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The overhyped rise and spectacular fall of Jeb Bush, in 19 devastating quotes
The Week ^ | 2/21/16 | Becca Stanek

Posted on 02/21/2016 6:04:01 AM PST by jimbo123

Jeb Bush has finally put his presidential campaign out of its misery.

But it wasn't so long ago that Jeb was widely seen as the candidate to beat in the Republican presidential primary. Pundits predicted that Bush was almost as inevitable a nominee as Hillary Clinton was. Commentators cast Bush as the Republican Party's best chance at leaving Clinton shaking in her boots. Between his "rock star name" and the gusher of money he had flowing into his campaign before even announcing, Bush was thought to have the nomination nearly at his fingertips.

Then reality intervened. The former Florida governor has been a pitiable punch line for months.

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


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KEYWORDS: fail; gopefail; jebbush2016; jebbushfail; quotes
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To: DouglasKC
The knock against him is that he's "lying" about what he's espousing now.

I don't know whether he's lying or not. But his record suggests that he's not being perfectly frank.

21 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:14 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: DouglasKC
The knock against Trump is that he's "lying" about what he's espousing now.

The knock against him is that he is an opportunist demagogue who is simply playing to whatever generates the most applause at the moment. He will say one thing today. Tomorrow, in front of another audience, he will say something else. And he will "mean it" both times.

I think Trump was completely sincere all those years when he was a conventional Manhattan liberal celebrity, aggressively pro-choice, celebrating planned parenthood, supporting Obamacare, and contributing to Hillary, Chuckie, Nancy, et.al. I think he is completely sincere now, playing to Republican crowds, when he adopts to opposite positions. I think he was completely sincere when he approved of the U.S. war in Iraq, and completely sincere when he went Code Pink a couple of weeks ago.

"Sincerity," however, does not mean the same thing to Trump as it does to most of us. Donald does not have principles. He has impulses, and angles to play, and deals to make. Will he sacrifice political popularity to nominate and support conservative Supreme Court nominees, or reform entitlements, or repeal Obamacare? What in his record makes you think there is any principle that he will not abandon as soon as it is convenient to do so?

22 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:51 AM PST by sphinx
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To: jimbo123

Please clap.


23 posted on 02/21/2016 7:16:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Hiro Protaginast; Eddie01; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; Jane Long; GOPJ

Another Bush miscalculation.

He figured his wife was his ace in the hole....together they would mine ALL those latino votes (registered or not).....as latinos made threats against Republicans.

Then Trump came along.....w/ plans for a wall.

The Bush family must still chuckle when Bush Sr was queried about racism....and humbly mentioned his Mexican DIL.

It was supposed to be deja vu all over again w/ Jebito.


24 posted on 02/21/2016 7:17:00 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: jimbo123

You mean you can’t win without the base?

SHOCKING!

/s


25 posted on 02/21/2016 7:17:03 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: sphinx

So how many President Bushes would be enough for you? Five? Ten?


26 posted on 02/21/2016 7:18:43 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: DouglasKC

I am more worried about Rubio than Hillary right now!!! GOPe will be just as happy with Rubio !!!!!


27 posted on 02/21/2016 7:21:18 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: sphinx

Pro Amnesty. Tone deaf.


28 posted on 02/21/2016 7:23:12 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: jimbo123

Please clap


29 posted on 02/21/2016 7:25:29 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Red Badger

There’s still George P. lurking in Texas.


30 posted on 02/21/2016 7:26:33 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: sphinx
He instead took the base for granted

Actually, he said he didn't need the base to win, did he not?

He's a feckless, clueless elitist that is in bed with both the crony capitalists, and their liberal counterparts.

31 posted on 02/21/2016 7:29:17 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: sphinx

Yeb! wanted to turn the USA into North Mexico.

The people rejected him because they don’t want that.


32 posted on 02/21/2016 7:29:22 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Liz

My theory is that Jebbie was keeping Columba in the background for the primary season only. Then during the general election, she would be given a higher profile with the expectation that all the Hispanic voters would gush over her and cross over to vote for the Republicans in November. That might explain why Jebbie said he didn’t need the Republican base to win. All he had to do was win the nomination, which he assumed was bought and paid for, and then cruise to an easy general election victory on the strength of the Hispanic crossover vote.


33 posted on 02/21/2016 7:29:37 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (61); Cruz (11); Rubio (10)
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To: jimbo123

Juan Arbusto is still young enough. He could run for President of Mexico.


34 posted on 02/21/2016 7:35:09 AM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No. Two are quite enough. But I would not hold Jeb's family against him. The issue was simply that, with an overabundance of highly qualified candidate in a very crowded field, there was no need for the Party to fight those particular crosscurrents. Why take on those ancillary issues when Rubio, Kasich, Christie, etc. were also competing in the establishment lane?

Jeb could have and should have dealt with the family issue much faster and more effectively than he did. He was tone deaf on this as well. Here as elsewhere, he completely misread the battlefield on which he was fighting.

Jeb was never my first or second choice, but I do not like the fratricide that has broken out. It is part of the Trump effect, and it will do lasting damage. We still have to win in November. And whatever happens in November, the conservative base still has to build outward to form a governing coalition nationally. Smash-mouth thuggishness is not the way to do this. I have never seen so many in the GOP fall so completely for an utterly personality-driven campaign. This election is not about Trump. He will be gone, one way or another, soon enough. The cancer will remain unless we do the needful on entitlement reform and the cultural/social/religious liberty issues.

35 posted on 02/21/2016 7:36:04 AM PST by sphinx
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To: SamAdams76
Keeping his Mexican wife under wraps for the primary might explain why Jebbie said he didn/t need the Republican base to win.....he was saving her for the general to mine the crossover latino votes.

Good insight. I also believe Jeb dismissing the base was the product of hearing the Bush family over the years, demean and laugh at conservatives the GOPe despises.

36 posted on 02/21/2016 7:43:18 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: SamAdams76
Keeping his Mexican wife under wraps for the primary might explain why Jebbie said he didn/t need the Republican base to win.....he was saving her for the general to mine the crossover latino votes.

Good insight. I also believe Jeb dismissing the base was the product of hearing the Bush family over the years, demean and laugh at conservatives the GOPe despises.

37 posted on 02/21/2016 7:45:00 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Liz

That really irks me about Jeb. Who wants a first family who speaks a foreign language in the White House.


38 posted on 02/21/2016 7:47:51 AM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: sphinx

Jethro was in it because of the hubris of his family.


39 posted on 02/21/2016 7:50:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: DouglasKC

Love to see Donald and Hillary go head to head. The wicked witch will melt away from her own tears.


40 posted on 02/21/2016 7:51:00 AM PST by jetson
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