{"id":49977,"date":"2014-12-18T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49977"},"modified":"2014-12-18T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:06:04","slug":"jebbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49977","title":{"rendered":"Jebbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nate Silver – in a piece entitled “Is Jeb Bush Too Liberal To Win The Republican Nomination In 2016<\/a>” – answered the question halfway, after providing a nifty visual of Republicans rated (according to Silver’s choice of ratings on indices: voting records<\/a>,\u00a0donor base<\/a> and public statements<\/a>\u00a0on the issues.<\/p>\n

Here’s the list:<\/p>\n

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Quibble with the methodology if you want (Mike Huckabee is not “to the right” of Rick Perry or Bobby Jindal, much less Ronald Reagan).<\/p>\n

But it does provide an interesting jumpoff point for a conversation; is\u00a0the GOP screwing up again with the “Jeb is Inevitable” meme?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The whole point behind John McCain was his “electability”.\u00a0 Ditto, to an extent, Mitt Romney – both of whom, you may recall, lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Limbaugh put it<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n

So we are, in a blog here at FiveThirtyEight, we’re ranking Jeb Bush against four other men who have lost or failed to succeed in getting a nomination or did get the nomination but lost the election. Now, isn’t there a lesson there? The establishment keeps telling us, “No, no, no, you Tea Party people, look at what happened to Barry Goldwater, we’ll get creamed. You people are extremist kooks! America thinks the Tea Party is a bunch of kooks, and if we have a nominee coming from you, why, we’re gonna get creamed. We’re gonna have a landslide like Goldwater.”<\/p>\n

And, of course, the retort is, “Yeah, well, the people you are nominating, I don’t see a W next to their names at the end of the process. You guys can cite one: Barry Goldwater. We can cite every one of your nominees. They lose, every one of them.” But, nevertheless, the process continues here to rank Jeb and other Republicans on this imaginary chart of conservatism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Upshot: the more I watch Scott Walker, the more I like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nate Silver – in a piece entitled “Is Jeb Bush Too Liberal To Win The Republican Nomination In 2016” – answered the question halfway, after providing a nifty visual of Republicans rated (according to Silver’s choice of ratings on indices: voting records,\u00a0donor base and public statements\u00a0on the issues. Here’s the list: Quibble with the methodology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49995,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49977\/revisions\/49995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}