Talking Points Alert!
Posted on 11/11/2015 5:19:33 AM PST by jimbo123
A steadfast performance by Jeb Bush in Tuesday's Republican debate has halted the sense of desperation around his U.S. presidential campaign and may buy him time to counter the rise of chief rival Marco Rubio.
The fourth Republican debate in the search for a 2016 presidential nominee was characterized by a steady stream of attacks against front-runner Donald Trump and mistake-free performances by Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, two up-and-coming U.S. senators in the race.
But the most relieved candidate after the two-hour encounter inside the Milwaukee Theatre was Bush, the former Florida governor who was outclassed in the three previous debates and has suffered an erosion of support from Republican voters and a drop-off in financial donations.
Trump, a billionaire businessman who has led opinion polls in the Republican race for months, gave Bush an opening when he said it was okay with him if Russian President Vladimir Putin "wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS" in Syria and Iraq, a reference to Islamic State militants in the two Middle East countries.
Bush, who mostly steered clear of attacking his rivals after previous attempts had fallen flat, quickly interjected.
"We're not going to be the world's policemen, but we sure as heck better be the world's leader," Bush said, saying Trump's views of Putin and his policies in Syria were "like a board game. That's like playing Monopoly or something. That's not how the real world works."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Indeed—This is about the third or fourth piece from the MSM I’ve seen that praises Yebbie’d debate performance.
America needs a Reuters Rooter to clean up the bogus MSM.
Jeb and the Rubio are neck and neck for first? Or are they competing for the third tier?
Yeb was weak, again. His squishy answer on illegal aliens was probably the final nail.
“Prop him up”? Hell, they’re breaking out the shock paddles - “CLEAR!!”
Who wrote this? The Bush campaign?
The larger the flock of RINOs the better for us.
Both Bush and Rubio are Guaranteed AMNESTY traitors. Nothing else of what they say or positions they have matter because they pale in comparison to what legalizing 20-50 Million illegals will do to this country. Nothing.
I wonder how that post-debate conference call with donors went for Jeb?
“Yeb was weak, again. His squishy answer on illegal aliens was probably the final nail.”
The RNC will snarl the primary into a brokered convention and appoint that arrogant slab of tofu. Jeb can’t fix it, but someone will fix it for him.
LOL....apparently we are the only ones that watched the debate...this author of the article must have gone for coffee or something...
Talking Points Alert!
That will be a trick, with their guy at 4% and probably going no where but down. There’ll be blood on the convention floor.
Now the truth about Senoir Jeb performance. He was terrible. He needs to get the hell out of the race.
better to keep yebby and little marco stifling each other through the early primaries to split the rino vote...
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Discussed this with a friend last month. Yes there will be blood on the floor if it goes that far. Like the Dem 1968 convention. I’ve said before and will again, send strong young men as delegates. There is a reason the establishment says and has always said, Trump WILL NOT be the candidate.
Jeb is their boy. Anyone else would be gone by now. In American history, has there ever been such an inept, expensive and foolish a campaign? That is not a rhetorical question. I just can’t think of one. Not from fringe parties, not from Pat Paulson.
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