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Jeb Miffed There’s No Bush as Prez
Jeb Bush thought America should have three consecutive Republican Presidents from the same immediate family. Think about that.
In his “defense,” he may have known, either consciously or unconsciously, that if nominated, he would lose. I’m not ruling that out as a possibility seeing him and his family in light of transpired events.
I also wonder if Jeb thought about how his entrance into the field of Republican wannabes would affect other candidates and may (if he failed to get the nomination) scuttle the chances of Marco Rubio especially — a fully qualified candidate who held very similar policy views as the Bush family. This is essentially what happened as we look back.
Jeb raised a whopping $100 million, much of which would have gone to Rubio, as well as the endorsement of the Bush network and the famiglia Cespuglio itself. Trump would not have had much chance to emerge against a united establishment behind a young dynamic candidate with early momentum.
Now Jeb believes Republicans should have a “choice” in 2020. I don’t remember if he had the same sentiment in 2004 when his brother ran for re-election.
He likes moderate Republican from Maryland Governor Hogan as a primary challenger.
Two questions: Why should anyone, even establishment Republicans, listen to to the political advice or preferences of this guy?
Do these people — Jeb!, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Jen Rubin, et al. — not see how whomever they tout and support for 2024 will be anathema to even the most reluctant Trump voter?
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But there are no quotes that Jeb thought that he was entitled to be President. Indeed, he said that his last name was a handicap.
Except for the term “corrupt scum”, I agree 100%. I’d rather think of them as being blind fools.
He said he supports a primary because the people deserve a choice? Any quotes about “people’s choice” during last year of his father’s first administration? His brother’s?
He, like you, refuses to accept a free and fairly won election. He, like you, refuses to acknowledge the bullet dodged. And frankly, his words and affect are rank with petulant entitlement.
Moderator Note:
Personal attack, and a pretty silly one at that. Please stop, "It's just Robbins" is not an excuse.[Rdedacted] and moving onto the next spurious argument. Do the judges in Arizona let you do that?
Wildly popular? Quite a claim, Gary.
In this hypothetical, would Mr. ‘Smith’ have the same personality, and have had his daddy and older brother precede him as President?
Trump got the nomination with the “Plurality Wins All Delegates” rules, and with Reince crushing the “freedom of conscience” vote at the convention.
Trump won the general election fairly.
And Reagan Republicans have every right in the world to take their party back.
If we can do it now before the 2020 election, then we can keep the Presidency, and the Senate and have a shot at getting the House back. If we fail, we will lose the Presidency, a half dozen Senators and Governors, even more Representatives, and another 400 state legislators.
We already did take our party back by electing President Trump. We took it back from the Bushes, McCains, and Romneys who would eagerly sell the country down the river while letting the Democrats do whatever they wanted.
The Bushes were never Reagan Republicans. And those whose names are being raised as primary opponents likes Hogan and Kasich are not (or in the case of Kasich, no longer) Reagan Republicans. They are Northeast “moderate” Republicans whose idea of immigration reform is a lot closer to Pelosi’s than Trump’s, who will not aggressively attack the bureaucratic state, who will appoint “reasonable” conservatives judges to meet Democratic objections, and will carry out their traditional big business legislative agenda. They are compromisers who will be eaten alive by a radicalized Democratic party.
I can understand why Kristol and his buddies are fine with that but do not understand how you can be, given your repeatedly expressed views on policy which, for the most part, align with Trump’s, regardless of how unsavory Trump may be personally.
So you really believe that the Bushes, McCains and Romney’s would eagerly sell our country down the river?
How about Dole? Would Dole eagerly sell us down the river?
How about Ike? Would Ike eagerly sell us down the river?
How about Reagan? Would Reagan eagerly sell us down the river?
How about Goldwater? Would Goldwater eagerly sell us down the river?
How about all of the Republicans in the Senate? Would all of them eagerly sell us down the river?
How about all of the Republican Governors? Would all of them eagerly sell us down the river?
How about the House Republicans? Would all of them eagerly sell us down the river?
America, the Conservative movement and the Republican Party are much bigger than Trump.
What do you care about House Republicans? You wanted them voted out of office so you could replace them with Democrats like Alexandra Occasional-Cortex, Rashida Tlaib, and Ihlan Omar. Racist, Jew-hating, baby-killing Democrats. You wanted them to take over the House, Gary. That was your stated goal, and you got what you wanted.
