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

Yeah, the nation needs another Bush just like it needs another recession!

Whatever makes the party think that Jub would be a viable candidate???

But I love the fact that these clowns can't field a candidate for love nor money--even all the Koch's money!

Oy vey. Wow!

This primary has been like watching a seven car head-on collision in slow motion.

w-o-o-a-h-h-r-r-g-g-h-h!!! *crash*

#1.1:But I love the fact that these clowns can't field a candidate for love nor money--even all the Koch's money

Oh I love that play on words!

#1.2:in slow motion.

And I do mean S_L_O_W!

Titanic slow

the ABC news guy reported gossip

No, they reported what an unnamed source insinuated to them, something which has been a mainstay of respectable and respect-worthy journalism for ages.

I have been dreading this for months since they began this circus. THey have planned it so Jeb will be untouched from the dirty primaries and will not receive full scrutiny.

Trust them not.

Yeah I was worried about that too, but by the same token, it would be far easier to paint Jeb Bush with the "Bush did this" brush than to paint, say, Romney with that brush. As long as Obama is running against Romney, it is significantly effective to use the rejoinder that the President isn't running against GWB, when highlighting that the Great Recession was GWB's fault, but with Jeb Bush as the candidate, that rejoinder would have a lot less impact.

I think Obama saw that coming.

Notice the recent weeks of calculated news, The Church/ birth control trap, the upcoming budget trap, Harry's threat to either act on appointments or there will be recess appointments.

These are meant to expose the whole party sector by sector and use the news, probably the most believable source, much better than a paid advertisement.

So, now the party is painted and it won't matter who they "Call For", it's the party connection that will screw the candidate.

call for Bush ?

lmfao !

gotta love the rights insanity.

In that case even W. would vote for Obama.

After the Florida fiasco with the Bushes .... nothing surprises me when it comes to GOTP politics.

They are intentionally brewing a perfect storm and using PAC money to stir the pot and manipulate the ingredients.

Although a candidate with the last name Bush would be anathema in my opinion ... the idea that they will pull a rabbit out of the hat has been in the back of my mind all along.

GOTP money is pulling all the strings behind the scenes for the first time ever .... and the choreographers are those who meet in secret with the Koch brothers.

hmm Ellis as president, maybe his daddy can cry him into running.

Maybe he can follow in the family footsteps and help those like bin laden family to hide its assets.

THey have planned it so Jeb will be untouched from the dirty primaries and will not receive full scrutiny.

Jeb has been received more inside out scrutiny than the Dems candidates.

No he hasn't.

I thought GOP was going for by in 2012.

Why all the top shelf candidates sat it out.

They knew econ was going to be bad for a few years. Let Democrats take the blame. Then swoop in to claim recovery in 2016.

Hopefully, GOP tears itself apart this year. Then we can have Biden succeed Obama.

Then we can have Biden Warren succeed Obama.

Now doesn't that sound better Zoo?

They knew econ was going to be bad for a few years. Let Democrats take the blame. Then swoop in to claim recovery in 2016.

That may have been their plan before their obstruction failed and the economy started picking up. Their backup plan of thinning out the lower income voters is still in full swing though. Now they are hoping that voter suppresion along with the fright-wing propaganda will be enough to make it a close enough election for them to steal.

Then we can have Biden succeed Obama

I truly hope Biden steps aside, and does so in an organized manner that passes the baton smoothly onto someone else.

Biden will be 73 in 2016. Biden is as old, now, as Reagan was when he was first elected, and Reagan is the oldest man ever elected to the office of the presidency. While it may seem ageist, it isn't: Biden is not only old, but he's not a remarkably healthy man (something which Barack Obama is). Biden has suffered from cerebral aneurysms and from atrial fibrillation. Indeed, it was the fact that Obama is so healthy that made so many folks feel comfortable voting for Obama/Biden in 2008 - the chances of health problems affecting Obama are so remarkably low that that makes up for Biden's medical history. But four years from now, Biden will be older than many of our parents lived, and he wouldn't be the "backup quarterback" anymore but the first stringer, so his medical history would be just too much to overcome.

I've heard talk of Sanders/Warren 2016. Just musings I'm sure.

I'd suggested a constitutional amendment some time ago that if your last name is Bush you're not ALLOWED to run for POTUS again. Guess it didn't take off as well as I'd hoped.

With that said, The CONCEPT of yet another BUSH in the freaking WH would finally be the straw that would send me to Canada.

You talking Bernie Sanders? I love the guy but he's as old or older than Biden. I'm hoping nothing medically happens to Biden but having him not finish a second term and installing the next viable candidate to complete his term would be ideal. I doubt Biden's ego would let him do it but he would gain in stature with me and a lot of Dems. Has a sitting VP ever taken one for the team?

