Bush Breaks the Rules, Trump Breaks His Back

National Journal ^ | 10/26/15 | Ron Fournier

[jimbo123]

This weekend illustrates why Trump (or somebody like him) could be president.

The second rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is nev­er tell voters you’ve got something bet­ter to do.

Jeb Bush on Sat­urday: “I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do oth­er than sit around, be­ing miser­able, listen­ing to people de­mon­ize me and me feel­ing com­pelled to de­mon­ize them.”

The third rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is nev­er tell voters to vote for some­body else.

Jeb Bush: “That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.”

The fourth rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is polit­ics today sucks. Deal with it.

Jeb Bush: “If this elec­tion is about how we’re go­ing to fight to get noth­ing done, I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want to be elec­ted pres­id­ent to sit around and see grid­lock just be­come so dom­in­ant that people lit­er­ally are in de­cline in their lives. That is not my mo­tiv­a­tion.”

The scion of a very polit­ic­al fam­ily broke all the rules Sat­urday, in­clud­ing the one about nev­er sur­ren­der­ing to a bully. A bully smells blood.

“Bush has no money,” Don­ald Trump, the bil­lion­aire celebrity TV star and GOP pres­id­en­tial front-run­ner, said Sunday. “He’s meet­ing today with mommy and daddy, and they’re work­ing on his cam­paign.”

“He’s a guy wants to run our coun­try and he can’t even run his own cam­paign,” Trump told a rally in Bush’s home state of Flor­ida. “Think of it!”

[arthurus]

Except on education...
I remember him as a pretty good governor down here. My wife, a public school teacher, at first welcomed his education changes because all the other teachers did but came to despise Bush for those changes in less than a year,

[maggief]

Oh, boy. The jokes write themselves.

https://twitter.com/JebBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Jeb Bush @JebBush 14m14 minutes ago

When I was Governor, a clock sat on my desk counting down the minutes I had left to serve the people of Florida.

https://amp.twimg.com/v/ee66ec60-6534-483b-b736-d024df4c8bd5 …

[rbg81]

Jeb is the wrong guy on so many levels, it’s almost laughable. The worst part is that even if he got the nomination, he would be a sitting duck for Hillary. He would not punch back.

He need someone who will fight. The only two people I see capable of doing that are Trump or Cruz.

[annieokie]

We decipher the political BS faster than they can speak it.""""........

AGREE.....and Free Republic proves just that point.

My gosh no sooner than something hits the media print or air, FREE Republic Freepers have dissected it down to the last ounce of ink.

Free Republic must be the Progressive, Liberals or whatever the hell they call themselves today, Free Republic must be their WORSE nightmare, even above RUSH. jmo

RUSH is great, but many Freepers have the ideas even before he speaks them, then he can expound on them as no one else can.

[MortMan]

The scion of a very polit­ic­al fam­ily broke all the rules Sat­urday, in­clud­ing the one about nev­er sur­ren­der­ing to a bully. A bully smells blood.

I'm personally getting tired of the pundits labeling anyone who doesn't toe the political correctness and friends all around rules in politics as a "bully".

Trumps approach is considered uncouth to the glad-mouths of the political class, but is merely brash in the real world. It does NOT come even close to bullying. Fournier, as a commentator, and Bush, as a spineless anti-american GOP rat, can't handle a little brashness.

Hell, Trump's brashness could be considered perfect manners among denizens of NYC.

[arthurus]

Referring to #11

[HarleyLady27]

Bush...did you not listen to him yesterday?

[RetSignman]

“I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do oth­er than sit around..."

[peeps36]

That nasty bitch with her hands on her hips at the debate is a perfect illustration of who Jebbe is. He's a spoiled rich bitch who thinks he's entitled to rule over us. He's no different then that other fat filthy bitch Hillary clintoon.

[mkjessup]

He was a good governor.

Terri Schiavo-Schindler was not available for comment.

[flaglady47]

“I will never be able to erase that short video of Jebbie standing on his tippy-toes trying to make himself look taller from my brain…………..one of the most pitifully funny things I’ve ever seen a presidential candidate do.”

Yeah, that’s right up there with Michael Dukakis in the Army tank.

[ExTxMarine]

Well we have seen what makes Jeb tick...we have seen when he doesn't get his own way, how dirty he is; we have seen when he doesn't have his ‘big boy panties’ on, how small he is; we have seen when he gets his feelings hurt, he runs back to mommy and daddy....

Funny thing, all the movies and MSM made people believe that Jeb was the Bush everyone (especially his family) thought would become President. They all thought that George W could never win, he was too aloof and too wild and too offhanded, etc...

Jeb has OBVIOUSLY been spoon fed that he is "great". He seems like your average rich-kid: my daddy's rich, so I deserve greatness!

Well, EFF YOU, Jeb! Go AWAY!

[TexasCajun]

Trump may be a bully, but i really like having a bully on our side for a change.

Reminds me of the 1980 movie My Bodyguard

Trump defending us against the MSM, Democrats, Liberal Bloggers & Hollywood lies.

[SamAdams76]

Trump, Cruz and Carson. Those are the only three viable contenders in my opinion. And I'm not 100% sold on Carson being viable. I'm still thinking to four years ago when Herman Cain was riding high in the polls and then he folded like a cheap suit when Gloria Allred paraded those bimbos around. Not sure if Carson does not have similar skeletons we don't know about.

I believe Trump and Cruz are fully vetted. Not much about them we don't know already.

[JEDI4S]

More like Dust and Bones now. There agenda is falling apart as we speak...world wide!

[katana]

Behind closed doors his father was always angry and contemptuous about Conservative Republicans. I remember a Time Magazine article from 1992 that quoted him saying (about right wingers) “F@#$ those people. There’s no satisfying them”. So this is the kind of thing Jeb has been hearing since forever. His father and brother possessed enough sense and discipline to control what they said in public and put up a credible pretense. Both men, one a Navy aviator, first US ambassador to Red China, and director of the CIA, and the other a pilot of a widow-maker mach 2 interceptor and hard drinking Hell raiser who reformed himself by finding Jesus and the love of a good woman, are at least real men. Jeb’s the flabby spoiled baby brother who lacks all that and probably resents the fact that he’s expected to carry on the family business.

[CAluvdubya]

Jeb....loser..Marco Rubio “hates the senate” wont seek another term....loser

Now how will Rubio pay off that crappy boat?

[CAluvdubya]

Your logic is sound but I wouldn’t dismiss Fiorina as the GOPe backup. She’s a RINO player and they know she’ll do what they want.

[NTHockey]

If Trump (or another outside) gets to the convention with the most delegates and the rules are changed, the GOP is dead. Whoever the leader is, if he gets screwed, the GOP is guaranteed 3rd place.

[DungeonMaster]

Jeb didn't go to Yale like his father and brother. He couldn't get in even with his father's legacy and having gone to prep school at Andover. He doesn't seem too bright.

That's really interesting. The conspiracy people assume that Scull and Bones people are in charge of the world. What weird things I saw about them on Youtube over the weekend. Actually there are an awful lot of super secret organizations out there.