One thing it tells me is that some very important people
supporting Jeb are not Republicans, certainly not people of the Right. Say what you will about Trump, he’s loud, he’s
crude and rude. But he’s light years to the
right of Hillary. In fact the territory
to the right of Hillary includes both moderate middle, working class Americans and the Conservative Right.
I can understand some Republicans disliking Trump; in fact
most of the nominal Republican scribes and talking heads don’t like Trump.
Some think he’s a stalking horse for
Hillary. Others oppose him because they
believe he’s doomed to lose the general election if he becomes the Republican
nominee. Still others believe he’s not a
True Blue conservative. For all of those reasons, some people who likely
vote for a Republican would may sit out this election. That’s what happened in 2012 when lots of
nominal Republicans couldn’t vote for Romney.
But I don’t think that they voted for Obama. Which is why Jeb’s billionaire money man’s announcement
that he would vote for Hillary was such a revelation. It
shows that Jeb, the standard bearer for the Republican establishment, really
represents the Ruling Class. For the
Ruling Class, ideology is a dirty word; power and access to power is what
elections are about. It’s another reason
to make sure that Jeb is not the Republican nominee.
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