Oh, come on, Republicans. You’re ruining what should be a sure thing. Again.
This new poll is getting some attention today:
A brand-new national NBC/WSJ poll finds Jeb Bush leading the crowded Republican presidential field, with 22% of GOP primary voters saying he’s their first choice…
75% of Republican primary voters in our new poll say they could see themselves supporting Bush — up from 70% in April and 49% in March. Bottom line: While Jeb has plenty of potential problems to overcome (his last name, his positions on immigration and Common Core, his desire to run a general-election campaign instead of one aimed at GOP primary voters), this poll is very good news for him.
This is why the Republican Party is becoming less and less relevant by the day. You had a nice run in the White House on and off the last few decades, GOP, but apparently American voters want to extend this trend of having you lose.
If this poll is to be taken seriously–and it should, since the oblivious masses are swayed by headlines about polls–this nation is well into its fundamental transformation. The other candidates need to step up their games right quick and figure out how to get acquainted with the constituency, or Jeb Bush! will be the name in the minds of most of those thinking about voting Republican this upcoming primary season.
Why have the White House, the Democratic Party, and the Mainstream Media been relentless in talking about Jeb Bush! on social media these last few months? They do it because they’re certain Jeb cannot beat their candidate, who at this point still appears will be Ms. Makes-No-Difference-That-My-State-Emails-Were-Kept-on-Private-Servers-Shameful-Bitter-Clingy-White-People. While many find the idea incomprehensible that Hillary has any chance at all of becoming the most powerful leader on the planet, people had better start comprehending it. With Bush! and all the negative stigma that comes with that name, all the jokes about him that will be made, and all the worst he’s ever done and said that will come to light, liberals are drooling with hungry anticipation of the battle to come.
Many on the Right are well aware that our views are not represented equally in this country as far as public exposure in the press goes. Our side gets shut down. The matters we bring up are criticized, ridiculed, and diminished. Don’t expect the vetting and exposure of presidential candidates to be treated equal. Don’t count on the headlines to suddenly start saying with any consistency that Cruz, Rubio, or Perry had a terrific and important speech today or that another Clinton, a Sanders, or an O’Malley presidency is a threat to our freedom and recovery from the damage, division, and strife that the country is enduring now. It’s not going to happen. Having a Bush! on the general ballot ensures that many conservatives will stay home on Election Day less than a year and a half from now, just as they did in 2008 and 2012 when Republican primary voters chose to put up those who the media had chosen for them.
The other Republican candidates, the people who support each of them, and everyone who wants this slow but accelerating implosion of our United States to finally end must come up with a strategy and execute that strategy before Bush! Jeb Bush! runs away with the national Republican spotlight.
Is another Bush! really the best this country has to offer? No? Then Bush’s! opponents have to figure out how to prove it. They can’t count on the news to do it for them. It won’t be easy, but it can be done. So get to work. Our broken country depends on one of you to fix it.
Is a Bush!-versus-Clinton! face-off for certain, and would it make Hillary a shoe-in? Of course not. But the other candidates won’t make it to the general election and win it by making whoopsies, like the one NBC noted, when tragedies like the Charleston shooting happen:
In an interview with the conservative site Newsmax, Rick Perry said: “‘This is the M.O. of this administration, anytime there is a accident like this,’ Perry told Steve Malzberg. ‘You know, the president’s clear. He doesn’t like for Americans to have guns, and so he uses every opportunity — this being another one — to basically go parrot that message.'” Accident? Perry’s campaign later said he meant “incident.” He later cleaned things up when speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition on Saturday.
Ugh. Sometimes one wrong word is all it takes to take yourself out of contention. Get it together, you all.
