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Jeb Bush joins the Ford Edsel and New Coke as historic marketing flops
NY Daily News ^ | 3/16/16 | PAUL FRIEDERICHSEN

Posted on 03/16/2016 7:02:48 PM PDT by jimbo123

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To: tbw2

In Michigan Clinton spent a fortune, she was running ads 3 weeks before the primary, more than 10-1 of all the other candidates, and Bernie still beat her.


21 posted on 03/16/2016 7:38:56 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Leave my gluten alone hands off)
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22 posted on 03/16/2016 7:41:58 PM PDT by kevcol
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Absurd that anyone thought Jeb ever had a chance. I guess it’s a testament to how out of touch the media/political elites are from the voters. The 12 years of Bush presidencies were a huge disappointment to conservatives. The Bushes dismantled the Reagan revolution. The presumptuousness of Jeb and his supporters was the stuff of comedy. And the funny thing is, they still don’t get it.


23 posted on 03/16/2016 7:47:19 PM PDT by vekzen
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To: Alberta's Child

Exactly. It was ludicrous from the very beginning. America is NOT going to elect three presidents from the same family, no matter what family it is. This was a complete fail right off the bat and I’m stunned so many of those big money people invested in it. Dullards.


24 posted on 03/16/2016 7:52:40 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hyprocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

In most of the world you can get Coke made with sugar. In Germany, if you want diet, you can get it with cyclamate.

Around here, in the groceries that serve large numbers of non-natural born citizens, you can have a choice of Pepsi, Dr Pepper, or Mountain Dew made with real sugar for the same price as the HFCS products, or pay a stiff premium for Mexican Cokes.

Seems to be a decided lack of intelligence in Atlanta these days. And has been since they had that Cuban president.

(See how I tied an apparent thread hijack back into the political story?)


25 posted on 03/16/2016 7:58:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: jimbo123
What a coincidence. They said the Edsel looked like a big vajayjay, too:


26 posted on 03/16/2016 8:00:27 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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'Where's Jeb?'

27 posted on 03/16/2016 8:06:13 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: jimbo123

Jeb Bush is a person, he’s not a product and it is stupid to compare him to one. Coke was and is pretty much perfect, so why you’d mess with that no one will even know. As for the Edsel I don’t know anything about it besides what I just read here, but if you’re making a “dream car for the middle class” reliability needs to be part of that mix.


28 posted on 03/16/2016 8:13:27 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jimbo123

Marco Rubio will be up there, too.


29 posted on 03/16/2016 8:33:23 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: PLMerite; All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbJmjMl26iE


30 posted on 03/16/2016 9:03:29 PM PDT by mkjessup (Ted Cruz - what a colossal and tragic disappointment. "Cruz is lozin' it" - JimRob - exact quote.)
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Mexican Cokes and Pepsi with sugar are available at my Safeway for about twice what the corn syrup version sells for. I gladly pay it because they are so much better. I cannot say why, but there is huge difference, so much so that I will not drink a corn syrup soft drink anymore. They just make me feel bad afterward.


31 posted on 03/16/2016 9:41:50 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Don Corleone
I don't see that scenario unfolding. What's the point of nominating a guy who is already pegged as a complete loser?

Jeb may have believed that early on in the campaign when he thought he'd get a sizeable number of delegates and stay in the race until the very end, but there's no way that guy is going to be the nominee after his miserable showing in the early primaries. You don't nominate a candidate who gets less than 10% of the votes in his own political party despite (or because of) a high degree of name recognition.

32 posted on 03/17/2016 2:35:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: vekzen
The presumptuousness of Jeb and his supporters was the stuff of comedy. And the funny thing is, they still don’t get it.

The Tippy-Toes move sealed the deal for me. In the back of my mind I kept asking if I was missing something about this candidate that others saw.

And then he pulled that middle school prank of raising himself up on his toes to appear taller then the others. The Height of immaturity.

33 posted on 03/17/2016 4:13:11 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Make a new Declaration of Dependence on our constitution.)
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To: jimbo123

He looks stoned.


34 posted on 03/17/2016 4:35:06 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: r_barton

I saw a Jeb ! T-shirt at a thrift store for .99¢ . I thought about buying it to use as a workout shirt but didn’t .


35 posted on 03/17/2016 4:48:33 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: PUGACHEV
Mexican Cokes and Pepsi with sugar are available at my Safeway for about twice what the corn syrup version sells for. I gladly pay it because they are so much better. I cannot say why, but there is huge difference, so much so that I will not drink a corn syrup soft drink anymore.

Sweet Pete on The Profit says you MUST use cane not beet sugar when making caramel.

36 posted on 03/17/2016 5:21:48 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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