How Trump Makes Jeb Bush Seem Like a Wimp

The Atlantic ^ | August 28, 2015 | PETER BEINART

[lbryce]

The Republican frontrunner has offered Bush the perfect chance to display some passion—but he’s declined to take it.

Donald Trump has gotten a boost in his efforts to maul Jeb Bush in recent days from an unexpected source: Jeb Bush himself.

Trump’s attack on Jeb isn’t mostly about issues. As with most things Trump, it’s mostly about persona. The Donald thinks Jeb is a dud. “He’s a man that doesn’t want to be doing what he’s doing,” Trump said in June. “I call him the reluctant warrior, and warrior’s probably not a good word. I think Bush is an unhappy person. I don’t think he has any energy.”

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Over the last week, Jeb has proven Trump right. Trump, and his supporters, continue to demonize Mexican American illegal immigrants. On Tuesday, Trump threw the most popular Spanish-language broadcaster in America out of a press conference. That same day, Ann Coulter warmed up for Trump in Iowa by offering gruesome details of murders by Mexican “illegals,” and suggesting that once Trump builds his wall along America’s southern border, tourists can come watch the “live drone shows.”

This kind of thing likely enrages Jeb. He is, after all, married to a Mexican American immigrant. He speaks fluent Spanish. He calls his children Hispanic. He’s called himself Hispanic. He describes himself as “immersed in the immigrant experience.” When parents choose to enter the United States illegally because “their children didn’t have food on the table,” in their home country, Jeb said last year, “It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family.

[lbryce]

.I am Dorkus, King of All Dorkhood

Last week I posted an article solely based on "Chad" Bush beaming with excitement wearing that disposable Mexican diaper, grinning with pride,but also wearing a goofy clueless kind of grin, as if lobotomized. So proud was he to be wearing a kind of upside bird's nest,a political bird's nest, yet, promoting a most un-American political circus, his barf bag of a cap emblazoned with what has got to be the absolute most bizarre ridiculous presidential election political phrase since Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. What has any Republican done in the last eight years that would qualify them to earn the right to that name, except for Boner playing golf with another big time wimp. He calls himself a Republican, but I'd be dammed to know on what single issue would anyone consider him a member of the GOP. Well, this is America. He can refer to himself as el Presidente de Party Mexicano or Latino King Marikon, nobody really cares.

How serious should we take a presidential candidate whose single-handily came up with the winning catchphrase, "Let's Make America Mexico Again". I would say that based on that catchy says it all political flatulence, his stance and all that emanates from what he espouses is at least as bad as him being a Communist/Socialist candidate.

I'm not going to delve into details at what a horse's rear end he is, what a fool he purports to be, calling him wimp is all anyone needs to say in sizing him up as the worst candidate to run for President since 2008 and before then there was "malaise in my brain, lust in my heart" peanut guy.

I get angry just looking at his face,hearing how he wants to give 11 million illegals citizenship and that's just for starters.

Why am I so riled up about this non-entity?

It's because, just looking at his extremely punchable face, the outrageous positions he's taken unprecedented in American history, so moronic he really shouldn't even be allowed to run, I think back to the article, where a majority of the responses were simple laughter just looking at what a fool he is even without the barf bag on his head.

And out of the blue comes some political genius, I won't mention his name, who chastised me for posting the picture of El Zorro, with his barf bag, talking about Reagan's 11th Commandment, (he didn't actually use those words) "Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican", putting me in my place for speaking harshly against a fellow Re-FLUB-ican, accusing me of turning Free Republic into the equal of the epithet calling, hypocritical, IQ-challenged racist DU.

I did not as much respond to the guy with a single word.

Anyway, reading this article got me all riled up because Julio Bush is an American merely by dint of being related to the Dynastic Duo of the first two Bush presidents.

About being harsh on Republicans, the Republican party has gone the way of most illegals trying to evade the border authorities by losing themselves in the polluted waters of the Rio Grande. There are no real Republicans of the day gone by. What we have are RINOS who are as much diluted from real Republicans as water is from 180 proof whiskey. And then when some total wimpy fraud, comes marching into Texas with a Mexican flag shoved up his Bush,well, Obama has done more damage to America than we even ever imagined.

[Vaquero]

Yebbie is on fox now...
...Trump does not have to do a thing to make Yebbie look like a wimp.

[Bobalu]

[lbryce]

Great pictures perfectly juxtaposed.

[who knows what evil?]

Poor Yeb...at least Columba will always look up to him.

[Bobalu]

Thanks, I do what I can...lol

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

God that was funny!

[Flick Lives]

Jeb failed, badly. On the surface, he answered Trump’s attack. But it wasn’t really him answering; it was his political consultants.

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And there is the problem with most of the political class; they’re nothing more than an empty canvas for their hired consultants and big campaign contributors.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Joyful Tortoise is toast.

Americans do not want their country turned into North Mexico

[trebb]

By walking into the same room....

[miss marmelstein]

Just saw it. Bush was purple with rage at the new instagram ad all the while saying how he wasn’t enraged. The minute he came on the screen, I burst into laughter. Trump has really made him a laughing stock.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"Mexican American illegal immigrants"??

See what they're trying to do?

[RetSignman]

[FreedomPoster]

Seem?

[sergeantdave]

“Mexican American illegal immigrants??!!!??”

LOL!

These 50 IQ reptiles in the media are twisting themselves into pretzels, trying to make the alien invaders appear palatable.

[arthurus]

And he’s realized that by trashing the poorest of America’s poor, the exploited, undocumented immigrants

They are not America's poor. They are the rest of the world's poor trying to remake America to look like the poverty holes from which they hail, sort of like Californios running from the insanity and looming poverty of California flooding out to the other states to remake those other states into California all over again.

[mkjessup]

Well said, and well done!

You are absolutely correct in each and every one of your observations, and so far as the unnamed ‘political genius’, like the ol’ saying goes, “eff ‘em if they can’t take a joke”, and Jebuardo BOOOOOOSH is the saddest joke of all.

I have to confess that in all the daily (hourly) back and forth of the pre-campaign thus far, I actually thought that cap of !Yeb on his pinhead proclaiming “Make America Mexico Again” was just a photoshopped jab at him, are you telling me that Jeb HIMSELF decided to wear that obscene diaper in public?!?

As Foghorn Leghorn might say, “ah say, ah say, that boy’s pinata’ is short a few ounces of candy!”

[arthurus]

What has any Republican done in the last eight years that would qualify them to earn the right

What has any Republican done in the last eight years that would qualify him to earn the right

Freepers, of all people should not insist on using the PC grammar of the LEFT.

[arthurus]

Jeb’s picture is reminiscent of a certain penguin I saw in the Sunday Funnies once.

[lbryce]

Thank you. You made my day!