Jeb Bush super PAC spending $10 million on ads in early primary states (Panic time for Mike Murphy)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 8/16/16 | Tribune Wire Reports

[jimbo123]

5. Right To Rise is mad at Bush Campaign
6. Bush Campaign is mad at Right To Rise

[Nextrush]

The GOPe plays to win and they will do whatever it takes to take Trump down.

We’ll probably end up having a national dirty tricks campaign like the one in Mississippi that openly appealed to Democrat voters using the race card to help RINO Thad Cochran win the runoff primary election.

[free_life]

The money behind the Super-pacs are panicking, Trump is Trouble.

[CodeToad]

[mac_truck]

TV ads are run for a variety of reasons and they're not just aimed at low information types. In Bush's case he needs to re-introduce himself to voters in a positive way and remind them of his accomplishments. The notion he would wait to do this until the last few weeks is...risible.

The second reason a well funded candidate would take to the TV airways early is as a preemptive strike against less well funded opponents. To use a boxing analogy, by buying a large block of television advertising early Bush is looking to knockout at least some of his opponents.

Of course Trump's entry into the race is a wild card and his harsh rhetoric aimed at Bush may be a third reason to start running television ads sooner than later. This would again comport with a sound political principle of not letting your opponents define (or redefine) you first.

[C. Edmund Wright]