The issue is not just Trump’s personality, it is his character, and his demand to bend and pervert the constitution in service of himself.
Trump bragged that the police is with him, and the military is with him. He then pointed to touch people like Bikers for Trump. We have seen the autocrats in Venezuela and Iran unleash paramilitary thugs on the populace. I never thought I’d see Trump or any American President threaten that he has the support of his own set of brownshirts.
You are ignoring my question. Which Republican members of the House do you see as pure enough to not sell our country down the river? Steve King? The so-called “Freedom Caucus”?
Let’s see . . . I can have Jew-hating baby-killing socialists, . . . or the “Freedom Caucus.”
I pick the “Freedom Caucus.” How about you?
The title of your post is “Jeb Miffed There’s No Bush as Prez.” But that is not accurate. Jeb merely states that Trump should have a primary challenge, a viewpoint that about 40-45% of Republicans in Iowa and New Hampshire agree with. Jeb isn’t miffed that there is no Bush as Prez; Jeb and I and a whole bunch of Republicans are “miffed” that Trump is Prez, not that Jeb isn’t.
I choose neither the socialists, nor the so-called “Freedom Caucus.” I would choose the 60% of the House in the middle.
I don’t much care for phrases such as “sell the country down the river” even though I see the point. Gary, tell me what the point of this statement is: “Close your eyes and you could be in Santo Domingo, or [some other city I can’t accurately recall].” That was Shrub, i.e. George W. Bush talking.
It sounded to me like he wanted the good ole US of A to be indistinguishable from any other country. He’s a soul brother to Teddy Kennedy who said that America should look more like the rest of the world. Why, exactly, do these idiots think that the place people want to come to should look like the places they left?
“Sell the country down the river”? Not exactly, but destroy the country for some reasons of their own? Yes.
Really, he should ignore your silly questions altogether.
Ain’t it funny, though? You only get to pick from either Republicans or Democrats. And the Democrats are the party with the vocal Jew-hating baby-killing socialists. And that’s the one you advocated for last fall. And they took control, just as you wanted.
I wanted a check on Trump. With the resolution of disapproval, only 13 House Republicans and 12 Senate Republicans have the guts and integrity to stand up to Trump on his Executive Order. Given their lack of courage, yes, the right thing to do was to hand the House over to the Dems, given that in the first two years of the Trump Administration, neither Republican majority had the cojones to ever be a check on Trump. (Nancy Pelosi has more cojones than the Republicans in the 115th Congress, with the sole exception of the late Senator John McCain.)
And, as it tends to go with corrupted wishes, you got baby-killing Jew-haters.
Predictably.
Moderator Note:
The metaphor was certainly memorable, but also outside the lines here.Unfollowing. You can only beat your head into a wall so long before you realize the only thing that’ll come of it is you’ll get to see the lovely red of your lifeblood up against the wall.
Recommend no one, [redacted], respond to one of Gary’s comments or posts. He’s like a [You do know I have to redact this, but it is certainly a memorable metaphor for persistence]: You’ll not dissuade him.
It’s Gilbert and Sullivan, right? If I correctly recall, they were totally in the tank for Ted Cruz last presidential election.
I am certain there were no photocopiers in the Gore Campaign HQ.
Go join your pals in the Democrat party. It’s what McCain should have done. He’s dead. You still have time. Just do it.
Chihuahuas are bad enough, you had to add meth to the mix to really get the point across.
The only thing worse would be a meth addled english bulldog; those guys will knock you over to get a good hump on your leg and don’t forget the slobber.
They probably called to complain it was all words, no pictures . . .
I hate seeing these things after the redactions. Feeling like I’m missing out something fierce.
I said this before. And I’ll say it again. Jeb is more conservative then his brother. He was a great extremely fiscally conservative Florida governor. His biggest problems that he was not conservative on was immigration, pro common core, and his last name. Jeb has always been the most conservative out of the political group/friends he Associates with. So a Jeb presidency would have had a much more moderate cabinet than Trump ironically. Even though Jeb is way more conservative than Trump. Since We had so many great options. It would have been bad for the country to have another Bush.
It involved meth and a chihuahua’s desire to wrap his forepaws around a human calf and dance the mambo.
I think a Chihuahua lacks the obstinate motivation of an English Bulldog. You be the judge.
Too bad he didn’t go first.