GOP senator says if Romney loses Michigan, it's Jeb

[Faygo Kid]

ABC's Jonathan Karl blog (link follows):

A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race.

“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.

The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not.

“We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up.

“He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.”

What about Rick Santorum?

“He’d lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich.

It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who?

“Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/top-gop-senator-says-if-romney-loses-michigan-we-need-a-new-candidate/

[tanyev]

1. Oh, come on. After $arah has signaled she'd be willing?

[11 Bravo]

17. Say it with me! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

[Redstate Bluegirl]

18. Run Barbie Run!

[bathroommonkey76]

2. It's great to see the GOP implode. nt

[Dawson Leery]

3. Newt will lose 35-40 states.

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Santorum may lose 45 or more. With the female vote heavily against him, Ricky may take a worse beating than Goldwater.

[louis-t]

23. Or 'lose'.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Not going to happen

too late for a candidate to emerge to get on the ballot in any of the primary states, too late for a new campaign to gain any momentum to win the nomination through the primary process...if Romney loses Michigan and the people who really run the Republican party start to get scared at the prospect of Rick Santorum as their standard-bearer, then any alternate nominee would probably come out at the convention.

[TheWraith]

8. Precisely. They're not going to nominate someone else at the convention.

It would be a one-way street to an electoral destruction that would make it into the record books. A handful of party insiders forcing a candidate that the base had no part in choosing? You could bet on a third-party candidate coming out, and Republicans all over the country staying home or voting spoiler.

[pscot]

26. If there's no winner after a couple of ballots

at the convention, it's every man for himself. While cigar smoke clouds the air,the bankers, oilmen and national security cabal will pick whoever they please. None of them really give a rats ass what the teabaggers want.

[valerief]

5. Why not just nominate a turnip owned by David Koch? Same thing. nt

[DJ13]

7. The turnip would get more votes than Jeb

[Faygo Kid]

9. The Kochs will ultimately make the decision.

Scott Walker?

Just kidding. I see a Romney-Santorum ticket as an inevitability, coming together soon to end this warfare.

The Powers That Be (Kochs) will insist on it. They will spend billions on ads, and just as much as rigging the results.

[joeybee12]

12. A turnip would not do everything the Koch Bros asked them to...

Like the Repukes would.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Why nominate a turnip when you can nominate Baldrick?

"Mr. Baldrick may look like a monkey who's been put in a suit and then strategically shaved, but he is a brilliant politician. The number of votes I cast is simply a reflection of how firmly I believe in his policies".

Oh, wait a moment, the strategically-shaved monkey was the other Bush brother ...

[flamingdem]

22. I vote for the turnup, hic

I mean turnip.

[unblock]

6. jeb is not too bright, but he's wise enough to save it for 2016.

obama's likely to win regardless of his opponent, but will swing voters really go for a return to yet another bush???

why on earth would he want to run this year just to lose to obama when he can run in an open election in 2016?

[opihimoimoi]

10. Too Widdle Too Late...No JEBBIE ....Peeps tired of the Bushes...not much left after W got through

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Yes, Jeb Bush is just what the Doctor ordered!

Dr. Kevorkian - assisted suicide for the Republican Party!

[Bruce Wayne]

13. More proof most Senators are stupid.

If Santorum's about to take the nom and then the top cats come rushing in last minute to foist some other insider onto the ticket, the party will split like a dropped watermelon. It'll be a site to see. I rather suspect the Republicans are pessimistic enough about 2012 by now that they'd rather suck down another four years of Obama then risk blowing up their party. They may not take good care of the country, but they always manage to salvage their party from its own worst instincts.

[Politicalboi]

14. Their party is crazy enough

But Jeb would probably agree with the birth control issue, so he wouldn't be any different. But he does still scare me just for the vote fraud that would occur. And I was thinking about the open primaries. If we vote for Ricky in a Repuke vote, it may backfire on us. If Ricky got a shit load of votes during that time, they may be able to rig the GE and the numbers would be there to do it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Since the name of Bush is virtually synonymous with dog shit to most Americans

I look forward to the selection of Jeb by the back room GOP power brokers.

[Booster]

16. I think people would look at Jeb and see George W. It would sink Jeb for 2016.

[mick063]

19. The Bush name

carrys a lot of weight with those folks.

How big can a "four more years of Bush" movement get?

Answer.....not very big.

GOP is hurtin for certain.

[MrBig]

20. I don't think it matters at this point

Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney...

The economy is starting to turn and troops are starting to come home. Things are shaping up better and better for President Obama as we get closer and closer to November.

[DCBob]

24. I kind of doubt Jeb would take the offer.

Even a GOP "white knight" will have trouble winning this year. The GOPer brand is shit again like it was during the end of the Bush/Cheney regime. The economy is recovering and Obama's approvals are up. Jeb will save it for 2016.

[jimlup]

25. That anyone could ever mention that name again and associate it with the PROTUS is insulting

to any real Americans. I know that George W. Bush was just a figurehead. But he represented such horrible corruption (never mind that his family now contains at least two major war criminals) that it would be a crime against reason to run Jeb "Bush".

God Damn it - I guess it would be good to cook his goose so he doesn't come back and haunt us in 2016 'cause I do think even Jeb (still not soiled) Bush would lose badly to Obama. This just makes me angry though - that anyone could still take that family as anything but producers of war criminals and robber barons is amazing to me.

[customerserviceguy]

27. Until we know which Senator

We cannot possibly know his or her motives. It wouldn't surprise me if it were one of Maine's Senators who said this, recoiling from Sicky Ricky's blather on contraception. It doesn't mean that the average Repuke Senator feels this way.