Posted on 02/18/2016 6:54:05 AM PST by jimbo123
For Jeb Bush, the crushing phone call came Wednesday afternoon.
It was Nikki Haley, South Carolina's wildly popular governor and Republican Party darling. She had decided to endorse a candidate ahead of Saturday's GOP presidential primary.
Not Bush - even though his brother, former President George W. Bush, paid her a deferential visit Monday. Instead, Haley backed Jeb Bush's fiercest primary rival, Marco Rubio.
Moments later, Bush was due at a campaign event at the Summerville Country Club, northwest of Charleston. He showed up in shirtsleeves, no tie - and, now that he's realized they aged him, no glasses - and grabbed the microphone, uttering not one word of the Haley news.
But Bush was suddenly edgy, speaking with new urgency three days before the "first in the South" primary that helped seal his father's and brother's nominations - but where Bush is battling for third or fourth place.
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Haley is wildly popular?
The urgency should be negotiating a close of all the campaign leaseholds.
...another one bites the dust...
Is that lying shill who used the Tea Party to get into office then promptly betrayed them, Nikki Haley, really “wildly popular” in South Carolina?
I don’t see why anyone who actually wants to win would want anything to do with Nikki Haley.
My thought exactly. Haley is a tea party fraud and not well liked there.
If Haley is wildly popular, the good old Southern pride concept is dead.
Stop being spastic and get back to catchin' frogs jeb.
She’s wildly popular with the national GOP, perhaps, but not so much with SC. To her credit, however, she and her team did respond well to the October, 2015 thousand-year flooding.
“Damn. Without my glasses, I can’t see them clapping and I must be going deaf because I don’t hear them either.”
“Sir, no one showed up. There’s no one in the room.”
“What? Well, you’re wrong. I’m here.”
“Like I said, there’s no one in the room.”
“Et tu, Bru-tay?”
“Et tu, Yeb.”
Lol! This is amusing.
After Nikki’s incredibly out of touch, speech at the SOFU, what did jeb believe would happen?
As I see it, Nikki has probably seen a glimpse, or even a glimmer, of the fact that she is damaged goods and that her standing among her constituents is diminished, by her incredible speech at the SOTU, even though it was clearly vetted and endorsed by the RNC and the GOPe, who are also way out of touch,
Another such mistake would probably end her career and backing 1% Bush would be a stunning mistake.
Now Rubio isn’t going to prevail either but the wind is clearly blowing against jeb and the GOPe is ready to abandon it’s support for jeb.
Nikki is simply bowing to the wind and could be considered an outlier in this regard
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