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Forgive me Bill, for going off the deep end on this reply. It's past midnight and it's long past the time I should have let it be :- )

Aren't you being a bit unfair to poor Jeb? After all, it's not the number of people who show up for rallies so much as the opportunity to spend $100 million on a handful of hardcore voters who commit to showing up on a Tuesday night when no Bingo game is going on.

Another thing Jeb! deserves more credit for is the splendid way he merchandised those terrific guacamole bowls!

Look, people rightly blasted Trump for his lack of experience in politics. But there was Jeb! surprising the over-rated "business genius" Trump by the way he marketed those guac bowls.

Remember, here was a guy who never sold a thing in his life, yet he proved an incredibly quick study. He frankly missed his calling as an import/export and marketing genius.

Imagine having the smarts to source the bowls directly from real Mexicans! Little known fact: the guacamole dip was invented by the Aztecs, in what is now the country of Mexico. So Jeb! was able to make that key historical link -- and that Aztec association made the bowls all the more valuable to the discriminating purchaser of these one-of-a-kind, machine-stamped works of art.

I mean, these were authentic, high-quality guacamole bowls made of 100% recycled, pure petrochemical-based plastic. The bowls are delicate to the touch, yet sturdy enough not to crack when you drop them from a 13 inch height.

And choosing the guac bowl was perfect in another way, too: it showed Jeb!'s full support for Mexican illegal aliens and NAFTA. True. And to make that point even stronger, Jeb! hired a few illegal "craftsmen" to stamp out these exclusive guac bowls for 50 cents a pop in the basement of his Florida home -- his own "sanctuary factory" as it were.

It was a brilliant way to both save campaign costs and send a message to all those blue collar American who lost their jobs to Mexico. Very thoughtful of you, Jeb!

Today, of course, almost a full year after all Jeb!'s donated campaign money was spent, his guac bowls have gone viral! Truth be told, the market has greatly matured. Since so many copycat companies got in on the guac bowl action, they can no longer command the luxury $75 price that Jeb!'s GUCCI-quality guac bowls did at the height of the market.

Sadly, the guac bowl is a mass produced product now. With a current suggested retail price of only $2.29 a piece, families can afford to buy a guac bowl for every room in the house. Too bad what's being sold these days is a much lower grade of guac bowl. They don't even include Columbia's special Sunday night recipe.

So I guess Jeb! has the last laugh at Trump and all those FReepers who poke fun at him for being low energy. In another way, it's sad that his genius is still so widely unappreciated.

He's a humble and kind guy at heart actually. When Lehmann Brothers gave him a salary of $1.3 million for showing up at the office, he never complained. And when the state of Florida lost a billion dollars when Lehmann Brothers went belly up, there was honest Jeb! to console the voters and thank them for their support for that fine and solid company.