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grantcart

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Sat Aug 11, 2012, 08:22 AM Aug 2012

And the big, big, big, big winner today is: [View all]

After an electoral college landslide election in which radical Republican budget, tax and immigration issues have reduced the Republicans to a few reliable midwest and southern states, and where their anti Hispanic policies now undermine traditional Republican majorities in states like Arizona, and with a landslide loss in the Republicans' big must have state of Florida, who does a desperate and broken Republican party turn its grateful heart to?



A 'centrist' (compared to the cuckoo are Coca Puffs ticket of 2012) whose wife was born in Mexico and still has high favor abilities in Florida. Not only that the two and the only two people who could have presented a reasonable challenge to Jeb are the two who are going to be on the ticket and made toxic in 2012.

Well played Bush family. Well played Karl Rove. Credit is due where credit is earned. Look forward to a great battle in 2016. Oh by the way, loved the Republican source who leaked the tax information to Reid. Brilliant.
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