Jeb Bush Asking John McCain How to Win Without Conservative Vote

[Coolidge/Dawes '24]

Article here.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is doing opposition research on himself and asking Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about how he can potentially win the GOP presidential nomination without conservatives.

"I just said to him, 'I think if you look back, despite the far right's complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,'" McCain reportedly told Bush, suggesting that Bush should hope that a few conservatives split the vote on the right.

In addition to Bush's ties to nebulous Chinese investors that may come under intense scrutiny, Bush doesn't need to do too much opposition research on himself to figure out that his intense support for comprehensive amnesty legislation and Common Core will turn off the conservative base.

As conservative scholar and talk radio host Mark Levin has suggested numerous times, there is danger ahead in the general election if Bush were to somehow secure the GOP nomination. Regardless of how they won the nomination, moderate Republican candidates like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney have one thing in common — they all lost the White House because they did not excite enough conservatives to the polls.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

This is like asking Porky Pig for tips on public speaking..

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Murder lots of innocent lives in the middle east
Fund terrorism,train it, arm it
Pretend to be a war hero
Don't forget to pretend that you suffered a lot as a POW
Shoot down accusations of being a snitch while being a POW
Pretend you didn't crash a few planes on an aircraft carrier
Have your daddy cover up everything

 

[Todd]

This is like asking Porky Pig for tips on public speaking..

This.

How would John McCain know how to win without it when he got crushed because of it.

 

[Acala]

Yup. The Republican Party nominates candidates that abandon conservative principles and endorse big government. Then when they loses, they say it's because minorities and young people are anti-conservative and want big government.

 

[juleswin]

I thought the narrative was that John McCain lost the first time because he ran as a centrist and won the 2nd time around because he ran to the right(whatever that means). But even if really wanted to know how, why announce it to the world?