POLITICO.com : Mitch Daniels OUT : "The GOP race is being shaped by who’s not running" - "The weakest Republican primary field in recent memory" - Beneficiaries of Daniels’s absence : Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman

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Intelligent and Wise Republicans ( there are some of them ! ) watch how the events unfold and want a "dark and hidden horse" to win the race.

Many GOP professionals with strong ties to the Bush family, are desperate making efforts to get Jeb Bush tu run, Jeb Bush is the former two-term governor of Florida, and was very successful in Education, budget control, etc ..... and he is moderate, rational and a great friend of Latinos, his wife is Mexican, but he is very reluctant and already said NO ! ...

Jeb Bush is the only Republican that is said to perhaps attract the Latino Vote. Who knows ?? ... I think that Republicans have reached the point of no return, and even a super star like Jeb Bush can not perform the magic.

Republicans, if you are wise, then reserve that wonderful candidate ( the Jeb ) for 2016, when you have had another four years of "weeping and gnashing of teeth"

POLITICO.com
With Mitch Daniels out, GOP looking for new 2012 option
By JONATHAN MARTIN
May 22, 2011


With Mitch Daniels out, GOP looking for new 2012 option


Some excerpts :

Mitch Daniels’s overnight decision against a presidential bid will immediately raise the volume on the low-hum grumbling among Republican insiders that they’re gearing up to face President Obama with the weakest primary field in recent memory.

The pressure on a handful of Republicans who’ve insisted they won’t consider running but would be potentially strong alternatives to Mitt Romney will now significantly intensify, but the ultimate beneficiaries of Daniels’s absence may be two candidates already on course to run: Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman.

At the moment, though, the Indiana governor’s exit illustrates the degree to which the GOP race is being shaped by who’s not running.

Consider the list of would-be candidates who’ve passed on a campaign in the last four months: Mike Pence, John Thune, Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and now Daniels.

Add Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and Rick Perry – Republicans with star power who’ve said flatly they won’t run – and it translates into a GOP establishment deeply worried that the flawed options they’re left with won’t be any match for an incumbent president who seemingly won’t face a primary but is likely to shatter campaign fundraising records.

“Insofar as politics abhors even a near-vacuum, others are bound to get in,” Weekly Standard editor William Kristol predicted this morning, suggesting a race that could “remain open and fluid until Thanksgiving.”

One Daniels friend and longtime Republican, who had already gotten dozens of emails by 7:30 bemoaning the news, was blunt when asked about who in the current field was now more appealing: “None of the above.”

In the near-term, Daniels’s exit means that Republican donors, operatives and elected officials aren’t likely to keep taking no for an answer and will surely attempt to convince one of the would-be candidates who’ve already rebuffed entreaties to reconsider.

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