Mommy Power!
Posted on 02/07/2016 1:08:02 PM PST by jimbo123
Why the goofy, patrician candidate is finally hitting his stride.
George W. Bush never really suffered for his sins. But his kid brother sure has. The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone. His campaign is a nine-figure boondoggle that suckered cronies from Greenwich and Dallas into investing in a can't-miss-opportunity. That grating WASP aura of entitlement he wore melted nearly instantly with a choice piece of hectoring about his paucity of energy. Pundits took so much pleasure in Jeb Bush's plummet that they couldn't imagine it could ever be reversed.
With his few remaining breaths as a candidate, however, Bush may have a path out from his debacle, an actual shot at the nomination.
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Thanks to Trump, Bush has a sense of mission. It's given him a psychic basis for believing in the moral purpose of his campaign, beyond a quixotic attempt to reclaim a family heirloom or to prove himself to his father. Judging from the chatter among reporters at the back of Jeb's events, the media wants nothing more than to proclaim his return from the dead. Against the odds, and despite his many months as a punch line, Bush has earned the right to rise.
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He must be carrying his magic turtles in his pockets.
Jeb will come back?
In the Left’s and the GOP establishment’s wet dreams.
If he finishes second in NH this coming week, I will be surprised.
In reality, no one wants him.
Hang it up, Jeb cheerleaders. Trump brought up that eminent domain situation for the Rangers baseball stadium. Either he didn’t know about that or didn’t care about the hypocrisy.
There are NONE on FR.
He’d make a great President - for Mexico.
Slate praising Jeb now but will be among the first to destroy him mere seconds after his nomination speech.
Whatever stride it was, it wasn't getting him to the desired destination.
Stride on Jebra...
Mommy Power!
Slate???
If Slate is saying good things about you and you are a republican, that’s like a death knell....
The only person who has endorsed him is Mom.
Is that all Jeb has got to show for being a doofus?
Slate likes him for endorsing illegal immigration and Common Core.
Jeb should be running as a Democrat.
He wouldn’t have a chance there either...Hillary would scare him to death....
Jeb seems like a nice man to me. But I get a strong feeling that if he were president he would be a puppet taking orders from the powers that be. I don’t think he is his own man.
Foer was the editor of The New Republic. I think he had to leave as the result of not vetting a story that mired the magazine in the Beauchamp controversy.
Bush started out to get elected without the base. Good luck, Don “Quixote”.
Bingo.
Yes.
:)
I almost feel sorry for him.
Almost.
I think they just want another Bush vs Clinton rematch.
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