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 ...
Then the Pope tangled with Donald Trump and got into Holy Guacamole. ;-)
President Trump should make Jeb the Tzar of Obamacare.
Then he can end Obamacare and tell Jeb, “You’re Fired!” ;-)
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
GUAC——AMOLE!
You go on and on and completely miss the obvious reason American voters would never elect Jeb as President. The idea of THREE Bush Presidents, for Godsake, was completely ridiculous from the start.
I’m still STUNNED that he had so many donors. The very concept, from the outset, was absurd.
Good man. That is arguable. Good men don’t promote allowing illegal immigrants access to their country when they have no loyalty or any desire to assimilate.
Yuck.
I'll show you a loser - any POS like this who kicks a man when he's down.
Correct. And let’s not forget the medal he gave to Hillary.
You’re right....
His lack of a conscience probably doesn’t bother him...but he is being held accountable politically now....and he will be held accountable before the Lord.
....we remember
Those of us in Florida especially remember.....it was brutal!
Yes, vote for a man who is captive to his wife Columba. “No Es la verdad”
Well Jeb kicked Terri, a young woman, right into the grave.
She wanted to live...
her parents wanted her to live...they wanted responsibility of her.
Her cheating husband didn’t want her to live.....( he was abusive)
Jeb agreed denying her food And water was a good idea.
The people of Florida kept vigil on this death watch.....it was all in the papers.
The very next minute he told his voters that he didn't need them and didn't want them.
He must have had pollsters testing the issues waters. When he found out what was important to people he told the sample they were idiots, but everyone has a right to Jeb's own opinion...on everything.
When you place that alongside McConnell, Boehner, Ryan, Priebus, etal explaining with actions, rather than just words, that anyone who followed Bush really is an idiot...well...the campaign was a SNL skit that lasted way too long.
Jeb Bush/s flop means New World Order and Big Government Republicanism are also in steep decline...... yet another indication the party is returning to the federalism of Ronald Reagan, to American conservatism.
A neocon periodical recently called Trumpism a "virus" b/c he questioned the Iraq War and said GWB "lied" ....
Bush is dead but the neoocons never say die. Let/s understand that neocons are political whores....they will get in bed w/ pols of any persuasion in order to achieve their own self-serving ends. Keep in mind these people do NOTHING that is in the best interests of the US....they have their own self-serving agenda.
Let's go back to the nauseating beginning: the political buzz was GWB met w/ neocons BEFORE his election; the deal was to invade Iraq and also included a catbird seat for the pukeneos in the WH Office of Special Ops (created just for the pukes, financed by US taxpayers).
Colin Powell asserts in his new book...."there would have been no Iraq war" had then-Pres GWB and his councilors (neocons) understood that Hussein did not possess any functioning unconventional weapons. Powell lauded the fact that under Bush we got rid of the horrific Hussein government and toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan....."
Which just goes to show neocons FORGOT to advise GWB about the fervid Mideast mindset. Its thousand-year-old sectarian internecine warfare was kept in check by strongmen like Saddam and Khadafi. Now these savages are marauding all over Europe.....and are coming here to kill us for what we did in Iraq.
POINTS TO PONDER
<><> Powell never mentions the conniving Mideast types calculated the advantage of having a superpower in their midst....and they cashed in bigtime.
<><> The US gamely decided to train the indigenous population....it cost us billions and we managed to train 4-5, or so, over five years.
<><> In the US we take them off the farm, send them to boot camp, and in 3 weeks we got battle-ready soldiers.
<><> The Bank of Kabul where the CIA and DOD deposited billions to finance the war was a withdrawal-only goldmine for insiders.
<><> For public consumption, GWB was prompted to say we went into Iraq to introduce them to the advantages of democracy and to get all warm and cuddly as they embraced it.
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Remember this Colin? The war profiteering was outrageous. Neocon godfather Richard Perle relaxing in Paris (above the fray---nowhere near his cohorts plotting in the WH Office of Special Ops) got so rich w/ insider info, he was reported to be starting his own oil company.
<><> One last thing, Colin.....neocons duped GWB into believing the Iraq strike would cost $50-60 billion. Then an angry Bush fired advisor Larry Lindsey because Lindsay dared to say the war might cost more like $100 billion.
That was in 2007 dollars.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY Iraq and Afghanistan today have cost the US some $3 TRILLION....and rivers of young blood. We/re still pouring US tax dollars into those decrepit Mideast countries, and..... as Donald says....the US got NOTHING in return.
BTW, look who controls most of the Iraqui oil fields today.
Could THIS be what the calculating neocons are after (/snix)?
“BTW, look who controls most of the Iraqui oil fields today.
Could THIS be what the calculating neocons are after (/snix)?”
First off your pic is 2 years old, not “today”. Secondly your snide-assed comment about NeoCons being after Iraq’s oil is as offensive as it is wrong. It’s a disgusting comment on the efforts of Western military forces to deal with Iraqi Ba’athist extremists, aka Saddam’s Ba’athist party, aka Al Qaeda in Iraq, aka ISIS. It is the same group of Iraqi militant Sunnis the West has been dealing with since 1991.
Securing Iraq’s oil fields and production facilities has always been a priority of Western military operations since oil revenue is the country’s main source of income. Without oil revenue Iraq cannot function. It cannot pay its bills. It has nothing to do with “NeoCons” or the West being “after” Iraq’s oil. That’s just slanderous.
Take your “NeoCon” political accusations to DU and Code Pink ahole.
Agreed. I remember it all very well.
"everybody who's a democrat raise your hand"
{ Jeb raises hand }
"The government's gonna pay for it" -- (D)onald Trump
[The Trump Tapes: Vol. 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
“Jeb Bush launched his presidential campaign’s exploratory committee on December 16, 2014”
Did his exploratory committee sink after it was launched? Maybe they got lost during their first expedition.
Good grief. Any exploratory committee worth its salt would have quickly discovered that there was no desire on the part of the voting public to see another Bush in the White House, ever again.
The Bush strategy was not based on Republican votes.
It depended on a very even primary split (ie no Trump domination) and a cakewalk Dem race for Hillary.
Dems would cross over to elect the softest target for Nov.
Trump and Burney were “disruptors” as they say these days.
“Sadly, it was the family name that was hung like a millstone around his neck that did him in.”
Jeb would be an unknown person, uninvolved in politics, were it not for the fact of his being born into the Bush clan. The name worked against him, but it was also his ticket into the ruling class.
What really killed Jeb’s campaign was his dull, milquetoast personality. He was always too much of a dullard to win.
That’s the thing, isn’t it?
Bush and his backers never had anything more than a carefully crafted strategy to get him into the White House. By all appearances, they even knew there was no visible voter support for electing him, but they figured they held so much control over the process, they could force his election anyway.
It’s why El Stupido went out on the stump and said he’d win without the base.
The utter gall and arrogance of these people is breathtaking. Thank God Donald Trump stepped in and decimated their attempt to steal the process from the American people.
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