Posted on 06/10/2015 4:49:20 PM PDT by jimbo123
When asked to pinpoint where Jeb Bush’s presidential effort began running into trouble, many confidants utter a single word: Dallas.
Mike Murphy, Bush’s political alter ego, decided early on to hold regular senior staff meetings at an unusual location: a Hyatt hotel inside the terminal at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The idea was that it was a central and relatively inexpensive gathering place for a team scattered from Los Angeles, where Murphy lives, to Miami, where the would-be candidate resides.
It went fine at first but quickly became an awkward routine. Donors and other Republicans found the setup ungainly for a campaign-in-waiting that was supposed to be based in Florida.
Older Bush hands also grew unhappy with rapid hiring by new advisers, and relationships frayed, according to Bush associates. And as the former Florida governor began to founder on the trail and in the polls, the discussions flared into arguments about how to divvy up money and resources between Bush’s allied super PAC and his official campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Confusion to him.
bump
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa......
Read the entire article for more laughs!
The author sort of missed the point, so as a public service I helped out.
Jeb would be leading in the polls if his staff hadn’t met in Dallas? Unlikely.
My opinion: Jeb would be leading in the polls if his staff had chosen to run Jeb Bush as the big government liberal democrat that he is.
Good I hope this means he is out!
He’s “Off Course” because he faces the wrong direction.
He’s a RINO!
It has nothing to do with the awful candidate and his proposed Big Government policies.
No, it's where they chose to meet. SRSLY?! That's the best they could do?! The dog ate his homework.
Jeb is the wrong guy, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
They gleefully report that Republicans are always in-fighting, the conservative base and the establishment. This fight has been going on since the early 1900s and it simply codifies who we are. It's a feature, not a bug, so they have trouble comprehending why can't Republican voters just vote for anybody as long as they got an "R" before their name.
Open, continuous conservative bashing hasn’t helped.
Kennedy would have lived longer if he hadn't visited dallas.
Jeb Bush should have ran as a democrat.
Dallas?
Oh,....The TV show.
I get it now....
little slow folks.
Jeb ran off course the moment he decided to run! What an idiot!
Mike Murphy,
Works for The Cheap Labor Express and Republican candidates they own.
Bush lives in a bizarre cocoon. A wife who refuses to speak English. Kids who are/were drunks, brawlers, druggies and stalkers. Gifted board seats paying him millions for not having to do any real work. Surrounded by cheap labor lobbyists and amnesty pimps.
It seems like his sense of entitlement really got the better of his brain.
Did it really never occur to him that the voter really might not want yet another Bush? Why should there be 3, count ‘em, 3 men a father and 2 sons president in my lifetime of 57 years.
Also, I want to say those cartoons of the candidates are terrible. (I think they go with another article.) I finally figured out most of them, I’m guessing the gal is Hillary and not Carly, and I think the one guy is Christie, but who’s the last guy? I honestly can’t tell if it’s supposed to be Walker or Rubio (who really do not look alike) or some other fellow.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.