Jeb Bush Threatens to Blow Up The Republican Party

Oh My God, Is There a Giant Turd On The Top of My Head?

From Ace:

Fitting, that the Establishment should be the ones to put the gun to the sick party's head and put it out of its misery. 

Jeb Bush is considering making a flat declaration that if Trump should win the nomination, he won't vote for him. Fine, except it's been the Establishment's mantra forever that we must all Go Along to Get Along.   

If Jeb Bush, establishment princeling, were to declare that he’ll have no part of a Republican Party with Donald Trump as nominee, Trump fans will laugh and extend their middle fingers and other voters will marvel at how quick the elites are to abandon the GOP when it’s having a rare populist moment. 

The donor class are all proud Republicans right up until the moment they can’t get their way, at which point they're gone. Why should grassroots conservative continue to turn out for lackluster establishment nominees like McCain and Romney if donors won’t return the favor for Trump?

GO READ THE WHOLE THING. 

David Frum: Like Obama, Jeb Bush Is Post-American

Oink Oink

The Atlantic:

Both Jeb Bush and Barack Obama are men who have openly and publicly struggled with their ambivalence about their family inheritance. 

Both responded by leaving the place of their youth to create new identities for themselves: Barack Obama, as an organizer in the poor African-American neighborhoods of Chicago; Jeb Bush in Mexico, Venezuela, and at last in Cuban-influenced Miami. 

Both are men who have talked a great deal about the feeling of being “between two worlds”: Obama, in his famous autobiography; Bush, in his speeches. 

Both chose wives who would more deeply connect them to their new chosen identity. 

Both derived from their new identity a sharp critique of their nation as it is. 

Both have built their campaign for president upon a deep commitment to fundamental transformation of their nation into what they believe it should be. ...

Jeb’s dissatisfaction with America, and desire to change it to be more to his liking, is a theme he returns to often. Jeb’s enthusiasm for immigration (“the public-policy issue he cares about by far the most,” as Frum puts it) is “not only a positive judgment on the immigrants themselves,” Frum notes, but “it is also a negative judgment on native-born Americans.” Some examples: 

"They’re more entrepreneurial, they set up more business, they buy more homes, they’re more family-oriented, they work in jobs that in many cases are jobs that have gone unfilled" 

"I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people."   

"We have people that mope around thinking 'my life is bad, my children will not have the same opportunities that I had.' What a horrible notion in America, the most optimistic of places, and I think an economically driven immigration plan . . . would lift our spirits up dramatically." 

"The one way that we can rebuild the demographic pyramid is to fix a broken immigration system. . . . 

If we do this, we will rebuild our country in a way that will allow us to grow. If we don’t do it, we will be in decline, because the productivity of this country is dependent on young people that are equipped to be able to work hard. 

Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans over the last 20 years. Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families and they have more intact families." 

Scorched Earth Here!

My friend Mustang just informed me of this:

Jeb Bush to Award Hillary 'Liberty Medal' on Eve of Benghazi Anniversary

My blood pressure just took off like a rocket. I can feel the flush.

I don't have words to comment on this travesty!