Posted on 01/01/2016 12:04:11 PM PST by maggief
HIALEAH, Fla. - Jeb Bush and his supporters still have a pile of money to spend - remnants of $100 million raised when he seemed early this year to be a sure bet. They have an expansive ground operation in New Hampshire. And allies have just began a new ad campaign in Iowa.
But nothing they have tried so far has lifted Mr. Bush's terrible poll numbers. And with just four weeks remaining until voting begins, Mr. Bush needs to do something to save his candidacy.
It may be too late: Other campaigns appear to have counted him out altogether. But, in extensive interviews over the past week, aides and key allies to Mr. Bush described a long-shot plan to pull off what seems all but impossible - winning the Republican nomination for president. The plan has six elements:
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Ha...looks pleased with himself...after dislodging a dingleberry.
Please, please, Jeb! Waste as much money in Iowa as possible!
Not even Iowa RINOs like him, and Jeb’s original plan was to avoid Iowa completely, not bothering to even visit with the state’s RINOs for a year or more before he realized his campaign was failing.
Jeb spends money for nothing but only Slick William gets the chicks for free.
Give it up, Yeb!
We don’t want you to turn the USA into North Mexico
We want the “acts of love” to stop
They are killing us
Watch out for sh-t-eating dogs.
America has had enough of Clintons, Bushes and especially the worst of the litter: the Obamas. They were truly intent upon completing the destruction of America.
We truly need an Obama/Cruz team!
Die already.
The Bush name, he is a disgrace to it.
Dumbest thing he did was go after Trump. He was over 30 points behind Trump he should have been going after Rubio, Kasich, Christie and try to get them out of his way first.
So we all are laughing at the Picture of Jeb picking his nose. That is Donald’s way of belittling those who go after him. Also, Jeb is very low energy and boring.
None of the Bush’s are good public speakers.
Trump gave Jeb some good advice at a speech in Iowa. Go home save the money you haven’t spent, do something nice with it.
We all know Jeb will be out of this campaign by Florida where he will finish either 3rd or 4th.
Could be that Florida will be Trump, Rubio, Cruz and Bush.
A fourth place in the home state of Gov. Bush would be humiliating.
I think Trump clinches the nomination in Florida, its a winner take all state.
Obama/Cruz Team?
Did you mean Trump/Cruz?
Huh? You mean Trump/Cruz surely?
Yep. Trump crushed Bush early on.
The Grim Reaper Cometh to the Bush Campaign Sooneth.
Let’s see. Add together the numbers for Jeb, Cristie, Kasich, Pataki, Graham and what do you have?
GOPe consultants see money and plan the campaign to benefit themselves. Ultimately, McCain and Romney lost because their campaign consultants did what was best for themselves, not what was best for their candidate. Of course, that was also true of Ron Paul and many other campaign consultants.
In the case of Jeb, there is no way all those consultants could be so blind to the majority of people who say “No more Bush”. But they saw the money.
And the #1 reason they hate Trump and Cruz is that those are the candidates who don’t hire consultants who lack an interest in their candidate’s success or failure.
The great unwashed masses secret. Folks hate politicians, hate, hate, hate.
Has he tried skywriting?
A sense of entitlement has not worked well for Jeb, and it has left him somewhat bewildered. Why was it so easy for Dubya, and so hard for him?
The answer is in the times. While Jeb may have been a somewhat better choice in 2000 than Dubya, he was judged at the time to not be “seasoned” enough, as he was still in his first term as governor. So the baton was passed to Dubya by default.
By 2008, it was still too close on Dubya’s term and a great deal of tarnish on the name, so the decision was made to defer until “the next opportunity” came along. But that opportunity was blown up for good with the almost complete unraveling of all the benefits that Dubya had conferred upon the nation while in office, and something irretrievable had slipped away.
In 1980, father George H.W. Bush had spoken of “the big Mo”, the momentum that propelled him into the Vice Presidency, under Reagan, and helped him to succeed Reagan in office, supposedly as the “third term” of Reagan.
Only it was not at all a continuation of Reagan, but a new direction harking back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt. In retrospect, selection of George H.W. Bush may have been not the best choice of 1988.
At least for the Republicans.
“Woo Senator Lindsey Graham”
Yeah, picking up Grahamnesty’s 0.02% should be a game changer.
Stick a fork in him; Jebbie’s done.
which all = still 3 percent.
I cherish the day when there s no longer reason to post threads with his name in them.
100 million. cutting edge fMRIs to detect precise brain damage areas for our 200k head injured soldiers
to push the envelope on adult stem cell treatment
instead wasted on a dead in the water candidate.
He’s dead, Jim. No more liberal Booshies...
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