How will Mark Levin handle nominee Jeb Bush?

Self proclaimed "constitutionalist" Mark Levin shows a good game calling Jeb a RINO, and pretty much relentlessly characterizing him as an Establishment enabler of crony capitalists and the like, and he did his famous nasty "hang up" routine to one of Jeb's self proclaimed supporters on his call in radio show Monday. 

But what will Levin really do if Jeb decides to exercise his option on the GOP nomination?  Will Levin tell his flock categorically "no," principal above expediency, when it comes time for a reluctant endorsement, or will Levin do what FOX stooge, and fake "independent conservative" Hannity will do, which is the familiar "he may not be what we really want, but Jeb is a good man, fellow conservatives, and a whole lot better than Hillary" routine?

If the original tea party had to rely on the sincerity and resolve of hacks like Hannity, and probably Levin, as does today's duped tea party, some version of the union jack still would be flying over all of North America from Hudson's Bay down to New Spain.

Pat Buchanan may have said it best

Patrick J. Buchanan, whatever you think of him, was one of the chief architects of the Republican Party's Southern Strategy which helped make it into a quasi-majority national party for a period in the late 20th and early 21st centuries using coded and wedged appeals to racists, religious fundamentalists, and white nativists.  No one knows the GOP ruling class like their former lackey Pat.  And this is how he sums up the neocon plutocrats' appeal for help, and Jeb's potential response:

"This time Sheldon wants to buy himself a winner... anybody running for the Republican nomination would want to have Sheldon at his side.

One such man is Jeb Bush, son and brother to presidents, who was the prize bull at Sheldon's cattle show. Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times speculates on Jeb's motive in showing up:

'Would you slink into Las Vegas to schmooze gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson who regards GOP presidential nominees as if they were trophy heads mounted in his den, if you had no interest in the White House? Bush is not going to Vegas to catch Meat Loaf's act at Planet Hollywood.'"

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Jeb openly rattles neocon sabers

In what could be part of establishing the tenor of a nascent presidential campaign, Jeb Bush blamed Obama directly (and Rand Paul indirectly) for what he called "America's passivity," at a private Las Vegas gathering of neocons and plutocrat donors hosted by Macao and Vegas casino operator Sheldon Adelson.  For those who hope for bombs falling on Tehran, Jeb might be the dream candidate.

Donor-Poll disconnect

Just as those who run the Republican Party are quietly going about the task of perhaps installing Jeb Bush as their nominee, a new WPA Opinion Poll shows Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee as the top choices of the irrelevant primary voting base.

DRAFT! According to official media sources, it's on.

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

Florida Times-Union: Readers comment on a potential Jeb Bush presidential run

Comments include: "more incompetence...imagine media attacks...Right. another neo con Bush...Just what we need, another third Bush failure...

Will Jeb run?

Will Jeb run? The headline for an article in something called UK Progressive Magazine says it all:  GOP mega-donor and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is banking on it.   Is he making a bad investment decision?  Likewise the South China Morning Post posits, Is Jeb Bush about to seek Republican nomination to run for US president in 2016?  And answers with "Jeb Bush may be on the brink of a campaign to become the third member of his family to occupy White House, setting up a clash with Hillary Clinton."  And the Farmington (NM) Daily Times reports: Gov. Susana Martinez and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to meet Tuesday in Farmington for an event to raise money for Martinez's re-election campaign.