt or stay home if he were nominated. The problem is how to make that clear enough early enough.