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You say that, now. If he wins the Republican primaries, you'll immediately flip your tune 360 and tell us what a callous, misanthropic, out-of-touch rich-bitch he is and why he's -WAY- too greedy to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. I'd put money on it.
It's what typical partisan Dem nutjobs did with John McCain -and- Mitt Romney.
Both those guys, during the primaries, every democrat pundit's on and on about how they're the only reasonable candidate the republicans have to offer, the only moderate candidate, definitely the one republicans should vote for if they're able to dissuade the "extremist fringe" of the party.
Then, once those guys got the nod, it was, "He was a POW and he's old as fuck! Probably crazier than a shithouse rat and probably gon' die half way through his term! We could -never- elect this fuckin guy!"
Or it was, "He's too rich to relate to the common man, he used to be in the business of kicking people out of their jobs, he hates women, gays, blacks, Mexicans, the poor, infants, puppies, rainbows, dolphins, the sick, the old, the young, the healthy."
Both times, I was like, "Wait. If this guy's so fucked up, why did the Democrats insist that the Republicans should give him the nomination -all- through the primaries?"
I told you John McCain was your only electable option in 2008
I told you Mitt Romney was the only electable option in 2012
Jeb is one of your few options in 2016
Just because they were not elected doesn't mean the candidates from the clown car could have done better
What I said had nothing to do with who may or may not have done better.
I'm simply saying that all this, "Jeb Bush actually sounds like an adult" shit is disingenuous. You know good and God damn well that if he gets the nomination, come general election time you'll talk about him like he's just another war mongering money hungry oil stealing Bush with not a positive attribute to speak of.
That's what we saw with McCain.
That's what we saw with Romney.
It also doesn't escape my notice that you dems always do this with whatever repub candidate is most likely to cool the republican base. For the guys campaigning, it's an awesome strategy, I'll give it that.
I didn't say I would vote for him. I said he is one of the few Republicans not in the clown car. Last election, Republicans let that clown car drive around for too long and it hurt Romneys chances
Jeb can act like an adult, he can keep the clowns at bay, he can also win swing states that the clowns don't have a chance in
I don't think he can beat Hillary, but he can make her work for 270