Posted on 10/13/2015 7:52:47 AM PDT by jimbo123
I knew that I'd have to share my booth sooner or later, but didn't quite know how to go about it. Smokey Row Coffee shop in Oskaloosa, Iowa was starting to get crowded as we waited for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush to arrive. All the seats at the booths and tables around me were filled, but I suspected there might be some open in the back. I was between that proverbial rock and a hard place; not wanting to invite a stranger to join me when there were open seats, but not wanting to appear to be a "booth hog," should seating be needed. This is rural Iowa, remember, not a more crowded city where restaurant patrons are accustomed to sharing seating. Here, we're used to a little "elbow room."
I relaxed when I saw a friend walking toward me through the crowd. He waved and made the universal "Is that seat taken?" motion, and I shook my head "no." I'll call him "Sam." He's a farmer and an Iowa state legislator, and he did a little politicking on his way to join me. Sam has broad shoulders and a square jaw, and looks like he could still toss hay bales around like nickels despite the fact that he's nearing retirement age. He spotted a man he knew seated at a table right next to where Bush was going to be speaking, and shook the man's hand. “You got the front table there," Sam said.
"You write a big enough check, that's what you get," the man replied.
Sam laughed, slapped him on the back, walked over and sat down across from me.
"Am I the only one who'll sit with you?" Sam joked.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Or not.
Jeb almost visible on radar!!
Yep. Unless he makes a big unexpected movement in the polls pretty soon, the big money boys will probably cut Yeb Arbusto off before the year is over.
Where is “the fire in the belly”, a necessary ingredient of ANY candidate for the Presidency?
Jeb just does not seem to have his heart in the task of convincing anybody he should be President.
Cydonia, Mars .... not Iowa.
They are still determined to push this RINO on us.
Yippee-Yie-Yay! Jebba made ‘The Hill’ !!!
¡Cuántas personas hay en esta fiesta!
¡Cuántas mentiras dice él!
Ah well.
the coffee shop seats 35 ......... 55, if they are mexicans
I will campaign for the Democrat if we are so stupid as to nominate that milquetoast RINO.
I think people are insane for even contemplating Bush.
Suuuure.
The writer must mean “Ohio”, rather than “Iowa”, because I do not know a single Conservative Iowan that is tooting the Bush horn...
Nothing worse in politics than Jeb..right there with Hillary at the bottom of the barrel
yeah.....no
i happen to live in IA, and I can tell you that I have seen one, maybe 2 JEB! fans in my town.....a fairly large town, at that.
hardly enough to “win ‘em over in Iowa”
idiots.
But his main message during his three day tour of Iowa was that he was a proven "disrupter," and that he would "disrupt" Washington if elected. The audience, by and large, loved it. The message is an old one, used by every candidate: Washington is broken, and he or she is the candidate to fix it. While the message is old, the superhero who will fight it is new: The Disrupter:
If that wasn't intended to be a joke, then the old saying is true:
You can fool all of the people some of the time.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
But, you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Of course he would be one of those some who are fooled all the time.
We have history of the Bush family. His daddy and his brother both eventually caved in to the opposition, and he shows he is more of the same.
Also enjoyed the comment offered up about Sam. the farmer and an Iowa state legislator.
Sam's an old-fashioned Republican. Fiscally conservative, and he doesn't shove his religion or patriotism down your throat. Ask him, though, and he'll share.
In other words a centrist who is fiscally conservative but morally bankrupt
WHAT?!! The no energy, low energy, flaccid, Jib-Jeb is rising to the occasion? LOL somehow this is extremely doubtful Dream on, elites, dream on.
Ok...he can be president of Iowa.
Well, he IS the tallest!
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