Posted on 02/21/2016 8:28:36 PM PST by jimbo123
Jeb Bush launched his presidential campaign's exploratory committee on December 16, 2014, the presumptive Republican nominee. He ended his campaign on February 20, 2016, a broken man.
Bush's campaign (and the pro-Jeb super PAC Right to Rise) spent over $100 million on his campaign. He won no states. And for the last several months, he's been in the news mostly for all the wrong reasons: desperate donors, misspent money, jokes-that-aren't-really jokes. He's been a loser for almost as long as he was a presumptive winner.
The slow, torturous twilight of Jeb's campaign offers a couple of lessons. For one thing, it throws the political skills of his brother George W. Bush into sharp relief: W. might have gotten flak for being "dumb," but seeing what happens to someone with all the same advantages makes it clear how much of W.'s success was his own. For another thing, it's a reminder that (for all the problems associated with money in politics) it's extremely hard to buy a presidential campaign.
But if Jeb's campaign was born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it ended screaming in its high chair with strained peaches all over the floor. Yes, Jeb was bullied relentlessly by Donald Trump. But the consistent ineptitude of Jeb's own allies, and his own dogged, hopeful, pathetic awkwardness, were truly what did him in in his campaign. When he finally, mercifully dropped out Saturday night, you could almost hear the collective sigh: Poor Jeb.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
They could have purchased an opinion from me for one mil, and I would have sincerely told them what was what, and they could have saved 99 mil....but noooo,
No, he's not a good man.
LOL
I LOVE LOVE LOVE guacamole humor!
BWHAHA!! You’re my kind o’ FReeper!!
“One is the loneliest number...”
Every good sitcom needs a “goofball neighbor” role for comedic effect. Think of Norton on the Honeymooners. Jeb played that role in Campaign 2016.
You know I feel badly for Jeb, hear me out before you roast me.
He was better unscripted, on the fly and far more personal candidate and politician than his brother. His CNN town hall made me say out loud, George could never pull this off as well.
He wasn’t as gaffe prone, didn’t come up with more random Bushisms as his brother or his father.
He seemed to take a lot of the things dumped on him publicly, from the internet and likely in person far better than ANY of us could. I truly do mean that part.
Sadly, it was the family name that was hung like a millstone around his neck that did him in. It was the face palm notion from the party and the country of yet another Bush.
Frankly, he may have been very good at the job. Would he ever have been my primary candidate? No. Would I have voted for him in November? Unfortunately after Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney... ugh, glad I don’t have to admit that I would. But....
I never thought his heart was in this race. I never got a sense of excitement from him, a sense of passion or any kind of sincerity. It was like a bunch of people came to him, threw $150 mil in some bank somewhere and said “Hey, you wanna be President?” Ummm, okay, I don’t have anything else to do after 8 years of not being governor.
Truly, I think I could sit and have a beer, or in his case... well... a case (I mean he does have the time.) with him and have a good time doing so.
However it just seemed that no one told the dynasty that to the primary voters “NO MEANS NO!” when it comes to voting for another Bush.
It’s sad really but I cry only for the man, not the party and not the country.
>>But Jeb is a good man.
Is he?
This suggests otherwise:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/worse-mafia/
It drives me nuts to think this clown, and many like him, are mega- millionaires that are running the country.
If his last name wasn't "Bush" he'd be an unknown middle manager somewhere.
But if you're in the "in crowd", you can do no wrong.
Over the course of my working life, I've had the pleasure of working with some of the most competent, hard working, passionate, and brilliant people anywhere.
They are the ones that should be running for high office. But nope, we have fools like the Bush family.
Very sad indeed.
Somebody snagged a hundred million buckadingdongs out of the deal, though. I'm in the wrong business.
There’s something obscene about how we (a) attribute to Jeb Bush the sins of his brother and father; (b) gloat over his personal humiliation and sadness; and (c) join forces with the far-left publication Vox in kicking him when he’s down.
(Co-founder of Vox: Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos.)
It’s so sad, that I’m not going to read this thread. The saddest thing of all is, all that money went to the media filth...and mercenary consultants.
How about the time where he went to a veterans group that had invited him for breakfast, but refused to eat the bacon and eggs he was served?
I can’t tell you much about Jeb, I never got past his immigration stance. I guess I am not alone.
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