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[Red Badger]

Guess I gotta get a new tagline........

[IronJack]

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

[DouglasKC]

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.

[goldstategop]

Jeb made bad candidates look good.

He was an insult to bad candidates.

[AndyJackson]

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.

[sphinx]

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.

[Ouderkirk]

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

[rbg81]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Please clap.

[TexasFreeper2009]

You mean you can’t win without the base?

SHOCKING!

/s

[Lurkinanloomin]

Please clap

[Rockpile]

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