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Why Jeb Bush just isn’t a good debater
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | November 11, 2015 | Amber Phillips

Posted on 11/11/2015 2:42:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The reason Cruz is a great debater has less to do with technique than his mind is sharp as a tack.

Jeb not so much.


21 posted on 11/11/2015 3:12:17 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a lousy debater because he never had to be- he is the scion of a rich family whose father and brother were both Presidents and representing a faction of the Republican party that disposes of a great deal of money and power. Why would he need to?


22 posted on 11/11/2015 3:12:53 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Riiiight...Ch’eb’s troubles are because he just isn’t a good debater.


23 posted on 11/11/2015 3:17:34 PM PST by lacrew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a putz. Same old worn-out rhetoric.


24 posted on 11/11/2015 3:23:55 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Hodar

I also don’t get why he’s always invited back.


25 posted on 11/11/2015 3:26:22 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: anoldafvet

.. with lumpy gravy.


26 posted on 11/11/2015 3:27:10 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why Jeb Bush just isn’t a good debater”

Umm, because he is as dumb as a box of rocks?


27 posted on 11/11/2015 3:39:44 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why Jeb Bush just isn’t a good debater
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Doesn’t matter, he’s a bad candidate all the way around.
He’s for abandoning the rule of law regarding illegal aliens.
He’s for Commie-core.
He’s the worst Democrat in an R jersey, EVER.


28 posted on 11/11/2015 3:49:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JewishRighter

I was thinking because he’s a ‘tard.


29 posted on 11/11/2015 4:16:35 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: sparklite2
I don't know how he ever got elected governor of Florida.
And I probably voted for him.

From an earlier thread:

It was 22 years ago that Jeb first ran against Lawton Chiles, and the Dems pulled their usual tricks to ensure Chiles' re-election, in spite of it being the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. When Bush ran again in '98, he was a virtual shoo-in, because MacKay had conspired to keep Willie Logan (black) from the FL House speakership, so all the black voters stayed home; ditto when he ran for re-election in '02, because Janet Reno lost in the primary to Bill McBride by a hair, and all the lib women stayed home.

Jeb was a reasonably effective governor: kept the budget under control, tried some education reforms, handled the onslaught of hurricanes in 2004 very well.

But there is nothing in his resume that indicates that he would be a President who would overturn the Obama "transformation," and what the country needs in 2017 is not someone who is reasonably effective, but someone who is going to kick @ss and take names. Trump acts like he would do it; Cruz is someone we know would do it; Jindal might have been one to do it. Everyone else on the GOP stage would become the caretaker of everything Obama has forced down America's throat, and that includes Jeb Bush.

30 posted on 11/11/2015 4:17:42 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jeb’s not just a good debater!

He’s a MASTER debater!


31 posted on 11/11/2015 4:50:13 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

“I was thinking because he’s a ‘tard.”

There’s that, too.


32 posted on 11/11/2015 6:41:13 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

I can’t disagree with you.


33 posted on 11/12/2015 9:04:15 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jen is legend, a mastubater.


34 posted on 11/12/2015 9:07:49 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Jen = Jeb. I hate phones


35 posted on 11/12/2015 9:08:28 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Roger Kaputnik
I was thinking because he's a 'tard.

"Don't worry scro. there's lots of tards out there living really kick ass lives. My ex wife is tarded. She's a pilot now."

36 posted on 11/12/2015 9:09:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bush even flubbed telling a joke at the debate.

-PJ

37 posted on 11/12/2015 9:44:30 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Actually, Cruz debate performance owes to both brilliance and technique. In his recent biographical book, he talks about how he joined debating teams going way back and continued to hone the skills through high school, college and law school. Naturally, he continued developing and perfecting these skills as an appellate lawyer and got to witness the best as law clerk to Rehnquist.


38 posted on 11/12/2015 7:47:11 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: DaxtonBrown

Actually, Cruz debate performance owes to both brilliance and technique. In his recent biographical book, he talks about how he joined debating teams going way back and continued to hone the skills through high school, college and law school. Naturally, he continued developing and perfecting these skills as an appellate lawyer and got to witness the best as law clerk to Rehnquist.


39 posted on 11/12/2015 7:47:12 PM PST by JewishRighter
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