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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

2016 When Your Brother Is the World's Most Famous Dolt, You Have to Be Perfect

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:12 AM

Conservative-leaning PREZ16 seems to be the first blog I can find that's exclusively devoted to covering the 2016 presidential race, and it's starting out with a clear explanation of the problem with Jeb Bush as a candidate:

The problem is that even if Jeb is a really good candidate, he makes goofs, he flubs, he does everything that all candidates do.

But with a last name of "Bush", Jeb has a very tiny margin of error.

That's because voters will be particularly sensitive to his slightest of flaws. They'll look at Bush's every move through the lens of his father and brother, and the bad stuff will overwhelm the good stuff.

In other words: One boo-boo from Jeb Bush is way more damaging to Jeb Bush than one boo-boo from Chris Christie is to Chris Christie.

With all the other conservative blogs obsessing over what feels like Mitt Romney's Republican Party, PREZ 2016 might just be the right-leaning blog to watch these days, because it's at least interested in the reality of electing a Republican president, which makes it the only conservative blog currently worried about what the real world thinks.

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FYI, I don't think it's fair to label Prez16 "right-leaning." Christian is a real-deal journalist. He got his start blogging about the 2012 GOP primary race very early on with his GOP12 blog, which became part of The Hill newspaper's politics coverage. He spent 4 years covering the 2012 GOP race, so he's definitely better sourced on that side of the political aisle, but it looks to me that he's planning to cover both sides. As it happens, Jeb is THE story these days.

Posted by RHW on March 6, 2013 at 8:38 AM

Let's hope we get an ass-kicking, black-as-pitch, female Tea Party candidate who is a real conservative this time around.

Then we will see just how racist/sexist alla y'all Libs are when you don't vote for her like you did the smiling-golfer...

So fake, so phony.

Posted by GeneStoner on March 6, 2013 at 9:09 AM

Oh yeah because "black-as-pitch" "female" politicians are lining up to become crazy ass Tea Party candidates.

Especially when you call 'em "black as pitch" and "female" instead of women.

When you find that unicorn, by all means, run her for president, the cognitive dissonance alone will make for months of entertainment.

As well as make her completely unelectable: your white racist Tea Baggers won't vote for her on skin color, and no one with sense will vote for Tea Bag policies.

Posted by judybrowni on March 6, 2013 at 9:31 AM

This is a tactic to undersell and have him overperform. Don't buy this b.s.

Posted by biffp on March 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM

I'd take Brown-as-Molasses too BTW.

You just can't run white guys, no matter how competent they might be, against the smiling golfer. We should have learned that the first time...

Posted by GeneStoner on March 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM

Bush/Palin sounds great to me. Go for it!

Posted by Patricia Kayden on March 6, 2013 at 12:29 PM

@5 Barack Obama won't be running again, remember? Or are you going full-paranoid and betting he'll be trying to set aside the 22nd amendment? No, I think he's ready to move on and reap big coin from the neo-liberal interests he's done so much to help.

I suppose Michelle could run. That would be entertaining. Even more entertaining if the Repugs could get Condi Rice to run against her, which seems to be about what you're angling for. She'd be a good candidate as far as appealing to moderates (RINOs, you'd probably call them) but might just undermine support from the *coughneoconfederatecough* Teabaggers a little.

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on March 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM

His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was part of the cabal to take over America w/ a military coup and install a fascist dictatorship. It's no surprise that his scions are conservatives. They don't believe in democracy. They're have no respect for anyone else's opinions but their own. When you get right down to it, they just hate Americans and America.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on March 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM

Having the last name of "Bush" is more than enough to be repulsed, but even if he had a different surname, wouldn't the prospect of a "President Jeb" be enough to vote for someone else during the primaries?

Posted by Knat on March 6, 2013 at 7:36 PM