Someone like Jeb Bush, who called immigration an “act of love” and supported Common Core (which was supported by the demonic Obama and which conservatives believe is a heretical federal takeover of education), does not come close to representing their values.
Jeb Bush isn’t just a Beltway insider. He’s literally the biological spawn of the political establishment. He’s not going to come to Washington and (as the base wants and demands) start hurling government bureaucracies out the window in an attempt to clean out the Augean stables of big-government corruption.
Yet we all know that someone like Bush or like Mitt Romney is eventually going to be forced down the throats of Republican voters by the big-money donors of the Beltway. Jeb may not be a hit with Rush or Thor or “the base,” but he’s a hit with the money folks, and everyone, Republican voters especially, , know it…
But in the conservative platform there are echoes of the real anger and frustration of real people. Check out entry #2 in this Tea Party Platform: “Pro-domestic employment is indispensable.” The Jebs and Hillaries who will head to the general election fattened by money from the same Wall Street banks that financed the relocation of the American manufacturing base from the Rust Belt to places like China and India, they’re not going to be worried about “domestic employment” in the way the Tea Partiers mean.
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