[skeeter]

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.

[Regulator]

If Bush is nominated and loses the rift between the GOP and its conservative base will be open, permanent and irreparable

Fixed

[Wuli]

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.

[nomad]

Second party? The flip side of the uni-party!