"Should've listened to my Mom..."
Posted on 08/29/2015 6:33:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There's another sign — if you needed one — that Jeb Bush is sucking wind in the Republican primary: Three top fundraisers from Bush's home base of Florida have left the campaign.
The particulars of the split are up for debate, according to Politico's Alex Isenstadt and Marc Caputo, who broke the news. But regardless of the proximate cause, it's a big deal because it suggests two larger issues for Bush's campaign: He's dug a big hole and there's concern in his own camp that he won't be able to dig his way out.
It also comes less than three months after Bush shook up his staff and installed Danny Diaz, a veteran Washington operative, as campaign manager.
In the last public national poll, conducted by Quinnipiac, Bush was tied for third place, behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson, at 7 percent. Ironically, fundraising prowess has been Bush's calling card in a campaign that was supposed to blow his rivals out of the water. Even Mitt Romney, who had to fend off a rotating set of ill-fated front-runners like Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain, enjoyed a pretty steady rise in polling. Not Bush.
The three fundraising aides left after clashing with national campaign staff, Politico reported, and it's not clear whether they will continue to have a role with Bush's Right to Rise super PAC. But what is clear is this: It's rare for three high-profile staffers to bolt a campaign they see as likely to land the candidate in the White House, and it's equally rare for a winning campaign to shed three high-profile aides.
The exception that proves the rule: Veteran strategist Roger Stone parted ways with Trump this summer. But everyone who watches politics closely is familiar with the panic cycle:
1 A struggling campaign shakes up its staff, which sends a signal to supporters both that the campaign is in trouble and that the candidate understands that
2 Staffers fight over who is to blame for flagging performance in polls
3 One side wins and the other heads for the exits
In early February 2008, Hillary Clinton ousted campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle and replaced her with the team of Maggie Williams and Cheryl Mills. There was no similar shake-up on Barack Obama's winning campaign that year. In September 2004, two months before he would lose to George W. Bush, John Kerry brought on several former aides to President Bill Clinton in a shake-up that the Kerry campaign insisted against all evidence was not a shake-up. Bush, on the other hand, had a remarkably stable stable of advisers in his winning campaigns of 2004 and 2000.
The bottom line: The departure of the fundraisers points to much bigger problems in the Bush campaign.
Racial pandering didn’t take Jebbie very far
:o)
...Meanwhile, the Cruz campaign is doing fine....
If just holding his head above water is doing fine, apparently he is.
I like Cruz. Hope he can hang in.
Spending half your time campaigning in a foreign language to foreigners who can’t vote legally sends the message you care more about Mexicans than Americans.
“Spending half your time campaigning in a foreign language to foreigners who can’t vote legally sends the message you care more about Mexicans than Americans.”
Mexicans are more diverse than americans. You can tell, by their brown hair and brown eyes, and the near monolithic diet.
Is he so pw’ed that he doesn’t even remotely get it?
He has been a Mexican for a looong time.
Well, exactly. Has he broken out a sombrero and pinatas of Cruz and Trump, yet?
Kasich will end up as the main RINO candidate.
I Ran
By
A Flock of Ex-Compassionate Conservative Gulls
Reached out a hand to touch your face
You’re slowly disappearing from my view
Appearing from my view
Reached out a hand to try again
I’m floating in a beam of light with you
A thousand points of light with you
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, I ran all night and day
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, just to get away from you
He’s just fine. Cruz understnd it’s a year until next November and plan B in case (or when) the GOPe backstabs Trump before the nomination...
And yes, I've been living the H1-B nightmare here in the Silicon Valley for the last 10 years.
Roger Roger.
The sooner Jeb and a host of others drop out the better.
You never waste a chance to take a shot at Cruz, do you?
If just holding his head above water is doing fine, apparently he is.
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Isn’t that the objective early on? A steady forward movement beats the flame
outs. Agreed that at some point the movement has to show greater forward
movement but we aren’t at that critial juncture yet, imo.
....You never miss a chance to take a shot at Cruz, do you.
I think you stopped reading after the first sentence about Cruz keeping his head above water, but missed the last part about, “I like Ted Cruz. I hope he can hang in.”
Why the touchiness?
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