Posted on 05/14/2015 7:39:10 AM PDT by jimbo123
Warning signs abound, and the former Florida governor with the famous name hasn't even announced his Oval Office intentions.
Like many candidates before him, Jeb Bush has rendered early polling in the 2016 presidential race pointless.
"The polls are totally irrelevant," he told Fox News' Megyn Kelly this week. "Everyone needs to take a chill pill on the polls until it gets closer."
But regardless of their ultimate predictive value, a reading of voters' early preferences and impressions still provides a snapshot of the bumpy road the son of one former president and the brother of another faces to the Republican nomination.
And unless the metric is presumed money being raised, it's difficult to name Bush the front-runner.
About half of the GOP seems firmly skeptical of him, either because he's part of a political dynasty or because he's breaking with conservative orthodoxy on immigration reform and education standards.
His favorability rating is in negative territory among first-in-the-nation Iowa caucusgoers, a number that had to factor in to his decision to skip the August straw poll in the Hawkeye State for another event. (A Bush aide denies this.)
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Maybe he can ease on back home tonight and ask Columbo in Spanish about what to do?
Swallow the polls? Um. Bottoms up, Jeb.
“Swallow” “Tough” “Bush”
Ogod, my brain went there...
Bush / Clinton 2016!
Clinton / Bush 2020!
Uniparty Rules!
The Cheap Labor Express has paid for an amnesty candidate.
Bush is their preferred choice, but they’ll settle for Rubio.
I will not vote for national suicide.
(even if Hillary thanks me/s)
I am really not enthusiastic about Bush.
But I must say, that in a country of over 300 million people, are the only ones deemed presidential caliber named Clinton and Bush?? Each party wants to nominate someone from a ruling family?? What the heck???
It’s your immigration stance, moron.
Clintons and Bushes are somewhat late to the dynasty game: Consider if FDR who passed at 63 was healthy, a vibrant man like many of that same age today; how many terms would he have served? 6? 7? Or the Kennedy dynasty. Had Jack not been taken at 46, he likely would have been elected to two terms (then the new limit) and Bobby would have followed since he would not have been campaigning in 1967 etc. Let’s not even consider Teddy.
My first vote was for Ronald Reagan in 1980. I have never missed an election since then. I have never voted for a democrat.
I will NOT... understand the NOT... vote for Jeb Bush. We dont need to go down that route again. Twice was enough.
Can you imagine the nonsense he tells his staff behind closed doors.
Jeb is the Teddy of the Bush political mob.
Ditto all you said
We are just not that into you Jebbie. The tribe has spoken.
Columba is secretly REJOICING. If there is one place she does NOT want to be, it is in the White House. If Jeb lasts it out as far as the Florida primary, I have no doubt that Columba will cast her vote for Marco Rubio...or anybody but Jeb. The day Jeb drops out will be a very HAPPY one for Columba.
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