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To Help Jeb Bush Connect, Aides Look to Mitt Romney's Missteps
NY Times ^ | 12/10/15 | ASHLEY PARKER

Posted on 12/10/2015 7:07:38 PM PST by jimbo123

Early on in Jeb Bush's campaign, his advisers, many of them veterans of the 2012 general election campaign, huddled to discuss a vexing concern: Mr. Bush had something of a Mitt Romney problem.

The similarities between the two men were, and remain, unmistakable: Tall and lean. Well-bred sons of political dynasties. Diction harking back to a more genteel era. ("Gosh, darn!" Mr. Romney would exclaim; Mr. Bush chides supporters against sounding like "nervous Nellies.")

Both were personally likable policy aficionados who inspired tremendous loyalty from aides. But like Mr. Romney before him, Mr. Bush has showed difficulty connecting with many voters in a visceral way.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Utah
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To: SamAdams76

How many limits are there for reinventing yourself?


21 posted on 12/10/2015 9:32:41 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: jimbo123

I’d mercifully forgotten what a creep Willard is. Yeah, I’d take YEB!!! over Willard.


22 posted on 12/10/2015 9:35:25 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Vendome

LOL


23 posted on 12/10/2015 9:36:14 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Rome2000

“27 General and Admirals support him though.”

American or Mexican? Inquiring minds want to know. BTW just what is a Mexican Admiral? Skipper of a garbage barge?


24 posted on 12/10/2015 10:41:01 PM PST by vette6387
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...in order to best reproduce the missteps.

25 posted on 12/10/2015 11:47:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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