Nicely said by Jeb.

The Republican party is a joke, and while the far left is not as progressive as they'd lead you to believe, there are more Democrats closer to the center than Republicans. Americans that are far left or far right are getting fewer and more far between. If we had more candidates with common sense, you'd find more people willing to support said candidates.

Oh, and before anyone mentions Ron Paul, he's not the answer either.

Originally posted by DaTroof
Nicely said by Jeb.

The Republican party is a joke, and while the far left is not as progressive as they'd lead you to believe, there are more Democrats closer to the center than Republicans. Americans that are far left or far right are getting fewer and more far between. If we had more candidates with common sense, you'd find more people willing to support said candidates.

Oh, and before anyone mentions Ron Paul, he's not the answer either.

You do a mighty good job pointing out all the faults yourself. Where are YOUR solutions?

Why is Ron Paul not the answer? You care to elaborate?

I thought Jeb's comment was a little strange when I heard it the other day. Strange because the GOP has since the late 1970s precisely built it's base by playing on fears and emotions. The Moral Majority was fearful and emotional over the cultural/religious changes taking place around them and helped elect Ronald Reagan. After that, fear and emotion drove elections year after year.

(And it was not just emotional/fearful wedge issues. I remember a stalwart Republican voter fearing that Communists would be marching right up through Central America and Mexico.)

All this decades long deliberate use of fear and emotion to fertilize the GOP has allowed the noxious weeds to take over the garden, choking out the healthy vegetation that was once there. The reactionary, nutty, extreme right noxious weeds (once able to be kept under control) are now fed to Americans, making even a moderate candidate taste like a weed and forcing a gag reflex as Jeb's reaction.

And Jeb wonders what happened?? In the business world, this would be an example of fiduciary mismanagement at best or a criminal act at worst.

Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
So what does he call himself now?

Really. In a world where the current POTUS is really a Republican moderate from 20 years ago but is labeled an extreme Left Commie Marxist today, there seems to be a problem with identity. Jeb, you have my sympathy over your identity crisis, but it really is one of your party's making.

Jeb must be looking to run in 2016

This is step 1 towards a new and improved Bush candidate.

same ol crap

Where was Jeb when his brother all but invented the fear model
the candidates seem to be practicing still go this day?

I mean, everything Bush did was prefaced with fear and if
the public seemed reluctant, he would turn the fear quotient
up until it "made sense". But maybe the fear factor is actually
indicative of the voter base? That is the one constant in the
equation and there is still GOP even after the last decade.

Maybe conservatives are swayed by fear more than non
conservatives? That would explain why fear is being used
and why fear was used so much in the W administration.
Evil doers, WMD, terror, terrorists, mushroom clouds,
now its communists, muslims, secret muslims with
300 birth certificates planning a socialist revolution...

Makes sense to me