Jeb Bush Could Never Defeat Ted Cruz In A Primary

I'm on record: the crazy extremist base of the Republican Party will not be denied again-- no more McCains or Romneys, not in 2016. They will settle for nothing less than an unapologetic, loud'n'proud fascist. And the folks who set their agendas have decided: Ted Cruz, the senator further right than Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Hideki Tojo, Augusto Pinochet, Vidkun Quisling, Pat Robertson or anyone else I might have left out. They will not be denied. Ted Cruz will be the Republican nominee for president and he will lose-- and lose very, very big, dragging down as many as 10 U.S. Senators-- Mark Kirk (R-IL), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Richard Burr (R-NC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Rand Paul (R-KY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO)-- and double the number of GOP House Members (especially if Steve Israel has been excised from the DCCC).

While the fascists prepare for their apocalypse, though, the mainstream conservative McCain/Romney/Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP, would rather lose in a more gentlemanly fashion with another Bush. Jeb would;'t bring on the kind of GOP donnybrook Cruz will and with him at the top of the ticket, the Republicans would probably lose less than half the senators they'll lose with Cruz's reverse coattails. But Jeb can't make it through a Republican primary, not after all the cultivation of the Tea Party sociopaths in recent years. Jill Bond, writing for Blue Nation Review, listed 5 specific stumbling blocks that will defeat Bush in the 2016 Republican primary sweepstakes.

• We have Jeb Bush to thank for working with the NRA to push the license-to-hunt-and-kill-people law in the state of Florida known as Stand Your Ground-- whose victims include 26 children, and an education program that has proved to be weak and questionable.

• He didn’t know what the Paycheck Fairness Act was (a bill that ensures women are paid equally for equal work), and doesn’t support it once he’s told.

• Within a year of leaving the governorship of Florida, Bush became a consultant for Lehman Brothers-- the Wall Street giant whose bankruptcy sealed this nation’s financial meltdown-- and tried unsuccessfully to broker a deal called "Project Verde" in Mexico with a billionaire telecom mogul.

• He’s been wishy-washy on immigration, trying to balance kissing Republican right-wing extremist leader’s butts while not scaring off Hispanic voters, calling for undocumented immigrants to be handled with "compassion" as he seeks to toughen regulations against them.

• In efforts to expand his wealth after being Florida’s governor, Bush was hired by InnoVida, a manufacturer of cheap building materials, as a consultant and to sit on the board of directors. The company faked documents, lied about the health of the business and misappropriated $40 million in company funds, according to the New York Times. The company went bankrupt in 2011. Bush didn’t have any better luck sitting on the board of Swisher Hygiene, a soap maker, whose financial statements were unreliable and accounting practices were sketchy, causing stock prices to plunge and shareholders to sue.