Posted on 05/20/2015 5:26:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who is Jeb’s wife, what effect will she have on his campaign—and what effect will his campaign have on their marriage?
Now and then in an otherwise unmemorable speech, Jeb Bush will drop a mention of his wife, like a sudden pop of color. At an event in Nevada this March, one of his first speeches of this campaign season, before a crowd of what The Washington Post called “everyday Americans,” Bush opened with a husband-still-in-thrall routine. His life, he said, can be divided into two parts: “b.c. and a.c.—before Columba and after Columba,” referring to Columba Garnica de Gallo, the woman he fell madly in love with while on a high-school trip to Mexico and then married 41 years ago.
The crowd, full of seniors and some Spanish speakers, awwwed and cheered. Columba herself was not in attendance. Perhaps because he hadn’t officially declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, she felt no hurry to claim her title as candidate’s wife.
Friends of the Bush family to this day tell stories of Jeb and Columba’s deep and obvious affection for each other. And yet by any straightforward measure of compatibility—family background, interests, personality, ideas about a pleasant way to spend an afternoon—they seem to have very little in common....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
““What he loves about Columba is that she’s an emotional anchor for him,” Ana Navarro, a family friend and a Republican strategist”
I would PREFER him having a strategist or two without the baggage of Ms. NAVARRO...or, for that matter, Mr. CARDENAS (mentioned in the next paragraph).
Really though the American people are too uninformed to connect the dots on much of anything politically. Some though, particularly Republicans, are good at making money.
‘_______during my walk down 5th Ave.____________’
In 2005 we were in New York - from Calif. - for a Long Island high school reunion. We ‘went into the city’ one evening after the reunion, and were walking past Radio City Music Hall at midnight. I saw a dumpster alongside the theater, and got excited. I reached in hoping to pull out a tutu, or tights, or ANY part of a Rockette’s costume! NOTHing - except a nice wooden hanger.
Said hanger resides in my closest with the year of ‘acquiring’ duly noted on it - - - : ^ )
Oh - we passed hardly a soul, having walked blocks to the Long Island Railroad.
Good for you...married 41 yrs says something for THEM. Still wont vote for him however.
I simply don’t want to know anything about Bush’s wife. Way too much information. Bush should just go home. RINO.
Agreed. Ping me when they go after Bill and Hillary or Michelle and Barak.
She must keep arrogance in her compact. Her face is caked in it.
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