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How Donald Trump Broke Jeb Bush
Daily Beast ^ | 11/30/15 | Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Posted on 11/30/2015 5:19:18 AM PST by jimbo123

Jeb was supposed to be the guy who could win the election because he could win Hispanics. And then Trump turned that asset into an albatross.

In jujutsu, one uses an opponent's weight against him. And, in the version most often seen in politics, a candidate turns his opponent's strength into a weakness. In political jujutu, assets can become liabilities.

In 1992, Bill Clinton faced off against George H.W. Bush. The latter had been a Congressman, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, special envoy to China, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Vice President of the United States. By contrast, Clinton was governor of the 32nd largest state-Arkansas.

If that election had boiled down to resumes, Bush would have walked off with it. But the Clinton War Room created a new narrative that revolved around youth, energy, fresh ideas. They made Bush's experience a liability instead of an asset.

Now, in 2015, Donald Trump has employed the same strategy against Jeb Bush, and quite effectively at that. In most polls, Bush seems cemented in fifth place-behind Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; deportjebbush; elections; rovepuffpiece; teamromney; trump; whiningrinos
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To: FrankR
poetic but tragic comparison to Terry's slow death that Jebby orchestrated
21 posted on 11/30/2015 6:34:40 AM PST by Kozy
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The GOPee is still scheming to drag Yheb! across the finish line.


22 posted on 11/30/2015 6:38:05 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: jimbo123
They made Bush's experience a liability instead of an asset.

Excellent analysis. Usually politicians never sit down and analyze what works, what doesn't and how to modify their campaigns to take advantage. Trump's not a politician, but a businessman who understands every advantage is important. Most real politicians aren't bright enough to grasp that type of strategy.

23 posted on 11/30/2015 6:44:44 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ( Kill 'em all, Let GOD sort 'em out!)
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To: jimbo123
Jeb was supposed to be the guy who could win the election because he could win Hispanics

I've finally arrived at a plausible explanation for the GOPe obsession with "winning Hispanics".

And it goes beyond the wish for imported cheap labor and offshoring high-wage jobs, although that's part of it.

It's straight-up class warfare, patriotism be damned.

The GOPe is made up of globalists, "citizens of the world", if you will.

They will not survive the emergence of a patriot coalition that cuts across current party lines. So, they have targeted white working class and lower middle class Democrats for extinction (politically). They've made these people's issues (unions, labor standards, health care) anathema to the "conservative base", but, like any good 3-card monte dealer, while we are watching THAT hand they are busy collaborating with the anti-patriot faction in the Democratic Party, dealing away American sovereignty in exchange for access to Asian labor markets while agreeing in principle with ethnic replacement that the anti-white Democrats want.

Along comes Trump.

He's pulling 25% of the American black vote, and doing well among American white production and transportation workers.

Do you know what 25% of the black vote means in this context? Do you realize what going from 55% of the white vote to 60% or 65% means?

It means the Trump Party will never lose another election.

No one in what used to be the GOP has any need of "Hispanic votes" (except in local elections in certain areas). What the GOP needs, #1, is MORE WHITE VOTES. To crush the Democrats for good, they need 20%-25% of the American black vote, which will move on the low-wage job issue (their jobs being given to aliens).

However, the GOPe is not at all aligned with this as a concept. It is MORE IMPORTANT to the GOPe to destroy the white working class than it is to win their votes.

The issue for 2016 is not "Hispanics". The issue is whites.

And big, white Donald Trump is on the case.

24 posted on 11/30/2015 6:51:39 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: jimbo123

Jeb is gone and soon baby Bush in Texas will be out.....both earned the right to be ridiculed.


25 posted on 11/30/2015 6:52:22 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: DaveA37

Jebbie is “toast” when Barbara says so.


26 posted on 11/30/2015 7:13:28 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: rrrod

What makes you think Texas Republicans will vote out George P. in a 2018 primary, when they embraced him fully in 2014?


27 posted on 11/30/2015 7:14:16 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: jimbo123

Actually, Trump has been easy on him, he COULD be showing that Gif of Jebbie doing that ‘tip toe’ thing during the photo op in his ( Trump) campaign ads.


28 posted on 11/30/2015 7:49:29 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: jimbo123

“Read my lips” did more damage to Bush than anything.

Add to that the fact that he did not actively campaign until about 2 weeks before the election. When asked about his late campaigning in an interview after his defeat, he said he was the incumbent so he didn’t feel he needed to campaign — until the polling numbers in mid October showed him losing.

The race was his to lose — and he did.


29 posted on 11/30/2015 8:09:14 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: napscoordinator

Bush killed Bush.

Giving speeches in Spanish and advocating for MORE Syrian refugees to be brought in? How tone-deaf can you possibly be?

Not to mention, his last name is BUSH.


30 posted on 11/30/2015 8:28:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jimbo123

“Read my lips, no new taxes” had some impact


31 posted on 11/30/2015 9:21:43 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Balding_Eagle

You think he may sneak in with a brokered convention?


32 posted on 11/30/2015 7:53:09 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: ExTxMarine

Dubya had charisma. Jeb doesn’t.


33 posted on 11/30/2015 7:58:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: jimbo123

How does one break someone that has no spine?


34 posted on 11/30/2015 8:30:54 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Jack Hydrazine

They would if they could.

The landslide is going to be so enormous that even the thought of trying to slip Bush in at the last moment will cause them to quake in their boots and run for the restrooms.

For reasons going on in my personal life, I pretty much missed the RR revolution entirely.

I am so happy to be alive to see this, a fight by a man worthy of the fame usually attributed to the mythical Greek gods, slaying dragons as he swaggers down the hill.


35 posted on 12/01/2015 11:13:29 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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