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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.

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KEYWORDS: fail; gopefail; jebbush2016; jebbushfail; quotes
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1 posted on 02/21/2016 6:04:01 AM PST by jimbo123
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Guess I gotta get a new tagline........


2 posted on 02/21/2016 6:07:03 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: jimbo123

The media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) are in mourning today.


3 posted on 02/21/2016 6:07:21 AM PST by IronJack
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You can thank Donald J Trump for this. Almost since day one he knew who the REAL competition was supposed to be and he went after Jeb early and often. Trump knocked out the GOPe preferred monied candidate out of the race almost singlehandedly. After he wins the nomination it’s Hillarys turn. She’s already a joke. By the time Trump is done with her no self respecting lib is going to be able to muster up any amount of enthusiasm to vote for her.


4 posted on 02/21/2016 6:07:27 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: jimbo123

Jeb made bad candidates look good.

He was an insult to bad candidates.


5 posted on 02/21/2016 6:11:15 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: jimbo123
Who knew that the American voters would wake up the perfidy of the House of Bush ibn Saud, and how they sold us down the river to crony capitalism and set us up for the Age of Obama.

It was a great trip, but coming down has been a bummer.

6 posted on 02/21/2016 6:13:00 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: DouglasKC
By the time Trump is done with her no self respecting lib is going to be able to muster up any amount of enthusiasm to vote for her.

Now if he were only a conservative it would be even more fun.

7 posted on 02/21/2016 6:13:54 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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A glaring omission on the campaign trail was the presence of Jebbie's Mexican wife. I guess Jebito did not want voters to hear his latino wife struggling w/ English...the language of America. And, clearly, Americans were not in the mood to be asked to vote for an American president in Spanish.


8 posted on 02/21/2016 6:18:13 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: goldstategop

So true, Kasich and Carson was better than Jeb and they’re bad candidates


9 posted on 02/21/2016 6:20:00 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Liz

Excellent observation.


10 posted on 02/21/2016 6:21:43 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Now if he were only a conservative it would be even more fun.

In his campaign, now, he is absolutely espousing conservative values. In his personal life he doesn't drink or smoke and his children seem to be intelligent, productive and well mannered.

The knock against him is that he's "lying" about what he's espousing now. That goes against his character. In the business world and especially in real estate transactions involving millions or billions of dollars lying will get you sued or in jail. If everything's not air tight legal you're screwed. It's out of character for him to lie.

11 posted on 02/21/2016 6:23:08 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Liz

Is that true about her speaking english? I’ve never heard her speak, so don’t know. That really would have been devastating on the campaign trail.


12 posted on 02/21/2016 6:31:32 AM PST by Hiro Protaginast
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To: jimbo123
The Jeb-bashing is being overdone. Bush is a conventional, moderately conservative establishment figure. His name created some headwinds, which was unfair to Jeb but life is unfair. He might have been able to successfully deal with that. In retrospect, I suspect that his biggest problem is simply that he had been out of elective politics for too long and had lost touch. He did not realize until far too late that the base is in revolt. He instead took the base for granted and from day one focused on running to the center, as the non-threatening, moderately center right candidate who could reach across the aisle. The question in my mind is whether he had anyone in his inner circle who tied to tell him how profoundly he was misreading the electorate. If I were one of his consultants, I would strategically leave this race off my resume.

Of the Bush brothers, Jeb was always considered the more conservative of the two. Had he won his first gubernatorial race against Lawton Chiles, he would very possibly have been the Republican presidential nominee in 2000, and a fine president. He lost that race, unfortunately, because the Democrats ran a scare campaign in the closing days of the campaign, which Bush was leading, letting the elderly voters of Florida know that if elected Governor, Jeb was going to eliminate Social Security. And so history is made.

Hindsight is cheap, but Bush last year should have come out of the box swinging. He needed to confront the past squarely, with "I've been out of politics for some time. The world has changed. The issues have evolved. And I've had the opportunity to rethink some things. Here is where we are now. The country is in crisis. And this is what we need to do now." With that, he should have gone on the attack against Obama, Hillary, Bernie, et.al., and stayed on the offensive. This could have been done in a civil way. But Jeb seemed to think he was still in 2000, and that moderate managerialism was the ticket. He rode a false premise into the ditch. And poor John Kasich still hasn't figured it out.

13 posted on 02/21/2016 6:31:50 AM PST by sphinx
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Its well-deserved.

We don’t need a nerd for President. We need a leader.

Jeb is many things but being a leader ain’t one of them.

Poor Jeb he deserved with increasing derision until he was forced out of the race.


14 posted on 02/21/2016 6:45:27 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: sphinx
He instead took the base for granted and from day one focused on running to the center, as the non-threatening, moderately center right candidate who could reach across the aisle. The question in my mind is whether he had anyone in his inner circle who tied to tell him how profoundly he was misreading the electorate. If I were one of his consultants, I would strategically leave this race off my resume.

How about the possibility that the consultants he hired echoed the same misdreadings that he had? In a sane world, would leave this off my resume too, but the same GOPe consultant failures keep hiring one another back.

15 posted on 02/21/2016 6:51:45 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: jimbo123

Once Bush announced that he was going ot try and win the nomination without the “base”, he was done.


16 posted on 02/21/2016 6:52:12 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Red Badger

He’ll be back. Mommy will see to that.


17 posted on 02/21/2016 6:53:00 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Hiro Protaginast

True....she struggles w/ Spanglish.

Jeb has said they speak Spanish at home.


18 posted on 02/21/2016 6:54:29 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: jimbo123

He was doomed when he called illegal immigration “an act of love”. It’s hard to imagine a man of his (supposed) intelligence making a more tone-deaf statement.


19 posted on 02/21/2016 6:55:22 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: sphinx

Lot of assumptions in that post. Did you cover the cocaine use, my ADHD kick ed.


20 posted on 02/21/2016 6:56:10 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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