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Bush/Palin 2016 called 'the GOP's only chance'
American Thinker via Blog on Washington Times ^ | June 28, 2013 | By Michael Sheppard

Posted on 06/28/2013 6:20:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Earlier this year, Jeb Bush told ABC that both his father George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. recommended he run for president in 2016. Mama Barbara Bush is not keen on the idea, declaring in April that “the nation’s probably had enough Bushes.”

But in the constantly shifting equations of potential Republican hopefuls for future president and vice president, the former Florida governor’s name has been tied with another former governor: Sarah Palin.

The pair have now been framed as a “the GOP’s only chance” in the race by American Thinker contributor Michael Sheppard.

“Would Jeb Bush have as good a chance, or better, than any other prospective GOP candidate? Most certainly he might. As a popular governor of Florida, married to a Hispanic, and who garnered a good proportion of the Hispanic vote, Bush would be in a strong position to carry the state,” he says, reasoning that Mr. Bush, as a southern governor, could also hold sway in Virginia and appeal to Iowa evangelicals and centrist voters in New Hampshire.

Should Hillary Clinton emerge as the Democratic candidate, it could also improve Mr. Bush’s “electability”. Then there is the Palin factor, Mr. Sheppard says. She brings ardent fans with her, of course.

“A Jeb Bush/president - Sarah Palin/vice-president ticket covers all the Electoral College, Evangelical, pro-life, centrist-conservative, experienced governorships, male/female bases,” he notes.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; amnesty; anotherbush; bush; gop; gope; hillary; immigration; jebbush; lessonnotlearned; nomenklatura; palin; stayoutdabushes; stupidparty; suicidalparty; suicide; whatajoke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin, yes, but I’ll never vote for another new world order elitist again. It doesn’t matter who they are running against, they are still our greatest human enemy.


101 posted on 06/28/2013 7:41:10 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: dforest

She seems to be doing what she likes. Commenting and firing up folks.

Which is more than all the RINOs combined.


102 posted on 06/28/2013 7:42:50 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

I was ALL for Sarah Palin and West as her VP.....until I learned West voted for and supported the nazi Germany style NDAA indefinite detention of American citizens crap. No true conservative could/would support that. I’m for a Sarah/Cruz ticky now in the next go round.


103 posted on 06/28/2013 7:44:18 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where’s the Barf Alert?

I mean seriously some of us folks just finished to eat!


104 posted on 06/28/2013 7:44:25 PM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: madison10

or Palin-Cruz.

Either would make an outstanding President.


105 posted on 06/28/2013 7:46:01 PM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah yes ... the media is already attempting to sway the election.


106 posted on 06/28/2013 7:53:43 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Mastador1

I’m ready to let the Lid/Dems have their success stories and we secede and form a new Country, with most of the Country where the payees regroup and prosper and the gimme slummers waste away in their progressive shit holes. The possibilities are endless.


107 posted on 06/28/2013 7:54:29 PM PDT by mcshot (God bless the USA! THE GUN DEBATE WAS SETTLED IN 1791!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here we go again...a McPain redux.


108 posted on 06/28/2013 7:57:17 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: mcshot

And that’s why it will never be allowed to happen, the producers must continue to be chained to the users.


109 posted on 06/28/2013 7:59:07 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: BenLurkin
Forget the GOP — how about saving America?

I agree. The question is, how do Constitution-respecting patriots get low-information voters up to speed on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers?

110 posted on 06/28/2013 8:01:55 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: dforest

Palin by herself may not be enough, but there sure are a few of us who know what’s needed, what kind of machine, and what kind of funds.

Now, left/right is not really the relevant thing. Union/non-union isn’t either. Conservative versus liberal is the point, and grassroots versus elite is the point. Nack when I was another kind of insurgent here in Norway (we were a small oneplace union fighting the national), we scared the nejeezus out of the national TUC. To the point where I was offered, in handwriting, a ten-million budget for the first quarter to take over their computer section. I acttually have the campaign (designed by yours truly) that drove them into panic. I may no longer have the handwritten offer, written by Kåre Syltebø and endorsed by Yngve Haagensen, but I may have. I tend to never throw anything away :).

Before I stepped into antiterror, I actually was something of a firebrand, albeit a Conservative one.

Anyway, I was that union’s secretary. Kind of a scary critter...


111 posted on 06/28/2013 8:02:21 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: Hostage

Palin. Then build the ticket around her.

Cruz.
West.

Lots of good people.

If you build it, they’ll come.


112 posted on 06/28/2013 8:06:43 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can't drink that much without passing out or dying of alcohol poisoning.

LOL>

Perfectly expressed......

113 posted on 06/28/2013 8:09:55 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will NEVER vote for another Bush. Not even to get Palin. Not happening.


114 posted on 06/28/2013 8:21:32 PM PDT by Student0165
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mama Bush hates Palin.


115 posted on 06/28/2013 8:22:01 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No more Bushes. And I hate to sound like Jesse Jackson but stay out of da Bushes

Palin yes Bush NEVER


116 posted on 06/28/2013 8:22:45 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin for President.

Allan West for Vice President.

Oliver North for Secretary of Defense.

Marco Rubio for Ambassador to the Bermuda Triangle.


117 posted on 06/28/2013 8:25:08 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh God Please.. no Palin and no Bush. Palin is too polarizing just because of what she has been through. I mean I loved her run as VP to Rino McCain, but no to Palin. People will not vote for her. Bush.. Just no..

We need Ted Cruz or Allen West.


118 posted on 06/28/2013 8:25:54 PM PDT by laffnatu
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Heck, why stop there...

Marco Rubio for Ambassador to Neptune! ;-)


119 posted on 06/28/2013 8:29:09 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: laffnatu

And please, no TOO POLARIZING sniveling about Palin.

If you want a McCain, just say so.


120 posted on 06/28/2013 8:31:37 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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