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Is Jeb Bush's Campaign Dying, or Just Getting Ready to Begin?
Vice News ^ | 2/8/16 | John Surico

Posted on 02/08/2016 5:07:49 AM PST by jimbo123

It's 11 AM on Saturday morning in Bedford, New Hampshire, and Jeb Bush's staff has a problem: A police officer is saying that that McKelvie Intermediate School has reached its maximum occupancy.

Hundreds of people-many wearing Bush '88 hats and W pins, the merch of a dynasty-have squeezed into the school's auditorium to see the latest Bush to seek the presidency speak. Other supporters are stuck outside, cheering the former Florida governor's "Safer, Stronger, Freer America" bus as it rolled in. While Bush takes selfies with the stragglers, Tom Ridge appears onstage inside.

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These aren't great times to be a Bush running for president. The New Hampshire primary looms on Tuesday, and he's still only around 10 percent in most polls. Before the campaign started Jeb was the frontrunner thanks to an influx of cash from donors, but after a series of negative news stories, ugly debate performances, and a disastrous defeat in Iowa, he turned into a punchline. The nadir, probably, was when he was filmed telling a crowd to "please clap" after an applause line. It might have been a joke, but it's not a great joke for a struggling candidate to make. If he finishes fourth or fifth on Tuesday, it'll be humiliating, and probably a sign that he should drop out.

(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...


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KEYWORDS: brokeredconvention; deportjebbush; designatedloser; gope; karlrove; reincepriebus; rnc; terrischiavo; theloserbush; tippytoes
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To: jimbo123

The establishment has not given up. Bush has repeatedly guaranteed people at his events that Trump will not be the nominee and that it will be him.

If we have a cartoonist on here, we need to have a drawing ready of Bush as a zombi from Walking Dead for when they try to revive his campaign.


21 posted on 02/08/2016 6:25:27 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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22 posted on 02/08/2016 6:56:05 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: Flick Lives

“Something sort of extra sad about the “Jeb!” sticker plastered on the side of the walker.”

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Yes. The dismal failure of that campaign cannot be parodied. A fictional, “Death of a Politician” play by Arthur Miller could not be more distilled than the failures of this campaign.


23 posted on 02/08/2016 7:03:19 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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Another example of how the Bushes used eminent domain for their own ideas, but it’s ok for this, as long as your name is Bush or another candidate, but if Trump uses it for his company, then it isn’t right... I thought this was a Free America, when did we change that?

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268562-trump-bush-family-used-eminent-domain-to-build-a-baseball


24 posted on 02/08/2016 7:42:41 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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