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Jeb Bush’s falling star
Boston Globe ^ | 12/9/15 | Joan Vennochi

Posted on 12/10/2015 5:03:46 AM PST by jimbo123

Jeb Bush was talking Social Security in a room filled with retired people. And in case you forgot, his claim to fame - besides the family name - is that he really likes that policy stuff.

"You heard that expression, 'I feel like a pig in slop? ... In the South, that's a compliment," said the former Florida governor as he wrapped up remarks at an AARP-sponsored summit at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Unfortunately for Bush, the 2016 Republican primary process is all about a kind of slop he doesn't like and seems ill-equipped to handle. For now, Donald Trump - a candidate who is anything but thoughtful - is hijacking a race that the smart money believed was Bush's to dominate.

On Tuesday - as Trump's deliberately outrageous pronouncement that Muslims should be banned from America led the news - the smart money couldn't have looked any dumber.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


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1 posted on 12/10/2015 5:03:46 AM PST by jimbo123
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Jeb’s slow and painful decline is karma visiting him from the ghost of Terry Schiavo.


2 posted on 12/10/2015 5:07:30 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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Not surprising that AARP supports Jeb Bush. They were kissy kissy with Obama because they have turned to the left and the government machine totally. They are a for profit organization and casts their support to anything that gives them power.


3 posted on 12/10/2015 5:07:45 AM PST by richardtavor
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Jeb Bush’s falling star

Ah, so THAT'S the meteor that the tinfoilers were talking about back in September - they just got the dates wrong...

4 posted on 12/10/2015 5:11:49 AM PST by Old Sarge
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is hijacking a race that the smart money believed was Bush's to dominate

Thus showing that the "smart money" was not all that smart.

Liberal elites R or D really don't have a clue as to what our concerns are. Like that rigid Marxist piece of filth in the white hut. They think they know better than us what's good for us. What they really know is waht's better for them. Well Jebbie boy here's a nationwide act of love for your criminal amnesty program. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

5 posted on 12/10/2015 5:12:10 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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“fallen”? Like crash and burn, baby.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 5:15:37 AM PST by AndyJackson
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I’m betting that “smart money” isn’t so eager to write checks to Jeb’s campaign these days. His campaign will end when the money does and that can’t be too far off, probably after New Hampshire.


7 posted on 12/10/2015 5:16:09 AM PST by circlecity
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Thus showing that the "smart money" was not all that smart.

Yeah, I had to laugh when I read the phrase "smart money."

8 posted on 12/10/2015 5:17:31 AM PST by IndyTiger
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Donald Trump - a candidate who is anything but thoughtful

Yeah right...just keep telling yourself that.

9 posted on 12/10/2015 5:18:22 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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AARP.
here’s the first problem.


10 posted on 12/10/2015 5:19:46 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Why are Trump’s comments awful but Hollande closing mosques, bombing Syria and clearing out apts. in no-go areas, not? Color me confused. Between self-hating Americans and anti-Americans in Europe, I’ve about had it.


11 posted on 12/10/2015 5:20:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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Yes, yes it is.


12 posted on 12/10/2015 5:20:36 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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I have been doing some research and low and behold there are some things that are very interesting about the Bush family...CIA; MENA; CLINTON BUSH TIES; GHWB’s mistress; Jeb and his drug dealings in college, his girl friend, how he met and married his wife who he didn’t want her to become a citizen of the U.S. how Barbara had problems with depression when she found out about her husbands mistress; how involved GHWB was involved with LBJ...the list goes on...a lot of things I knew, a lot of things I didn’t know...not the type of family we once thought they were...GWB pretty upright guy....


13 posted on 12/10/2015 5:28:50 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (TRUMP SUPPORTER 100% from day ONE!!!)
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Is Little Jebbie polling at 1% yet? Will he then get the hint that maybe he needs to apply for the local dog catcher position?


14 posted on 12/10/2015 5:30:42 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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“Jeb Bush was talking Social Security in a room filled with retired people.”

If it was, and they were awake, we’d see the photos.

“You heard that expression, ‘I feel like a pig in slop? . . . In the South, that’s a compliment,”

Awkward as always. You’ll never get it right, but then your whole clan is a bunch of carpetbaggers.


15 posted on 12/10/2015 5:33:06 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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Jeb => The perfect VP candidate for Hillary


16 posted on 12/10/2015 5:34:59 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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Your only at the threshold. Check out the criminal records of Yeb’s entire immediate family - each one - and his job resume. W is the very best of the bunch by far, and he was inadequate. History may show him as the last POTUS who could have turned American decline around, and instead he listed to Rove and the sand wars lobby, while instituting the Department of Domestic Surveillance and Control.


17 posted on 12/10/2015 5:39:10 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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It could happen.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 5:40:00 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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He is at 3 percent in yesterday’s CBS poll. He was at 7 in their mid-OCT poll.


19 posted on 12/10/2015 5:42:26 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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20 posted on 12/10/2015 5:42:57 AM PST by tsowellfan
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