by Jesse J. Lewis, Sr.
The Republican establishment won big during this year’s midterm elections, fending off far-right candidates in primary races who might have threatened the party’s bid to retake full control of Congress.
According to CNN, GOP leaders will have to keep an eye on a wide-open presidential primary along with internal party fights at the House, Senate and gubernatorial levels. That could spread the party thin and leave an opening for conservative activists to pluck off established leaders with greater ease, particularly in congressional races as much of the attention shifts to the battle for the White House.
Conservatives, smarting from their losses this cycle, already fettering organized for 2016 and they came out of this month’s government spending fight furious that congressional Republicans produced no tangible response to President Obama’s immigration executive action and convinced that Republicans are still ceding issues to Democrats after the election.
My strong opinion is that Jeb Bush will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. In spite of Jeb Bush being accused of being too liberal, there are some Americans who will refuse to vote for him because he would be the third generation of Bushes in the White House, but in the end the Republican Party will decide that their only chance of winning the White House is with Jeb Bush.
Paul Lindsey, spokesman for establishment-friendly outside group American Crossroads, said nominating strong candidates takes on added urgency because of the tough political terrain for Republicans.
“I think candidate quality is very important, especially given the fact that we have the Senate and we’ll want to make sure that we maintain it – and we have a map with a lot of Republican senators who are up for reelection in purple or blue states that Obama won.”
It is my opinion that people cannot mention the age of Hillary Clinton and her trying to build a dynasty, or her being a life-long politician and use it against her. Jeb Bush is a mirror image of Hillary Clinton. The same things apply to him also.
If 75 percent of Hispanics and Blacks turn out to vote, then Hillary will win. But we must remember that Jeb Bush will carry at least 20 percent of Hispanic and 2 percent of the Black voters. Most people will agree that this will be an interesting, long-fought race between both parties for the nomination. Between them, they will spend more than a billion dollars.
