Thursday, October 30, 2014

Jeb Bush Could Never Defeat Ted Cruz In A Primary

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I'm on record: the crazy extremist base of the Republican Party will not be denied again-- no more McCains or Romneys, not in 2016. They will settle for nothing less than an unapologetic, loud'n'proud fascist. And the folks who set their agendas have decided: Ted Cruz, the senator further right than Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Hideki Tojo, Augusto Pinochet, Vidkun Quisling, Pat Robertson or anyone else I might have left out. They will not be denied. Ted Cruz will be the Republican nominee for president and he will lose-- and lose very, very big, dragging down as many as 10 U.S. Senators-- Mark Kirk (R-IL), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Richard Burr (R-NC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Rand Paul (R-KY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO)-- and double the number of GOP House Members (especially if Steve Israel has been excised from the DCCC).

While the fascists prepare for their apocalypse, though, the mainstream conservative McCain/Romney/Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP, would rather lose in a more gentlemanly fashion with another Bush. Jeb would;'t bring on the kind of GOP donnybrook Cruz will and with him at the top of the ticket, the Republicans would probably lose less than half the senators they'll lose with Cruz's reverse coattails. But Jeb can't make it through a Republican primary, not after all the cultivation of the Tea Party sociopaths in recent years. Jill Bond, writing for Blue Nation Review, listed 5 specific stumbling blocks that will defeat Bush in the 2016 Republican primary sweepstakes.

We have Jeb Bush to thank for working with the NRA to push the license-to-hunt-and-kill-people law in the state of Florida known as Stand Your Ground-- whose victims include 26 children, and an education program that has proved to be weak and questionable.

He didn’t know what the Paycheck Fairness Act was (a bill that ensures women are paid equally for equal work), and doesn’t support it once he’s told.

Within a year of leaving the governorship of Florida, Bush became a consultant for Lehman Brothers-- the Wall Street giant whose bankruptcy sealed this nation’s financial meltdown-- and tried unsuccessfully to broker a deal called "Project Verde" in Mexico with a billionaire telecom mogul.

He’s been wishy-washy on immigration, trying to balance kissing Republican right-wing extremist leader’s butts while not scaring off Hispanic voters, calling for undocumented immigrants to be handled with "compassion" as he seeks to toughen regulations against them.

In efforts to expand his wealth after being Florida’s governor, Bush was hired by InnoVida, a manufacturer of cheap building materials, as a consultant and to sit on the board of directors. The company faked documents, lied about the health of the business and misappropriated $40 million in company funds, according to the New York Times. The company went bankrupt in 2011. Bush didn’t have any better luck sitting on the board of Swisher Hygiene, a soap maker, whose financial statements were unreliable and accounting practices were sketchy, causing stock prices to plunge and shareholders to sue.


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4 Comments:

At 2:40 PM, Blogger joel hanes said...

The REAL reasons Jeb will not get past the Republican primaries:

1. His wife has pigmented skin; Spanish is her mother tongue, and her English is markedly accented. She does not want to be the First Lady, and Republicans don't want her as First Lady.

2. His kids are, in the immortal words of GHWB, "the little brown ones". Pure electoral poison in R primaries dominated by Teahadists.

3. Jeb can't bring himself to countenance the crudest forms of discrimination against Hispanics.

 
At 3:26 PM, Anonymous Exit 135 said...

7) Terri Schiavo.

 
At 10:40 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

1a. Columba (Mrs Jeb) was stopped at Customs smuggling in undeclared items. I personally suspect that Poppy's Carlyle connections aided in keeping her out of prison, and the story largely out of the news.

2a. At least one of Jeb's kids has a drug abuse history. Assuming she is in recovery, one of his GOP opponents will raise this as a sign that Jebbie the Butt is not a suitable choice.

 
At 11:37 AM, Anonymous Jackson said...

What does Jeb have to offer America? You posit that the GOP powers that be like him because he will lose more gently, and not have reverse coattails.

That is the only coherent argument I've heard made for him. But that's not one that is likely to carry much weight with GOP primary voters. The point of being in an election is to contest it and win.

You spew a lot of ridiculous invective against Cruz, but you don't actually critique anything he has said or done.

Yes, he's just like Mussolini. He wants to unite labor, big business and the government into one bundle - a "fascis"

Oh, wait. That sounds like the Team Donkey coalition.

So one part of essay excellent, the other terrible. Keep writing, and try to avoid the temptation to use terms like Fascist and flagrantly violating Godwin's Rule.

Channeling Hunter S. Thompson in 1972 is so over!

 

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