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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 01:36 PM Mar 2015

Conservatives Seek a Candidate to Counter Bush



“Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment presidential candidate like Jeb Bush, leaders of the nation’s Christian right have mounted an ambitious effort to coalesce their support behind a single social-conservative contender months before the first primary votes are cast,” the New York Times reports.

“In secret straw polls and exclusive meetings from Iowa to California, the leaders are weighing the relative appeal and liabilities of potential standard-bearers like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.”

Amy Walter: Consensus conservative in 2016?

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Conservatives Seek a Candidate to Counter Bush (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
Not Wanker? Still In Wisconsin Mar 2015 #1
Not sufficiently Xtian-delusional, I guess. truebluegreen Mar 2015 #3
Just seeing those names makes me RKP5637 Mar 2015 #2
I'm heartened Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2015 #4
A "conservative" alternative to Jeb Bush? DFW Mar 2015 #5
I suspect that all those evangelicans do not trust Catholic Bush question everything Mar 2015 #6
They'd trust an amoeba before they'd trust a Democrat who only wanted to improve their lives DFW Mar 2015 #7
I wonder if conservatives are posting left wing talking points on their boards? Thor_MN Mar 2015 #8

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
4. I'm heartened
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 06:16 PM
Mar 2015

that Jeb Bush isn't quite getting the "hero's welcome" in the lead up to next year's general election. Of course, there's still time but it seems like the Republican Party seems to be bored with "moderate" Bushies and are gravitating to the more extreme candidates whom stand even less of a chance of winning in a general election.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
5. A "conservative" alternative to Jeb Bush?
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 08:33 PM
Mar 2015

That's like being in the Arizona desert at noon and searching for an "alternative" light source to the sun.

question everything

(47,271 posts)
6. I suspect that all those evangelicans do not trust Catholic Bush
Sat Mar 28, 2015, 02:05 AM
Mar 2015

any more than they trusted Mormon Romney

DFW

(54,057 posts)
7. They'd trust an amoeba before they'd trust a Democrat who only wanted to improve their lives
Sat Mar 28, 2015, 05:02 AM
Mar 2015

They link Bush and Romney in with the "libbruls." And that's the sad fact of today's America. Fox Noise and National Hate Radio are everywhere, and too many millions actually believe what they hear there.

We had 12 of our best German friends over for dinner last night, and one of them is a high school teacher. He says many of his students are totally convinced that America is populated by nothing but evil people. They just do not understand to what extent ignorance is pervasive in our country, even among supposedly intelligent, educated citizens. He says they are convinced that Israel and Jews control everything, including in America (we don't have a monopoly on ignorance, and many of his students are Muslim immigrants or the children of same).

He takes them on a field trip to Auschwitz every year (a day long bus trip from here), and only that puts a dent in the armor of their prejudice. At least SOMETHING does. I sometimes meet Foxsuckers in the States, and if Fox said 2+2=5, then all those calculators and computers that said 2+2=4 were a liberal plot controlled by towel-heads.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
8. I wonder if conservatives are posting left wing talking points on their boards?
Sat Mar 28, 2015, 10:09 AM
Mar 2015

well, other than left wing talking points correlation with reality, of course. But the concept that conservatives also might be using opposition points to sabotage one of their own, is interesting.

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