the end of the Bush dynasty --- finally out on their asses ...
On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 7:33:48 AM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > > > > *When Ron Paul ran in 2008, it was to challenge George W. Bush's big > government Republican Party. Tonight, that party ended. .... *February > 21, 2016 > Election 2016 > > *Tonight was the end of the Bush dynasty in Republican politics *Matt > Purple > > Jeb Bush threw everything he had at South Carolina, including the entire > contents of his family. He campaigned relentlessly. His well-heeled Super > PAC spent almost $14 million. His mother joined him on the stump. He hauled > his brother George W. out of mothballs to stomp around a stage and conjure > up memories of days gone by. When Donald Trump attacked the former > president at the debate in Charleston, Jeb sprang to the barricades. > > By doing so, Jeb turned his own presidential campaign into a Republican > referendum on his brother’s presidency. It was a puzzling strategy. The tea > party and Donald Trump’s populism, whatever their merits, are reactions not > just to the overreaches of the left, but the failures of the Republican > Party to produce good policy results during the 2000s. The war in Iraq, No > Child Left Behind, the insatiable domestic spendingthese were as much the > targets of conservative anger as Obamacare and the stimulus. Dubya’s > presidency had already been put on trial and found lacking. > > So of course Jeb was never going to win the nomination. That was > blindingly obvious to everyone who was paying attention, with the exception > of the Republican Party’s impenetrably deluded jet set, which still can’t > seem to find anyone in the country club buffet line who thinks anything > went wrong during the aughts. But maybe Jeb could at least log a second- or > third-place finish in South Carolina, his natural habitat if anywhere he > had one. Military veterans have a strong presence there. Former president > Bush’s approval rating > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bewildered-by-2016-race-george-w-bush-returns-to-the-trail-to-boost-jeb/2016/02/12/49cf7242-d1a6-11e5-abc9-ea152f0b9561_story.html> > > among local Republicans is 84 percent. Surely the Bush family’s imprimatur > would be worth something in the Palmetto State. > > It wasn’t. Not only did Jeb not win in spite of his brother’s efforts, he > didn’t win in spite of Donald Trump making what appeared at the time to be > a kamikaze pass at him, accusing Dubya of lying America into the Iraq war. > It would have gotten Trump tossed out of the Republican Party a decade ago. > But this isn’t your father’s GOPor Jeb’s brother’s. Instead, Trump crushed > the rest of the field as was predicted, and Jeb choked his way through a > stilted speech in which he announced he was suspending his campaign. The > anointed frontrunner, the $100 million man, the most promising of the Bush > offspring, only convinced 8 percent of South Carolina Republicans to vote > for him. > > It’s now clear that the ghost of George W. Bush’s compassionate > conservatismgiven afterlife in various ethereal forms over the past seven > yearshas been exorcised from the Republican Party. Even Marco Rubio, a > candidate of once-in-a-generation appeal and talent, the best hope of > keeping the neoconservative fever dream going, barely eked out a distant > second place after spending > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/19/report-gop-field-spends-35-million-on-ads-in-south-carolina-jeb-bush-tops-list/> > > more in South Carolina than Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Ben Carson > *combined*. The GOP has at last repudiated its foreign policy past. And > yet what it seems to have in mind for the future is just as terrifying. > > > http://rare.us/story/tonight-was-the-end-of-the-bush-dynasty-in-republican-politics/ > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
