Posted on 11/05/2015 4:05:28 AM PST by jimbo123
Jeb Bush sat relaxed on a plush couch aboard his luxury "Jeb Can Fix It" bus as it rode here on Tuesday night, musing with reporters about his shortcomings.
"I've learned to accept the simple fact that I'm imperfect under God's watchful eye," the Republican presidential candidate said. "I don't have a self-esteem problem, and I don't have an overstated-worth problem. . . . The adversity I turn into opportunity. It's an obstacle to jump over. It's an opportunity to get better."
The next morning in Manchester, after a child asked what it was like to grow up the son of a president, Bush told a room full of kids that his father's approval weighed on him. "All he had to do was say, 'I'm disappointed in you,' and it would send me in a deep, spiraling depression," he said.
Bush is suddenly campaigning as if he's in a therapy session, wounded and wrestling with his identity both as a political performer and as heir to the Bush family dynasty. On a comeback tour here this week to rehabilitate his sputtering candidacy, Bush wore his emotions on his sleeve and volunteered introspective interpretations of why he wasn't winning.
Ten months ago, Bush was the ready-set-go candidate - the one many Republicans could most easily imagine in the Oval Office. Now, he is an awkward aspirant humbled by his own mistakes and miscalculations - not to mention months of Donald Trump's "low energy" taunts - and searching for his currency in a conservative movement that has moved on from the Bushes.
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Didn't Jeb say he didn't need or want conservatives?
The polls say “Jeb, we’re disappointed in you.”
The deep, spiraling depression circles the toilet bowl.
Could it possibly be that Jeb’s ‘problem’ (besides being totally the wrong man for us) is the ‘therapy’ provided by his consultants? You know, the kind of ‘therapy’ that involves the consultants divesting his campaign and PACs of all that money?
He is probably surrounded by all manner of goats just begging him to stay in it. They need to feather their beds a little bit more.
When a candidate has to “re-invent himself”, it’s all over.
Not a whole lot of re-invention going on.
I’d say that Jeb’s “I Will Fix It” is just a re-invention of W’s “Help Is On the Way.”
What a pathetic little pansy.
Time to get busy such a lot to do
Building and fixing till it’s good as new
Jeb and the gang make a really good sound
Working all day, till the sun goes down
Jeb the Builder
Can we fix it?
Jeb the Builder
Yes we can
Can’t spell Bush without the Bus. (’
Terri Schiavo was not available for comment.
Exactly. The same is true with any candidate who “huddles with advisors”.
Didn’t Al Gore reinvent himself about eight times in 2000?
Maybe that’s it, then. Bush should dress in earth tones.
His highly paid “consultants’ will be around until the money runs out and their pay stops. Then they will move on and any fool of a candidate who hires them deserves to lose their money. Reminds me in a different context of the guy who ran a major company and got sent to prison for financial irregularities. He had spent millions of the corporation’s money on a second wedding in Italy and invited celebrity guests from around the world to travel there at corporate expense. When he went to prison, he gave an interview in which he said that NONE of these “guest friends” ever visited or acknowledged him in prison and the second wife with such expensive tastes flew the coop the second he went there.
If he didn’t have an “overstated worth problem” he would not have entered the race at all.
“Jeb Can Fix It”
jeb can’t fix it until he admits that HE is part of the problem. We don’t need more democrat politicians!
I can’t even see the pilot light in his belly, much less the fire.
The Bottom Line: Chicago Tribune tells the world this guy is too emotionally unstable to be POTUS.
Stick a fork in him.
For the life of me I don’t understand why Barbara Bush has not pulled the plug on him yet. Its getting cringe worthy.
Bush is suddenly campaigning as if he’s in a therapy session,
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It’s all a variation of standing on his tippy toes. He says and does whatever his highly paid Democrat consultants tell him.
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