Posted on 05/17/2015 2:19:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday declared he would aggressively campaign to win the caucuses here, ending any doubt about his participation in the first contest of the GOP primary but also opening himself up to the possibility of a defeat that could severely harm his candidacy.
With Bush trying to win here, the more than 100,000 Republicans in his state who are expected to participate in the Iowa caucuses next February will play an even more important role in winnowing a field that will likely include more than a dozen candidates. And wooing Iowa's activists will become a huge test for Bush, who is lagging well behind in current polls in Iowa, despite being considered one of the leading candidates in the GOP race based on his fundraising strength.
"I'm going to campaign hard here," Bush said at a press conference in Iowa City. "It's my intention to win. Period. I'm a competitive person, my hope is to win any place where I'm competing."(continued)
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“Iowa voters have rejected more moderate Republicans like Bush in the past two election cycles, in favor of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (2008) and ex-Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (2012).”
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I thought he has to tiptoe around candidacy talk to avoid FEC rules so he could raise PAC money.
If he is announcing he’s going to campaign hard in Iowa, then he tripped the “testing the waters” rule for being subject to FEC rules...
Knock yourself out Jeb.
The only “hard” thing that Bush has to do is to listen closely to the crowd and then tell them exactly what they want to hear. Then to the next town and tell those people what they want to hear and to the next town and on and on and on.
It’s hard to remember what you told the people in the last town you left.
The old rule applies to Bush: When you lie you ALWAYS have to remember what you said. When you tell the truth you NEVER have to remember what you said.
My thoughts exactly, ziravan. He should be scrutinized for $$ raised after the “announcement.”
So far as “not yet announced”, that ship has sailed.
Jeb may have to vastly rearrange the solicitation and collection of campaign cash, so he does not somehow run afoul of current campaign cash “reforms”.
But in actual practice, the supposed reforms to campaign financing are pretty much dead letter, otherwise they would have long since come down heavy and hard on Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless.
And Herself has a great and abiding interest in keeping Jeb “competitive”, as he is the next sacrificial lamb for the Democrats to take down in 2016. Might be a lot harder with almost ANYBODY else now in the race on the Republican side.
What ... overdosing on Viagra ?
Go away Jeb!
two questions for little jebbie...does your wife have a mexican passport...and has his family donated to the clinton fraud fund? Simple yes or no answers please.
Good questions. He speaks so highly of Mrs Clinton......
G.W’s dumber brother plans to “campaign ‘tard” in Iowa.
Jeb is Hilderbeast's only hope. I would watch a debate between her and Ted Cruz on payperview. If it's the Jebster, it'll be a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledummer.
Stopping Ted Cruz is the Number One priority of the GOP Establishment.
I have read that Scott Walker ‘is acceptable to the Establishment’ so I operate with the notion that others aren’t with Ted Cruz at the top of their list and Rand Paul because he does not support the Vietnam-style policing of our enemies by the political elites begun with the Communists after 1945 and now the terrorists after 9/11.
I support Cruz including my $$$$ and see the strategy of the GOPe as smothering him with pretend conservative candidates (to get attention and money that would go to Cruz) who really support the Establishment.
Hence all the noise being generated around everyone from Huckabee to Santorum (who will announce a “decision on May 27th) to Ben Carson to Rick Perry to Bobby Jindal and the list goes on.
Donald Trump is out there in Iowa touting ‘business experience’ and for him that meant supporting Mitt Romney in the end in 2012.
Its all about smothering Cruz and protecting Jeb Bush who they hope will squeak through in the end after all the conservative votes in the GOP caucuses and primaries will be split among the gang of pretenders.
Poor Iowans.
I’ve never heard it put that way, but what you’re saying makes sense. I mean Hillary is like a gift to the GOP. The more she campaigns the more people are turned off. If they got behind Cruz, he’d win in a Reagan~like landslide. The GOPe is instead focused on derailing his campaign.
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