JEB!’s Team Plots Vast Effort to Win Florida

Perhaps it should be said that if JEB! requires a "vast effort" to win the state he was governor of for eight years, that's about all one needs to know about his worth as a leader, and his chances (at least if the playing field were fair and even).  The playing field, at least for the nomination, is anything but.

The following article explains only part of what is the Crown Prince's master plan to bulldoze and buy his way to the Republican nomination.  That plan, in it's entirety, involves four crucial elements. First, Team Bush (i.e. Right to Rule) must destroy Walker and insure that a 

"non credible" alternative (meaning a candidate with no significant establishment donor base, and who cannot therefore buy, meaning win, the nomination) wins in Iowa, i.e., someone like Rand Paul, Huckabee, Cruz, etc. Second, Jeb must do well in New Hampshire, and ideally if his character assassination machine has damaged all other "credible" opponents, he might win New Hampshire in a crowed field with a first place showing in the mid to high twenties, or low thirties. Third, Jeb must either buy the South Carolina primary for himself, or as in 2012, insure it is won, like Iowa, by a "non-credible alternative, most likely Huckabee if he did well in Iowa, and is still around.  That brings us to Florida, which is only one part of a two part strategy for March 1, 2016. The second part is to win Texas (meaning taking out Cruz early and tilting Iowa to Paul or Huckabee).  If that happens, the entire establishment media will pronounce the race over, and declare the Crown Prince the nominee on March 2.  And that means all fund-raising options for other candidates will dry up overnight, and they will start dropping like flies, and buzzing the dung heap that would be the again Bush-led Republican Party to be the first to endorse the Crown Prince.

Accept and deal, boys!  Ain't nothing you can do about it!

(New York Times) - The political apparatus surrounding former Gov. Jeb Bush, determined to avoid embarrassment in a state that has vexed his party and family in national elections, is plotting a vast operation aimed at turning Florida into a bulwark for his presidential campaign, according to dozens of interviews. The plan, code-named “Homeland Security,” seeks to try to neutralize two potentially grave but homegrown threats to Mr. Bush’s long-anticipated run for president: the likely challenge from a charismatic young Republican senator from Miami, Marco Rubio, who is expected to seek the Republican nomination himself, and a demographic drift within Florida that could doom Mr. Bush there in a fall campaign against a Democrat. The Bush effort in Florida, where Barack Obama prevailed in the last two elections, will pour enormous resources and energy over the next year into a state that many thought Mr. Bush, its governor from 1999 to 2007, would be able to count on as a bedrock of support. “Without Florida,” said Bob Martinez, a longtime Bush friend and a former governor of Florida himself, “he knows it would be hard to make the numbers work.” In what advisers said could amount to a $50 million undertaking by Election Day, Mr. Bush and his team are rushing to lock up Florida’s best-known political operatives, elected officials and campaign donors — offering them contracts, face time and blandishments, according to those who know of the tactics. Read more.

gulfnews.com: Florida Is focus of 2016 Bush Plan