Posted on 01/04/2016 8:07:01 PM PST by Red Steel
One would be hard-pressed to find a better year-end encapsulation of how the Republican establishment has screwed up the presidential contest than news of a certain ad-buy Tuesday. Jeb Bush's super PAC, Right to Rise-after burning through $40 million already-has made a $1.4 million buy in ... Iowa? To go after Sen. Marco Rubio?
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what's the strategy here? Bush isn't really contesting Iowa-his official campaign announced Wednesday that it was canceling its remaining Iowa ad-buys-and Rubio isn't in position to win Iowa, either. It’s possible that Mike Murphy, the chief disburse of funds at Right to Rise, ...
But if Murphy's money can shove Rubio behind, say, Ben Carson in the final Iowa caucus results, Rubio would theoretically head into New Hampshire carrying loads of negative press ...
It's not just Rubio in Iowa that Team Jeb! is going after. More pertinently, Right to Rise also released a New Hampshire ad going after Jeb's other establishment rivals in the first primary state, Govs. Chris Christie and John Kasich. The ad, "Three Governors," makes some puffy claims about Bush's record...
So, kneecap Rubio in Iowa to hurt his chances in New Hampshire; take down fellow permanent New Hampshire lodgers Christie and Kasich in New Hampshire itself; and then leave the Granite State as the designated establishment candidate around whom moderates can rally before losing to Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz. This looks an awful lot like an execution of the Murphy plan floated to Politico a few weeks ago: "[S]pend the bulk of the $75 million to carpet bomb Rubio, Cruz, Carson, Chris Christie-everyone but Trump. The thinking: Making the race into a binary choice between Bush and Trump might be the only way a majority of primary voters go with Bush."...
Well, a strategy's a strategy.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Baby bush is totally and completely irrelevant. NO MORE bushes!! Trump has brought 20 million new pissed off voters to the table . bush is at 3% with republicans. He is really a knee slapping, belly laugh JOKE!
“...leave the Granite State as the designated establishment candidate around whom moderates can rally before losing to Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz....”
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Sounds good to me.
Stupid is as stupid does
Remember that contoversial Jeb campaign ad everybody was talking about? Neither do I.
Give him credit. He did manage to destroy one campaign.
Has anyone else noted the obscenely egotistical meaning of “right to rise” when applied to Li’l Jebbie Bush? The Trilateralists really believe they can establish a monarchy here? (Wrong country, fools.)
Does this lunatic just not understand that nobody wants another Bush? Especially not one who speaks Spanish at home with a Mexican wife?
Dear Bush staffer who reads our board, NO strategy or technique to harm others will make him palatable. Get it through your heads,, the country -does not- want anymore of the GOP patrician wing, lining us up for yet another good solid political ass-raping by pretending briefly that you care what we want.
Time for you to move past anger, denial and bargaining, and start heading towards acceptance.
Give him credit. He did manage to destroy one campaign.
Looks like Bush is this years sore-loserman!
Never thought I would say it but Go Jeb! He has destroyed his own campaign so here is hoping he destroys the entire GOPe field!!!
Jeb is a pathetic little crybaby.
How much is being spent on ads, and how much is going into the PAC managers’ pockets?
And how much is Yeb pocketing?
N.E.V.E.R.
Bingo. It’s all about the money at this point. Candidates get to draw a salary equal to the office they’re running for. The consultants get paid. The advertisers get paid. This is all about spending the cash.
Silly PAC contributors. Hope you got a guacamole bowl.
Jeb is proving to all of us that he has no qualms about spend OPM-—Other Proples Money.
Just imagine what he would do with a FEDERAL budget.
He also is burning thru this money so that those donors cannot spend money on any other candidate.
“IF I cannot have you—no one else will have you either”—The mantra of an obsessed boy friend or husband.
I would think by now, many of those donors have to be questioning their judgement.
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