Posted on 01/02/2016 2:11:38 PM PST by jimbo123
Double down on failed strategies and remind everyone it's his turn.
There has been a lot of speculation about whether or not Jeb Bush wants to be president. He doesn't seem to have that "fire in his belly" that his brother so often demonstrated on the campaign trail, and he didn't seem to be very interested in his campaign at the outset beyond the massive fundraising efforts and trying to win support from the traditional GOPe "king makers." This, actually, is what convinces me that Jeb does want to be president; he's just doing it the old, tired way, a way that simply doesn't work as traditional venues for political campaigns simply don't have the same audience share (and thus power) they once did. It also doesn-t help that the Republican primary voters are fed up with-and actively rebelling against—the traditional "it's your turn now" approach to GOP candidates for president.
Jeb and his campaign have a tried a number of strategies to help salvage his campaign, but from cutting staff to clumsy and awkward attacks on Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, his campaign quickly moved from tragedy to farce.
With the new year, Jeb seems to be planning a new series of steps to salvage his campaign. The New York Times reports that "aides to Mr. Bush and important allies described a long-shot plan to pull off what seems all but impossible: winning the Republican nomination for president. The plan has six elements."
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
(looks at press release)
"Amongst our chief weapons are the following: etcetera, etcetera "
With "Jeb!," you do sort of expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Mr. niteowl77
The Leftist “Guardian” UK newspaper thinks Jeb still has a chance!
Jeb Bush breathes ‘good energy’ into flailing campaign with comeback tour
5NOV2015
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/jeb-bush-republican-comeback-tour-new-hampshire
I found this article by trying to Go ogle a pic of Jeb flailing, but couldn’t find anything.
Joyful.
Six steps?
Even AA states no less than twelve.
“One day at a time....”
1. Realize he’s a loser.
2. Call mommy and see if he can still come home.
3. Give a very impressive farewell speech in Spanish to his supporters.
4. Quit.
5. Run to mommy.
6. Drop out of sight like a pathetic loser should.
7. Move back to Mexico.
And that lady does need therapy.
I'm inclined toward that conclusion as well. Even so, he'll have to be a credible candidate at that point or they might as well nominate a turnip with a "Hillary For President" button on.
Turning 5% of the delegates into 51% is going to take a lot more than a little backroom finagling. And so far Yeb's team isn't displaying any ability to pull it off, rather the opposite: idiotic campaign slogans such as "Yeb!", which is reconstituted "Lamar!", and heaven help us, "Yeb can fix it!" which leads the cynical to suspect that Yebbie's running for dog catcher. Awful stuff.
"Stay on the attack" means something different in politics than "call the other guy names", and Yeb sounds like a petulant little boy shouting "poopie-head" and is being taken just as seriously. Trump especially, and to a lesser degree Cruz, are called "abrasive" for their manner and forgiven instantly for their positions. It's the positions, stupid! We're in January now, and the contest isn't for Miss Congeniality. Amnesty is a losing position. So are gun control, "social justice", academic racism, and civil rights for perverts. Expressing any of these forcefully will, in the current politically correct media environment, get a candidate a reputation for being abrasive. Embrace the abrasion.
Or quit. Because brokering in a loser is the way to lose.
One would think that self respect alone would prompt this man to withdraw from the race.
Brokering....as in coming in with entire armored trucks full of cash.
mabeee Jeb’s problem is what “jeb” means in Slavic languages (faaaaak)
Bush’s brother lost Congress in 2006 & ushered in 8 yrs of Obama because of deficits, bailouts, TARP cover-up, & letting Democrats buy the 2008 election by handing out “stimulus checks” which were guaranteed to keep us out of a recession at the beginning of 2008 when none was predicted & the jobless rate was a little over or a little under 5% .(It was 4.8% in Feb. 2008) Bush appointed Bernanke. Chose “deficits don’t matter” Cheney......and let the price of gas skyrocket to $4 in 2008 to kill the demand side of the economy along with the supply side money leaving the country & going into gold & foreign markets, currencies and oil.....but blaming “demand from India and China”....which nobody believed. Bush fatigue is real. If W Hadn’t been elected, maybe Jeb would look attractive now, but the country & the party have changed.......and neither party & most independent voters can stomach the idea of another Bush presidency...even if they suspect Jeb to be more like his father than his brother. George W’s tax code was an incoherent, pandering mess of handouts to buy every constituency imaginable......including giving unwed mothers a huge tax credit, but they still didn’t vote Republican. But Bush didn’t even give a tax deduction to fathers paying child support.
Mehico ,Mehico,Mehico, mehico , mehico, derp!
No chance, his eyes are too close together.
You left out gold.
He’ll adkit his inner asshole, switch to democrat, and give the uniparty a candidate they want.
Plastic surgery and a name change?
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