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The powers-that-be seem to be characterizing the Republican Presidential Primary as down to a three person race between Cruz, Trump and Rubio and that is a terrible outcome for the Republican Party and America because that means come November the American people are only going to have a choice between a far left candidate and a far right candidate or a guy that regularly loses his head whose head keeps falling off his shoulders the latter not being any real choice because the American people are not going to play Russian roulette with the welfare of the nation which what electing him would mean. This is terrible because the clearly right thing for the American people to do if faced with this choice is to choose the far left candidate because at least that means our fellow citizens won't be thrown out of the boat even though this means the country will stay in the swamp that it has been in through the last eight years. No one has a crystal ball to know what the American electorate will do faced with such an option come November but I come down on the side that the American people will act optimumally virtuous and go with the far-left candidate!
The current state of things call for the following assessments. Jeb Bush needs to come to the realization that this is not his time. I personally think if Jeb Bush was elected President he would at minimum do a very good job because he is really committed to getting stuff done for the country and he has a good sense of right and wrong but the job opening of President at the current time is looking for qualities Jeb doesn't possess. An abundance of analysts have described what is going on this election cycle which is the American electorate is fed-up and letting it be known they are fed-up with a system that doesn't work for them that doesn't give them their fair share of America's prosperity that doesn't give them a good standard of living and is looking for a Strong Champion that will upset the existing order and give them these things. Jeb you are not such a candidate. In politics everything is about image and Jeb Bush does not have an image as a strong and inspirational leader. There is nothing Jeb can do about this some people have a really strong persona and others don't, Gerald Ford was probably one of the strongest leaders ever to hold the office of the Presidency but he projected the image of a flat and uninspiring leader and that is in part why he lost the 1976 Presidential race to Jimmy Carter. Secondly, as Jeb Bush has stated he is not running from his family name and the Bush Brand is not a good sell in the current times. The Bush Brand represents a political philosophy that brings Wall Street excesses that hurt the economy, big business excesses that takes advantage and is unfair to ordinary people. Running with the Bush Brand is a campaign killer in these times. Jeb Bush is running as a center right candidate just like his brother George W. ran as a center right candidate and George W. brought to America things like Enron severe price gouging on electricity prices by not stopping it, George W. brought to America the price of oil pushing $140 plus dollars a barrel and wouldn't lift a finger to stop the greedy speculators culprits responsible and George W. brought a war in Iraq based on a falsehood of WMDs a war which has been super costly to America. Jeb Bush needs to look at this Presidential primary race not as a character test of whether or not he is a quitter but rather as a test of whether or not he has the character to put the country's best interest above his own and see that it is in the country's best interest that he step aside and make room for other good candidates to garnish the spotlight and demonstrate to the American people how they can do this job that America needs done!
The Marco Rubio campaign really deserves a big round of applause because they have run the most shrewdest campaign imaginable. But the American people are smart they can see through all the smart packaging of Marco. The Republican powers-that-be are only fooling themselves if they think they are going to dupe the American people to believe Marco will deliver for them. Marco Rubio is a far-right candidate if one gathers up all the interviews and speeches he has given through the years this conclusion should not be in question. American people have no doubt about if the Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell Congressional leadership team send the following bills to a President Marco Rubio Whitehouse they will be signed: a bill that completely privatizes Medicare where the government portion of the premium doesn't rise year in and year out equally with medical inflation that is not to say the Republicans won't put some provisions in it where struggling seniors can afford some insurance plan offered by the industry of course such a plan won't be one the enrollees will be very happy with; a bill that block grants to the states Federal Medicaid funding and does not possess iron clad restrictions that the states cannot throw their citizens off the insurance rolls; a bill that significantly cuts the federal food stamps and federal TANF welfare programs ( a good Republican holds the values that the way to reduce this government expense is through job creation and higher wages for these recipients) and a bill that repeals Obamacare that doesn't offer tax credits and refundable ones to enable American individuals and families to afford to buy health insurance and doesn't have a medical loss ratio of at least eigthty-five percent on health insurance so health insurance companies are spending the premiums mostly on medical services for enrollees not big salaries and bonuses for insurance company executives or big dividends or inflated stock prices for insurance company stockholders.
The last Republican debate in Iowa is an example of where Marco demonstrated his slick politician skills. He really went overboard on him selling himself to evangelical christians. When the moderator asked him about his Time cover page where he was depicted as a Republican savior and he responds something like Jesus Christ is the only savior he cares about and later on when he injected in one of his responses something like it's his top priority to live with his creator for all eternity and in his closing remarks when he cites the Bible as his inspiration specifically the provisions that call for Christians to let their light shine in the world. Marco laid it on so thick in the debate that I almost expected while he was taliking in the debate for someone in the audience to fall on the ground and yell "I am healed"! Marco is a "slick politician" one can see this in his heavy focus on the claim that he holds the unique capacity to bring people together that he will bring bring Democrats and Republicans together to get things done for the country it really appears that he is taking a page right out of the playbook of Barack Obama in 2008. The truth of the matter is Marco will be a complete failure in this regard just like Barack Obama has been because neither of them has significant Washington experience prior to them being given the job of President so they are dependent on the old Congressional leaders to get things and they cannot buck these leaders of their party and one cannot be a bi-partisan leader without many times bucking a large segment of one's party congressional rank-and-file and party leadership. Marco Rubio also has a weak work ethic he allows himself to be influenced by boredom this has been shown in his record as Senator. If a President wants to be a bipartisan president he has to know what he is doing and he has to work his butt off because the congressiioanl leaders and their lobbyist allies have a great vested interest in seeing such a President fail. Marco is talking a much bigger game than he will be able to bring to the job of President and the American people are not going to be fooled by Marco's slick talk here!
