It is clear that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is floundering in his Presidential bid, with his expression of exasperation at the toil and turmoil of campaigning, his complaints about being attacked by Donald Trump, and his wish he was able to do other things rather than waste his time, is stunning.
Despite his family name, one can say that Jeb Bush is probably done, unless he makes a major revival in today’s Republican Presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, sponsored by CNBC.
This opens up opportunity for John Kasich to emerge as the “Establishment” candidate, and be able to combat the fact that Donald Trump and Dr. Benjamin Carson are in a massive lead in public opinion polls.
Marco Rubio is already showing signs that he is about to destroy his chances, by his announcement that he plans to vote against the budget deal negotiated by outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner, designed to keep the economy and budget stable until 2017 and the next President, and give incoming Speaker Paul Ryan a breather as he takes over House leadership. This is simply designed to gain support of the extremist right wing Freedom or Tea Party Caucus in the House, a massive error by Rubio. It is almost as if Rubio, who has now condemned his job in the Senate, saying he has never liked it, is about to push himself out of politics altogether by his reckless behavior.
But also Rubio complaining about being unhappy as a Senator makes one wonder about his character, as the people of the third largest state, Florida, gave him the gift of serving in the Senate, which many people, including this author and blogger, would “die” for, and yet he is complaining about a “plum” job, one of the best one could attain for. So this also makes Rubio far from the ideal candidate for President, because it makes one wonder whether he is interested in being President no matter what challenges he will face, and would he be able to handle the frustrations of the job, just by asking Barack Obama!
John Kasich has now expressed total exasperation about Donald Trump wanting to deport 11 million people and build a “Trump Wall”, which he considers preposterous; about Dr. Benjamin Carson, who now says he wants to end Medicare and Medicaid completely, along with his many whacko statements and revelations about his background; about Rubio, complaining about being a Senator; and about Bush, who seems not to want to work for the Presidency and wants the job handed to him on a silver platter, as if he is “entitled” to it!
Kasich is expressing what moderate conservative Republicans and outsiders, such as this blogger, feel, and the belief that John Kasich remains the best choice for the GOP, with his long career in the House of Representatives; his business and media career; and now his popular leadership as Governor of the most crucial state for any Republican Presidential nominee, the state of Ohio.
If the GOP had any sense, and its voters had mainstream ideas, John Kasich would be the nominee, but right now, the odds on that seem long. The question is whether the party will overcome its extremist right wing Tea Party-Freedom Caucus and come into the light of a mainstream alternative to the Democrats, having lost the popular vote five of the last six times for the White House. If they do not, the Republican Party long range future is doomed!
Hillary now has a huge lead over Bernie. http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/10/27/clintons-surge-in-iowa-is-real-no-matter-what-sanders-apologists-tell-you
Ronald, thanks for letting us conservatives know which candidate we should not support…Kasich. Anyone the left and the media thinks should be the Republican candidate is surely someone who has the best chance of losing the general election against a Democrat. It’s Kasich now, a month ago it was Jeb, in 2012 Romney and in 2008 McCain. All establishment candidates, all guarantee a leftist victory and conservative defeat.
It’s not that Republicans such as Kasich aren’t conservative enough to be Republicans, it’s that they’re too sane to be considered Republicans in today’s tea party-controlled GOP.
Former Republican: This attack on the conservative base (today Tea Party) by the establishment is not new and you know it. The same establishment that viciously attacked Reagan and conservatives in the 70’s are the same one’s attacking the conservative base today. Nothing new under the sun.
Totally incorrect. The far right fringe didn’t come out of the woodwork until Obama was elected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
Quite right Pragmatic. The establishment foolishly embraced them and now they’re embarrassed by it.
A new polls shows support for the Tea Party has hit a record low. http://www.forwardprogressives.com/a-new-poll-shows-record-low-gop-support-for-the-tea-party/
They’re a bunch of sore losers. They can’t stand the fact that a black man won the election twice.
During the debate last night, Republican’ts couldn’t handle tough questions and resorted to screaming “media bias”.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/28/republicans-fall-cnbc-debate-scream-media-bias-asked-hard-questions.html
The Republican’t debate last night was a hoot!!! I laughed at the idiots doing their tit for tat on stage. They bickered and complained, and whined… “but you did…. you said…” ROFL. No substance whatsoever! Definitely no specificity.
Wackiest moments of the debate. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-wackiest-moments-the-third-gop-debate
I had better things to do than watch those clowns. I watched my recording of the Supergirl pilot instead.
I didn’t watch the Republican debates of CNBC Wednesday, October 28, 2015. I was watching CBS’s “Survivor.”
I anticipate that Jeb Bush will drop out of the 2016 race just before Thanksgiving Day (which, this year, is Thursday, November 26).
There are enough details in the reports about the ex-Florida governor not generating the campaign funds from business and private people; that his cash flow is getting low; his campaign budget (including with staff) has been significantly reduced; and that Ben Carson outpaced him (either the report was for September or the third quarter of 2015).
Jeb Bush is on a trajectory which suggests he can try to tough it out by seeing how he performs in New Hampshire (which is more important than Iowa). But, if October 29 numbers hold for the end of December 2015 and in January 2016…I would predict Ben Carson winning in Iowa and Donald Trump carrying in New Hampshire.
I think what’s happened with Jeb Bush is that he doesn’t have the candidate instinct and talent as his father and brother did. His brother’s presidency is a bad omen (to put it politely). And I sense that Republican primary voters feel like moving on from everything “Bush.”
A middle school teacher I know said that the Teapublican’t candidates didn’t look very presidential and was a bad example for kids to see.
Agreed, Princess Leia. Very nasty and mean spirited and selfish and egotistical to the extreme!