White House adviser says Bush GDP growth goal beyond reach

And as the Maddow Blog’s Steve Benen noted this week, multiple polls in fact show that Republican voters overwhelmingly prefer ideological purity to electability. George P. Bush has been helping members of his famous family get elected since age 3 but has never played a larger role as a political surrogate than this cycle, as he tries to help his dad follow his grandfather, George H.W. Bush, and his uncle, George W. Bush, to the White House.

Republicans are steeling themselves for a long period of uncertainty following a raucous first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign and more caustic comments from early frontrunner Donald Trump.

This is the second time Bush has visited Reno and the third trip to northern Nevada since his campaign started.

Bush said he thought he did well Thursday and was able to “talk about the things that were important” to him including education. “It’s a little late in the game for me to do that”.

But Perry campaigned as if one of the party’s top-tier candidates, declaring that his 14 years as governor in Texas prove he’s worthy of a promotion. They challenged Marco Rubio on his support for exceptions to abortion opposition for rape and incest, which Rubio replied was inaccurate. Bush will be there Saturday – along with Texas Sen. Trump no doubt fed that impression when he complained publicly about the moderators and Kelly in particular, but the front-runner nearly always gets the most attention in these debates, and none of the questions asked were out of bounds. The RedState audience was equally impressed.

Bovada also is taking bets on Mr. Trump’s debate performance Thursday, offering 2/1 odds to bettors who think he will say “fired” (which means the oddmakers think he won’t channel his days as the celebrity host of the “The Apprentice“). Fiorina said. “I had a lot of fun last night”.

Christie told the RedState crowd on Friday that his leadership of a Democratic-leaning state makes him “battle tested for Washington”.

Then he added: “Think about listening to this accent for eight years….”

In my experience, there’s no debate over the best way to watch a debate: have several hundred of your friends come over to watch it with you. “Don’t worry about it”.