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‘Top GOP Senator’ To ABC News: If Romney Loses Michigan, ‘He Will Publicly Call’ For Jeb Bush

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For those out there loving the current Republican race but worrying that it has become somewhat orthodox in appearance and stable in candidates and support numbers, fear not: ABC News’ Jonathan Karl has the blind item for you. In the most mysterious and, for the GOP, worrisome dispatch on the Republican field in a while, Karl reports that a “prominent Republican senator” told him that the Party will not stand for a Mitt Romney loss in Michigan, and that he expects a result like that to lead the Senator to “publicly call for the party to find a new candidate,” likely former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

RELATED: Sarah Palin To Eric Bolling: ‘I’m Game’ To Run For Office, ‘All Bets Are Off’ In A Brokered Convention

The report begins with an unsurprising statement: that Republicans cannot see Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich winning the general election (of course, since this is GOP establishment, Rep. Ron Paul isn’t even mentioned) and would have wanted a stronger candidate. “If Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race,” the top senator told Karl.

What is news in this dispatch, however, is that the Senator does not think it is too late to throw the entire GOP field out and just call for Jeb Bush to run:

“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.
The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not.

“We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up.
“He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.”

It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? “Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.

This report is important for two reasons, the first being obvious: that an establishment where “top Senators” (Saxby Chambliss? Orrin Hatch?) feel comfortable enough to gab to the media about how much they dislike the current field is one that will likely not do all the much to help whoever comes out of this race win. Someone with the experience of a top Senator knows how much damage these reports can do to a party, creating the image of a fragmented, Democrats-circa-1968 mess that RNC chair Reince Priebus seems to have absolutely no control over provides.

The second reason takes a bit more observation of the field. There are two very strong factions within the Republican Party that, some will argue, are responsible for tearing it apart the way it has been these past few months. The Senator only represents one of them. The other has barely anything to do with the RNC proper anymore, and happens to be prancing around the airwaves, calling out to voters, “Look at me! Vote for me! Disregard my complete lack of desire to do the work it takes to construct a presidential campaign!” Yes, the other half of the party wants a brokered convention, too; as much as the First Dude may claim he is supporting Newt Gingrich for the presidency, Sarah Palin‘s comments belie an endorsement not for the Speaker, but for chaos in itself– the sort of chaos from which she has a chance of arising victor.

Skeptics will note that the evidence for a parallel election being run in the Republican Party between Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin is merely her statements, often vague, and the word of an anonymous Senator. But the more these sort of comments and reports accumulate, the more apparent it is that the Tea Party put a serious dent into the establishment of the Republican Party in a way that left no desirable options on the official table for seemingly anyone in the Party.

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  • Anonymous

    If there’s one thing that will win around independent voters at a time the right are rattling sabres in the direction of Iran, it’d be a candidate running that’s a member of the Bush dynasty. Heaven knows, the last one did such a mighty fine job and left behind an America with a strong economy and a lot of allies on the world stage. :)

  • Anonymous

    Barely three years removed from the Bush economic collapse of 2008, even republicans have to realize just what a bad idea another Bush would be at this time.  Look no further than Florida, as Rick Scott has set about instituting every one of Jeb’s policies which are driving the state into the abyss.

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    If Senator Top won’t use his name, it may just be a Dem tactic and not true at all.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I’m fairly certain that a “brokered” convention is impossible as the process no longer includes brokers in the classic sense. Jeb is not on a single state ballot and has no chance of making it on a ballot before the convention. Republicans will have to wait, let the process play out and then unleash madness in Tampa. It would be the greatest reality TV show ever and the chances of the Republican party coming out the other end intact are slim to none. I think it’s a wonderful option.

  • Anonymous

    The damage may have been done already, even if Romney holds Michigan (which looks doubtful). Obama leads Romney in the polling according to RealClearPolitics by an average of 6, Santorum by 9, and Gingrich by 14 (Gingrich is a non-factor at this point).

