Posted on 08/29/2015 6:14:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Jeb Bush has been stumping his way across the country, explaining what he would do as president. But nobody seems to understand what the heck he's talking about.
In July, he said that "people need to work longer hours" as part of an economic recovery. Then he said his remarks had been misinterpreted.
A couple of weeks later he said "we need to figure out a way to phase out" Medicare. Then he complained that critics were taking his remarks out of context.
That controversy hadn't died down when he started another by using the term "anchor babies" to describe the children of immigrants and before long he was complaining that people were misconstruing these remarks, too.
Add to this the four different answers he struggled to give during a single week this spring about whether he would have invaded Iraq, and it's quite possible that no other person who aspires to occupy the bully pulpit has himself been bullied quite so much by the English language.
Bush comes by this naturally congenitally, even. His brother, of course, was one of the world's great malapropism artists during his eight years in office: "Is our children learning? . . . I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family . . . Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream . . . Make the pie higher . . . Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
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What we’ve got here is failure
enuff said right there
Trump can do it because he is insane, lol. Kind of enjoying that.
We have been longing for this for the last 25 years.
Cruz is generally thought to be in "fifth" place now - so I think him being in the top 3 had Trump not entered is reasonable. But when you change one thing, all kinds of other factors change too. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Without Trump, it would be an entirely different ballgame.
Having said that, I think there's no doubt that Trump's big personality has made some people forget that Cruz has been fighting many of these same fights far longer than Donald has. I also think there are a LOT of folks who are Trump-Cruz in that order - many who used to support Cruz but who now think Donald's fearless in your face persona is the best alternative.
If Trump declines, rapidly or slowly, I think those two categories would gravitate towards Cruz in far greater numbers than they would towards anyone else for sure.
Another theory I have is this - that Trump was not in it to win it initially, but that he certainly is now. I never believed that Trump and Cruz were in any kind of teamwork structure - but even if that were true, it is not true now.
¡Yeb! was supposed to be the Designated Loser.
The RNC has a playbook that can nominate even the most unlikeable candidates, see Romney and McCain.
They had flooded the field with so many candidates for the most unlikeable ¡Yeb! to be able to squeek through to the nomnation. Notice that they have candidates to run as favorite sons in many of the critical states.
Without Trump, they would have nominated ¡Yeb! right into the teeth of their voters, trying to make sure they had no choice but to vote to turn the USA into North Mexico.
The Cheap LAbor Express is terrrified that we willelct somone that will shut them down.
They have spent billions trying to prevent the citizens from doing just that.
Trump can do it because he is insane, lol. Kind of enjoying that.
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Trump is the bull in the china shop, be it the shop of political correctness, establishment elites, Libs/Dems/Progs or the enemedia. He’s swinging his (very large) horns and breaking things. There is no ring (crony donors) in his nose for anyone to grab so they can control him. Personally, I love bulls (follow PBR) and those that compete are smart - they sense a rider’s weakness & take advantage of it. They are large and in-charge, great athletes, full of explosive energy and dangerous. The pantywaist GOPe doesn’t have a clue what to do with Trump and neither does anyone else. The more “buckoffs” Trump gets, the more his confidence grows - he’s realized he can win this and he’s getting more serious on policy matters, etc. & chasing competitors up the fences or out of the arena. I’m looking forward to when he turns those wicked horns on Hillary (he hooked Huma/Weiner last night & gave them a toss). He’s got Jeb hunkered down in a clown barrel & is rolling him around the arena every time he pops his head up for a look around. I’m really enjoying it all very much.
Disagree. An intellectual does hard thinking. Jeb does thinking hard.
Visited your page. Cool story. We’re about the same age.
That picture of Palin is Smoking. She kills me.
I always enjoy reading your posts.
I LOVE that Trump’s celebrity brought these issues to the fore even though Cruz has addressed almost all of them already. You are right about that.
But he was a “crazy right winger” whereas Trump is seen as a man of the people. You are right. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
I guess if Trump stays in and gets the nomination i will always wonder if it could have been Cruz.
But I’ll vote for Trump over pantsuit, the communist, and crazy uncle Joe
LOL.
It reminds of the movie “Network”, i think it was called.
“I’m mad as heck and I’m hot gonna take it anymore!!” lol
Of course things didn’t end to well for that guy.
Trump better have great protection.
You forgot “entitled”—
Great analogy.
I HATE Huma and the hubby. Trump is saying out loud alot of the things I think. lol.
Cruz is great but he’s sane and needs donors so he can’t go all Bull in a China shop like Trump.
Would love to see Trump pick Cruz as VP. Would give him street cred with conservatives.
Not only does Trump have moderates and independents—and some enthusiastic hopefulness from conservatives—I believe Trump will get black votes and some Democrats.
Whether you agree or not that he is an intellectual, he is still boring.
I think this is a very unfair headline and premise given that English is Yeb's second language.
Corpsemen.
Hey, Jeb, people are taking on second jobs to help pay the rent. It’s not helping.
Agree with all points! :-)
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