Posted on 01/19/2016 11:35:51 AM PST by Enlightened1
GOP elites have blown $65 million on Jeb Bush so far this campaign cycle and have another $30 million to blow on his failed campaign. Roll Call reported:
The spectacular bust of Jeb Bush's campaign for president so far is as much a story about Bush himself as it is about the failure of Right to Rise, the shock-and-awe super PAC that was supposed to launch him into the lead and keep him there.
Right to Rise raised $103 million in 2015 and has spent more than $65 million so far. But nine months after he got into the race, Bush has collapsed from first to a tie for worst and is now polling at less than 5 percent nationally.
There's no nice way to say this, and I'll take it back if he wins, but Bush's super PAC donors just wasted $103 million. It's only made more mind-boggling by what all of that money could have paid for instead, including the sorts of things his family has always worked for. For $103 million, the donors could have:
** Bought 20 million children's books for the Barbara Bush Foundation. ** Sent 22,421 4-year-olds to preschool for a year. ** Covered a year's tuition for 10,624 students to go to college. ** Paid for a year of anti-retroviral drug treatment for 719,424 children in Africa. Read it again -- 719,424 children.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Good! I now welcome the Elites to the Middle Class:-)
Mailing LCD’s cant be cheap! Reminds me of AOL disks....
LOL!
For too long has Jeb shown his face as a candidate. We say unto Jeb; depart, Leave us, for God’s sake GO!
$65 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the value of endless cheap illegal workers...
They’re buying him on the cheap...
As much as I hate Bush and Bush donors, the list of could-have-spent-the-money-on is a bunch of socialist BS. You could translate ALL expenditures in the US to how-many-African-Children-anti-retroviral-drugs could have been purchased instead of.
Monumental BS.
Bush is an idiot.
Bush donors are idiots.
But we ALL get to spend our PRIVATE FUNDS on what we want.
Read last week a Jeb PAC was paying $1150 for as.
In the same market, same time period ad buys Trump
was paying $150.
Which do you want running the economy ?
EVOKE TIPPY TOES
I’m sorry, the author’s choice of title is incorrect. It wasn’t a failed campaign, it was funnelling money to campaign insiders and media buyers.
As for money actually spent on what any rational person would consider a campaign, if you include airfare and creature comforts, it is likely just a few million. Everything else is just GOP welfare until the real campaigns start now.
What happened to Bush and the GOPe? Got trumped.
MSM will keep saying the JEB name nightly until he has no more Ad money. Then they will act like they never heard of him.
MSM is Whoring poor ole JEB.
Kinda funny if you think about it.
They’re laundering a LOT of money !!!!
They should have paid me that $65M so I could stand there and smile while babbling incoherently. ;)
“Read last week a Jeb PAC was paying $1150 for as.
In the same market, same time period ad buys Trump
was paying $150.”
I really do hope you meant ads and not AS! I know politicans are whores, but if you’re right, they’re buying the expensive ones!
I will credit Yeb with one accomplishment.
It is now really hard for Democrats to continue to claim that the Citizens United case allows rich contributors to buy a President into office.
Unlimited political contributions are meaningless if you have a loser candidate.
Yumpin Yimminy, that should read Yeb the Yardener!
You could've just stopped after the third word.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
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