How Trump Makes Jeb Bush Seem Like a Wimp

The Atlantic ^ | August 28 2015 | Peter Beinart

[lbryce]

Donald Trump has gotten a boost in his efforts to maul Jeb Bush in recent days from an unexpected source: Jeb Bush himself.

Trump’s attack on Jeb isn’t mostly about issues. As with most things Trump, it’s mostly about persona. The Donald thinks Jeb is a dud. “He’s a man that doesn’t want to be doing what he’s doing,” Trump said in June. “I call him the reluctant warrior, and warrior’s probably not a good word. I think Bush is an unhappy person. I don’t think he has any energy.”

The Limits of Jeb Bush's Compassionate Conservatism

Over the last week, Jeb has proven Trump right. Trump, and his supporters, continue to demonize Mexican American illegal immigrants. On Tuesday, Trump threw the most popular Spanish-language broadcaster in America out of a press conference. That same day, Ann Coulter warmed up for Trump in Iowa by offering gruesome details of murders by Mexican “illegals,” and suggesting that once Trump builds his wall along America’s southern border, tourists can come watch the “live drone shows.”

This kind of thing likely enrages Jeb. He is, after all, married to a Mexican American immigrant. He speaks fluent Spanish. He calls his children Hispanic. He’s called himself Hispanic. He describes himself as “immersed in the immigrant experience.” When parents choose to enter the United States illegally because “their children didn’t have food on the table,” in their home country, Jeb said last year, “It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family.”

[lbryce]

You certainly don't need Trump to make Bush look like a wimp. Anybody can. The Director of WAW (We Are Wimps) makes Bush look like a wimp. Heck, Bush makes Bush look like a wimp.

Bush, want to show Americans, you're not a wimp? First stop speaking that Latino language you're so fond of doing. Secondly, go to some Western State and the first Mexicans you see go over to them and knock the living crap out of them and then bring their unconscious bodies to the border patrol. No one's gonna bee calling you wimp again.

[doc1019]

Yep, everybody makes Jeb look like a wimp.

[nickcarraway]

They are both wimps.

[Fungi]

A wimp by definition is a wimp, no one needs to call him on it. Go home to mama Jebbie, you will never be president.

[Sybeck1]

Jeb! wants desperately to be the president of North Mexico

[Frank_2001]

Why do they put quotes around the word “illegals” when describing the Mexican murderers? THEY ENTERED THE USA ILLEGALLY!!!!

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Stop ganging up on Jeb for being a wimp.

His brother was a wimp, too.

:)

[Rome2000]

Jeb belongs in a mental institution.

MEGALOMANIAC.

[GeronL]

A baby in a crib makes Jeb seem like a wimp

[grey_whiskers]

[P-Marlowe]

MEGALOMANIAC.

I think DOOFUS is a more apt description.

[lbryce]

It may be simply a matter of calling Mexicans illegals but not being sure if they were or not, hence the quotation marks. Good question

[lbryce]

After seeing him with that gay hat and that truly moronic tagline on it, I’ve changed my mind.He’s not a wimp, he’s a Mexican gay fruitcake.

[Mamzelle]

And Poppy is a wimp

[redfreedom]

No one makes Jeb look like a wimp, he does this on his own quite nicely,

[LongWayHome]

There’s billions of people who can’t feed themselves in the world....are they all welcome according to this author ? The sense of unreality & delusion among the chattering class in this country is astounding.

[This_far]

Not as well as Jeb does though

[Republican Wildcat]

He did that well enough on his own.

Glad to see him tanking in the polls. He needs to fall further behind to remove any hope of him being the candidate that is the “best alternative” to Trump so that strategy can never come to fruition...and I have no doubt that is the plan...demoralize the supporters of the other candidates “well he’s the best we have” and get them to abandon their campaigns in favor of Bush. If he’s nowhere near second place, even a distant second place, this would be much more difficult to pull off. I’d like to see this whittle down to Trump, Carson, Rubio, Fiorina, Cruz and either Jindal or Walker. That would be an interesting, more substantive debate - not only in content, but time. Most of the others are not only uninspiring, they are just bad candidates and boring.

[octex]

Stop ganging up on Jeb for being a wimp. His brother was a wimp, too.
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One of my main complaints about Dubya was that he never replied to his critics accusations or denied whatever lies they said about him. ....He was a favorite with the military and veterans, but he never faught back against his attackers.

[Rastus]

"Before Jeb Bush, I didn't have much going on."



"Now, this is my life!"



"Thanks, Jeb!"