“publicly call for the party to find a new candidate,” likely former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Good grief! How out of touch with America can you get. Even the Republican Party wants to forget George W Bush, and now someone is suggesting his brother run for office. The George W Bush was a neo con administration led by Dick Cheney. Maybe they can put Cheney in a Dr Strangelove type electric wheelchair with oxygen. Then we can invade Iran and start another multi trillion dollar quagmire to feed contracts to the military industrial complex.

The Republican Party has been dealing with the problem of how to assimilate Teapublicans and accommodate the right wing and retain their independents, moderates and cross over voters. The question of how to win the primaries has been concessions to the right wing. The problem is that this has alienated the independents, moderates and cross over voters. If they don't show up at the ballot box to vote Republican in 2012 in the general election, it can be assumed that they are not going to win the election.

Now,pinch-hitting for mitt romney,jeb bush. Different people,same BS. Strike 3...yerrrr' out.

Maybe they need to hold more debates so Republican voters can make up their minds.

The Dems "accommodate" all the branches that could help them to be eleted.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I'm keen on Sanders myself. Just put Warren at the top of the ticket, maybe paired with Steve Beshear (nothing about the guy specifically, just playing demographics there)?

NEWS FLASH,

Sarah Palin says she is ready to go.

Isn't part of what is really interesting about this is that the GOP does not consider, Santorum, Paul or Gingrich as viable options? It's Rmoney or go to a Hail Mary with Jeb Bush. Ha. If that's the best they can do, we're ready for them.

CCArm

Then we can have Biden Warren succeed Obama.

Now doesn't that sound better Zoo?

Whatever floats your boat. As long as it's not a GOP Clown.

determined0a1

Jeb has been received more inside out scrutiny than the Dems candidates.

When and where?

The Bush name is pretty much rolled in the dirt and pooped upon since Dubya. This ain't happening.

YES! Jeb Bush?! YES! He's WAAAYYY Better!...//s//...

Thinknaboutit

They knew econ was going to be bad for a few years. Let Democrats take the blame. Then swoop in to claim recovery in 2016.

That may have been their plan before their obstruction failed and the economy started picking up. Their backup plan of thinning out the lower income voters is still in full swing though. Now they are hoping that voter suppresion along with the fright-wing propaganda will be enough to make it a close enough election for them to steal.

You've got their playbook down to a tee.

We've just got to show up in large enough numbers to prevent them from doing it.

We had enough Bush's as POTUS.

Even the Republican Party wants to forget George W Bush, and now someone is suggesting his brother run for office.

The rethuglicons are so desperate at this point, if they could draft a Cheney-Rumsfeld ticket at this point and they would think they'd won the Powerball lottery!

It would be hard to come up with a better way to throw an election.

Jeb Bush? The same Republi-Frankenstein monster body with a Jeb head sewn on.

Buckeye Voter @ #1.26:

Maybe they need to hold more debates so Republican voters can make up their minds.

I realize full well, Buckeye, that you were being facetious—partially, at least—but there is actually a great deal of truth in what you are saying. After eight seemingly interminable years of seeing this nation pillaged by rampant deregulation and virtually brought to the edge of the abyss by unbridled selfishness and greed; of being duped into prosecuting a needless, nightmarish war of attrition in Iraq that brought tragic death and disfigurement to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and tens of thousands of [primarily] American and British military personnel; of witnessing the relentless diminishment of our stature in the international community by the likes of brazen, consciousless brigands like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, et al., and now after more than twenty-five GOP debates featuring a motley crew of world-class hypocrites, grifters and nincompoops in this endless election cycle, dyed-in-the-wool Republicans still don't get the fact that the wool has been pulled over their eyes. Unless they are members of the privileged inner circle, initiates of a fiercely clannish economic and political elite, they are being offered nothing of any real or lasting value: their candidates are phantoms.

The nature of political discourse and of the dissemination of [dis]information in this country—the ebb and flow of the entire American electoral process—has clearly morphed over these past forty or fifty years into something truly insidious, a surreal and often inhuman hybrid of misogyny, homophobia, racism, and sadomasochism. It is far worse than an aberration: it has become a perversion. Apparently, that's the red meat upon which many misguided Americans thrive, and they're clamoring for more.

Bushwhacked.

Jeb wouldn't get it, too many skeleton in his closet, however he has already come out and said he might, might consider 2016 but not now, it is too late.

So, essentially, Karl Rove has already admitted defeat, called for a "do over" and even invoked the one political name which will ensure Obama's re-election - because we all know that every misstep of the other two Bush's will be plastered all over the TV screens, newspaper ads, and the blogosphere. Let's not forget that we now have many conservatives, GOP, and TP ON RECORD saying they didn't like what Bush did. Those pronouncements are golden in ads.

If the GOP is SOOOOOO inept, that it hasn't been able to come up with a viable candidate, out of the original NINE prospects, what makes anyone think the GOP could possibly lead this country?

Good one, Karl. Keep up the good work.

Geez....

