Here's how Jeb Bush ran out of cash

Yahoo Finance ^ | 2/19/16 | Rick Newman

[jimbo123]

His campaign started out stuffed with money.

By last July, Jeb Bush had raised $103 million for his super PAC, Right to Rise, an astonishing sum that seemed to foretell the most lavishly funded campaign in American history. No super PAC had ever raised so much cash so early in an election cycle. In fact, Right to Rise alone outraised all the super PACs combined at the same stage in the 2012 elections.

Now, after primary elections in just three states, Bush is out. He finished sixth in the Iowa caucus, fourth in the New Hampshire primary, and now, fourth in the South Carolina primary. It has become a given in modern American politics that money buys results, but Bush's rapid flameout suggests a more nuanced reality: Money can buy an edge, but successful candidates still need broad-based support and lots of smaller donors.

Bush‘s strategy from the beginning was to lure wealthy donors able to write six- and seven-figure checks to his super PAC. But his campaign itself was never well-funded, and that turned out to be a critical gap.

[jimbo123]

[TMA62]

Reminds me on how McCain and Romney ran their ‘08 and ‘12 campaigns. Could raise money but listened to the ‘expert’ political consultants like Karl Rove and Mike Schmidt.

[ronnie raygun]

Karl Rove the architect, funny

[hal ogen]

Apparently, the political “consultants” just like to spend money and enlarge their friends’ bank accounts. What losers.

[Obadiah]

I’m guessing the campaign consultants were paid very well, and now they get to go home with several years worth of salary.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Those campaign consultants should have told him that he could not win the nomination if he insisted on amnesty and was seen as an open borders candidate. There were many ways he could have restored sanity to our border security, while at the same time pursuing positions and policies that would actually build bridges to Mexico and help the Mexican people, but he instead trotted out a platform based essentially on more of the same.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The money guys convinced the Jebster he would win without the base. The money guys got paid handomsomely, while the base told Jeb to stick it.

[KeyLargo]

[bigbob]

Cut to the chase:

Jeb! practiced conventional politics - it didn’t work

Cruz bought a hack-man operative to do the same. It didn’t work except in Iowa where dirty tricks were involved.

We are seeing the death of conventional politics. Donald Trump is not sending out voter violation notices or screwing his opponents with false information, nor is he spending tens of millions like the others are - yet he is achieving FAR better results.

“Wouldn’t it be nice if our country could say that?”

[KC_Conspirator]

That is absolutely true.

[Guardian Sebastian]

Our act of love was sending him back home to his mommy.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Jeb Bush had raised $103 million for his super PAC, Right to Rise, an astonishing sum that seemed to foretell the most lavishly funded campaign in American history. No super PAC had ever raised so much cash so early in an election cycle.

I'm happy that so many morons shoved so much money down the rathole and have zero to show for it. Every dollar wasted means less damage to the country. It would've been less pain and misery for them to go throw it out in the street.