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Could embracing his awkwardness save Jeb Bush in New Hampshire?
The Week ^ | 2/8/16 | Jeva Lange

Posted on 02/08/2016 11:11:52 AM PST by jimbo123

Jeb Bush has a fighting chance of making an important second-place finish in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday - a comeback that some believe can be pinned on his decision to embrace his inner bewildered goof.

Writing for Slate, Franklin Foer argues that Bush has gone from being kicked-while-he's-down to emerging as a true contender in the Granite State thanks to his uncensored authenticity. "Bush may be the most authentic of the pack - patrician, goofy, a little flummoxed," Foer claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deportjebbush; designatedloser; gope; thefixisin

1 posted on 02/08/2016 11:11:52 AM PST by jimbo123
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Wow, just what this country needs! A patrician flummoxed goof!


2 posted on 02/08/2016 11:12:56 AM PST by erkelly
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Saw a poll that had Jeb at 4%... in Florida.

He’s toast.


3 posted on 02/08/2016 11:13:55 AM PST by TigerClaws
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No.


4 posted on 02/08/2016 11:16:23 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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The establishment is really flogging that ‘comeback’ theme. Votes must be being bought by the boatload.


5 posted on 02/08/2016 11:17:51 AM PST by PAR35
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6 posted on 02/08/2016 11:18:22 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Yep, "bewildered goof"

Just what I'm looking for in a President.

7 posted on 02/08/2016 11:19:58 AM PST by cincinnati65
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"Look what the Rock's *TRUMP*'s got cookin' !!

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8 posted on 02/08/2016 11:20:35 AM PST by mkjessup (Sarah Palin says "GO TRUMP GO!!!!")
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What he needs to do is go into a supermarket and express to the press his amazement at the checkout’s barcode scanners.


9 posted on 02/08/2016 11:20:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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Yeb!, the Joyful Tortoise is morphing into a goofy flumoxed partician and that’s supposed to be a good thing?

No way, No how, Not EVER


10 posted on 02/08/2016 11:23:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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In Spanish....


11 posted on 02/08/2016 11:24:07 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Love it!


12 posted on 02/08/2016 11:25:23 AM PST by jimbo123
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Could embracing his awkwardness save Jeb Bush in New Hampshire?

Could climate change cause water to flow up hill?

13 posted on 02/08/2016 11:27:35 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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Ummmmmmm.. yeah... that’ll do ‘er

you go Jeb! embrace your inner bewildered goof.

that’s is what the country needs after 8 years of an outer bewildered goof


14 posted on 02/08/2016 11:33:39 AM PST by Mr. K (Maybe people are poor BECAUSE they vote democrat.)
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Jeb Bush has a fighting chance of making an important second-place finish in New Hampshire...

The Week's thinly veiled attempt to support the Establishment, aka the Washington Mafia. My "kitchen" odds - #1-Trump....#5-Bush

15 posted on 02/08/2016 11:38:30 AM PST by yoe
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16 posted on 02/08/2016 11:55:51 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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If they’re writing articles like this about Jeb at this point, its game over.


17 posted on 02/08/2016 11:58:44 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Bewildering goofiness must run in the family.


18 posted on 02/08/2016 1:10:56 PM PST by goldi
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