Posted on 01/24/2015 9:08:50 AM PST by John Semmens
Hopes that a political wedding between former governors Jeb Bush (R-Fla) and Mitt Romney (R-Mass)--both potential Republican contenders for the presidencywould sweep aside other rivals fell through this week. While both the Bush and Romney camps were loath to release many details, insiders say the chief sticking point was who would be on top.
Romney spokesman Richard Butz laid the blame on what he termed "Bush dynastic aspirations. It was our feeling that Mitt ought to be the one at the top of the ticket. Our polling shows that a substantial number of voters wish they had voted for Mitt in 2012. Giving them a second chanceto kind of right the wrong they'd donewould be the stronger ticket, in our opinion."
"The Bush people, though, felt that people really miss the fact that the United States has no royal family, so to speak, and that the previous electoral success of Jeb's father and brother had erected the beginnings of a foundation for a quasi royal family," Butz said.
The two are now expected to go their separate ways. Romney seems likely to focus his bid for the GOP presidential nomination on a theme of completing former President Johnson's unfinished war on poverty and combating global warming. Bush, in contrast, looks to remind GOP voters of the good times that prevailed when his father and brother led the fight for a kinder, gentler future through military interventions in the Mid East.
In related news, expected Democratic presidential contender former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has vowed to crush all opponents under a massive wad of campaign cash. Clinton donor Don Peebles boasted that "we will raise enough money to overwhelm anyone who would think of trying to deny Hillary the nomination and the presidency. Early projections point to a war chest in excess of $1.5 billion. The smart money, the big money is all behind Hillary. The 'grassroots' will be mowed down and mulched. It's that simple."
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https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/170025-2015-01-23-semi-news-semi-satire-january-25-2015-edition.htm
Dick Butts.
LOL
How mid-Victorian.
Bill and Hillary don't have such "sticking points."
I hope they BOTH run in the primary, so they can split the HARD CORE RINO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Bushes are on the bounceback from romancing those sluts, the Clintons.
Hillary arrives to receive the coveted Gold-plated Knitting Needles
statuette: cited as the Democrat candidate "Most Likely to Unravel."
Oh! they`re arguing over fielding positions, pitcher-versus-catcher, eh?
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