Posted on 01/03/2015 4:56:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Exclusive: Tom Tancredo warns of scenario in which conservatives split their votes.
Jeb Bush leads all other Republicans in early polls for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Without question, Bush is the anointed front-runner, and without question, the Republican establishment is ecstatic.
The Republican Party should be happy about the prospect of Jeb Bush as its 2016 presidential candidate only if it has a death wish. Bush 41and Bush 43 dug a hole the party could not climb out of, so Bush 45 aims to fill it with the broken promises of the Republican platform: The Party of Lincoln, RIP.
Yes, the Bush team has an excellent first-quarter game plan, but their playbook has too many missing pages when it comes to restoring constitutional government in the United States. That starts with demonstrating leadership on issues of fundamental importance, a challenge Bush is fervently avoiding.
The problem for Bush is both obvious and insurmountable: His support among rank and file Republicans is a mile wide and a half inch deep. Bushs high standing in the polls is based solely on name ID, not his popularity as a leader on key issues. In fact, he is on the wrong side of several critical issues, and the more he is forced to talk about issues of real concern to real people, the more his star will lose its luster....
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“He has the same advantages and the same problems as HRC on the other team.”
No, for a few reasons:
1) she could win a general election, whereas he’ll never, ever
2) there’s been one fewer Clinton than Bush president, which is marginally less outrageous
3) despite her basically being a Republican at this point, much like Bush the Other (as opposed to the Elder and the Younger) is a Democrat, and vice-versa, she at one point was the further left Clinton; remember Hillary Care?
Jeb should run as a Democrat-he’d be formidable.
“Democrats are running the Republican Party”
My usual answer is they don’t need to; Republicans have “enough experience as the Stupid Party. But it’s hard to explain how they managed to nominate a guy whose name is attached to the program (Romneycare) that inspired the program (Obamacare) that the party is running against as its #1 issue. It beggars belief.
Nor can I account for how in a year of seemingly endless, albeit juvenile, protests against Wall Street they nominate Mr. Wall Street, whose name might as easily be Gekko. Not that Occupy Whatever was onto anything, except that people naturally and rightly suspect Big Business. It’s just that you don’t need to give the game away, especially when Big Business is on the other side, too. Back when Republicans ran Wendell Willkie they were smart enough to sell him as Joe Hayseed instead of the Mr. Moneybags, Esq. he was.
As does a nomination for Mitt Romney, Chris Christie, or Mike Huckabee.
There is absolutely no way in hell Jeb could ever win. It doesn't matter who the dems put up.
Not a bad idea. She does have the b*lls.
Neither will I.
Venezuela has elections too. Both ours and theirs increasingly serve the same purpose, to promote/condone future/past high crimes.
The party died with Romney.
“If Jeb is the nom and faces HRC, the Democrat wins.”.
Isn’t that the medias plan?
Among others, of course.
We disagree.
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