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We've Been Waiting for the Jeb (!) Collapse All Along. Here It Comes.
esquire.com ^ | 2/17/16 | Charles P. Pierce

Posted on 02/18/2016 3:40:30 AM PST by cotton1706

Long ago, I read an interview with the late New Orleans piano titan Professor Longhair. He casually mentioned that he'd served in World War II. The interviewer was surprised. This tidbit never had been mentioned in any piece ever written about 'Fess. So, the interviewer asked, where did you serve?

I served behind enemy lines, 'Fess told him.

But where, the interviewer insisted.

Shreveport, 'Fess replied.

So, anyway, I'm in South Carolina.

Specifically, I'm here, on the banks of Lake Murray, in a funky little town where, if you're particularly alert, you might see a camel standing stolidly in a field, surrounded on all sides by sheep. Not far from the camel, there's an empty warehouse and the sign out front says that it's AVAILABLE in giant white letters. This unremarkable place may well be the spot at which the involvement of the Bush family in our politics comes to an unremarkable end. Right around noon on Wednesday, word came down that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley would come to this empty warehouse in Chapin to give her formal endorsement to Young Marco Rubio's presidential campaign.

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I couldn't be more giddy. GOOD RIDDANCE to this completely worthless aristocrat!!

The Great Moderate Hope, the latest "stick it to conservatives!" candidate, will soon be no more!!

1 posted on 02/18/2016 3:40:30 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706; Lakeshark

Edmund and Lakeshark done been tellin y’all this for months PING


2 posted on 02/18/2016 3:46:02 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: cotton1706

I would like to simply ask him (along with the other Republican candidates) about what he thinks about people who simply want to stay home and not bother going to work and are content to keep on watching television and collecting welfare benefits and food stamps. This is an important reason why the cheap Mexican labour keeps coming into the United States.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 3:46:40 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: cotton1706

The GOP against the people and it looks like the people are winning! We voted them in to stop the parasitic regime and its impostor and they gave us the finger and played golf with him. Ahhhhh the smell of napalm in the morning


4 posted on 02/18/2016 3:49:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: cotton1706

The author is either a liberal, or merely not enamored of Republicans. But he can really write.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 3:54:06 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: cotton1706

How can you collapse when you were never in it?


6 posted on 02/18/2016 3:56:25 AM PST by pas
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To: cotton1706

Did he expect another even more moderate (having evolved as he did) Bush would result in a better country than the first two Bushes handed us?


7 posted on 02/18/2016 4:00:31 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: cotton1706

Now Bush gets to test his theory that he can win without the GOP base.


8 posted on 02/18/2016 4:06:20 AM PST by monocle
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To: OttawaFreeper

If a dem is elected I’m buying a case of cordivan shoe polish.


9 posted on 02/18/2016 4:11:13 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cotton1706

...Rubio is the new, fresh face that the national media is desperately trying to keep viable in the hopes that nobody notices that Young Marco is a big bag of feathers.


That’s pretty funny, right there.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 4:11:43 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: pas
How can you collapse when you were never in it?

It's a collapse because the media says so. Has nothing to do with reality.

11 posted on 02/18/2016 4:11:53 AM PST by IncPen (There is not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: cotton1706

Charles P. Pierce
Condescending little twerp sure doesn’t seem happy to be in southern flyover country, does he?


12 posted on 02/18/2016 4:15:56 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: Tupelo

I used to live in Shreveport. It isn’t “behind enemy lines” at all.


13 posted on 02/18/2016 4:17:08 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: cotton1706
The Cheap Labor Express and the NWO's horse went lame. Too bad.


14 posted on 02/18/2016 4:21:28 AM PST by central_va
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Jeb, Your learning what we already know GOP Establishment when Nikki stabbed you in the back

She already has done the same to the good of South Carolina

15 posted on 02/18/2016 4:24:45 AM PST by scooby321
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To: cotton1706

Collapse? How can something that didn’t have a chance to begin with collapse?


16 posted on 02/18/2016 4:28:18 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Tallguy

Major liberal - a real a-hole.


17 posted on 02/18/2016 4:39:55 AM PST by Andy'smom (How many more acts of love can we take?)
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To: al_c

Jeb moving to Mexico will be his act of love.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 4:40:00 AM PST by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: cotton1706
another decent man and candidate beaten to a pulp for what?....we didn't like his moderate stance..we didn't like that he was rich...didn't like what his name was....

we're supposed to be keeping our eye on the tiger and that is beating the rats but instead, we're destroying our own people.....

congratulations on doing NOTHING....

19 posted on 02/18/2016 4:43:30 AM PST by cherry
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To: cherry

Oh Cherry don’t cry because politics is war without bullets. It isn’t civil all the time, nor should it be. Maybe we should repeal the 19th amendment and you can go back to knitting. < /reality >


20 posted on 02/18/2016 4:48:30 AM PST by central_va
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