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

  • Mo Fokker

    I guess the senator thinks the sheep aren’t falling into line. Even sheep have moments of rebellion.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t be too sure of that. The Republicans are looking for a savior after they foisted this clown show on the American public. A sober, sensible true conservative, without the attendant losing social conservatism of a Rick Santorum might be their only chance to excite the base and appeal to independents, even with a candidate named Bush.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    Bu… bu… bu… but the resident clownservatives were here braying “Mickey Mouse could win in 2012. Anyone but Obama!”

    What was that, clownservatives? Jeb Bush?
    THAT is soooooo funny, right there!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the republican collapse of the economy…. I am sure that it had nothing to do with regulators unleashed under expanded regulatory powers of the Community Reinvestment Act, or the Fed’s holding mortgage interest levels down to the point that the prices of homes spun out of control….  It had nothing to do with the Democrats in congress blocking any efforts from the Bush administration to address and reform the conditions that set up the housing crisis…  No it was all Bush and the republicans…  

    But I am kinda with ya there, the Bushes are progressive republicans, and progressives have done enough damage, we don’t need another in the White House, trading a Bush for Obama would accomplish little.  

  • Anonymous

    Jeb Bush is an illegal immigration enabler, and as a conservative I would never vote for him over any of the current group of Republicans.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Or, it may be a call to Willard to get his act together without undue public embarrassment. Stop wearing this phoney Momma jeans. Stop changing positions before every crowd to whom he speaks. Stop all of the shameless pandering and groveling. Stop being so prickly. Stop being so repulsive. Also, good CYA when he refuses to do anyting. All the Marys in Heaven know the man is incapable of admitting an error in judgment or a mistake. I think it’s genuine, Big Petty.

  • Anonymous

    Right … Just what we need another Bush..

    whatever happened to the; “Anybody can beat Obama” mantra?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m going to be in the UK on election day in November. I’ll vote early, but I’ll still will miss some of the fun. Then again, the election may actually end in Tampa. Sort of like one of those NFL playoff years of old when the NFC final is Dallas and Washington would play, Dallas would advance. In the AFC, the Little Sisters of the Poor and Dirty would play Our Mother of Perpetual Agony. The Little Sisters of the Poor and Dirty advance. They get walloped. Yet, they are the second best team? The NFC title game decided that.

  • Anonymous

    See, there’s the problem for the Republicans winning presidential elections right there.

  • Anonymous

    If you could have ANYBODY running for President, who would it be? I keep hearing how “*insert inanimate object/lower life form here* could beat Obama!!” Yet, I never hear who anybody actually wants to have run against him.

    Just curious.

  • Hugo Daun

    Imagine a Jeb Bush/Christine O’Donnell ticket…

    If successful, America would have two big bushes in the White House!

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Anonymous

    Romney, Bush, Gingrich, Clinton, Obama, they’re ALL puppets of the Elite.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    Jeb Bush ??? Have we crossed into the twilight zone?

  • http://twitter.com/weench165 NewYorker

    Awesome. Another bush to screw up our country. Disgusting.

  • http://twitter.com/weench165 NewYorker

    And what have you done to change it?

  • Anonymous

    That’s what we need  -  another Bush-hog.

  • Anonymous

    I voted for candidates OTHER than all of them! (I forgot McCain is a puppet, too, but I knew that Obama would be worse)
    Go Ron Paul! (who is against the Federal Reserve, which is a bankster organization that the Elite use to stay rich and he’s also against NDAA which is likely to be used by the Elite to throw “dissenters” into prison)
    Do you do anything?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yes. A crisis of identity, authority and therefore direction.

  • Anonymous

    Any report that wants to make an incredible claim but with no names is worthless.
    Jonathan Karl is a hack.
    He would never ever put out any story like that about Obama and if he did he would be made to answer for it…but it would never happen.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    After the last Bush disaster the GOP might be dumb enough to put up another Bush.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

     ”Stay out ‘da Bushes”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     I think they should nominate the ham sandwich they claim can beat him.

  • Anonymous

    Right, because everyone is clamoring for another Bush. The Republican Party leadership is a disaster. Why not run Palin? She’d lose but at least conservatives would have the exhilaration of watching the national media go insane and left wing loons bleed from their eyes.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Not really…..Although some of us dislike some of our candidates…. we are all  joined at the hip in hating Barack Hussein Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Hillary Rodham Clinton could beat Obama….. And her 18 million voters will show Obama that these ‘chickens will come home to roost’

  • Anonymous

    “we are all  joined at the hip in hating Barack Hussein Obama.”

