Honestly, the GOP wing of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party’s contempt for the voters who just handed them one of the biggest electoral voters in a century really knows no bounds. Here’s Jennifer Rubin, analyzing the early moves in what will be the most depressing and soporific tussles for a presidential nomination in forever:
The most accurate take on the dynamic in the pre-primary for the GOP presidential nomination comes from veteran Republican Dan Senor, who is close to the donor community and knows several of the hopefuls extremely well. He contends that Jeb Bush’s early announcement, followed by an extremely impressive round of early meetings in Boston and New York with donors, forced Mitt Romney to move before he really wanted to. The fear within Romney World was that unless the former Massachusetts governor moved soon to freeze donors, Bush might run away with it and eliminate any potential that Romney could be called in late in the game as the savior of the party. Rather than wait for gridlock and pleading to get into the race, this theory goes, Romney had to junk his timetable and act quickly. Otherwise — if he remained quiet — he would be closing the door to ever becoming president.
A few observations:
1) Willard, you are never going to be president. You had your chance(s) and you blew it;
2) Jeb, you too are never going to be president. Two members of your family in the White House was at least one, and probably two, too many.
3) This is all about nailing down early-donor money from the geriatic lo-fo fat cats who for some weird reason are perfectly happy to fork over some dough to men who already are millionaires many times over.
Why are we even having this conversation? Romney is a proven loser whose sky-high negatives will only get worse with another run — hello, Jonathan Gruber! Bush is, well, yet another Bush, and very likely the worst of the three, which is saying something.
Prediction: the Republican ticket for 2016 either will be Scott Walker and Susana Martinez or, should either Bush or Romney get the nod, there will be no Republican ticket in 2020.
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