FiveThirtyEight: GOP Field Hasn’t Been This Split in 40 Years

[Winehole23]

Seems there was a question about whether Univision would show proper gra ude for access. Adelante, Telemundo!

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Poll: Hillary Clinton Comfortably Leads Mitt Romney And Crushes Jeb Bush

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/...iticus+USA+%29

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the brainless brain surgeon

Ben Carson Gives ISIS Credit

The Tea Party-aligned potential presidential candidate spoke on Thursday at the RNC’s winter meeting, declaring that America has lost the commitment to principles that drove us through the Revolutionary War — while by contrast, he says, the radical Islamic jihadists of ISIS actually believe in something worth fighting for.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorse-this-ben-carson-gives-isis-credit/

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the Repug Klown Kar could be crowded, again. Man-on-dog Catholic Santorum up next?

South Carolina’s Graham Considers Presidential Run

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/us...s&emc=rss&_r=0

[Wild Cobra]

It will come down to Romney and Bush. Those are your heavyweight fundraisers. The rest of the field will get starved out after the first few primaries. Perry and Huckabee might as well throw in the towel now.

I think your prediction is probably right.

I would prefer Huckabee of the bunch.

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Eyeing A Third Run, Romney Faces Skeptical Voters And Doubtful Allies

Mitt Romney’s announcement that he is pondering a third run for the White House with a focus on fighting income inequality and poverty presents challenges that would appear to be particularly difficult for Romney to surmount.

Even some Romney aides found it difficult to explain how his new focus on poverty — one of three principles Romney laid out to Republican leaders Friday night in San Diego, without adding specific policy details — would mesh with his previous messages.

Advisers to Romney said that if he runs, he plans to counter criticism of his approach by emphasizing his years as a leader in his Mormon church — work that Romney highlighted Friday.He cited his wife, Ann, as testifying to his intent.

( Well, if Queen "You People" Ann supports her hubby, that's good enough for me! Go Willard! )

public emphasis on his religious background is new. In 2008, concerned about some evangelical voters’ hostility to Mormonism, Romney rarely spoke of it.

Romney faces the additional job of convincing Republicans anxious for a fresh face that the best visage is that of a political veteran and two-time presidential loser.

little organic groundswell for Romney appeared to be developing.

“I don’t think it is good for the party,” he said of a third Romney run. “They need some new blood and new ideas ( but they won't get them! ) … He can’t just switch and say, ‘I’m the new Romney’ and get away with it.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/analysis-eyeing-third-run-romney-faces-skeptical-voters-doubtful-allies/

Bishop Gecko is a two-time loser and the Bush family is a two-time loser, Pappy "winning" the Gulf War but losing reelection, and dubya being so toxic that the Repug campaigns and candidates kept him invisible in '08 and '12.

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Christie Sinks To Embarrassing New Low In 2016 Poll

Republicans are intrigued by several potential candidates.

They agree 59 to 26 percent that Mitt Romney should launch a third presidential bid — a much warmer reception than he’s received from party insiders —

and 50 to 27 percent that former Florida governor Jeb Bush should try to become the third member of his family to win the White House.

Former Arkansas governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee also polls well, with 40 percent wanting him to run and 29 percent hoping he declines.

But Republicans are much more sour on Christie: Just 29 percent want to see him join the race, while 44 percent disagree.

Only former Alaska governor Sarah Palin polls worse, with 59 percent urging her to stay out of the race and 30 percent hoping she jumps in.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/christie...low-2016-poll/

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Christie, a HUGE grease bag, and supreme athlete (videos of him falling on his stomach and ass)

http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorse-...%20-2015-01-30

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Jeb Bush's Former Classmates Say He Was A Hash-Smoking Bully

Thanks to the Boston Globe, we know what it's like to get high with Jeb Bush.

The newspaper spoke with several of Bush's former classmates from the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., who portrayed the former Florida governor as a stoner and a bit of a bully.

Former classmate Peter Tibbetts told the Globe that he smoked marijuana for the first time with Bush and other classmates in the woods outside their dorm building. He recalled another time when he smoked hashish, or cannabis resin, in Bush's dorm room to the tune of Steppenwolf's 1968 hit "Magic Carpet Ride."

Other former classmates described Bush as "physically imposing" and said he sometimes bullied smaller students. Tibbetts told the Globe that he regretted a bullying incident where he and Bush sewed a short classmate's pajama bottoms shut.

The potential Republican presidential candidate has previously copped to youthful marijuana use and since opposed pot legalization efforts.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

Jeb "the smart one", a wealthy, en led prick, Wall St's ideal candidate.

Kock Bros will probably support their Kockenstein monster Scott Walker in the primaries.

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[unleashbaynes]

abbott is >>>>>>>>> perry so far

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abbott is >>>>>>>>> perry so far

Lt Gov really runs the govt and the legislature. Plenty of years remaing for TX Repugs to (to continue to ) up the TX 99%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuten...ernor_of_Texas

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abbott is >>>>>>>>> perry so far

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NJ Gov. Chris Christie could face federal investigation over prosecutor’s firing

Federal law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and members of his administration, pursuing allegations the governor and his staff broke the law when they quashed grand jury indictments against Christie supporters, International Business Times has learned.