    Well you will have another 4 years to hate him. Obama 2012

  • Anonymous

    Filed under “Wishful Thinking.”

  • Anonymous

    Okay, I’ll give you a few who aren’t running who I think are preferable to those who are, altbeit not perfect (but who is?). Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Bill Bennett (although he’s not really a politician), Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. John Thune, Sen. John Barasso (Wyoming), Cong. Dana Rohrabacher (California), Cong. Brian Bilbray (California), Cong. Steve King (Iowa), Sen. Jeff Sessions (Alabama), Speaker John Boehner, and Mike Huckabee. I’m sure I could name others, but those are all I can think of right now.

  • Anonymous

     If Obama is so easy to beat why wont they run? Maybe its the right wing extremism of the republican party?

  • Anonymous

    This is a reply to your question about why other Republicans aren’t running, given that Obama is so easy to beat. I never said Obama would be easy to beat.

  • Anonymous

    Almost makes you wonder how much involvement the GOP establishment had in fixing Iowa and New Hampshire for Romney? 

  • Anonymous

    I understand what you’re saying, and I agree it does seem to be a problem that there is no single candidate that most Republicans want to get behind right now. However, I think once the candidate has been determined the party will unite behind him. At least I hope so.

  • Mr. Awesome!

    Does anyone here remember when George Bush Senior was a New England Conservative that supported woman’s reproductive rights, (abortion)? Ronald Regan creamed him in the primaries by sucking up to the fundamentalist crowd (Who was spread out evenly between the two Parties) in the Midwest and the South (which is why the GOP went from merely conservative to bat shit crazy)-next thing you know ol’ poppy and his entire clan are from Texas! Next thing you know Ol’ George is Vice President and anti abortion: The man literally changed his stripes for the vote rather than standing by his own values!

    Elitism in America? The same family that traces their roots back to the founding fathers all attend the same elite private colleges and has had two Presidents within the last15 years?

    What was that old poem (yeah, it was about the Boston Brahmans, but I think it still applies):

    “And this is good old Boston,The home of the bean and the cod,Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,And the Cabots talk only to God.”

    Elitism in America; do you really want another phony Southerner in the Oval Office? THIS FAMILY LITERALLY CHANGED THEIR ACCENT FOR A VOTE AND KILLED THE  GOP!

    Do you think any of the GOP candidates could last ten second against any of the PreRonald Regan crowd?

    The party is dead, Bury it before it stinks up the place!

  • Anonymous

    Now it is up to a Bush to save the day? The very idea of it looks like the best that the republicans can do is put up yet another Bush and after the way republicans have treated this President??????? It would gridlock congress for another 4 years and if the republicans tried to change the rules of the Senate radically enough to frustrate any actions on the part of democrats *assuming they -the republicans- got a majority there this November and held the House* the country would go bat shit crazy over such a blatantly naked one party rule power grab, and currently sane republicans would join democrats in a war on conservatives and the right wingers who control the republican party.

    If the republicans come out of their convention with a Bush at the top of the ticket? now that would sink the party for a generation maybe more.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Talk about unleashing the madness, the republicans have already got the Florida National Guard reserved for their convention.  I sincerely hope we don’t have any hurricanes during that time, the National Guard may have it’s hands full.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The primary season is an ordered affair. Rules, process, deadlines and the like. If through an ordered affair the right fails to identify a standard bearer it becomes all the more difficult after sailing off the map and into unchartered waters. Senator X might call on Big Jeb but don’t think that Sister Sarah could resist inserting herself or that Newton Leroy would quitely fade to the background layer or that the Paul folks would flip even if Ron felt enough pressure to make such a request much less that Santorum would walk away from the joy resultant reocurring surge and thats not to mention Mitt and those who have invested tens of millions on a certainty denied and Limbaugh will bellow, McConnell will stew with the anger of a hunter outfoxed and Beck will show up to pray and lead while Breitbart will hunt for every stage to scream and cry and every precious moment will be connected to a tweet, status, upload, check-in, interview and oh yes the revolution will be televised but better yet the television will be a single thread running through a thick data layer that will be mined by the ages to come. And from all of that, something will be forced to rise.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe the republican party should run Democrat Hilary Clinton . Since they can’t find a Republican candidate of their own.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t say they were extreme. I said those candidates you named might not want to run because of the hard right turn the republican party has made.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    A Jeb candidacy would be a gift from heaven to Democrats, as it would illustrate that the Republican solution is to return to the failed George W. Boosh policies that got us into this mess.

