The Big Money Boyz weren’t paying attention
by digby
This is a dispatch from the big Jeb! summit last week-end:
Many of these dedicated Bush supporters are no longer denying that the guest of honor is unable to connect with a GOP electorate that has become increasingly fractured and stridently ideological since — and in reaction to — his brother’s presidency. And increasingly, donors say, they are no longer certain the Bush family can pull Jeb’s campaign out of its downward spiral.
The advent of the tea party and the GOP’s hard lurch to the right, the rejection of the politics of compromise, and the diminishing clout of the Republican National Committee and the party as a whole all are all developments of the post-George W. Bush era. And all are phenomena impeding Jeb Bush’s path to the Republican nomination.
“I look at this party now, and I hardly recognize it,” one Florida-based donor said. “I never would have thought there would be so much mistrust of the establishment that we would prefer candidates who are angry over those who can actually lead.”
Imagine that. After all these years railing at Washington and the political system, all these years of turning politics into a blood sport, all these years of making promises they had no intention of keeping, they just can’t believe the rubes have turned their attention to them.
I just heard John Sununu railing on MSNBC about the voters who need to wake up and care about issues. Like Eminent Domain.
Yep. That’s the ticket …
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