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How Jeb Bush became afterthought in the GOP race
Christian Science Monitor ^
| 1/8/16
| Peter Grier
Posted on 01/08/2016 3:15:53 PM PST by jimbo123
Jeb Bush is at 3.3 percent in the polls. Ever since summer, he's been on a steady, slow slide.
Jeb Bush is fast becoming an afterthought in the GOP race - George Pataki with money. It's possible he can still win the nomination, because almost anything seems possible in The Election Cycle of Trump, 2016. But it's highly unlikely. It would require the Hail Mary pass of the century - a 100-yard strike that splits the uprights, bounces off three defenders, and sticks in a receiver's face mask for the winning score.
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once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less. That must be a painful experience.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bencarson; deportjebbush; designateloser; election2016; fail; florida; gope; jebbush; marcorubio
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:15:54 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
“How Jeb Bush became afterthought in the GOP race”
A: Trump
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:17:34 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: jimbo123
Yheb! insisted that he didn’t need nor want The Base. Genius, he is.
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:18:41 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: jimbo123
Easy, people don’t like oligarchs.
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:18:54 PM PST
by
Shadow44
To: jimbo123
BECAME an afterthought? He started out as an afterthought. The only people who ever had him as a real “player” where the Beltway and media types. He never had any traction with voters. Never.
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:18:57 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Paladin2
Yes, that was the very
first political news story of the current election cycle; how he was going to win without the base.
How is that workin' out for ya, Jebito?
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:29:28 PM PST
by
Company Man
(Keep Calm and Carry)
To: jimbo123
We’ve already had two Bushes too many. No more Bushes!! Beat the Bushes!!
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:35:48 PM PST
by
euram
To: jimbo123
once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less. That must be a painful experience.
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:37:58 PM PST
by
Maceman
To: jimbo123
Jeb became irrelevant when he said he could win the nomination without the base.
See ya, sucka!
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:02:03 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
To: Shadow44
....or candidates who won’t stop talking about wetbacks.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:06:26 PM PST
by
relictele
(Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
To: Shadow44
People don’t like oligarchs,especially feckless ones.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:07:26 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:08:52 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Trump/Cruz 2016 - could happen)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:31:41 PM PST
by
Hugin
("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
To: jimbo123
He is currently leading the Republican pack...according to the common core math which he still firmly espouses.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:32:03 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Hewck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: jimbo123
once the campaign started, and Bush began making appearances and running ads and doing everything candidates are supposed to do, real voters liked him less and less. That must be a painful experience.
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Just like Hellary.
They both would get more votes, if they would just shut up and stay out of sight.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:53:10 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: Paladin2
Yheb! insisted that he didnât need nor want The Base. Genius, he is.
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Plus, how could he be so stupid as to think campaigning in Spanish would help him? (Rhetorical question.)
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:55:15 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: jimbo123
To: euram
Weve already had two Bushes too many. No more Bushes!! Beat the Bushes!!
Reagans only blunder, keeping Bush in 1984.
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posted on
01/08/2016 5:06:03 PM PST
by
samtheman
(Elect Trump, Build Wall.)
To: Graybeard58
He went all in on amnasty apparently planning that that and other panders would add up to a majority (of something).
The Architect, Tokyo Rove, had apparently designed up some cobbled together, rickety structure to be built on no foundation.....
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posted on
01/08/2016 7:06:11 PM PST
by
Paladin2
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