Posted on 01/30/2016 6:38:14 AM PST by jimbo123
The family loyalists watch the decline of Jeb Bush's presidential ambitions with a mix of sadness and resignation.
New Hampshire-It is never a good sign for a candidate when your supporters start feeling sorry for you, but that is what has happened to Jeb Bush.
"Poor Jeb," said Tony Manix, a 54-year-old Air National Guard member in jeans and a puffy down jacket, who had come to see Bush speak-not for the first time-at a private school here, on a chilly, wind-whipped seacoast night. "I just don't understand why his numbers aren't up," Manix added plaintively. "If you listen to him, if you hear what he says, he really has the best plan for our country. But the American people don't seem to want to spend the time to dig into what the issues are really about."
Poor Jeb. (Or, this being New Hampshire, "poah Jeb.")
To a degree not common to other candidates, Bush's supporters feel protective of him and grieved for his sake. They seem acutely aware that he was never supposed to be in this position-mired in the back of the crowded pack of candidates, struggling to be heard, on the edge of being counted out. A campaign that began with a frontrunner's fanfare now averages less than 5 percent in national polls. It's a situation that might be humbling or humiliating for your average governor or senator making a run at the title, but it takes on special resonance for a member of one of America's royal families.
The fact of Bush's lineage has made the grim saga of the campaign something more than Jeb's personal drama. It has been his burden and his boon alike, elevating and stifling him at the same time.
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Great pic.
Bill is truly a “nothin’ but a party” guy everywhere he shows up, LOL.
I bet that picture was suppressed from the Hitlery campaign but then they would have to explain whom the guy in the white shirt was to them.
And the Obamas aren’t going to go away neither.
They will be pervasive in popular media for decades to come.
And on the Clinton side, they're already subliminally pimping the granddaughter.
Oh, hell no! Michelle's entitled to a senate seat. That white lady got one.
“Or the Clintons. That pig Chelsea is making noises about running for office.”
She’s the first of the Hubbell Dynasty! With her mother in jail and her father trying to get it up one more time, she will need to bury the Clinton name.
“Tainted” to the point of accepting their taxpayer paid salaries and not doing the jobs paid for while running around asking the same taxpayers to give them a better job-—they get an ‘A’ for nerve, if nothing else-—just another pair of politicians——
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