CNN/ORC Poll: Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner

[Bastiat's The Law]

The newsletters didn't cost Ron Iowa, the media puffed up Santorum at the last minute which is what made the difference.

Not entirely true. Ron's campaign team had literally YEARS to prepare a response for the newsletters, which anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knew would be used as a last ditch effort to derail Ron's run. The newsletters were always the ace-in-the-hole for the media and opponents. The campaign failed miserably to deal with it.

The campaign's response in the waning weeks of the Iowa Caucus...have Ron go into hiding in Texas and ratchet down campaigning and appearances in Iowa.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

lets face it cajun and others, Jeb is extemely boring. I can't see him getting far in Iowa or New Hampshire. These early polls mean nothing, Guiliani used to lead the ones from 07 and look how that turned out.

Yes, Jeb is boring. But Mitt was just as prominently a flip-flopper, and McCain was just as prominently flat broke as the primary season started. Whatever the fatal flaw, the establishment will be picking up the chosen one, to drag his carcass across the finish line, as they have done in the past. The merits of Paul mean nothing, our side will have to create leverage for Rand to overcome the deafening drumbeat to anoint Jeb, despite Jeb's inadequacy.

We have to create pain among GOP rank and file voters, by making it clear Jeb is not electable. The only way to inflict that pain and make them see he is unelectable in time (i.e., during the primaries) is for Rand to run a fusion candidacy (on the Republican, LP/CP lines), which would guarantee the conservative vote will be split in November. Repeat, this is about the ONLY way wake regular primary voters up from the framework of seeing Jeb as being electable. Short of something like this, I don't see a pathway for Rand to shake primary voters out of the "Jeb is the electable one" spell the MSM and party leadership will be bombarding them with next year.

 

[amonasro]

Let's not pretend that nobody saw this coming. The establishment is as predictable as clockwork and thinks that we are too.

I hope Rand has a crack PR team ready to go, because you know they will.

 

[cajuncocoa]

The only way to show that Jeb is unelectable is to hope that the numbers indicate that when they poll him against Hillary. If they rig the polls, no amount of pontificating will convince them otherwise. FoxNews will be shouting that from the rooftops.

 

[Matt Collins]

Not entirely true. Ron's campaign team had literally YEARS to prepare a response for the newsletters, which anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knew would be used as a last ditch effort to derail Ron's run. The newsletters were always the ace-in-the-hole for the media and opponents. The campaign failed miserably to deal with it.

The campaign's response in the waning weeks of the Iowa Caucus...have Ron go into hiding in Texas and ratchet down campaigning and appearances in Iowa.

Ron was sick which is why he went back to TX, and there was nothing that could be said or done to mitigate or inoculate Ron from the newsletters. But that's not why Ron didn't win the Iowa caucus straw poll... he didn't win it because Santorum got puffed up at the last minute by the media.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

The Free Hornet writes: "That isn't holding your nose, that's shoving your own damn face into a pile of shit. I can link to ideas on game theory and voting but the bottom line is you voted statist in 2012 and will be assumed to do so until you prove us wrong..."



(And now that/if lone stranger Ron is gone, voting for/affirming any of the rest of these statists, zionist-apologist warmongers, cowardly lions, Republican pigs, etc. assorted puppets and gd fools galore, will be like 'shoving your face into a pile of shit!')

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

Ron was sick which is why he went back to TX, and there was nothing that could be said or done to mitigate or inoculate Ron from the newsletters. But that's not why Ron didn't win the Iowa caucus straw poll... he didn't win it because Santorum got puffed up at the last minute by the media.

Again, not entirely true. Santorum had a strong presence on the ground in Iowa, it was visible from the early stages of the campaign season. I still remember seeing all his signs and supporters on the way to the Ames Straw Poll. In the back of my mind I always knew he'd be a factor. I know what Huckabee did in 2008. I know what suckers Iowans (especially North Eastern Evangelicals) are for politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve. He was there early and visited all 99 counties. His campaign snowballed into a contender, which really wasn't a surprise if you were on the ground in Iowa to witness it.

 

[willwash]

I smell Paulite panic

Holy shit, I've never seen so many negative rep bars. I'm not mad, I'm impressed!