Two criminal investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday interviewed the man who leveled those charges, Bennett Barlyn. He was fired from the Hunterdon County prosecutor's office in August 2010, and subsequently brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the Christie administration, claiming he had been punished for objecting to the dismissal of the indictments of the governor's supporters for a range of corrupt activities.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/n...e+Raw+Story%29

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Jeb Bush’s new web chief scrambles to erase embarrassing tweets about gays and women

The founder of Hipster.com scrubbed more than 40 tweets denigrating the gay community and women after being hired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) budding presidential campaign, Buzzfeed reported.

Ethan Czahor’s Twitter account went from 177 posts to 132 after Bush hired him to serve as his chief technology officer.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/j...e+Raw+Story%29

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Jeb praising what a wonderful Pres dubya was. Let's go back for 8 Years of Bushisms

"Jeb Bush’s praise of his big brother’s presidency has got us thinking — back to the actual memories of the George W. Bush years. And if a Bush is about to hit the campaign trail again, it’s worth taking a look back at the last time one of the family was frequently speaking in public.

Click above to watch a clip reel of the best (and/or worst) of George W. Bush’s various bloopers and malapropisms — then watch this video!"



http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorse-...-%202015-02-06

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Jeb Bush releases eight years' worth of emails: Is that legal?

But some messages were personal appeals that included intimate details of people’s lives, medical and employment information, and even Social Security numbers – none of which were redacted,

Social Security numbers in particular are matters of public record only in very specific instances, such as when it is required by state or federal law or a court order.
In one of the emails Bush released, a man who served in the US Navy included his mother’s name and Social Security number in a plea to have his mother’s record expunged after she made a mistake while service “in the medical field as an Assistant

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Upd...-Is-that-legal

[CosmicCowboy]

Jeb Bush releases eight years' worth of emails: Is that legal?

But some messages were personal appeals that included intimate details of people’s lives, medical and employment information, and even Social Security numbers – none of which were redacted,

Social Security numbers in particular are matters of public record only in very specific instances, such as when it is required by state or federal law or a court order.
In one of the emails Bush released, a man who served in the US Navy included his mother’s name and Social Security number in a plea to have his mother’s record expunged after she made a mistake while service “in the medical field as an Assistant

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Upd...-Is-that-legal

Boo would have whined like a 4 year old if Bush had redacted any of his emails.

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Boo would have whined like a 4 year old if Bush had redacted any of his emails.

You Lie

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Jeb Bush was the key player in the Terry Schiavo fiasco. Michael Schiavo hasn't forgiven him.

“It was such an abuse of authority,” [a lawyer for Schiavo] said. “I think that really raises red flags about his character and his fitness to be president. Jeb didn’t get his way in the Schiavo case. I think he tried to take it out on Michael.”That, Michael Schiavo said this month, is what makes Jeb Bush “vindictive.” “Knowing that he had no standing in this, he made it worse for everybody,” he said. “He made life, for a lot of people—the nursing home people, the local police, lawyers—he made everybody miserable.”
What makes him “untrustworthy,” he said, is that he fought the courts as long as he did just because he didn’t like the decisions they kept making. “I wouldn’t trust him in any type of political office,” he said.

Of special note in the Schiavo case is that all of the advocates of legislative intervention Jeb included either knew that they were on clearly uncons utional grounds or should have quickly figured that out after the courts repeatedly told them so. The Florida law demanding single-case intervention was uncons utional on its face, as was the later bill passed by a Republican Congress and signed in dramatic fashion by Jeb's more important but much stupider brother. A lot of people remain concerned that someone who uses their office to fight for clearly uncons utional laws based on their own religious theories of what they'd like to see happen instead does not have the stuff of a good president.

“Trying to write laws that clearly are outside the cons utionality of his state, trying to override the entire judicial system, that’s very, very dangerous,” said Arthur Caplan, a New York University bioethicist who edited a book about the Schiavo case. “When you’re willing to do that, you’re willing to break the back of the country.”“It was appalling,” said Jon Eisenberg, one of Michael Schiavo’s attorneys and the author of The Right vs. the Right to Die. “And I think it’s important for people to understand what Jeb Bush is willing to do. It’s important for people to know who Jeb Bush is, and the Terri Schiavo case tells us a great deal about who Jeb Bush is.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...?detail=email#

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Jeb Bush's email cache held another surprise: Viruses


http://www.itworld.com/article/28840...day_2015-02-13

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Same with Texans and JimmyRicky

Majority of New Jersey voters view Christie unfavorably: poll

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...e=domesticNews

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Jeb Bush On Iraq And Afghanistan Wars: 'I Won't Talk About The Past'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

Repugs STILL distancing themselves their won dubya/ head Reign of Error

Will dubya campaign for his bro?

[Aztecfan03]

Boutons, you know most conservatives want Jeb as far away from the white house as possible, right? Same with Christie.