Posted on 02/21/2016 5:21:02 AM PST by jimbo123
Jeb Bush, the Republican establishment's last, best hope, began his 2016 campaign rationally enough, with a painstakingly collated operational blueprint his team called, with NFL swagger, "The Playbook."
On page after page kept safe in a binder, the playbook laid out a strategy for a race his advisors were certain would be played on Bush's terms - an updated, if familiar version of previous Bush family campaigns where cash, organization and a Republican electorate ultimately committed to an electable center-right candidate would prevail.
The playbook, hatched by Sally Bradshaw, Mike Murphy and a handful of other Bush confidants in dozens of meetings during the first half of 2015 and described to POLITICO by some of Bush's closest and most influential supporters, appealed to the Bush family penchant for shock-and-awe strategy. The campaign would commence with six months of fundraising for the "Right to Rise" super PAC and enough muscle to push aside Mitt Romney. There would be a massive, broad-based organizational effort to plant roots in March states at a time when other campaigns were mired in Iowa and New Hampshire. The plan outlined Bush's positive, future-focused message with an emphasis on his decade-old record of accomplishment as Florida governor.
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Don’t know about anyone else but he lost *me* at “an act of love”.
That was fast. The Dauphin’s retainers are bringing out the knives to backstab each other to save their careers.
Ditto.
HITLERY/BUSH
Ir that Jeb and junior Soprano?
How many Guaca-Bowles did he get stuck with? I can see him kicking one across the room.
Now that was a fun read. I was feeling sorry for Jeb the turtle carrier this morning and needed a pick me up.
Looks like the Dauphin’s political generals forget the first rule off warfare; “no plan survives contact with the enemy”. Trump’s blitzkrieg was as shock to the Dauphin as the literal version was to the Europeans.
The ‘inside’ was the same as the outside: amnesty.
There was nothing they could have done. The country does not want a Bush. The brand is broken beyond repair. Trump didnt take Bush out. More like he used him as a chew-toy to exercise his campaign muscles.
Yeah, just look at his record, unless you were Terri Shiavo.
His reckless and undisciplined campaign spending binge was a good indicator of how he would have spent our tax dollars as president.
Adios Yeb.
Liars wear black.
Good point, I never did see his wife!
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