Nice Try, GOP
The list of possible Republican Presidential candidates is getting as empty as last years bird’s nest.
I think we can safely figure that Chris Christie burned that bridge behind him.
I think Rand Paul might be a long shot, what with somebody’s booty hair taped to his head and the simple fact that he makes a hornet look cuddly.
But, they found a savior. Jeb Bush.
Oh, quit laughing. They might be on to something. Heck, he was the brother who predicted that Dubya would win Florida on election night and kept his word by … I dunno, I don’t want to call it cheating but … oh hell, it was cheating.
The latest news is that Bush met with Sheldon Adelson, that scary guy from Vegas who threw millions at Romney. Apparently, Adelson can really pick ‘um.
And Bush is meeting with the evangelicals to see if he can’t get born again again. Hell Honey, they can take him down to the river and baptize him but afterwards we’d all have to skim nasty ole Bush for a week. Truth be know, you couldn’t scrub the Bush off him with a Brillo pad and bristle brush.
Oh yeah, and Henry Kissinger supports him.
Bwaaaa… shiver.
Jeb? Even his own mother thinks it would be a bad idea for him to run.
As for Rand Paul appealing to we millennia? Dear goddess, no. Just no.
A Clinton v. Bush race? That is PNAC versus NWO, nothing new to see there folks. Bring on the third party, please.
1Adelson looks like he uses the same barber as Donald Trump.
2Pay no attention to the face of the man behind the curtain of the Repukelican Party. It reminds me that there are 2 types of Repukes: the wealthy and the suckers.
3Actually, if Adelson picks Jeb that’s awesome because it means he pre-emptively reeks of defeat. I just did a quick analysis of how Shellie spend his $93M in 2012 for a post elsewhere and the number of losers on his list is just shocking. He even bankrolled Dewhurst in the primary.
4To SomedayGirl @11:21 am
What I find interesting is how many wealthy CEOs and business owners say there is little hiring and investment due to “uncertainty”. Yet they have no problem spending billions backing losing candidates in elections.
Or we need to get the GOP high rollers to put their money elsewhere. A lot of conservatives do not understand business or the free market as well as they think they do.
5The old guy is looking mighty pasty, don’t you think? I wonder if he has health insurance. Or maybe just too much time spent in his dark casinos. Maybe he hasn’t seen the sun in about 60 years. Maybe that red dye job is just unbecoming for a man his age. {{{{SHUDDER}}}}
He might benefit from a consultation with all y’all at Juanita Jean’s.
6I used to think Repuglicans was a great term to use on the GOP but REPUKELICANS tops everything! Love it.
7Oh, Goody! While the RWNJs throw BENGHAZI at Hillary, Jebbie will have to answer questions about his wife’s attempt at avoiding customs duties, his daughter’s drug addiction, and, for a finale, the Terri Schiavo fiasco will be relived.
Bring it on!
8That pic of Sheldon – it’s cruel to post a photo like that. I do not want that image in my brain or to creep (being the operative word) into my dreams.
9“. . . that scary guy from Vegas who threw millions at Romney. Apparently, Adelson can really pick ‘um.”
Excapt that before Romney, Adelson threw many more millions at Newt “No, Really, I Could Win” Gingrich.
Look at it this way — no matter who he backs, Adelson is a job creator, providing employment for print shop employees, caterers, hotel housekeepers and all sorts of other people who tend to vote (D).
10I doubt that Jeb can gain enough support from the GOP base. He would be a man of questionable character to many. Jeb did marry a Mexican national and converted to ROMAN Catholicism(foreign ties). This is a double wammy for the true “Patriots” of the far right. Jeb might be soft on crime, he only signed 19 Death Warrants while he was in office.(wimp)
11He attend private school, being Phillips Academy in of all places MASSACHUTSETTS and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Bush tends towards proper grammar.. (pointy headed elitist).
Is Sheldon Adelson an albino or a vampire? I think I know, but would like other input.
12Addlehead, who makes about 30 million/day, is most desirous of stopping internet gambling due to the obvious competition with his casinos. He also wants to back somebody who can win. Let’s see, that leaves…NoRino.
13Better to choke on it, Sheldon, you’re gonna lose big again.
I think John Ellis Bush (call him by his real name, not the cutesy nickname) would be a ideal Republican candidate. Hillary Clinton would beat him like the toy drum all Bushes are. Most polls have her at least eleven points ahead and we have more than two years to go.
14I want to hear how he explains how he gave Florida to his brother in the first election. That would be worth the price of admission in itself.
You’d think a man who makes his fortune in casinos would be better at reading the odds.
15Addlehead is a rwnj,you can bet there is a brake on the political roulette wheel (in his favor) somewhere.
16Adelson says he wants a sane one who can actually win this time, so he’s vetting a number of possibles. Meanwhile several columnists have pointed out that the “Adelson primary” is another sign that $$$ has waaaay too much influence over our elections.
17You know, Molly Ivins once said “The problem with Texas Baptists is that we don’t hold them under water long enough.”
There’s a long list of Texas politicians who need to be ‘born again’, I suspect… only we’ll use Molly Ivins’ rules.
18AIPAC candidates versus Teabagistan candidates is the 2016 pick your GOP poison. The games have already begun between the old white boys and the young crazies.
“Matthew Dowd, who was chief strategist for George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign, on Sunday ripped Republican presidential hopefuls for lowering themselves to “kiss the ring” of billionaires like Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson.”
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/george-w-bushs-chief-strategist-blasts-jeb
Poor Jeb! First his mother, now Dubya’s dude is cracking on him.
192016 is two years away, people. THERE IS AN ELECTION THIS YEAR. It’s far more important that we sane people vote in 2014! Despite gerrymandering, it’s not Republicans who elect all the rightwing nutjobs. It’s Democrats and Independents who stay home!
20best reason in the world not to nominate or vote for Jeb —-
21W!
Zyxomma, most everyone here is Democrat, Green, Liberal or Progressive. We can stump for the Texas ladies in 2014 and keep an eye on the horizon in 2016.
Maybe the Senatorial candidate from Maine, Shenna Bellows, will be the next Barack Obama, only better. She’s their State ACLU Executive Director and Peace Corps Veteran. Those are some credentials I’d like to see in the White House. I’m tired of Republican lite and Sec/Sen Clinton is too PNAC for me. Know I couldn’t ever vote for a Bush or Christie, but not sure I could hold my nose and cast a vote for Clinton. We need some youth and enthusiasm to lead the country.
“Experience” that is dog whistle to me for billionaire and bank bought.
22I understand what Polite is saying..but I, like Adelson want to win. And Hillary will win. And MANY WOMEN do want her..not a man, and none of the other women have enough Clout yet. but Elizabeth Warren follows her in office.
23I don’t think I would count Christie out. Never underestimate the ignorance of Repub primary voters.
If Christie is out, it’s more likely because he said something nice about President Obama than because his team shut down a bridge out of political spite.
24Great idea,TalG,but where in Texas will you find enough water,pray tell? No offense to anyone intended,but it seems to me that the interest in saving souls in wingnutland has a lower rate of return than banks pay-approximately zero .
25TalG, on a related note…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26823842
California man washed out to sea during baptism
26PKM, I, too, am no fan of HRC. Far too rightwing, far too eager to prove to everyone that she’s got the biggest b@lls in the room.
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