  • Anonymous

     Where do we get those bumper stickers?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    That PUMA thing didn’t go anywhere last time, as much as the GOP hoped they could fool the public into believing they always loved Hillary.

  • Anonymous

    THAT IS YOUR LIST OF BETTER ALTERNATIVES? You are way to far gone for any known mental pharmaceuticals to help, no one on your list could win a national election, and it shows how ignorant you are about the public record some of them have that would guarantee they would lose and do so in a way that would have people saying WTF were they thinking when they decided to run.

    NONE OF THEM WOULD WIN and if you do not believe me ask them if they think they could and only CRAZY AS A LOON KING would say yes and thats because he lives 24/7 in an altered reality.

    Plus the words Christie and running in the same sentence is a pundits nightmare or dream come true when you think about it.Besides the fact that the presidential limo is armored and if Christie got in it the tires would explode. Think about the fact that Christie thinks a love seat is a small chair.

  • Anonymous

    One of my favorites and I love his rolling screen gag also. thanks for linking it.

  • Anonymous

    Jeb Bush has his own problems as does Neil Bush.  I think the GOP would be better off staying out of the bushes.

  • Anonymous

    I think Joe Scaroborough was right the other day when he was showing the honey bear turning from side to side.  It did look like Romney.  He would be better off sitting on a stool and taking questions from the audience.  If he can’t answer them in a complete manner, he has no business being the GOP candidate.

  • Verreauxii

    I like Jeb….but he would be far easy to demagogue. 

  • Anonymous

    Re: your reply to me about better alternatives to the current GOP candidates:
    You may be the one who needs pharmaceuticals. If you read the original post, the question wasn’t about who could beat Obama, it was about who one would rather have than the current group of candidates. I never thought for a minute that any of the people I mentioned could beat Obama, although they would all be a damn site better. And next time maybe you can tell us what you really think.

  • Anonymous

    Come on, KING???? no one thinks he is extreme? Ryan would have seniors on life support crawling in to polling stations to vote democrat. Boehner? now there is an image, him crying all the time is not the picture of a strong President. 2 wingers from California? NOT A CHANCE. Barasso? He has no national following and would be seen as a bought and paid for toady to corporate interests. Sessions? He would laugh in your face for suggesting it.Bennett? He would be flattered by the thought of anyone asking him to run and call security to have them escorted out of the building while sat there and laughed. Rubio? he is going to have trouble getting re-elected at it is and knows it.THUNE? He is an earmark king and has a record that would sink him as a national candidate. Huckabee is addicted to the cult of Huckabee image he has of himself and knows he would lose in a general election.

  • Anonymous

    If you can still say that four years from now then maybe that last comment can be taken seriously.

  • http://www.facebook.com/briantempleton71 Brian Templeton

    No matter how many Neocons come up to bat, they will all strike out.  

  • Anonymous

    Bush 2012 ?
    Really ?  Maybe Liz Cheney available for the 2 spot ?

  • Anonymous

    And please, for heaven’s sake, stop butchering America the beatiful! In fact:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbvi-sMok0I

  • Anonymous

    Another Bush will wind up in the White House when HELL FREEZES OVER!!!

    Conservatives are already p!ssed at the GOP establishment and the danger of many Conservatives sitting home in 2012 is scary as hell. 

    Let’s hope for a brokered convention and a REAL Conservative nominee for the presidency. 

