Have Republicans wised up about 2016?

Sound familiar? Well, another all-but-certain GOP contender, Jeb Bush, similarly mused aloud last month that the next GOP nominee needs to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general (election) without violating your own principles.”

Bush was talking about Romney’s 2012 problem. Romney was also talking about Romney’s 2012 problem. (Can you say “self-deportation”?)

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