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 ...
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Bush did what he could do. The Florida Supreme Court ruled against him. You might have wanted him to take the law into his own hands and disobey the courts, but that’s not something a governor sworn to obey the laws is obligated to do.
Someone had bumped this thread, and it got me laughing again.
Love the guaca!
I have laughed until I have cried!
I thought nothing could lift my spirits more than guacamole humor, but this might just beat it!
I love the strategically placed airhorns and "Jeb is a mess!"
This is must-see TV!
BTTT!
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