    No more RINOS! No more NEO CONS!!!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yes… Yes indeed! Muhahhhhhh haa ha.. Cough cough. I mean…yes. Yes indeed.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sticking steadfast to the concept that the only hope for “SLICK” is for him to mime the rest of his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    I’m disgusted having to read through ALL the posts supporting GWB,the enormous avalanche of conservative voices is absolutely deafening.SHOCKED!!!!! SHOCKED!!!! I TELL YOU!!!!!!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I liked the Honey Bear as well.

    The stool is a good idea. I guess a swivel throne might be too patrician?

  • Dave Garry

    It’s too early for another Bush. I don’t think that’s going to fly.

    Too bad the GOP leadership is so damn corrupt so they won’t get behind Ron Paul, the only candidate who can draw enough votes from indys and truly anti-war dems to beat Obama. 

    Now, there is no way to prevent Obama from winning a 2nd term. Ron Paul’s supporters will not vote for the nominee, especially after all the BS they pulled in Iowa, Nevada and Maine.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    It would not surprise me that republican voters are stupid enough to want to coalesce around another rich wealthy economy destroying elitest like another Bush.  Those who voted for dubya the first and second time were stupid enough to be led to the slaughter by Bush GOP rhetoric, lies and coded language that pushes the buttons of stupid people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Put simply….the Bushes are just republicans.  There is not and never has been anything conservative about being a republican. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Sleeping with your mother again I see…

  • 12voltman1

    I said this during past week.Jeb was groomed for the job. He is suppose to be the smart one(Not tough) . Jeb has not had dirt thrown at him during the primary process. The GOP is not happy with what they have. Do not underestimate the power of the Bush’s and their ties within the government. Especially the CIA. Not as far fetched as one might think.
    Obama will beat him if he is nominated.

  • 12voltman1

    It stinks to high heaven right now!

  • 12voltman1

    Let me guess. A Ron Paul Moonie er….supporter

  • 12voltman1

    knew it!

  • 12voltman1

    There is dirt under every Bush!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, did I name your favorite puppet? Is yours Pinocchio (Obama)?

  • Anonymous

    Give me a break.  Jeb Bush is old news and has the wrong last name.  

  • Anonymous

    Exactly . W killed the goose.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    1. Anti-war Democrats already have Obama to vote for.
    2. Paul’s economics do not appeal to the vast majority of independents, Democrats, or even Republicans.
    3. At most, Ron Paul appeals to only 10% of the voting population, and that is being generous.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    As horrible and wicked as Poppy and W were in their Presidencies, it’s nothing compared to the secret life and persona of JEB Bush.

    JEB is the only member of the clan Bush that was a member of the Project For A New American Century, the notorious PNAC group, who were alleged to be the controlling entity in the 911 event with their Rebuilding America’s Defenses Document that called for a “Catalyzing event like Pearl Harbor” to turn America’s foreign policy into a murderous policy of conquest.

    Jeb Bush signed Florida TWO YEAR martial law emergency order 4 days BEFORE  the 911 attack.  Remember that ‘lil George was reading goat tales to kids in Sarasota, under his brothers jurisdiction, when the 911 illusion took place!

    EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261 ”WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to provide support to law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters;”Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (9/07/01)

    EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER  01-262, (Emergency Management)WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001 a combination of persons unknown carried out a series of terrorist acts resulting in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and an explosion at the Pentagon, costing the lives of many persons and resulting in injuries to many more; andWHEREAS, the scale of the destruction and the coordination, orchestration, and timing evident in these acts of terrorism suggest that they may be part of a larger pattern of acts of terrorism; andSection 1. - Because of the foregoing conditions, I hereby declare that a state of emergency exists in the State of Florida.Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (9/11/01)

    JEB KNEW!!!!!

  • Чёрт Возьми

     We “left wing loons” would be laughing our asses off! Nothing could better guarantee a total Democrat landslide than Palin running again, either for POTUS or VP. 

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Does that mean they are soiled?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Perhaps the unnamed senator should have said WHEN Romney loses in Michigan.
    The most recent polls from Michigan show Romney a percentage point or two below Santorum, which makes it a statistical tie. Even if it comes out like several other states, where the difference is only a few hundred votes, that is a tie in the one state that Romney supposedly should have no trouble in.

    Even those who say they support Romney now are probably holding their noses after he said the auto industry should have been allowed to fail.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Puppet? If that is your opinion, so be it. Be prepared to see that puppet win another term.

