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The Bush blame game begins
Politico ^ | January 21, 2016 | Anna Palmer and Eli Stokols

Posted on 01/21/2016 8:18:07 AM PST by C19fan

They think he wasted money on everything from an iPad-sized video mailer to direct mail for donors in states that don’t yet matter. They think his attacks on Marco Rubio are doing more harm than good. And they worry that, at the end, all he will have accomplished is the destruction of the Bush family brand. The big-money supporters fueling Jeb Bush’s super PAC have found their boogeyman: Mike Murphy, a sharp-witted, Twitter-obsessed veteran GOP ad man who runs Right to Rise.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; potus
"Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan". Pass the popcorn this is going to be EPIC.
1 posted on 01/21/2016 8:18:07 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The reality: The problem with Yeb is Yeb...


2 posted on 01/21/2016 8:20:59 AM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: piytar

He’s nothing more than a front, the face that hides the powers behind the scenes. Same as Obama. Both are dullards who have been pumped full of footballs by their handlers.


3 posted on 01/21/2016 8:22:47 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: piytar

All the sales tactics in the world are useless when you’re trying to sell a product that is known to be inferior/defective.


4 posted on 01/21/2016 8:23:36 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: C19fan
"Most of all, they're hurting the reputation of a really great man. . . . . At a time when so many voters are anti-establishment and angry at the government, the last thing you should say in all of your campaign ads is 'I am a former governor with a great record of governing,'" said Joe Culotta, a former Republican Party of Florida consultant who is supporting Rubio. "Don't get me wrong, I respect Gov. Bush and totally agree that he did great things in Florida. But to voters, that translates to 'I have a lot of experience in being part of the establishment and the government that you all hate.'"

These quotes reveal exactly why Bush is losing. No one sees or wants to admit how bad Bush is. Is Mike Murphy an incompetent, mercenary campaign manager like the article suggests? Sure. Everyone knew that years ago. But this idea that Jeb is a good candidate being undermined by an irrational waive of anti-government hate is laughable. Jeb is an arrogant, horrible candidate who holds RINO positions on issues and who hates conservatives as much as his daddy did.

5 posted on 01/21/2016 8:25:25 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: C19fan

Bush fundraising now consists of Jeb cranking a barrel organ while wife Columba scampers around, reaching for coins and tipping her hat.


6 posted on 01/21/2016 8:25:45 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: C19fan

No sympathy here for Mr. Murphy - I can insult conservative voters and run the Republican brand into the dirt for half what they pay him to do that. And I don’t see him returning any of his consulting fees after his people lose.


7 posted on 01/21/2016 8:26:06 AM PST by Stosh
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To: C19fan

So his claim is, “I didn’t know what I was saying and that you were gonna use it in an ad”? Little Yebbie is about 14 shades of stupid!


8 posted on 01/21/2016 8:27:40 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: C19fan

The REAL problem with Yeb! is that people now know about his involvement with his father and Bill Clinton in shipping cocaine and pot through Mena, Ark., and three generations of Bush Family Crime. Check out Prescott Bush and Hitler, the 1933 coup attempt in the U.S., exposed by Gen. Smedley Butler. Etc., etc.


9 posted on 01/21/2016 8:33:22 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Multiple advisers to the Right to Rise super PAC concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush’s story has yielded no tangible dividends.

This result was predicted here, at Free Republic, at least a month ago, and probably more like three months ago.

How come FR contributors knew this so far in advance, and Heb's high-priced consultants and well-heeled donors couldn't see it?

10 posted on 01/21/2016 8:38:36 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: C19fan

A sure sign the grim reaper will be visiting Yeb’s campaign very soon.


11 posted on 01/21/2016 8:41:39 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: Steely Tom

...ummm, because stupids always double down on losing streaks...because their luck is bound to change...just has to.

;>)


12 posted on 01/21/2016 8:41:56 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: C19fan

It’s a Bush thing, they love wasting other peoples’ money.


13 posted on 01/21/2016 8:43:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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Jeb, “I could’ve started a foundation!”


14 posted on 01/21/2016 9:03:52 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump Cruz "Can't we all just get along?" lol)
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To: C19fan

That game began back in 2006.


15 posted on 01/21/2016 9:07:55 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: C19fan
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Thank you.  Be sure to read the rules and follow them so your candidate will benefit from you vote.

LINK to Caucus 01/21/2016

Results of yesterday's Free Republic Caucus.  LINK
16 posted on 01/21/2016 10:00:11 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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To: Arthur McGowan; C19fan

“The REAL problem with Yeb! is that people now know about his involvement with his father and Bill Clinton in shipping cocaine and pot through Mena, Ark., and three generations of Bush Family Crime”

Please. Yeb’s problem is a lot more straightforward than that. His brother’s invasion of Iraq was a disaster, and the Bush economic depression of 2008 was the worst since Hoover’s. Americans may be dumbed down these days, but they have long enough memories to recall the dark days of the last Bush. They’re not going to elect W’s brother any more than they would have elected a “Jeb” Hoover in 1936 or any year thereafter.


17 posted on 01/21/2016 4:19:27 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

Someone on FR a year or so ago said something about Yeb that said it all: “I’m sick of his canned-ham face.”

There’s that. And the fact that he murdered Terri Schiavo.


18 posted on 01/22/2016 11:59:52 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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