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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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posted on
03/16/2016 7:02:48 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Poor fellow will have to get by on one of those low 7 figure DC lobbying jobs. But hey, it’s a living...
To: jimbo123
The $160-million dollar t-shirt. ;-)
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:04:30 PM PDT
by
r_barton
(I will not vote for any RINOcrat candidate - GO TRUMP!)
To: jimbo123
Nothing in the future will ever top his tippy-toes move.
He’s the complete and consummate idiot.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:05:13 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: r_barton
“The $160-million dollar T-shirt.”I’d think that he’d want two of those.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:07:09 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: jimbo123
You can add two gadgets to that list; The Segway,
The Google Camera Phone on the Head. Both items are very useful for limited applications and environments.
To: jimbo123
I disagree with the general premise of this piece.
Jeb Bush wasn't a "marketing flop" at all. His brand was so badly tainted that I find it hard to believe anyone really thought he was electable. With his last name, he would have had almost no chance of winning a presidential election even if he was the perfect candidate in every other way.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:08:32 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:12:08 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: Alberta's Child
With his last name, he would have had almost no chance of winning a presidential election even if he was the perfect candidate in every other way. That's why he tried to be just plain JEB! But it didn't work,
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:12:21 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Alberta's Child
I agree. I still see ‘Buck Fush’ bumper stickers on liberals’ cars. The Bush name is toxic.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:13:15 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
To: jimbo123
I respectfully disagree.
The Edsel and New Coke were actually good products that suffered from marketing failure
Jeb Bush was just a crappy product that tons if money spent on slick marketing could not save
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:15:52 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:17:32 PM PDT
by
r_barton
(I will not vote for any RINOcrat candidate - GO TRUMP!)
To: Alberta's Child
My Pet Rock could get more votes than Jeb!
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:17:47 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: jimbo123
I think his +$100mm wasted money exceeds both New Coke and the Edsel.
To: jimbo123
New Coke was never intended to be permanent. It was a strategic hiatus to switch from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup without anyone noticing.
To: jimbo123
His father, George Honus Wagner Bush.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:25:53 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Rebelbase
I noticed.
Also, when I was in Saudi, the coke had real sugar.
I bought it by the case.
To: jimbo123
The Jeb fiasco just highlights how stupid the soon-to-be-departed GOP-e thinks we are.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:31:37 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: r_barton
If we are lucky, these campaigns are draining the far left (both Republican and Democrat) of cash to do much in November.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:32:30 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: jimbo123
Jeb Bush joins the Ford Edsel and New Coke as historic marketing flops
I wouldn't be too sure. He remarked early on in his campaign that losing in the primaries was no big deal as he would win in the general. The fix was in back then. IMHO it is still in. They are just deciding as to how to implement it at GOPe.
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posted on
03/16/2016 7:32:36 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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