Late Entry Alert!

[jaxx]

February 17, 2012 3:04 PM
Late Entry Alert!
By Ed Kilgore

<..> “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.

The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not.

<..> “He’d (RS) lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich.

<..> It’s Jebbie!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politic...35491.php#

This is one of the times I want to post the whole article!! It's a real mind bender.
Read it and see what you think.

[SeattleGirl]

I haven't read the article yet, but I would bet that Jebbie doesn't want to enter the race this year; I think he's holding out until 2016.

I could be wrong, but since Jeb seems to be the Bush brother who has more than 2 neurons firing in his brain, he may have figured out that the Republicans have gone so far off the deep end, he's going to cool his heels this year and wait until the next election.

[jaxx]

I'm trying to figure out who the senator is. Rubio? I think it's day dreaming, but who the hell knows what those pubs will try.

[janedrake]

After what Poppy and George Bush did to this country, the name "Bush" should be a swear word in this country. Yet, here comes Jeb (if not now, then 2016).

[Peacetrain]

That brokered convention becoming more and more likely ..

[azmouse]

Ha! Let 'em duke it out. Doesn't much matter who they run this year, Obama is going to win in November.

[Andy823]

(02-17-2012 02:55 PM)jaxx Wrote:  February 17, 2012 3:04 PM
Late Entry Alert!
By Ed Kilgore

<..> “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.

The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not.

<..> “He’d (RS) lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich.

<..> It’s Jebbie!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politic...35491.php#

This is one of the times I want to post the whole article!! It's a real mind bender.
Read it and see what you think.

I think he pretty much summed it up with this:

Quote:Totally aside from all the other obstacles involved in a very late entry, any Bush Boom would have to deal with the fact that Republican opinion-leaders (and the current candidates) have spent a good part of the last three years trashing the administration of Jeb’s brother as a heretical exercise in Big Government Conservatism which so alienated this “center-right nation” that it took a gamble on Barack Obama in hopes that his commitment to bipartisanship would lead him to surrender to “true conservatives” on all the major policy issues.

I have to agree, and I agree with Seattlegirl, there is no way Jeb would even think about it, until 2016 when he "hopes" things will be much better and everyone will haves forgotten about his brother who got us into the worst recession since the great depression.

And I also loved this remark:

Quote:Again, good luck with that. And I’m sure the current candidates appreciate being described by a Republican leader as hopeless losers.

There is no way in hell Mitt, Newt or Santorum are going to take this senators remarks in any way but "anger"! They have put a lot of time and money into "trashing" each other and all of them "really" think they have a chance to win the nomination, and beat the president. Sure they live in a fantasy world, but does anyone really think they will bow out gracefully if the party wants to "put in the fix" with a new candidate? I don't think so.

If this happened, it will simply be the grand finally to the republican "circus" that we have been watching.

[sandnsea]

Had to be Cornyn. I don't think there is a bigger Bush asskisser in the Senate than him. I bet he thinks he'd get the VP slot. The GOP won't be any better off in 2016 with this kind of thinking.

[DFW]

I've been watching the words of the radical right on the primaries, since they seem to hate Romney almost as much as they hate Obama.

Richard Viguerie, my friend from the Negative Zone, has spoken out for not a "brokered" convention (since he thinks the brokers would be not from the extreme wing of their party), but for an "open" convention, meaning the most vocal of the extreme right gets the chance to sway the rest of them--assuming there is anyone BUT the extreme right left at their convention. He may get his wish. Back in December, when Santorum was a single digit joke, he said to me to watch out, since Santorum would be a major player. I practically told him to cut out the hallucinogenic drugs. He told me he may not know a lot, but he did know conservative politics. Since Richard was a big factor in getting Reagan elected in 1980 way before anyone gave him a realistic chance of unseating Carter, I did hear him out, although I didn't believe him. But he knows his crowd far better than I ever will, and knew them again this time as well.

An open Republican convention might favor a Jeb Bush, but in all likelihood, the extreme wing would never let it happen. They would rather go down with Santorum than have a chance at an upset with Jeb. A brokered convention would probably pick, as Richard has hypothesized, someone way too moderate for the extremist wing, and therefore lose in enthusiasm what they would gain in electability with a moderate.

As for which Republican Senator was behind this little interview, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that it was Yertle The Turtle (R-KY), himself. He staked his name and reputation (to the extent that there is such a thing in his case) on Obama being a one-term president. McTurtle knows full well that a candidate Santorum goes down in flames about seven minutes and fifteen seconds after accepting the Republican nomination. Therefore he will do any say anything that gives him a chance at a candidate that at some point during the fall will poll within the margin of error.

[pappy]

(02-18-2012 06:44 AM)DFW Wrote:  I've been watching the words of the radical right on the primaries, since they seem to hate Romney almost as much as they hate Obama.

Richard Viguerie, my friend from the Negative Zone, has spoken out for not a "brokered" convention (since he thinks the brokers would be not from the extreme wing of their party), but for an "open" convention, meaning the most vocal of the extreme right gets the chance to sway the rest of them--assuming there is anyone BUT the extreme right left at their convention. He may get his wish.

<....>

I see this as a distinction without a difference.

Whatever you choose to call a convention that starts out without a candidate with the votes in hand to prevail on the first ballot the end result will be that the outcome won't be determined from the podium so much as from a ground game on the floor (and the smoke filled backrooms) that has the ability to use whatever means necessary to bring the votes.

I think that this favors the establishment over the insurgency. It boils down to the "Republican Golden Rule", "The one with the gold makes the rules".