Why don't they just call for Bozo the Clown or Ronald Mc Donald???

At least those two would actually FIT the perception of this GOP primary. Ronald, especially, since Bozo never hawked anything.

How many nasty posts about the former Governor Bush!

Ok, then....bring Sarah.

by all means bring on Sarah Failin!

We could use another laugh line or 50 from her! :)

By all means...Bring the quitter. We are looking for a rout after all and the one that claims to be undefeated is thoroughly defeatable

Oh top, weneverknowuntilallthevotesarecounted.

Oh top, weneverknowuntilallthevotesarecounted.

Hopefully ALL the votes will be counted.

BWhahahahaha, The GOP is in dire straits.

determined0a1

How many nasty posts about the former Governor Bush!

Ok, then....bring Sarah.

Wow, determined - you Republicans really are throwing in the towel, aren't you?

I really do hope you guys drag your party back from the far-right edge of never and reclaim reality. The country needs two viable parties. All this purity testing going on with the GOP just makes moderates shake their heads.

The next Republican pol who uses the term "RINO" should be thrown a blanket party - by the rest of the Republican Party.

I really do hope you guys drag your party back from the far-right edge of never and reclaim reality. The country needs two viable parties. All this purity testing going on with the GOP just makes moderates shake their heads.

As a former GOP supporter, I've given up on ever being able to recover anything "viable" from the detritus that is the half-egocentric-self-enriching, and half-reactionary-theocratic two-headed monster that is today's Republican Party.

My hope, now, is that the GOP simply gets flushed down the toilet, and the Democratic Party splits into two parties due to the excessive weight of representing what would by then be such a vast majority of Americans.

Wow, determined - you Republicans really are throwing in the towel, aren't  you?

Nah, but it's interesting to read all kind of nasty posts about anyone that the name is mentioned as possible candidate for the elections.

I don't give a penny for the GOP/Rep party. Therefore now I consider myself an Independent voter.

I would like to see in the perfect nominee:

The savvy of Newt.

The class of Mitt.

Demonizing Sarah, Mitt, Newt, Ron and even Santorum (I can't stand him) is not the way to gain votes for our gracious President. We are not in the time of Al Capone.

determined0a1

... it's interesting to read all kind of nasty posts about anyone that the name is mentioned as possible candidate for the elections.

Well - in all seriousness, that's because with the exception of former candidate Jon Huntsman, not a single one of the "conservative" field of candidates fighting for the GOP nomination is worth either a bucket of warm spit, or any consideration whatsoever from me. Think what you will, but trust me on this -- I am very much a middle ground voter on a lot of levels, and this GOP bears no resemblance to anything I've known from them in 45 years of voting.

Let me clarify: I think several of them have legitimate psych/personality issues -- borderline personality, sociopathy, narcissism -- if they aren't halfway down the road to insane.

Huntsman's moderate enough and sensible enough to have made a viable candidate. Sure, he pandered to the far right like the rest, but then - not really like the rest. They couldn't get on their knees for the RWNJs fast enough. That's why Huntsman's out of the race.

determined0a1, you've been on the right side of the aisle for some time: can you please explain to me how, and why, the GOP's gotten hooked on the litmus tests, party purity demands, and on labeling anyone remotely centrist as a RINO - then politically deporting them?

I fail to see how any moderates and independents can look at the way this has all shaken out in the last few years, and not be completely disgusted.

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WaltUU
No, they reported what an unnamed source insinuated to them, something which has been a mainstay of respectable and respect-worthy journalism for ages.

AKA gossip

I agree, MSM gossip has a genteel veneer of respectability that has been gained over many years. This seeded article reeks with somebody telling somebody something on the QT . . . which . . . is . . . gossip. We are party to giving it respectability even as we see how perverted this type of 'news' has become.

I am a conservative since I was born. Not for some time.

The more rabid that the Dems/Left get the more fun that it's produced because the Party is as full of mud as the Republicans, the only difference is that the Dems try very hard to sweep it under the rug of : the poor, the immigrants, the rest of whoever they can find to have their vote, go to the "sleep" mode every 4 years.

determined0a1

I am a conservative since I was born. Not for some time.

Born with an elephant-shaped birthmark? :)

The Dems convinced moi that they were not the role model to follow.

Claiming that you were indoctrinated into a cult when you were a child, before your faculties were fully developed, instead of joining it of your own accord, once you were intelligent and responsible enough to make decisions for yourself, may gain you pity, but it doesn't actually gain you any other deference, if what you're aligned yourself to is itself indefensible.

The Dems convinced moi that they were not the role model to follow.

Yea, because the gay bashing, anti-science, anti-education, anti-women's rights Republican Party is such a great role model. LMFAO. I always find it funny when people can longer say they are Republican yet they get so offended when people point out exactly how ridiculous the Republican party has become due to the take over by the Religious Right in this country, yet you never see them offended by Republicans bashing Democrats.