What Jeb's Donors Could Have Bought for $103M

Roll Call ^ | 1/18/16 | Patricia Murphy

[jimbo123]

The spectacular bust of Jeb Bush's campaign for president so far is as much a story about Bush himself as it is about the failure of Right to Rise, the shock-and-awe super PAC that was supposed to launch him into the lead and keep him there.

Right to Rise raised $103 million in 2015 and has spent more than $65 million so far. But nine months after he got into the race, Bush has collapsed from first to a tie for worst and is now polling at less than 5 percent nationally.

There's no nice way to say this, and I'll take it back if he wins, but Bush's super PAC donors just wasted $103 million. It's only made more mind-boggling by what all of that money could have paid for instead, including the sorts of things his family has always worked for. For $103 million, the donors could have:

Bought 20 million children's books for the Barbara Bush Foundation.

Sent 22,421 4-year-olds to preschool for a year.

Covered a year's tuition for 10,624 students to go to college.

Paid for a year of anti-retroviral drug treatment for 719,424 children in Africa. Read it again - 719,424 children.

[EternalVigilance]

I saw that yesterday. I live in Iowa, so I’m waiting for mine to show up in the mailbox. I think I’ll use it to queue up “Hit the road, Jack.”

[Red Badger]

What Jeb's Donors Could Have Bought for $103M

51 million Power Ball tickets?........................

[KC_Conspirator]

I wish it were so. But losing buffoons such as Mike Murphy get hired over and over again in the Beltway.