  • Anonymous

    Really? Dream on.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Can’t. I already ate it. It would have had to be thrown away long ago.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     That’s the best you’ve got? Dream on?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     It truly would be sad if Mitt couldn’t even win in Michigan where his father used to be governor. I highly doubt that Santorum will win Michigan either. So it looks as if it might be a Gingrich win.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     Hate to break it to you…Santorum won Iowa.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     The only Bush that I would want in the White House and I’m fairly sure they are not Republicans would be either Duke or Cousin Earl. Both of Bush’s Baked Bean’s fame. Duke the Dog, and Cousin Earl who doesn’t talk much. Duke would make it the third SOB Bush in the White House.

  • Anonymous

    You forget so soon that republicans controlled the presidency, congress, and the senate from 2003 to 2007.  That’s 4 full years of the GOP having more or less absolute power to do what they wanted.  

  • Anonymous

    I am a conservative and a tea party supporter. I like and respect George W. Bush–I recognize he did some things we conservatives don’t like, but I acknowledge he governed through tough times and made hard decisions. He was a leader, so I am not anti-Bush.

    But–I will NEVER vote for another Bush family member to be president.

    This is NOT an oligarchy.

    There are 300 million people in this country. One of them other than a Bush family member can be president. I am sure I am not alone in my views.

    If the GOP old guard thinks we’ll go along to get along with their pick–they are wrong. I like Jeb Bush well enough but that is not the issue. He will never be president because two family members is enough for the chief executive office.

    I’ll vote for Ron Paul as a third party write-in before I’ll support a third president from the same family.

    And that goes for any family. Kennedy, Bush or Adams…

  • Jardino

    Zombie Reagan is the GOP’s only hope.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5Q6J6E7OFWQZVUGZSM6MG7DZKY Tex

    You sure got this part right, MR SENATOR THAT’S TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRITCHES, and I quote, “We’d get killed,” the senator said. . .

  • Anonymous

    You have just distilled the reason the party is going down in flames. It is obvious that the current GOP base could give a rat’s ass for the good of the country and are just obsessed with getting the Kenyan/Muslim/Non-American out of office.

    Stewardship of the country with a credible conservative candidate, no way. Just bring on the haters and idiots no matter how ill equipped they are to be president.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5Q6J6E7OFWQZVUGZSM6MG7DZKY Tex

    Keep manipulating the elections to dismiss the will of the people in this great country, which will seal your fate.  We are done with all of you stuffed shirt games with money, soldiers and laws!  This is your last warning to get out before patriots take you communist bastards out.  Wanna play hot shit, go to Syria or Mars, assholes!

  • Anonymous

    I know, it is impossible to imagine that panic is
    setting in when they have such a wonderful slate of candidates on the ticket
    now. 

     

    Keep playing to the most extreme part of the base, (let’s
    invade Iran and ban contraceptives being just two of the winning platforms that
    are being pushed) how can the GOP lose.

  • Anonymous

    More like wet dream on.

  • expatpatriot

    Self-delete.

  • expatpatriot

    It would be interesting to observe W’s behavior during a Jeb campaign.

    “Interesting” if you like slasher films.

    Maybe they’ll fly him to Crawford (he does still own the dude ranch there, right?) and just pen him up for 9 months. Surely they have a spare corral.

  • Anonymous

    Wait to see the puppeteers (who are Racist and HATE O’Bummer) throw him to the wolves BEFORE the election because they want to Divide the country, getting “rioting” started by all the lemmings who love him, so they can install their New World Order (throwing the constitution that O’Bummer hates anyway)

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Wow! Glenn Beck really got to you!
    I have not seen that much paranoia in anybody else.
    I must assume you are trying to be as absolute ass, ‘cuz nobody believes that stuff.
    Ask Ron Paul whether he believes Obama hates the Constitution.

  • Anonymous

     Don’t beat around the Bush!

  • Anonymous

    You already have a competent President in the White House already. Vote Obama!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Jeb is being groomed for the 2016 race.  I think if there is a brokered convention we could get Chrisite or Walker or maybe even Bloomberg to run in the general election.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

     Your darn right he knew!  Thank you brother for reminding us just how evil and rotten this family can be!

