Jeb Bush

Nominating Jeb! will ensure victory for Hillary.

I imagine that is the plan anyway. Hillary is as chummy with the Neo-cons as their standard-bearer, Bush.

If Jeb is the nominee, there will almost certainly be a third-party candidate. Shades of 1992.

3rd party candidates always make the debates a lot more fun.

Jeb Bush is the most pathetic candidate currently. The establishment sees it now and they are trying to go a different way. I say Rubio gets nomination.

How bad do you have to be that you need to use GWBush to help your campaign? And people think it's a good idea.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not let them go back to a rich asshole like Romney or Rauner.

I thought Jeb was the likely candidate till he actually started showing his face in public. The only thing I can thank Trump for is "low energy". I love it. He's such a wimp. He's obviously the least dangerous Republican (except for Kasich). Cruz is the absolute worst and I live in terror that that psycho might ever get anywhere near real power.

Would Hispanics vote for Rubio? He's a right-wing Cuban and doesn't give a shit about Mexicans. Cubans got automatic immigration, really unfair to every other nationality due to the US's totally wacko Cuban policy.

Rubio was a Mormon for awhile.

Cruz is a Batman villain.

Jeb! is a loser. He has a 100 million dollar warchest, and is trailing far behind a black neurosurgeon in a REPUBLICAN race. Imagine that.

Cruz is psycho.

Rubio has taken the lead and at the moment would be the least dangerous choice for the GOP cruds. However, he has some serious issues - he's a jerk, he's dishonest, he's unattractively ambitious, he plays with the truth (in clumsy ways, not in the Clinton way), and he lacks depth. As a Republican Hispanic, he could shake a little up, but Hispanics would recognize that he is NOT their friend - he's as much a local-Florida type as anything, and once his positions became more known he'd look like a token, a turncoat and a jerk. Which he is.

The GOP is thinking Jeb is a non-starter and that Rubio could energize things and save Florida and pull in New Mexico and Colorado (an maybe Iowa and - they think - Ohio!). Ha!

None of the Republicans looks like a winner at this point.

But it would be a godsend if they'd nominate someone like Cruz. A true maniac and demagogue.

I still say Mittens will ride into the Convention to save the day to run again and then be slaughtered by Hillary.

Hillary will slaughter Rubio and then continue eating lunch.

"My brother kept us safe." How much of an idiot do you have to be to not know that quote wouldn't over well?

The GOP has to attract the Latino vote. I was surprised to discover how many Latino elected officials are Republicans. But they are pissed off at what they see as injurious, insulting political policies and jibes at them and they will hold the nominee acountable. Rubio and Jeb are the only two who have something resembling a decent immigration policy ( though inadequate) and are appealing to the Latino voters. I think that Jeb has to take Rubio out to survive.

He went after him tonight, and failed. It was ridiculous. Jeb is not the right guy. He doesn't even convey a sense of purpose. Someone on TV was saying that what killed Teddy Kennedy's candidacy was when Roger Mudd asked "Why are you running for President?" And Teddy stumbled and stuttered and hesitated, and that' s Jeb. He doesn't seem to be able to say why he's running. He seems to be doing it because it's expected of him, and it's obvious he hates every minute.

His policies are really bad politics too. If people really understood what he is proposing, if elected, for Social Security and medicare, and other programs, "all that free stuff" he referred to, they'd run his ass back to Florida so fast his head would spin. He's not fast on his feet either. He gets all tangled up in his words. Can't close the sale.

He's a total bore. His war chest may make him the only one left standing at the end. If the GOP nominates him, they won't believe in him and won't show up at the polls.

R11, Would appreciate more of your insights about Rubio's true character. Can you provide specific examples of how " he's a jerk, he's dishonest, he's unattractively ambitious, he plays with the truth (in clumsy ways . . ." Please understand I am NOT disagreeing with your point of view. I just thought he'd be the "least bad choice" among the field of top Republican candidates, as Kasich is near the bottom. I expect to get into more discussions about the election, and some of my friends are Moderate Republicans. Still can't understand why it's so hard for the party to come up with really, really smart and diplomatic choices.

On Drudge Report, which has a largely conservative Republican readership (but gets news junkies from all over the political spectrum, there was a post debate poll. 200,000 people voted. Unless there's a blowout (like the first Obama/Romney debate), people usually just pick the candidate they plan on voting for.

Trump did very well. Bush had just over 900 of those votes. That represents only one half of one percent.

Bush has tons of money, but if he can't get 1% on post debate poll where he didn't shit his pants on stage, he's damaged goods.

What are the stories about Rubio pocketing campaign money for his private use? I love how he highlights he was soooo poor unlike the others so of course he has to steal, doesn't he?

Jeb is a mess!

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Rubio is a Cuban. Hispanics hate Cubans. Plus, Rubio is a serial liar and a stupid one at that. He’s an opportunistic whore with no civic dirt towards the constituent. Politically, I believe he’s doomed.

Can we just get a person nominated with the public servant mind instead of these power hungry sycophants?

Sexy Ben Sasse for the WIN.

R22 Rubio sucks.

Cruz was born under the Canadian flag. For originalists in the Supreme Court - which is every justice republican president's put there - he would be ineligible. And in this case the liberal justices would probably agree. Good!

R25 Cruz sucks.