Why Are These People Running For President?

[Valin]

Townhall:

Kurt Schlichter

Jun 08, 2015

 

Is there anyone in the entire universe who isn’t Lindsey Graham, John McCain, or Lindsey Graham’s mother who thinks that Lindsey Graham should be president?

 

He has always reminded me of a pudgy, scheming elf, angling to screw-up Santa’s workshop by forming some bipartisan elf gang and “working across the aisle” to help the liberal elves prevail. Except on questions of war and peace, where Lindsey is the elf who is constantly agitating to invade the Island of Misfit Toys.

 

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Some of them have an occasional good idea. Some mean well. But the simple fact is that none of these candidates is going to win, and therefore their candidacies are a distraction and a waste of time and focus. Santorum and the Pataki are just jokes. Dr. Carson’s candidacy is disappointing. Huckabee actively makes the GOP look bad. Graham is sinister, and Jeb is actively destructive. His ego trip could very well blow up the GOP because the base is never going to turn out to choose between Hillary or the guy who hung a medal around her neck.

 

Let that roll around in your head for a moment: Jeb gave Hillary a medal for her “public service” – and there are Republicans who think that nominating him is a good idea. They’d probably also think letting her husband babysit their 17 year-old daughters is a wise move.

 

It’s time to get serious. It’s time to fill up the clown car and drive it far away.

[Draggingtree]

Thursday, 30 October 2014

 

Jeb Bush, Taxes, and the 2016 Presidential Race

 

Written by Steve Byas

With the approaching mid-term elections, voters should get ready for the launching of the 2016 presidential campaign pretty much the next day. With that, some comments that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (shown) — an as yet undeclared but likely candidate for the presidential race — made at a 2012 House Budget Committee hearing on taxes will certainly be a hot topic for discussion among the Republican Party grassroots.

 

"Jeb stabbed Republicans in the back just when they were unified in insisting on major spending cuts with no tax increases," Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told the Washington Times.

 

Norquist was referencing Bush's comments that he could accept a budget deal in which taxes were raised by $1 for every $10 in spending cuts that the Democrats would agree to. Norquist was enraged, particularly because the Democrats had not even offered any such deal.

Jeb Bush is clearly out of step with the Republican base on the issue of immigration. Not only is he for "comprehensive immigration reform" — seen by the activists as simply a euphemism for "amnesty" — but he also defends the breaking of U.S. immigration law by these illegal aliens as "an act of love."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/19414-bush-taxes-and-the-2016-presidential-race