Posted on 12/02/2014 12:05:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For some time, rumors have been circulating as to whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for the president in 2016. As Bush further considers the possibility of running, he’s seems to have realized one thing: the current GOP is completely insane.
Yesterday, Bush announced a game plan of sorts should he follow through and run for president in 2016, according to The Huffington Post. Bush said a successful candidate must be willing to “lose the primary to win the general.” As strange as the rationale behind that analogy may seem, Bush is saying that a candidate must stick to his guns, which is respectable.
However, for the GOP, sticking to its guns means government shutdowns, holding hostage tax plans that benefit the poor, gutting healthcare reform, and inciting ignorance on Net Neutrality (we’re looking at you, Ted Cruz). Traditionally, Bush is a moderate Republican. But today’s GOP are just as extreme, loud, and obnoxious as ever.
“I don’t know if I’d be a good candidate or a bad one,” said Bush. “But I kinda know how a Republican can win, whether it’s me or somebody else. [The candidate] has to be much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to be practical,” when compared to past Republicans.
As pretty of a thought that is, whichever Republicans rise to the top of that cesspool of a party will do the exact opposite. Since fear, anger, and frustration with Obama won the midterms for the GOP, it’s likely that the party will key in on those same emotions during the 2016 presidential elections.
During Bush’s years as governor, there wasn’t a Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann, Scott Brown, Rick Scott, or Rick Perry. Republicans used to just be cranky, old white guys. Now, the Republicans are loud and boisterous psychopaths. They feed off their constituents’ fear that Obama will take their guns and pack them into concentration camps.
Jeb Bush can do all the “soul searching” he wants, but no amount of political moderation is going to win him any massive amount of GOP votes. If today’s Republicans are dinosaurs, then Republicans like Jeb Bush are primordial ooze.
Moonbats don’t hoot like owls. And de Leon puts out nothing but guano FWICS.
Oh so now they LOVE the Bushes.
Those at the top of the RINO backstabbing heap aren’t just anti-US citizen, they’re delusional. If they let us down now after we gave them two strong majorities in DC, we’ll either stay home or vote for the dem out of pure anger.
Barf warning?
the Republicans are loud and boisterous psychopaths. They feed off their constituents’ fear that Obama will take their guns and pack them into concentration camps.
I have no fear of that, not while I still have ammunition
left.
Yes, wwe should take advice on who to elect from liberals.
Yeah, the liberals want RINO candidates so they can vote for them. Right?
Without the Tea Party, the GOP has no chance of winning. The GOPe better wise up, or the third “moderate” in a row wil lose.
Notice that every Democrat president since Truman has gotten more liberal. Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and the Marxist Obama prove the point.
Really? The headline didn’t do that for you?
(we’re looking at you, Ted Cruz)
FEMA headquarters for this region is so close to my house that I doubt they’d warm up the engine coming to get me. They could send a guy over on a bicycle. It’s that close. Yet I sleep like a baby.
So the idiot little lib thinks we’re psychopaths. Hmm. It was people on his side of the aisle burning and looting Ferguson last week. It’s his side of the aisle that has rabid support for the butchering of millions of American babies every year. It’s his side of the aisle that will not support Israel when it is surrounded by people whose faith approves of cutting human heads off and stoning people to death. And he thinks we’re psychopaths...
Truman was more left-wing than FDR, and FDR was more left-wing than Wilson.
It’s been all downhill toward the collectivist swamp since Cleveland.
STAY OUT THE BUSHES.
They don’t call it Liberal Projection™ for nothing!
I remember when Reagan passed, all the Leftie commentators lamented how the Republican party had moved so far to the Right since Reagan was in office, yadda yadda yadda.
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