The current state of things call for the following assessments. Jeb Bush needs to come to the realization that this is not his time. I personally think if Jeb Bush was elected President he would at minimum do a very good job because he is really committed to getting stuff done for the country and he has a good sense of right and wrong but the job opening of President at the current time is looking for qualities Jeb doesn't possess. An abundance of analysts have described what is going on this election cycle which is the American electorate is fed-up and letting it be known they are fed-up with a system that doesn't work for them that doesn't give them their fair share of America's prosperity that doesn't give them a good standard of living and is looking for a Strong Champion that will upset the existing order and give them these things. Jeb you are not such a candidate. In politics everything is about image and Jeb Bush does not have an image as a strong and inspirational leader. There is nothing Jeb can do about this some people have a really strong persona and others don't, Gerald Ford was probably one of the strongest leaders ever to hold the office of the Presidency but he projected the image of a flat and uninspiring leader and that is in part why he lost the 1976 Presidential race to Jimmy Carter. Secondly, as Jeb Bush has stated he is not running from his family name and the Bush Brand is not a good sell in the current times. The Bush Brand represents a political philosophy that brings Wall Street excesses that hurt the economy, big business excesses that takes advantage and is unfair to ordinary people. Running with the Bush Brand is a campaign killer in these times. Jeb Bush is running as a center right candidate just like his brother George W. ran as a center right candidate and George W. brought to America things like Enron severe price gouging on electricity prices by not stopping it, George W. brought to America the price of oil pushing $140 plus dollars a barrel and wouldn't lift a finger to stop the greedy speculators culprits responsible and George W. brought a war in Iraq based on a falsehood of WMDs a war which has been super costly to America. Jeb Bush needs to look at this Presidential primary race not as a character test of whether or not he is a quitter but rather as a test of whether or not he has the character to put the country's best interest above his own and see that it is in the country's best interest that he step aside and make room for other good candidates to garnish the spotlight and demonstrate to the American people how they can do this job that America needs done!
The Marco Rubio campaign really deserves a big round of applause because they have run the most shrewdest campaign imaginable. But the American people are smart they can see through all the smart packaging of Marco. The Republican powers-that-be are only fooling themselves if they think they are going to dupe the American people to believe Marco will deliver for them. Marco Rubio is a far-right candidate if one gathers up all the interviews and speeches he has given through the years this conclusion should not be in question. American people have no doubt about if the Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell Congressional leadership team send the following bills to a President Marco Rubio Whitehouse they will be signed: a bill that completely privatizes Medicare where the government portion of the premium doesn't rise year in and year out equally with medical inflation that is not to say the Republicans won't put some provisions in it where struggling seniors can afford some insurance plan offered by the industry of course such a plan won't be one the enrollees will be very happy with; a bill that block grants to the states Federal Medicaid funding and does not possess iron clad restrictions that the states cannot throw their citizens off the insurance rolls; a bill that significantly cuts the federal food stamps and federal TANF welfare programs ( a good Republican holds the values that the way to reduce this government expense is through job creation and higher wages for these recipients) and a bill that repeals Obamacare that doesn't offer tax credits and refundable ones to enable American individuals and families to afford to buy health insurance and doesn't have a medical loss ratio of at least eigthty-five percent on health insurance so health insurance companies are spending the premiums mostly on medical services for enrollees not big salaries and bonuses for insurance company executives or big dividends or inflated stock prices for insurance company stockholders.
The last Republican debate in Iowa is an example of where Marco demonstrated his slick politician skills. He really went overboard on him selling himself to evangelical christians. When the moderator asked him about his Time cover page where he was depicted as a Republican savior and he responds something like Jesus Christ is the only savior he cares about and later on when he injected in one of his responses something like it's his top priority to live with his creator for all eternity and in his closing remarks when he cites the Bible as his inspiration specifically the provisions that call for Christians to let their light shine in the world. Marco laid it on so thick in the debate that I almost expected while he was taliking in the debate for someone in the audience to fall on the ground and yell "I am healed"! Marco is a "slick politician" one can see this in his heavy focus on the claim that he holds the unique capacity to bring people together that he will bring bring Democrats and Republicans together to get things done for the country it really appears that he is taking a page right out of the playbook of Barack Obama in 2008. The truth of the matter is Marco will be a complete failure in this regard just like Barack Obama has been because neither of them has significant Washington experience prior to them being given the job of President so they are dependent on the old Congressional leaders to get things and they cannot buck these leaders of their party and one cannot be a bi-partisan leader without many times bucking a large segment of one's party congressional rank-and-file and party leadership. Marco Rubio also has a weak work ethic he allows himself to be influenced by boredom this has been shown in his record as Senator. If a President wants to be a bipartisan president he has to know what he is doing and he has to work his butt off because the congressiioanl leaders and their lobbyist allies have a great vested interest in seeing such a President fail. Marco is talking a much bigger game than he will be able to bring to the job of President and the American people are not going to be fooled by Marco's slick talk here!