Posted on 10/21/2015 6:53:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
Mike Murphy finds it all very funny that people think Jeb Bush is in trouble.
The head of Bush’s $100 million super PAC, Right to Rise, considers most political punditry this cycle to be stupid. Conceded. But both the stupid and occasional non-stupid pundits all agree on one thing: Things aren’t going well for Bush, and one cannot assume that the old rules governing Republican presidential nominating contests will inevitably save him.
Murphy outlined his thinking in a rare extended interview with Bloomberg Politics. Why? Most practically, to signal Right to Rise’s thinking to the official Bush campaign and leery donors. Or, in Murphy’s words: “[W]e thought it would be good to kind of go through our theory of the race in a more distributed way.”
His theory is lacking. Nowhere, between all his mockery, does he get to the heart of the matter: why people don’t like Jeb Bush right now, and how Right to Rise intends to change that.
“What I find is we're in this funny casino of the pre-season now,” he says, “where the complete sum of pundit knowledge in this race, with a few rare exceptions, is based on national polling that in my view is completely meaningless.” Zuh? There will always be a fair share of bad national poll coverage. If there’s more of it this time, Murphy can blame the Republican National Committee and its media partners for pegging debate participation to national polling status. But it’s not like Bush is only doing badly in national polls that don’t matter, anyway. He’s doing poorly in polls of early states, too. Bush is doing lousy in Iowa. That’s fine: Bush is one thing and Iowa Republicans are a whole other thing. But he’s also performing lousy in New Hampshire, a state
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I don’t dislike Jeb Bush. I’m sure he’s a nice guy.
But I sure as hell don’t want him getting the nomination. That would be revolting.
Were this an average year like 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, or 2012....then I’d say that Mike Murphy’s job is simple and Jeb Bush ought to easily win the primary with minor competition.
Here are the five issues. First, for a minimum of sixteen years and maybe even twenty-four years....we’ve had marginal leadership from either aisle and the general public has reached a state where they are absolutely skeptical of the normal players. Second, the news media has spent ten years convincing us that America is a 1973 Ford Pinto....so, we actually believe that the nation is broke and it needs fixing. Third, Trump and Carson are running and they aren’t from the normal mold they are used to. Carson might actually make a fine VP for Trump. Fourth, Jeb Bush isn’t exactly four-star material or we perceive him as being less than average. Fifth, we’d all like some guy who would fire people, and stage executive orders that would shock both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
He can’t because we don’t and never will
Stay out da Bushes (only thing Da Rev said I agree with)
And I think the reason Murphy doe not touch on that is because he knows the guy(s) that count the ballots.
If it really does come down to Jeb and Hill in November next, I think I just may vote for Jim Webb.
I cannot believe what the Bushes are doing.
It’s like when gore wouldn’t give up. They cannot have the good for the country in mind with this relentlessness. Not in anybody’s mind but the most insane Bushy.
it’s been obvious Perino’s viciousness toward Bolling gets crazy with this. It’s crazed
I think it’s that last name. Bush.
Just too tainted at this point. Perhaps Jeb
should think about changing it to one that would
prove more popular. Like Ebola.
The article doesn’t really go into why he’s not likeable. Of course, his lack of charm, humor and obviously crabby demeanor (reminiscent of Dole) are some of the reasons I have grown to dislike him.
He will keep it going long as he can so as to pad his wallet with the “donations.”
It’s like asking “what’s not to like about this turd floating in the toilet? It’s cool!”
LOL! This picture says it all!
I ain’t voting for no stinking Mexican
I suspect they are bowing in a prayer in that pic.....
I would rather see Hillary win than Jeb. If we are going to enact Democrat policies anyway, we might as well have a Democrat do it so as not to taint our party with such idiocy.
It’s like when gore wouldn’t give up. They cannot have the good for the country in mind with this relentlessness. Not in anybody’s mind but the most insane Bushy.
The good news is that it is going to waste a lot of Liberal Republican money.
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