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In reply to the discussion: Billionaire mogul Sheldon Adelson looks for mainstream Republican who can win in 2016 [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)I'm sticking with my guess that Jeb Bush's crew is busy wrecking the prospects of anyone who can fill that mainstream candidate slot, Chris Christie among them.
You and I know that Jeb isn't a mainstream candidate of any sort. But my reading of the tea leaves suggests to me that Jeb is already running, and he's gonna re-cast himself as "mainstream" over the course of the next year.
I've been saying for years now that another Bush has to get into the White House in order to gain control of and destroy all the incriminating documentation from the last Bush administration. (Theoretically, those documents could be released by President Obama now that he is in his second term, but precedent dictates that the current President should not open the books on his immediate predecessor.)
Jeb's people are going to try to destroy everyone who stands in the way--especially Hillary Clinton. I hope she is ready for it.
One thing going in Mrs. Clinton's favor is the legacy of George W. Bush: an entire generation of right-wingers who were carefully programmed to spit venom at the mention her name are dying out three to five elections sooner than anyone guessed before W. lowered life expectancy across white rural America. She has literally outlived her most virulent opponents.