Friday, August 22, 2014

WP neocon Rubin still fawning over JEB! as he courts Silicon Valley backing for "credible" run

The Crown Prince recently had a power dinner with Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, who invited him to a reception to meet top tech and business leaders in Silicon Valley. Why would the normally liberal tech crowd have any interest in a neocon elitist like JEB!?  According to Breitbart, that would be because, "Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has poured millions of dollars into the push for amnesty legislation and an increase in the number of high-tech visas." What Breitbart implies is that to get the IT plutocracy's backing JEB! would have to promote unrestricted work permits for, say Indian software engineers, as well as peonage labor.

A "coalition of the willing" could be emerging that would include:

1. War hawks, arms makers and dealers, and neocon ideologues and imperialists, a traditional Bush constituency.
2. Crony capitalists (including Common Core curriculum, and other for-profit education vendors)
3. A big chunk of the financial speculator class.
4. A portion of Silicon Valley, if JEB! promises them a blank check on labor insourcing.
5. A still sizable portion of the cultural reactionary "values voters" who won't bolt (stay home) over nativist and immigration issues.

Meanwhile neocon apologist Jennifer Rubin is still falling at the feet of the Crown Prince as her choice for 2016,.  In in her delusion, she believes he could make a credible run for president as the next Republican nominee.

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