Posted on 09/02/2015 2:38:10 PM PDT by jimbo123
There’s been a startling development in the 2016 campaign over the last day or so: Jeb Bush is trying to display what you and I might call “an emotion.”
The former governor of Florida had clearly planned to do without the pesky things during his run for the presidency, but that was before Donald Trump came in and messed everything up. Trump saw a big target on Bush’s back and has been shooting arrows into it remorselessly, so Bush has decided to lead an angry, forceful counterattack.
Never mind that “Jeb Bush on the attack” does not exactly bring to mind Henry V at Agincourt. The man is trying. His main method is to point out that Trump has been all over the map ideologically. He’s released a video full of clips where Trump says he’s from (gasp!) New York and praises Hillary Clinton. He’s put a “quiz” on his website where he asks you if you’d rather have a super-cool dude who hates Iran and stuff as president or someone who loves abortions and “is a germophobe when it comes to shaking hands.” (If you couldn’t guess, Trump hates shaking hands. Jeb Bush wants you to know that he will shake your hand so much that it detaches from your wrist if you ask him to.) And Jeb’s got yet another video of himself telling Sean Hannity—subtle, Jeb, real subtle—how right-wing he is.
But Bush isn’t just going after Trump on the digital front. He’s also having something of a raging public breakdown about his rival. Take this jaw-dropper of a kicker from a story in Wednesday’s New York Times:
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
People in TX and FL will fight over who likes him the best.
JEB sucks because he is an open border gloBULList POS.
¡Yeb! is campaigning to be the President of North Mexico.
El Jebbe wants to be Presidente of Mejico. Of course, if he was, he’d continue the policies of the fake Conservatives that served prior to the current regime: Flood the U.S. with the underclass (criminal or otherwise) of their country and with those of Central & South America passing through.
Jeb is one uninspiring dud of a candidate. Even Mitt Romney is starting to look better than him.
I read several of the linked pieces from this article in Salon. Jeb is really quite inept. He’s been involved in what one might call shady deals for years, yet comes off more as a bumbler than a schemer. Aside from his politics, he just doesn’t have IT.
“Bad news for Jeb. Liberals are mocking him now, not just Conservatives.”
Yeah, there go the votes he needed from the RATs to get elected!
he is pretty sad— the happy turtle—
I think he really believed because he was fluent in spanish that would make him the leader of the free world...
Agreed. You know you suck when both Cons and Libs think you suck.
Salon Decoder Ring: “Jeb is dead...we need another plan”
Funny, perceptive article.
I’ve been saying for weeks: he’s awful. No wonder libs wanted Jeb to run instead of his more charismatic brother.
Ouch! Fredo.
That’s like saying Ford dealers were real bad at selling cars because no one bought the Edsel.
Well that tied a string around the the diaper bag, nothing to add. Best synopsis of Yeb I have ever read. Well said.
GW Bush: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Jeb Fredo: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle campaigns!
I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb, dull, lifeless, spineless, rudderless ...
I'm smart and I want respect! I want votes!Jeb Fredo: Every time I put my name in the primary I said a Hail Mary, and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught 7% almost 8%.
he is pretty sad— the happy turtle—
Ooh yes Ma’am, most of us are ROTFLOAO! Better than a rubber man at a carnival show! And better than that, he annoys the hell out of all the people I can’t stand!
Very good:)
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