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The Decline of Jeb Bush
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | 1/31/16 | Sydney Spreck

Posted on 01/31/2016 2:38:44 PM PST by jimbo123

Stumbling through his short speech in an under-crowded room in a New Hampshire middle school, Jeb Bush looked surprisingly pathetic given his long tenure as a politician. Watching Bush speak made me feel incredibly sorry for him. Bush still spoke with a genuine desire to help Americans succeed, and despite his plummeting poll numbers the few devoted followers in the crowd still referred to him as "the future president". It must be awful to be the presumed successor of a father and a brother, only to fail on an epic level from the get go. I'm no Republican, but of all the candidates the pathos of Jeb Bush pulls at my heart strings. However, a candidate can not win based on the pity of the electorate alone. Presidential candidates, especially in the current election, are expected to be exciting and to introduce big new ideas. Sadly, Jeb Bush is the opposite of exciting, despite the exclamation point he added to his campaign slogan (Jeb!).

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deportjebbush; designatedloser
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To: TomGuy

Jeb is like about 75% of elected GOP officials...they are cultural liberals. They don’t buy into conservatism, at all, except when they run every 2 or 4 years.


21 posted on 01/31/2016 3:18:23 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: jimbo123

I have no sympathy.
He should have listened to his mother.

His campaign is a stick in the eye to the citizens.


22 posted on 01/31/2016 3:19:00 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I think the son of a mailman gives him a run for that.


23 posted on 01/31/2016 3:19:53 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TomGuy

Somewhere in between “severe” conservative and “compassionate” conservative


24 posted on 01/31/2016 3:21:14 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jimbo123

I fear the elite and Bush until he is gone.


25 posted on 01/31/2016 3:27:46 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk
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To: shibumi

26 posted on 01/31/2016 3:29:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Eddie01

Maybe I am the only one, but I hve really never got the sense, in anything that I have ever read or in any of the videos that I have watched, that Jeb really wants to be the President.

Every time I see him, I am reminded of a 14-year-old boy who has been stuffed into his Sunday suit by his mom and shoved out on a stage to make a speech when he’d much rather be goofing off with his buddies or laying on his bed to read a good book.

He really wants this campaign to be over. He doesn’t want to be President. He’s already done enough. He wants to retire, maybe take up a couple of cushy boardroom jobs, and play with his grandkids.

They should let him.


27 posted on 01/31/2016 3:32:04 PM PST by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: jimbo123
I lived in Florida when Jeb Bush was Florida's governor from 1998 to 2007. He was actually a pretty good governor except for the Terri Schiavo debacle, which in fairness, his hands were tied to a degree...

That was 14 years ago when he won his last race...

That's a long time in politics and the country has moved by leaps and bounds mostly for the worse...

Jebbie simply did not keep up with the changes and was living in the Bush political echo chamber bubble...like most elitist...

Maybe Cruz or Trump can offer him an ambassadorship to Mexico...he would feel right at home...

28 posted on 01/31/2016 3:44:32 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: jimbo123

I realize that anecdotes are completely unscientific, but I have yet to meet a single Jeb supporter who wasn’t a pundit on TV. I knew Walker and Perry supporters, but not a single Jeb supporter. Amazing that they’ve been able to prop him up this long with no verifiable people behind him.


29 posted on 01/31/2016 3:44:43 PM PST by bethelgrad
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To: jimbo123
As a teen, Jeb was the tippy-toes tallest brother, and thus eager to show his smarter siblings how jumping over stationary objects was done


30 posted on 01/31/2016 3:49:22 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: jimbo123

There is always a place for Jeb in a Sanders administration running Bernie’s open borders amnesty program.


31 posted on 01/31/2016 3:50:56 PM PST by chuckee
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To: jimbo123
Watching Bush speak made me feel incredibly sorry for him.

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I don't feel sorry for him at all. He'd rather live in Mexico than in our country. If he were elected president, he'd open the borders between us and Mexico. He's no patriot. He's a spoiled, despicable anti-american worm.

32 posted on 01/31/2016 3:55:53 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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33 posted on 01/31/2016 4:04:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I misread your post. I thought you said, “Constipated conservative”.


34 posted on 01/31/2016 4:25:22 PM PST by hdstmf
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To: hdstmf

No those are the people who have fled FR and set up a refuge for those who can’t tolerate free exchange of ideas and different conclusions about politics.
Did you see the libbylu flame out thread?
There were links to that site among the 800+ posts.
I went there out of curiosity.
Much butthurt.


35 posted on 01/31/2016 4:38:09 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Balding_Eagle
As long as Jeb! stays in the race there is something fishy afoot.

My thoughts exactly.

36 posted on 01/31/2016 5:13:59 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: TomGuy

Mommas gonna have her hands full when jebby comes home


37 posted on 01/31/2016 5:45:19 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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