Posted on 07/13/2015 10:32:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush ought to be running away with the Republican nomination. He isn't, and his persona as a national candidate looks increasingly — how shall I put this? — Romneyesque.
Bush is supposed to be the safe, establishment-approved choice, which is where the Republican Party usually turns. He and his allied super PAC have raised a phenomenal $114 million thus far. The hot mess that is Donald Trump ought to be sending GOP primary voters toward Bush's column in droves. But the scion-in-waiting hasn't yet consolidated the establishment's support.
Instead, Bush made news for announcing an economic strategy that sounded straight from the Mitt Romney playbook. He told the New Hampshire Union Leader that "people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families."
Simple as that, beleaguered American middle-class proles. You're slacking.
The echo of Romney's infamous "47 percent" remark was unmistakable. Bush seemed to blame those struggling in these unsettled economic times for their own predicament. Coming from a man who was born into great wealth and privilege, it was tone-deaf to say the least.
Politically, Bush's pronouncement was the equivalent of a hanging curveball over the fat part of the plate. Hillary Clinton couldn't have missed it if she tried....
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You noticed that, eh? You have to admit, my proposal solves some social problems. If the community can tolerate it, train well, with discipline, and mobilize, deploy, and fight effectively then what that militia unit will accept is up to them. Of course the “old way” of evaluating these things would have to go. I saw a guy from a DC guard unit that had been “ready to go” for 5 years when Desert Storm II kicked of that was just south of 300 lbs. obviously all of his evaluations were false.
Being paid for the rolladex? (Old-fashioned term, I know!)
Wat?
I got to train “sub-standard” Airmen as a secondary duty in the USAF. Some wanted/appreciated the help, the others were completely useless.
He’s the “establishment choice” candidate so the idea that he’s not running away with it - even though TPTB have coronated him - frustrates all of those “in the know”.
It’s like they were living in a cave during his brother’s entire administration. The Bush brand is in the dumper....
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