JEB! leads other Republicans, but still gets blasted by Hillary; Paul outpolls JEB! and Rubio in Florida

Familiarity breeds contempt?

A recent national poll by St. Leo University in Florida finds that the Crown Prince is indeed on top of other Republicans as the choice for the party's standard bearer in 2016. He gets 16 percent in a crowded field. Maybe this says more about Republicans than anything else, but one thing it says is Republicans want to lose. The GOP front runner loses to Hillary in the same poll by 18 points.

Surprisingly, Rand Paul actually outpolls JEB! and Marco Rubio among all voters in the state of Florida when matched up with Hillary. Or perhaps not surprisingly. Floridians know JEB! and Rubio best. Paul loses to Hillary by only 46 to 42 percent, while JEB! loses 47 to 41. Rubio gets routed 53 to 39 percent.

Michigan is not JEB! friendly territory

The latest PPP poll has some continuing bad news about the potential viability of a Bush Restoration effort in 2016.  Hillary is trouncing the Crown Prince in the alleged "swing state" of Michigan by double digits, 47 percent to 37 percent.  Bush advocates, the neocon press, and right-wing talk radio will focus on the canard of "Hillary is below 50 percent," yet the real news here, and in most every "swing state" poll is how JEB! consistently polls under 40 percent.  It is hard to imagine an ultimate winner in a two person race starting out with less than 40 percent support.  Especially, and this is key, one already as well known nationally as JEB!

If book sales are any indicator, JEB! is DOA on the remainder table

The right is crowing about how Hillary's books sales are supposedly tanking like a lousy over budget movie's ticket numbers after the word of mouth kicks in, yet if you compare Hillary's book debut with the Crown Prince's earlier book numbers, it's a nightmare for JEB!

Hillary's "Hard Choices" supposedly sold around 85,000 over-priced hardcover copies during its first week, while JEB!'s "compassionate" hardcover plea for more peonage "guest" labor to fuel American business managed only 4,599 copies. That's right. Only 4,599.  A lot of self-published vanity memoirs and fund raising cookbooks sell more copies.

If Americans aren't exactly thrilled with Hillary, they are just ignoring JEB, and the absurd idea of a royal Bush Restoration. And the debut week books sales for all combined media-hyped GOP alternatives don't add up to much either: including "Ranger" Rick Perry (27,260), Scott Walker (16,156), Paul Ryan (14,727). Even Rand Paul couldn't manage to sell many books (10,261). But JEB! holds the uncoveted prize, the very bottom of the list.

Hillary Clinton And Elizabeth Warren Are Totally Crushing The Right In Book Sales

Chris McDaniel just won't go away, and fall in line

Chris McDaniel knows he has no future in the post Southern Strategy Bush-led party of emerging Hispanic identity politics.  So he is going out with a bang, like Joe Shelby's "never surrender" Rebels, and the Confederates who moved to Brazil after the Civil War rather than live in a United States once more.

McDaniel and his hardest-core supporters are combing election returns, county-by-county, in efforts to prove enough "double voting" by Democrats and invalidate the run-off, then force a do-over. Most media "experts" (who probably hate McDaniel more than they might loath Karl Rove or Haley Barbour) say he has no chance with that.  Not to put all their rotten eggs in one grey cap, McDaniel's rump tea party is now saying they can prove an African-American minister was offered "walking around" money to buy votes for Cochran.

The vast majority of Bible Thumpers and racists in Mississippi will dutifully shuffle to the polls in November and, without a thought or a cash handout, vote for Cochran because he was the choice, however unseemly, of their only choice, God's Own (and Only) Party.  The same black Democrats who double voted, or voted with their wallets, for Cochran will either stay home (if no one pays them again to vote), or they will, after using God's Own Reason given them for free at birth, decide the Blue Dog Democrat is better than Rove's Cochran.   There are not enough of them, however, to outvote both the julep gentry and the Thumpers.

Chalk up one for Rove and Barbour.  One that will stick.

Daily Caller: Allegations Of Vote Buying In Mississippi …

Pitchfork Pat is not onboard with JEB! 2016...yet

Nixon, not Wallace, is the one.

Patrick J. Buchanan, one of the Nixon era architects (along with Kevin Phillips) of the Southern Strategy, which ultimately under Lee Atwater and the currently collapsing variation created by Karl Rove has brought the Republican Party to the brink of ruin, is not on board with JEB! 2016. Yet.  In a recent op-ed piece entitled If Jeb And Hillary Both Run In 2016, It Will Be God’s Gift To Pitchfork Populists, Pat makes his point with usual bluntness:

"No two people [JEB! and Hillary] ever milked a political office for more than these two have milked the presidency of the United States. And no two people are more wired in to the Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington elites. If Jeb and Hillary are both in the lists in 2016, it will be God’s gift to pitchfork populists."

Kevin Phillips long ago sought forgiveness for his political sins from the mainstream media and publishing worlds, and has faded into relative obscurity and irrelevance, but Pat takes a different path. He bites the hand that used to feed him, and keeps himself interesting.

Fox unveils new "fantasy league" gaming idea

According to Fox News: Hillary down in the dumps: Is Clinton about to drop out of 2016 race?  Karl Rove can only wish.

Here is the real scenario.  Hillary is 100 percent certain to run if JEB! runs.  It would be too easy and too tempting not to.  She would not even have to campaign to beat a third Bush.  The Crown Prince has promised his pluto donors he will let them know what he is going to do by the end of the year. Now when a Bush's lips are moving, they are generally lying, but JEB! really does not have the option to string his base out as long as Hillary does.  If he runs, he will have to announce before she does.  And whether or not the Fox fantasy comes true depends on JEB!'s New Year reality show. 

Spinning Hillary's terrible book tour, and JEB!'s impossible odds

A recent Zogby poll has the Foxworld and private club set a-glitter with the great white royal male hope and spin machine.  It seems that after Hillary's terrible book tour, her "foul air" dustup with NPR art house faghag Terry Gross, her "dead broke" revisionism, and Obama's terrible favorability ratings, she is only beating JEB! by double digits.

When you can't spin impossible odds any other way, you do what you have to do.  Hillary may be a "dead broke" politician when it comes to spontaneity, innovation, and new ideas, but JEB! is already in bankruptcy liquidation on all counts and options.