Posted on 02/08/2016 3:09:37 PM PST by Angels27
BEDFORD, New Hampshire—George W. Bush never really suffered for his sins. But his kid brother sure has. The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone. His campaign is a nine-figure boondoggle that suckered cronies from Greenwich and Dallas into investing in a can’t-miss-opportunity. That grating WASP aura of entitlement he wore melted nearly instantly with a choice piece of hectoring about his paucity of energy. Pundits took so much pleasure in Jeb Bush’s plummet that they couldn’t imagine it could ever be reversed.
With his few remaining breaths as a candidate, however, Bush may have a path out from his debacle, an actual shot at the nomination. For months, he tried and failed to crush Sen. Marco Rubio. But he wielded the hatchet like a man who would rather be sailing. What he needed was a wingman. Last night, Gov. Chris Christie, with his bully’s instinct for weakness, baited the golden boy into choking—thereby, relieving Bush of all the throbbing pressure to stage a miraculous New Hampshire comeback.
Nobody—not the media, not the GOP establishment—can now consider Rubio a fait accompli. Republicans can see the fear in Rubio’s eyes, and it has panicked them, confirming all their nagging anxieties. There was a reason that the party has resisted its urge to fully rally around the perfect paper candidate.
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Hopey-Changy.....................lol
Jeb must be getting tired of having to be pulled out of the toilet week after week.
GOPe; media; talking heads; all pushing for Bush, he’s a loser, he needs to go to Mexico and run for President there....WE DON”T WANT ANYMORE BUSHES!!!
And they have to use Slate to do it......
Poor Jeb will have to make do with a low 7 figure lobbying job in DC after 2016.
Argh, no! No Jeb! NO!
A Catholic can be an entitled WASP?
GOP-e still prefers Rube-o by large margins, among the voters it’s neck and neck between Trump and Cruz.
Rube-o’s idiocy at the last debate didn’t hurt him among conservatives (who already knew he was a lying POS), and he spoke exactly like a GOP-e wants their candidates to speak. ¿Yeb? comes off as unpolished and nervous, a vital sin to the GOP-e who require a nominal number of LIV conservatives to support their candidate.
I hope Jeb does well.
Well enough to split the Machine support for Rubio.
Carson slid down hill and now Rubio may go south. Jeb may do better tomorrow and slide down the hill afterwards. What will happen to Cruz tomorrow?
Funny how the next post is titled “Something has clicked for Jeb Bush in the last few days” in the Washington Post...following the pattern of this Slate article titled “the return of Jeb Bush” establishing the updated narrative suggesting Jeb still has a chance. Last week the narrative was “Rubio surges” .
I don’t think there are expectations on Cruz tomorrow — not his turf. South Carolina is his next big test, in my reckoning.
The Ministry Of Propaganda has to do its part to get the amnesty candidate that the RNC/GOP owe to the Cheap Labor Express
He is not a Bush....he is a Weed
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