  • 12voltman1

    Hillary could beat Obama? Where were you in 2008?
    A coma?

  • Anonymous

    This so called report is so full of shit its not funny!!!! He has created a STRAW Senator to right a store that he himself is the the crator of, don’t fall for this crap. 

  • Anonymous

    You vote Obama. I’ll vote for ANYONE else.

  • Mr. Awesome!

    This liberal is appalled that anyone would invoke 9/11 as way to manipulate an election. That is what the right wingers do.you two are either deluded or right-wingers posing as liberals to make normally rational free thinkers look like conspiracy nuts.

    If I am wrong about you two , do us a favor stick positive rather than nominal arguments. we don’t need to exploit a tragedy to win. We have a strong economic policy, and basic logic.

    Save the 9/11 conspiracy stuff for the alien Elvis JFK love-in blogs.

  • Mr. Awesome!

    Don’t think I am just picking on on republicans, the Bush’s were just the best example! Elitism is a serious issue and the democrats have their hands in it too.

    Think about how divisive we are here on this web-site. Now ask yourselves why do Senators serve Six years and Congress people only serve two? Why are people with such divisive and different opinions working together and compromising our values in committee-if the minority committee leader hates the Majority committee leaders opinions so much; how are they possibly able to compromise? I don’t know if I have answer, but sometimes I feel that all this I hate the Liberals, I hate the conservatives stuff is an act! Sometimes I think they are best buddies putting on a show for all us children.

    Were the Founding Fathers attempting to make us work together or did they design a government that was meant to keep us at each others throats, just enough so we could never effect the status quo? Did they want to preserve freedom, justice and preserve the Republic and allow it to evolve with the times, or did they simply want to preserve freedom and democracy for white men? ( I am white guy, so don’t go all anti minority on me-blame me!).

    The slavery argument suggests that the founders wanted the Republic to evolve with the times. Thomas Jefferson was adamantly proslavery in his youth, but in his old age he wrote of slavery as “holding a wolf by it’s ears:” what did that mean?

    Did he have regrets about enslaving people, or was he afraid of his own slaves? I cant say, but I believe this is proof that the Founders intended our Government to change with the times. This meant free slaves giving woman the right to vote, allowing people control over their own reproductive systems, etc. etc. etc.

    Then I read about Corporate Personhood, and how the wealthiest people in the world are paying less taxes than me-a humble teacher! And just when I feel an immense amount of Pride swelling in chest about the Legacy of the Founders I have to ask myself: What was their intent? Did they want us to have a say in our government, or did they want, The “The wise the wealthy and the well-borne? (Alexander Hamilton)” to rule?

    See you got me going! Now I have to go watch cartoons so I don’t obsess about this until Tuesday!

  • Anonymous

     Obama will raise taxes on cigarettes as he did in his first term, he will continue to trample the greatest document in the history of the world: the United States Constitution which Liberals think is a “living, breathing” document that is malleable and can be changed by Presidential edict. Do you want “free” (lol) healthcare? Fine, change the Constitution. How? Simple, ratify an amendment, good luck getting the necessary votes. Do you want to get rid of all guns (lol)? Then do away with the Right To Bear Arms first. Want to start illegal wars without Congressional approval (Libya) then change the Constitution. Free contraceptives? Change the Constitution. Liberals must have all been absent in grade school when the Constitution was discussed, or they all have the attitude displayed during the Obamacare Congressional hearings uttered by Florida Representative (D) Alcee Hastings, “Rules? There are no rules here, we make them up”.

  • Anonymous

    I’m loving the Teapublican “death spiral”!

  • 12voltman1

    Are you glad you got that off your chest?

