2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumConservatives Seek a Candidate to Counter Bush
Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment presidential candidate like Jeb Bush, leaders of the nations 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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Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I thought he was the far right's new darling. Shine's already fading from this turd?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)A Koch creature....
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)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)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)any more than they trusted Mormon Romney
DFW
(54,057 posts)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)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.