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A Jeb Bush nomination means end of GOP
WorldNetDaily ^ | January 2, 2015 | Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)

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. Bush’s 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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; colorado; florida; gop; gope; jebbush; jebbush2016; rino; rinos; tancredo; terrischaivo; theend; tomtancredo; uniparty
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1 posted on 01/03/2015 4:56:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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If Bush is nominated and loses the rift between the GOP and its conservative base will be open, permanent and irreparable.

If it already isn't. And of course that means finally the end of the GOP as a viable second party for real.

2 posted on 01/03/2015 5:00:47 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He has the same advantages and the same problems as HRC on the other team.

I’ve been predicting a Clinton-Bush “ticket of national salvation” for several years. It’s looking more and more probable.


3 posted on 01/03/2015 5:00:54 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: skeeter
If Bush is nominated and loses the rift between the GOP and its conservative base will be open, permanent and irreparable

Fixed

4 posted on 01/03/2015 5:02:58 PM PST by Regulator
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The GOP is already finished...it just doesn’t realise it yet!


5 posted on 01/03/2015 5:06:25 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jeb,
rich politician whose family helped him get ahead.
Then one day watching border-crossers flee,
he figured it was time for Bush number three.
President Bush that is

Big government, crony capitalists…

Well the first thing you know ol Jeb’s the President
Bush Clan said “Jeb move away from there” 
Said “U.S. Capitol is the place you ought to be” 
So he loaded up the Mastretta and moved to D.C.

Washington that is. K Street, corrupt politicians...

Well now its time to say goodbye to Jeb and his Establishment kin.
And they would like to thank you folks for voting them all in.
You’re all invited back again one day to this same possibility
To have a heapin help of another they call George P.

Another Bush that is. Crazy it is, Jessie Jackson was right...

Stay out of the Bushes, y’hear?.


6 posted on 01/03/2015 5:07:10 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the GOP is already finished.

...Just going through the motions now.


7 posted on 01/03/2015 5:10:00 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Bush family does not live in the world of either conservatives, or the world of the far left socialists. Papa, Junior, and Jeb seem to believe there is a squishy middle world where everyone gets along and a well managed nanny state cares for the poor while ensuring the Wall Street banks and multinational corporations are protected by the full faith and credit of the US taxpayer. Jeb has more in common with the wealthy elites of Europe and Asia than he does with the average US citizen in flyover country. The Bush family has no concept of the struggle of the American middle class to survive, much less prosper. All were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and they have enjoyed the privileged lives of the elite aristocracy since birth.

Jeb running is a sign the family believes in the entitlement of a hereditary nobility, not the sweat equity of the working man aspiring to a middle class lifestyle unfettered by the heavy hand of government or the capricious whims of far off money changers determining the destiny of families and communities by studying a spreadsheet. Father and son George Bush were mediocre presidents who advanced the welfare state and accumulated huge debt. Why would anyone vote for a third act?


8 posted on 01/03/2015 5:14:12 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am not voting for Jeb if he’s nominated. I don’t care who his VP selection is (even if it’s Cruz), and I don’t care what the doomsayers scream about Hillary.


9 posted on 01/03/2015 5:14:38 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO COMPROMISE! NO BIPARTISANSHIP! STOP OBAMA NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Jeb Bush gets the nomination the Republicans will go the way of the Whigs.


10 posted on 01/03/2015 5:15:23 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: pricilla
The GOP is already finished...it just doesn’t realise it yet!

Nor has the multitude who keep clinging to the piss-poor candidates it fronts.

11 posted on 01/03/2015 5:17:27 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Me either.

Been there, done that, and have been bothered by my vote ever since.


12 posted on 01/03/2015 5:22:22 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Jim Noble

Which one would be head of the ticket?


13 posted on 01/03/2015 5:29:24 PM PST by ully2
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To: Jim Noble

The Clintons will promise Jeb that Hillary will retire after 3 years and the Bushes and rinos will actually believe them. So, why would I vote for someone that damned gullible.


14 posted on 01/03/2015 5:36:55 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, I will be finished with the GOP, even though I’ve been a PCO for more than 20 years.

Obama has basically destroyed the nation.

If we don’t find a severe alternative it matters little if Jeb gets in.


15 posted on 01/03/2015 5:39:15 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An end to the feckless and useless gop wing of the uniparty? Were it so, we would have a good reason to support Jeb. Unfortunately though, the gop seems to continue on regardless.

Sort of like a zombie.


16 posted on 01/03/2015 5:50:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (The uniparty: celebrating over 150 years of oligarchy and political control!)
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To: ought-six

Pretty much.

He’s an automatic loser.

He loses, Hillary wins, she continues to stack the courts, and anything conservatives pass at any level of government gets repeatedly knocked-down by black-robed tyrants.

A nightmare.


17 posted on 01/03/2015 5:50:57 PM PST by MarkRegal05
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18 posted on 01/03/2015 5:51:11 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: skeeter

Jeb Bush as the GOP nominee will sooooooooooooo depress the GOP base he will be effectively handing the general election to ANY Dim candidate. Maybe that is the insurance his family has promised their new found friend, Billary.

Billary or Bush, its the same elitist duopoly.


19 posted on 01/03/2015 5:53:09 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Ben Ficklin

At this point, I think Jeb is more likely to get the R nomination than Hillary is the D nomination.


20 posted on 01/03/2015 5:53:57 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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