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Why Did Jeb Bush Lose? There Are Many Theories
NPR ^ | 2/22/16 | Sam Sanders

Posted on 02/22/2016 11:00:26 AM PST by jimbo123

After disappointing finishes in presidential nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Jeb Bush suspended his campaign for president Saturday night.

It was the end of a run that had seemed doomed for months: countless gaffes, merciless attacks from the likes of Donald Trump, seemingly limitless spending from a superPAC he couldn't control with horrible returns from those investments and perhaps above all, a candidate who seemed uncomfortable on the trail at best, and at worst, frustrated and unhappy.

Already, the post-mortems are almost writing themselves.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushfatige; fail; jebbushfail; karlrovefail; loser; mikemurphyfail; nomorebushes
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To: DiogenesLamp

Ross was the reason Clinton won.


41 posted on 02/22/2016 12:24:06 PM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: nickcarraway

The only Bush I am aware of who is trying to have a political career is George P., and I doubt he is going to excite anyone greatly in the future. He has already racked up negative press and his political career in Texas may end sooner than he thinks if he continues to annoy or underwhelm the folks in the Lone Star state.


42 posted on 02/22/2016 12:39:41 PM PST by Cecily
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To: humblegunner

Any English-speaking American who claims THE ONLY language spoken at his house since the day he got married is Spanish, is a WIMP! Wimp is written all over him. Thank God he’s been knocked out of the race.


43 posted on 02/22/2016 12:39:58 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: jimbo123

Two words. Illegal immigration.


44 posted on 02/22/2016 12:40:27 PM PST by willk (everyone)
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To: jimbo123
There Are Many Theories

Do any of them include the fact he really sucked as a candidate?

45 posted on 02/22/2016 12:41:17 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: jimbo123

OUT DA BUSHS


46 posted on 02/22/2016 12:44:37 PM PST by kenmcg
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To: Phlap
Ross was the reason Clinton won.

If George HW Bush had not broken that Pledge, H.Ross Perot would never have been a factor.

It was on the basis of all the Anger George HW Bush generated amongst the Libertarians and Conservatives who realized what a Liar he was, that made Perot's rise possible.

47 posted on 02/22/2016 12:58:50 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: jimbo123

It is because the patriots and conservatives in America do not want to live under a “New World Iorder” and don’t want to vote for someone who would implement it.

Jeb Bush is the sick fruit of a sick tree. There is no difference between the Democrat and Republican parties and that is why both Democrats and Republicans are leaving the Uniparty of the Washington Cartel. That is why both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are doing so well against the establishment candidates like Hillery Clinton and Jeb Bush.


48 posted on 02/22/2016 1:06:09 PM PST by WMarshal (Who in the Republican Party will be brave enough to name Obama a traitor?)
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To: NKP_Vet
I just cringe at what manner of butt-chewing El Jebbe is getting from Senora Columbo. I feel bad for him.

"Pinche Puto Pendejo Estupido! Regresado Mental!
Idiota defectuoso, hijo discapacitado!
"

49 posted on 02/22/2016 1:19:51 PM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: humblegunner

You made my day humble. Talk about FUNNY!


50 posted on 02/22/2016 1:27:28 PM PST by Mountain Mary (We want the TROOF, the whole TROOF and nothing but the TROOF...)
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To: jimbo123

I’m left wondering just how stupid are the people in FLA to have voted him in as governor.


51 posted on 02/22/2016 1:33:09 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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52 posted on 02/22/2016 1:38:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: jimbo123

He said he could win without the Conservative base. That didn’t work so well, did it?


53 posted on 02/22/2016 1:56:14 PM PST by kalee
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To: kalee

It worked for Trump. Trump is simply taking the moderate McCain/Romney path to the nomination that Bush had in mind. Bush got out-RINOed.


54 posted on 02/22/2016 1:57:05 PM PST by JediJones (Trump 3/30/2011:"You have some great, productive [illegals] that came.You have to give them a path.")
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

And then Robot Rubio took his supporters.


55 posted on 02/22/2016 2:08:46 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: jimbo123

Ay Caramba


56 posted on 02/22/2016 2:42:18 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: humblegunner

Losers lose...that is what they do. Adios Yebbie!


57 posted on 02/22/2016 3:55:13 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

So you cut off your nose to spite your face and got Hillary and Bill as your just deserts.


58 posted on 02/22/2016 10:45:17 PM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Phlap
So you cut off your nose to spite your face and got Hillary and Bill as your just deserts.

Not me. I voted for that lying fool. Not only that, I volunteered to campaign for him and distribute literature throughout the precincts. I put up yard signs and so forth.

I'll never forgive that jackass for putting me in the position of having to support his lying @$$ and then still losing to Clinton the snake.

No, I backed George HW Bush harder than I had ever backed a candidate before, so *I* didn't cut off my nose to spite my face. You know who did? It was George HW Bush who did that.

All he had to do was tell the Democrats to go F*** themselves rather than agreeing to a tax increase, but Mr. Compromise decided to sell his future down the river along with his entire party.

It's because of people like George HW Bush that people think there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.

George HW Bush destroyed the Reagan legacy, and left his party in the Wilderness by horribly damaging it's brand.

59 posted on 02/23/2016 5:40:16 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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