Posted on 02/28/2015 1:30:50 PM PST by cotton1706
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Perhaps in fear that he didn’t have enough backers willing to show up on their own, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign organized to bus supporters to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to cheer during his appearance on stage and vote for him in the straw poll.
The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin writes that Bush brought people in from Washington, D.C.: “Mr. Bush’s supporters organized caravans of his Washington backers to attend his speech, and they cheered whenever anyone else booed,” Martin wrote.
Those same bused in cheerers also will likely be expected by Bush’s campaign to vote for him in the famed straw poll.
Betsy Woodruff at the liberal outlet Slate also obtained emails that prove Bush’s team was busing in supporters from K Street.
“Emails provided to Slate show that backers of the former Florida governor are busing supporters from downtown Washington D.C. to CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland, and organizing to get them day passes into the event,” Woodruff wrote.
One person behind the effort to bus in Bush backers, Woodruff confirmed, was former George W. Bush advance man Fritz Brogan. “A Bush insider confirmed to Slate that Bush’s Right to Rise PAC is helping organize the transportation,” Woodruff wrote.
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Jeb needs to hire people to like him because no one in their right mind would actually support him. He is a liberal period!! Whenever I see his face I remember the face of Terri Schiavo, who Jeb had no problem letting her die..so what does Jeb do, he buses in people who cheer him, reminds me of Obama who buses in supporters for his rallies. They get paid between 10-15 bucks an hour to do it
There is ZIP ZILCH NADA difference between him and Hillary.
Liberals will come out in groves to vote for him because they know that if he gets the nomination, Hillary is a shoe in to win..heck I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeb Bush picked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate
And even if Jeb wins, what's the difference?
I’m basing that on the previous two election cycles. McCain was as popular as poison ivy in June 2007 and had no money. Yet he had the nomination sewn up by March.
Romney was the author of the precursor of the hated Obamacare and had taken all positions on all issues at one time or another and was less popular than McCain. Yet again, by March of 2012, he’s the nominee.
I’ll check back with you in 2016. I’ve been reading here for many years and you are one of the freepers whose comments I enjoy and respect. Hope some day you will be able to say the same.
Did you get Zotted and come back with another name and email address?
Agreed. His tactic is leftist-progressive and he is NOT to be trusted. Jeb McBush is NOT our man. He’s THEIRS.
Meant to point out that the reason McCain was as popular as poison ivy was he had just tried to push amnesty through TWICE.
The last 4 election cycles we have had a choice between amnesty candidate D and amnesty candidate R.
The GOP is not going to allow us to elect a President who will stop the invasion.
We have to think outside the box we have been put in by the parties if we are to save the Republic.
Hillary and Jeb both look like flabby aging lesbians.
No. New to commenting, been a lurker reading for many years.
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Jeb is just following precedent. Loser McCain bussed his flying monkeys into the halls of CPAC in Feb 2008 to pronounce his premature nominee status.
What a punk counterfeiter. This is the same shenanigan that Ron Paul and Mit Romney people used to win the CPAC straw vote.
I just saw it on Fox.
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That’s pretty pathetic, Jeb is somewhere thinking “Damn, I should have paid off more people I would have won”
USA is For Sale...taking earnest money today for influence tomorrow....$$$$$$.
Yeah.
McCain probably advised him: ‘Tell them you’ll build the damn fence, if that is what they want. If you win, you can then tell them to go such eggs.’
Just in from Fox:
Congressman Rand Paul won with 25.7 percent of the vote.
Governor Scott Walker, second 21.4 percent of the vote.
Senator Ted Cruz, third with 11.5 percent of the vote.
Ben Carson, fourth with 11.4 of the vote.
Governor Jeb Bush, fifth with 8.3 percent of the vote.
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