BloggeRhythms

Things may be starting to come together for the Republican party. And if its members use their heads, 2016 can certainly be a solid presidential follow-up to big congressional wins this year, including regaining the majority in the Senate.

 

As far as the next presidential race goes, the past couple of days has seen critically important support developing for Jeb Bush.

 

The Tampa Bay Tribune reports that at a Manhattan Institute dinner in New York, “Former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, introduced Bush, saying the former Florida governor was elected with 61 percent of the Hispanic vote. ‘Wow,’ Giuliani said. ‘It just could be that our party could win an emerging group and get a big vote and change the nature of politics. Oh well, I hope we can.’ ‘There’s a lot of speculation that he may run for president,’ Giuliani said. ‘He’s got a very, very high problem to overcome: He’s got a record of success.’’’

 

In regard to Hispanics, a “mega-donor” Paul Singer said: “For the life of me I have a hard time understanding why people are fearful of our own heritage, our own history… The rules are you come to this country, you pursue your dreams, you create value for yourself and your families and others and great things happens to you and to our country. Why would we ignore that at time when we need to restart and rejuvenate our economy? It makes no sense to me.”

 

Similarly, the Washington Examiner noted that: “House Speaker John Boehner said he is ‘nudging’ former Florida [Republican] Gov. Jeb Bush to run for president and he wants to take up immigration reform legislation in small pieces, starting first with border security. Boehner made the remarks at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce during a question-and-answer session with the editor of Texas Monthly.”

 

So here we have two Republican giants, Rudy and Speaker Boehner, along with a major donor, beginning a push for Jeb Bush who has a solid professional and personal history of successful Hispanic relationships. And he also applies common sense to the matter, realizing border security comes first, as opportunities are created via immigration reform.  

 

And then we have two of the most sensible paragraphs seen lately, via Chris Stirewalt, putting the Keystone pipeline into crystal clear perspective.

 

Senator Lindsey Graham’s running for re-election in South Carolina, and his campaigns running a 30-second ad, ‘Pipeline.’

 

In the video, “former U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins praises Graham for being the first U.S. senator to visit the oil sands in Canada. ‘Every drop of oil we get from Canada is one less drop we have to get from countries in the Middle East, countries that don’t like us.  Lindsey Graham understood that before most people understood it,’ Wilkins, a former South Carolina state House Speaker, says in the TV ad.”

 

Then there’s also a “60-second radio ad, also released on Monday, [that] opens to the sound of gunfire in a war zone as the narrator asserts that ‘terrorism is on the rebound.’ The voice goes on to state that despite the increase in terrorism, the U.S. continues to import nearly $400 billion a year in foreign oil.”

 

So, what today’s items illustrate is that Republican's, as usual, have solid ideas and easily workable solutions to putting the nation on the right track again (no pun intended.) Their problem, however, remains a huge one. How to get the premises of common sense in government and rebuilding personal opportunity across to a very, very spoiled, complacent, and lazy electorate.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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