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The Courtship of Jeb! Bush
Washington Post ^ | 3/10/16 | Alexandra Petri

Posted on 03/10/2016 7:39:27 AM PST by jimbo123

John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are all visiting with Jeb! Bush in Miami before Thursday night’s debate, presumably to secure his endorsement. This sounds like the best possible setting for a very weird revival of “The Lion in Winter” or “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” or even “King Lear.” With a tip of the hat to Emmett Rensin’s “Trump in Winter,” and without further ado …

(Lights up on Jeb! Bush, seated majestically in an armchair. Enter Kasich, Rubio and Cruz.)

Bush: All right. Grovel.

(Everyone starts to speak at once. Bush holds up a hand to quiet them.)

Bush: No. You’ll do as I say now. You jump when I say jump. You sit when I say sit. You shut up when I say shut up. Or you can kiss the exclamation point goodbye. Marco. John. (sighs) Geoffrey.

Cruz: (mutters) My name is Ted.

Bush: No, Ted. Today, your name is Geoffrey.

Cruz: Sir, I was always rooting for you.

Bush: Could you be any more oleaginous, Geoffrey?

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cruz; deportjebbush; kasich; rubio
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1 posted on 03/10/2016 7:39:27 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Ah, the court jesters appear before the king to gain his favor...


2 posted on 03/10/2016 7:40:32 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: jimbo123

Jeb’s endorsement will cost votes instead of gaining them.


3 posted on 03/10/2016 7:44:04 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: jimbo123

They are not wanting to visit the unqualified, unwarranted king of nothing and despair; they are visiting to connect with the sources of all that money he had in tow.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 7:45:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: jimbo123
Trump against the evil world of open borders pimps like the BUSHCO thugs/pimps!


5 posted on 03/10/2016 7:47:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Become a monthly donor to Free Republic and eliminate Freepathons!)
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To: jimbo123

Jeb Bush...who’s that?

Why is the Washington Compost still even talking about him?


6 posted on 03/10/2016 7:48:37 AM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Gaffer

Does he have any bags of money left? I thought the fool and his money were soon parted?


7 posted on 03/10/2016 7:48:39 AM PST by georgiegirl
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Jeb surely doesn’t have any money. But the fools who gave him that much before sure the hell do!


8 posted on 03/10/2016 7:50:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Grampa Dave

You are missing Mark da liar Levin. He is so obsessed with supporting Canuckruz, he deserves spot on the top.


9 posted on 03/10/2016 7:55:03 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Gaffer

How much of that “Bush money” comes without the Bush cabal pulling puppet strings?


10 posted on 03/10/2016 7:56:21 AM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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To: jimbo123
But these are the only true conservatives. They are the only ones with conservative values. Only Jeb! and the MSM can give someone permission to be a conservative.
11 posted on 03/10/2016 7:56:39 AM PST by detective
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To: ManHunter

Trying to get Yeb’s left over campaign money.


12 posted on 03/10/2016 7:56:58 AM PST by Parmy (I)
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To: Leo Carpathian

I need to add his photo in large living color at the end.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 7:59:09 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Become a monthly donor to Free Republic and eliminate Freepathons!)
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To: TheConservativeBanker

Actually, NONE of it.

I am a big, big Supernatural acolyte. There is always the meme about “putting your most prized possessions in a tin box an burying them at the crossing of two lonely country roads” To make a deal with a Demon.

This, in my opinion, is EXACTLY that.

Robert Heinlein wrote “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” (an utterly enjoyable book, BTW”.....in it there is the saying “TINSTAAFL” or later, “TANSTAAFL” - “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”


14 posted on 03/10/2016 8:01:27 AM PST by Gaffer
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John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz visiting with Jeb! Bush sounds
like “The Lion in Winter” ...“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” or “King Lear.”

Sounds to me like "Shaking The Money Tree."

15 posted on 03/10/2016 8:09:25 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: jimbo123

Awww to belong to the Bush Clinton Crime Families Dynasty such as Cruz is now...to be waited on hand and foot, but only if you promise this:

To pass CFR; TTP; TPA, to bow down to us whenever and where ever we are in all situations, to kiss our rings every morning and every night...awww yessss, this is the life style of the ‘establishment Cruz’ life now...


16 posted on 03/10/2016 8:11:45 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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Ted: (an outburst) Try seeing me, Father! I haven’t Marco’s oratory, but he’s now tanking in the polls, not I! I haven’t John’s I don’t know what — God knows what you can see in John — and he’s betrayed you, too. There’s only me.

Bush: (sighs heavily) You think I’d ever make you king?

Ted: You’ll make me king because I’m all you’ve got!

Kasich: Hey, I’m here, too!


LOL!


17 posted on 03/10/2016 8:12:31 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Tipped their hand yesterday by putting Neil “Silverardo” Bush in charge of Ted!’s finance team.

The Texans have struck out twice with Perry who just isn’t smart enough. They rode the Jeb! train til even Mom and Brother George coudln’t keep it going any longer, and now they’ve turned to Brother Neil and lining up to Kiss the Ring.

You want more Bushes? Vote for Cruz. This is only the beginning...


18 posted on 03/10/2016 8:16:14 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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Gawd Ted, do not go looking for the kiss of death.


19 posted on 03/10/2016 8:19:35 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Cruz or Trump will defeat the uniparty!)
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To: jimbo123

This might be the strangest election of our collective lifetimes...


20 posted on 03/10/2016 8:27:58 AM PST by GOPJ (Republican elites have turned into " race-baiting bigots" - feeding on mob mentality.)
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