How Jeb Bush became afterthought in the GOP race

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 1/8/16 | Peter Grier

[jimbo123]

Jeb Bush is at 3.3 percent in the polls. Ever since summer, he's been on a steady, slow slide.

Jeb Bush is fast becoming an afterthought in the GOP race - George Pataki with money. It's possible he can still win the nomination, because almost anything seems possible in The Election Cycle of Trump, 2016. But it's highly unlikely. It would require the Hail Mary pass of the century - a 100-yard strike that splits the uprights, bounces off three defenders, and sticks in a receiver's face mask for the winning score.

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once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less. That must be a painful experience.

[jimbo123]

[VanDeKoik]

“How Jeb Bush became afterthought in the GOP race”

A: Trump

[Paladin2]

Yheb! insisted that he didn’t need nor want The Base. Genius, he is.

[Shadow44]

Easy, people don’t like oligarchs.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

BECAME an afterthought? He started out as an afterthought. The only people who ever had him as a real “player” where the Beltway and media types. He never had any traction with voters. Never.

[Company Man]

Yes, that was the very first political news story of the current election cycle; how he was going to win without the base.

How is that workin' out for ya, Jebito?

[euram]

We’ve already had two Bushes too many. No more Bushes!! Beat the Bushes!!

[Maceman]

once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less.

That must be a painful experience.

[Slyfox]

Jeb became irrelevant when he said he could win the nomination without the base.

See ya, sucka!

[relictele]

....or candidates who won’t stop talking about wetbacks.

[Farmer Dean]

People don’t like oligarchs,especially feckless ones.

[McGruff]

[Hugin]

“The dogs won’t eat it.”

[MrEdd]

He is currently leading the Republican pack...according to the common core math which he still firmly espouses.

[Graybeard58]

once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less. That must be a painful experience.

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Just like Hellary.

They both would get more votes, if they would just shut up and stay out of sight.

[Graybeard58]

Yheb! insisted that he didn’t need nor want The Base. Genius, he is.

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Plus, how could he be so stupid as to think campaigning in Spanish would help him? (Rhetorical question.)

[AndyJackson]

Became?

[samtheman]

Weve already had two Bushes too many. No more Bushes!! Beat the Bushes!!

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Reagans only blunder, keeping Bush in 1984.

[Paladin2]

He went all in on amnasty apparently planning that that and other panders would add up to a majority (of something).

The Architect, Tokyo Rove, had apparently designed up some cobbled together, rickety structure to be built on no foundation.....