Fox News, the official propaganda and media outlet for the Republican Party has announced that party donors are working to draft Jeb Bush for a 2016 presidential run. Just as the plutocrats and crony capitalists who lean left will undoubtedly support Hillary, the Establishment right is closing ranks around their obvious Crown Prince. The Washington Post reports that the "vast majority" of the top 100 money bag givers to Mitt Romney in 2012 would back Bush in a nomination fight, and their efforts to goad Jeb into running are characterized as "intense."
The Establishment may be in a two front panic, over Christie's meltdown and prospective lack of electoral viability against candidates like the Clintons going forward, and over the growing insubordination of the testy reactionary and libertarian bases around the likes of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, respectively. While Jeb may look good to those donors (at least as someone who can destroy the two pronged base rebellion with their financial help) they may even regale themselves between drinks in oak paneled club rooms about the possibility of a third Bush neocon presidency, war with Iran, government subsidized fracking, etc., yet such fantasies may border on detached delusion. Polls suggest they would. If you can say Jeb! 2016, done deal, can you also say Madam President?
New York Daily News: GOP insiders pushing Jeb Bush to run for President in 2016: report
Slate: Republican Insiders See Jeb Bush as the Next Great Hope For the GOP
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