  • Mr. Awesome!

    wooooshaaaaa-much better

  • Anonymous

    In polls, Paul trails Obama miserably with women and minorities, something that will only get worse under the scrutiny of a general election. Political observers have said that nowadays, candidates for office need at least 40% of the Hispanic vote to win. Over 70% of Hispanics disapprove of Paul. Over 95% of African-Americans do. Women hate that he said in his book “Freedom Under Fire” that women in the work place deserve some responsibility for sexual harassement if they don’t quit their jobs. To quote: “Why don’t they quit when the so-called harassment starts? How can the harassee escape some responsibilty for the problem?” Yeah, Paul, in a tough economy, when your employer keeps groping you and trying to feel you up, go ahead and quit or you’re “asking for it.” Plus, months ago, he signed the Personhood Pledge with 14th Amendment rights, stating that life begins at fertilization and that all forms of contraception should be outlawed. For an OB/GYN, this guy is as misogynistic as all the other idiots in the GOP field. His brand of anti-woman extremism probably believes that women that get raped were asking for it, too.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YQ3PQLDQXHM2QWFRCG2DATJYIM CHARLES

    My mother knew people who were good friends with the George HW Bush family. These ‘friends’ said there wasn’t a male member of the Bush family smart enough to be President. I think they were correct at least once and possibly twice.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    “Poppy” Bush made his “bones” by running the JFK job.  He was a made man after that.

    Dark Legacy – The Bush connection to the JFK assassination (watch all 5 parts)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Regarding the Bush / Kennedy actions, the father killed the Father, and the son killed the Son.   The cabal of that Coup d’Etat still rules through their “liberal” Manchurian, and now  it’s JUBUS’s turn.

  • Anonymous

    But for all of us who believe the Republican party follows an egregious ideology, this current state of affairs is wonderful!

  • Anonymous

    You do know that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was patterned after a plan the Republicans came up with years ago, don’t you?
    You need to take every attribute you ascribed to the Liberals and apply them to the GOP and you will be MUCH closer to the truth.
    How about illegal wars WITH Congressional approval? (Iraq)  All Bush had to do was lie, lie, lie, like the good little fascist he is and we attacked, pretty much bombing that country back to the Stone Age.  And for what?  So that his good friends in the military/industrial complex could make even MORE obscene amounts of blood money.
    Do you REALLY believe the garbage you’ve posted here?  If so, you need to look at the FACTS, NOT the Fox talking points, and see what is REALLY there, instead of only seeing what you WANT to see.
    Matthew 13:13 ”Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”  

  • Anonymous

    Do not criticize Jeb Bush. Let him get the nomination. I can think of no one who will do a better job of reelecting Obama than Jeb Bush.

    “GO JEB”

  • M Flynn

    The Repubs had a rational candidate – Jon Huntsman – oops, but then you’d need rational voters.

  • http://novenator.tumblr.com/ novenator

    I salivate at the prospect of
    another Bush running. There would be no better way to tie in what the
    cons of today are trying to do with what the cons under W actually did.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah but Jeb is smarter than his brother and won’t run for POTUS. He knows there was damage done!

  • Anonymous

    You won’t be holding your breath on that will you?

  • Anonymous

    Yup and there are good reasons they wouldn’t run. The current circus show would create more meteors to crash and burn. Just imagine the skeletons in their closet.

  • Anonymous

    LOL! So now 3yrs later history is going to peg GWB a progressive. Yup none of it is his fault. He did such a great job that not one single candidate has mentioned his success. Not one has indicated they would follow in his footsteps of great accomplishment. The Republican Tea Party can’t distance themselves from him far enough the planet is to small!

  • Stoned Panguin

    Joined at the hip? That would be front to back, wouldn’t it?

  • Stoned Panguin

    Fox News much?

  • ORAXX

    The more one reads about the Bush family, the more one finds to fear.  For example, Prescott Bush, Jeb and W’s grandfather, was literally Hitler’s banker in the U.S. and had his bank seized for trading with the enemy.  Prescott’s dealing with general Smedley Butler also provides interesting reading.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000741211083 Kathy Grimes

    Hmmm…an article based on a ‘top GOP senator’ who is not named.  For some reason that lacks a certain credibility.  It seems that this ‘plan B whisper campaign’ to replace Mitt Romney might be the work of those who would benefit from it most…the Obama campaign.  Their entire goal is to try and get rid of Mitt Romney so they do not have to run against him. Unfortunately, a certain percentage of the Republican party seem to helping them because they are too dense to see it.

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