Phyllis Schlafly posts an Op-Ed in the Investors Business Daily (not coincidentally the delivery vehicle for the only recent poll {377 voters selected} showing Donald Trump under 30% in the past five days) presenting a proposition that the GOPe is looking for a “Plan B” to the current abysmal republican failure known commonly as Jeb Bush.

The Republican establishment designed the process to deliver the 2016 presidential nomination to a business-friendly moderate who avoids so-called social issues. The consultants who rewrote the party rules after 2012 are now trying to explain to their patrons what went wrong and how to fix it.
Plan A, of course, was to assure the nomination of Jeb Bush, whose views are the perfect reflection of the Republican donor class.
But despite many months of campaigning, $114 million of political funds raised through June 30, and two presidential debates watched by a record-setting average of 24 million people, Jeb Bush has dropped to sixth place, registering only 4% in the latest Pew poll. (more)

Agree on all of it, except, well, there isn’t a “plan B” per se’.  Plan-A is the successful nomination, by the apparatus known as “the establishment”, of Jeb Bush.  All subsequent plans B through Z are to insure Plan-A.  Period.

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)
Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

Eggs, meet basket.
The GOPe road map is so heavily contingent on Jeb Bush that no alternate plan was even considered, thought about, discussed or generally presented as plausible.
Every Wall Street luncheon since October 2013; every K-Street breakfast; every Chamber of Commerce dinner; every RNC national and regional rules meeting – ALL OF IT; has been built up based on a cornerstone and central tenet that Jeb would fulfill all of the handshake agreements contained within ALL of those meetings over the past 23 months.
There simply is no other option.  Period.
jeb bush whatThat is why not a single member of the 0-4% club (Huckabee, Christie, Kasich, Jindal, Graham, Pataki, and some mysterious figment named Gilmore) are still patiently in a holding pattern awaiting an outcome from RNC/GOPe “Operation Hummingbird“.
None of the aforementioned, sans Jindal, are permitted exit until released by their leadership, Jeb Bush.
Good grief, the last thing Team Jeb wants is to be the only one left standing on the right side of the tracks.
Jeb needs company lest he find himself strolling through an airport en-route to a granite state locale, and *gasp* carrying his own luggage; or heaven forbid he of such pedigree might have to rent a car, or something similar.  Not.Going.To.Happen.
That’s entirely the point behind “Operation Hummingbird” and the necessary fight with the vulgarian, Donald Trump.  Pushing a laughable but splendidly plausible Hans Christian Anderson narrative, and using Rubio and Fiorina to remove that pesky undesirable who is dug in amid the summit of mount Trumpet.
carly fiorina 2Karl Rovemarco_rubio_hires

Karl Rove “Between Two Ferns”

Carly Fiorina is currently a re-purposed Romney Spox intent on fulfilling her latest assignment within the scheme.   It’s not her fault she has to lean so heavily on a Super-Pac to prop her up.  The RNC should have thought of that back in the design phase, 2014.
And it’s no wonder Rubio is sweating bullets.  Rubio is like the little dog trying to pull Grinch’s sled up mount Trumpet; only his sled is filled with Eight Gangs of baggage from his seemingly oblivious past two years in service to McConnell.
Tom Donohue et al promised young master Rubio a chamber filled with golden lucky smarms after he helped deliver Florida’s 99 electoral votes.  During the sales pitch no-one said anything about having to actually lead a charge against a conservative insurgency.
Good grief, if boy Rubio had known that was going to be needed he could have at least made some adjustments to his burdensome positions allowing at least an appearance of such electable intent.  No, it’s not his fault either.
Someone amid all of those breakfasts, luncheons and linen laden dinners, should have thought about what might happen if Donald Trump actually mounted a campaign.
The blame lies squarely in the lap dogs of the RNC/GOPe assembly who traveled gleefully from table to table yet  apparently had nothing but Schmidt-for-brains.
Haley Barbour could have put out that cigar, or refrained from one of those warmed brandy snifter swirls, long enough to lean in and say: “hey y’all, what if“…..
But noooo, Boss Hog didn’t do that either.  Nope, the entire apparatus of the RNC/GOPe was so sure of themselves, there’s nothing even remotely plausible for a “Plan B”.
Instead the objective goes directly from Plan A, elect Jeb, to the nuclear option, help elect Hillary Clinton, there is nothing in between.
Jeb Bush pedigree

Plan “B” is Plan “A”…

….and when you understand that, you are able to reconcile why Jeb Bush is campaigning as lazily and out-of-touch as he is.  Jeb’s just waiting his turn!

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