Posted on 06/15/2015 8:16:18 AM PDT by jimbo123
Today, former Florida governor Jeb Bush formally enters the race for the Republican nomination for President. When Bush began his exploratory effort he was supposed to assemble the strongest roster of aides and donors, spooking would-be rivals for the nomination from the race.
His political machine was expected to have $100 million on hand the day he declared as a candidate. Eventually, no one would ask about his family, which has spawned two Presidents, or his support for Common Core education standards or liberal views on illegal immigrants.
None of that has happened noted Time Magazines Phillip Elliott in his pre-announcement profile of Bush.
Instead of assembling a political juggernaut that would crush all rivals, Jeb Bush has engaged for the past six months in a bizarre group therapy session with the American people and Republican primary election voters.
Somewhat like a schoolboy looking at the legacy of his parent and older sibling and feeling incapable of measuring-up he told us he is somewhat introverted, rather than why he supports Common Core and amnesty for illegal aliens in the face of overwhelming opposition to those policies from the conservative grassroots of the Republican Party.
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And perhaps most bizarrely, he brushed aside with no rational explanation his Rachel Dolezal-like claims of being Hispanic, a longtime ethnic dysmorphia that even his friends call being a Gringo Aplatanado or Anglo who has gone native and adopted Hispanic culture in derogation of his own ethnic roots.
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