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In reply to the discussion: Who do you think will be the Republican nominee for president in 2016? [View all]UTUSN
(72,720 posts)All the items in the list about the kids drugs & juvenile records can be stricken as rich kids' problems. In fact, the George Pee Shrub fellow is running for a legacy Texas office and is a shoo-in on his way to claiming the Governor's throne. So if his adolescent rap sheet doesn't hurt him, why should it bother Jeb Crow Shrub's running. The wife's Custom incident is just so absurd that it's off the list. The B.F.E.E. (BUSH Family Evil Empire), unlike any other Rethugs, have a real connection with Hispanics just because of the rotten Texas milieu, the smiles and hugs (and ignorance), and Jeb Crow Shrub's Mexican-born wife is a bond with them, even if she is kept out of the public eye. Her real downside is the TeaBaggers/wingnuts' racism against her.
The real obstacles to Jeb Crow are Shrub W's debacle in office, but even that is fading in time but even more so that we are carrying on his wars, AND his own alienation from the TeaBaggers/wingnuts.
The financial shenanigans and business partners with CIA/CubanExiles are much more serious, but those are too complicated and old for the voters' attention spans. Brother Neils Savings and Loan crimes against the country will have no more impact on Jeb Crow than ShrubWs own financial crimes did against him himself.
If he runs, I think Hillary will chicken out, and even if she runs, the ex-Presidents' Club makes it unlikely she would bring up any of the dirty list against him.
My nightmare is a real possibility.