GOP Wars, Episode 2020, A New Hope!

For those nerdy denizens of corporate cubicle hell with nothing more exciting to do, the forth most popular betting pool gabble around the water cooler and in the break room these days, after the Super Bowl matchup, tonight's college football national championship, and whether Rey is Luke Skywalker's daughter, must be about the date JEB! Bush will "suspend" his doomed presidential campaign. For those pool organizers, limit your available dates to those after the South Carolina primary on February 20, and before the Florida primary on March 15.

If JEB! 2016 had a campaign song that correctly sums up the Crown's Prince emerging terminal strategy for his current Bush Restoration incarnation, it surely would be a title play on Leslie Gore's "golden" sixties' oldie, something like, "It My Party, and I'll Kill It If I Want To."  JEB! is going down fighting, and doing it the way only a duplicitous Bush would do. He is lashing out with his SuperPAC bankroll at every other establishment candidate, trying to destroy their chances of being the alternative to him, which will certainly help either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.  It's conceited and nihilistic of course, but it's not without purpose. JEB! the 2016 loser has a plan for ultimate victory, even if it's a real long shot, and a draw to an inside political straight.

It involves hoping Trump can be stopped, and Cruz will win the nomination by default.  Why Cruz?

A Trump nomination and loss would be explained by the media as a failure of Donald Trump, and his openly racist and revanchist rhetoric, or as his Manchurian Candidacy for Hillary Clinton calculated by Trump himself to fail. A Cruz nomination would be spun as a victory for the tea party wing of the party against the establishment, and a resultant Cruz landslide loss in the general election would be spun as a predictable defeat for tea party reaction. Certainly something a Bush Crown Prince would want.

...And in time, Amerika, like my
father and brother, you will call me
MASTER!

JEB! will be 67 years old in 2020, two year's younger than Hillary is this year, and he is looking at a Maoist "Long March" to power, if there is any road at all for him. Now that it's obvious JEB! and his family cannot buy him the nomination in this election cycle, and certainly not the presidency itself, why not give the tea party rabble what they want, and then kneecap them?  This JEB! may be able to do in the first instance, and most likely can do in the second.  Conspire to hand the nomination to Cruz then work secretly to ensure his defeat in November.  Hope Hillary runs into trouble over the next four years with the economy and terrorism, and then come back in 2020 and buy the nomination after the tea party clone voters his family created to serve their interests, but now no long need are demoralized and discredited.  It's the only option JEB! has at this point for any Bush neoconservative Restoration under his name during his lifetime.  It's either this, or abdicate as Bush Crown Prince in favor of his son, Prince Jorge P.

JEB! is not ready to abdicate. Just as you can bet another Disneyfied episode of Star Wars is coming to a multiplex near you in a year not too far away, you can bet that the Crown Prince of the Dark Side of the political Force is busy plotting how to turn this "loss" for him now into a loss for the American Republic later.