I think this simple illustration sums up the process.
Posted on 09/08/2015 8:46:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is not how Jeb Bush thought his summer would end. The candidate once seen as the most likely Republican presidential nominee is languishing in the polls, his fundraising has slowed, and he endures daily taunts from the rival who unseated him as the front-runner, Donald Trump.
Through it all, Bush is sticking to the same strategy that he and his advisers laid out months ago: Establish himself as a tested conservative reformer who served eight years as Florida governor, ride out the chaotic pre-primary season and wait for the party to coalesce around him.
Even as he shifts tactics over the short term to fight back against Trump, Bush is plodding forward, returning time and again in his appearances to the comfort zone of his years in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital, when he was an alpha leader and fellow Republicans showed him deference rather than defiance...
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Don't come crawling around to beg for our votes.
In other words, I’m going to lie to you, and then, when I get in office, I’m going to do the opposite.
GEEEEEEE ..... WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE ..?????
ANYBODY WHO’S BUYING THIS LOAD OF C—P IS NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
“Fairly or not, Bush has been dubbed the establishment’s candidate.”
The reporter is obviously trying to be objective.
Only the establishment leadership saw him as the most likely nominee, the base does not and did not want him. If we do not get behind one candidate immediately, the GOPe will shove him down our throats, just as they did Romney.
This conservative will NEVER vote for the joyful tortoise.
¡Yeb! has made it clear that his loyalties are to Mexico and Mexicans.
I want an American President who puts Americans first.
Correct but the advertising $$$ is going right into the MSM pockets.
Emigrate to Mexico, Jeb. We don't want you.
"LOW ENERGY"
has stuck and stuck but good.
Jeb B. is NO conservative. It is absurd to label him as one. There is Common Cause, illegal aliens, Terri Schiavo, and much more.
Didn’t ¡Yeb! say he didn’t want or need conservatives?
>> Establish himself as a tested conservative reformer
Translation: Lie like there’s no tomorrow.
Apparently the whole running against the base thing is not working out for JEB.
He sure did.
JEB BUSH: REPUBLICANS DON’T NEED CONSERVATIVES TO WIN WHITE HOUSE, SHOULD NOT DEFUND EXEC AMNESTY
Just go away, Jeb.
Stephen Colbert...oh yeah Jebbie...that will really boost your credibility with your base. Oh, that's right. You don't need the base...your plan is to loose the primary to win the general. Well, you're well on your way for the first part of that strategy.
I like that. Good post.
Maybe Jeb is the one who should be thinking about running as an independent.
Little Jebbie is no conservative. If he tries to take down Trump, he might just destroy both of them.
Establishing Jeb "Act of Love" Bush as a conservative is contrary to the obvious reality, which makes it difficult.
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