Posted on 12/04/2015 1:48:40 PM PST by Hojczyk
Bush is now polling at 3% — and dropping.
The 3% figure puts Bush in sixth place in the national GOP race, according to the CNN/ORC poll released Friday morning. It’s the latest insult and disappointment for Bush, a son and brother of presidents, the conservative former two-term governor of Florida and the man who started the race as the unquestioned establishment favorite. …
Bush has struggled to gain traction and settle on a distinctive message to set him apart from his Republican opponents. He has often said that elections are about the future, but his major accomplishments happened more than a decade ago. And vowing to be his own man who isn’t tied to the politics and policies of his older brother, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush has also said his family ties give him insights into foreign policy while his campaign brought on advisers from the old days.
The big question from this poll and others in the last couple of weeks, where Bush hasn’t scored above 6% in any poll since the end of October, is when to say enough is enough. Bush’s donors were promised that his performance would improve and that his new aggressive strategy against Marco Rubio would revive his flagging fortunes, but if anything, things have gotten worse.
When do they start pulling out and looking for a new standard-bearer? If they want to make an impact on the race, it had better be sooner rather than later, because right now their money isn’t buying anything but failure. Just like the idea of a free-fall, Bush’s legitimacy as a contender in this race has been vastly oversold from the beginning.
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maybe he can borrow his fathers parachute
At 3%, he can’t fall very far.
His entire campaign has been a dead cat bounce.
By this time next week, Jeb! will be dwarfed by Pataki or even Lindsey G.!
Just say it Jeb. You know you want to.
Say it in Spanish if you want, but just say it.
At 3%, he can’t fall very far.
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Hopefully he’ll fall far enough down & won’t be included on the next debates main stage.
There's plenty of room at the kids' table.
There is one thing we can thank team Jeb for is that they helped kill any attempt by Romney to run again this time but other than that the writing has been on the wall for some time. No one was waiting with baited breath for another Bush after GW whose second term was a study failure and hostility towards the base.
Is CNN in mourning?
That is an outright lie.
Bush had traction with the money men even before he decided to run.
He took the position that common core was a good thing which set him apart from his peers. And sunk him.
Yeah, we know.
Seems like he stopped speaking Spanish for the most part.
But too late, LOL!
Oh, Yeb's message is distinct enough. "I'm the only candidate stupid enough to stand on his tiptoes for a photo shoot. Nobody else did that!" Which is perfectly true. Thanks, Yeb.
“When does Jeb pull the plug?” ——
Right after he spends 75 million to take out Rubio, before they hit Florida. This expenditure was reported this morning against Rubio.
These are billionaire donors, all of them. Money means nothing to them and $75 million is just lettuce. But, it means everything to the candidates who are owned by them.
You get to be used as piñata, or a laughing stock in Yeb’s case, but it breaks candidates who have not mustered or mastered the donor class with their own pony show and circus tricks to attract them.
Who wants these donors? Poor shlubs. Poor Yebbers. /s
I wish Trump would finish that idiot by referring to it in his rally’s.
That only would finish off any other candidate if the media wasn’t protecting him.
It’s tough when you have to push yourself to live up to a difficult family legacy. Think of Ted Kennedy—who, unlike Jeb, had a long political life after his Chappaquiddock, and did untold damage to the country by his support for the 1965 changes to our immigration policies.
At this time of year, as Christmas approaches and they play “It’s a Wonderful Life” over and over on the TV, I wonder what life would be like if Ted (and for that matter Obama, and the Clintons) had never been born. Where’s my angel to make that world happen?
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