One good thing about Donald Trump's campaign: it's ruining Jeb Bush's

The Manchester Guardian ^ | September 12, 2015 | Trevor Timm

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bush’s poll numbers have dropped so low that it’s getting hard to call him a front runner with a straight face.

There are many, many reasons to abhor Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but there’s at least one reason to appreciate it, for now: his constant and merciless trolling of Jeb Bush that is currently tanking Bush’s shot at the presidency. In some sense, Trump is doing democracy a service by helping ensure we will not have to suffer the embarrassment of having a third Bush family member as president within two decades.

Trump’s penchant for insulting anyone in his path is now well-known (and often deplorable and sexist), though most candidates usually have to deliberately poke the bear for Trump to engage in his usual charade. But just about every day, Trump will go after Jeb unprompted – whether on Twitter or at campaign events or in interviews with journalists – with a voracity virtually never seen in primary politics. Oftentimes it’s substantive and other times it’s not, but it’s almost always delightful to watch.

Trump will attack Jeb for his support for the Iraq War, but if Bush lightly criticizes George W Bush, Trump questions why he would throw his brother under the bus. Trump attacks Jeb for his record in Florida, rips him for his $1.3m “no show job” at Lehman Brothers after he left the governorship. He calls Jeb out for being “100% CONTROLLED” by his wealthy donors, and when a few donors recently left Jeb’s campaign, Trump made fun of him for that too.

But it’s repetition of his now infamous and nebulous phrase – that Bush is a “low-energy guy” who could not handle the rigors of the presidency – that has become a daily occurrence and clearly gotten under Bush’s skin....

[ifinnegan]

Funny thing is leftist liberals hate Jeb and Romney as much as Ted Cruz or Palin.

They think Jeb is a right-wing conservative capitalist.

[Jonty30]

Unquestionably this is the one good thing.

[dfwgator]

And Jeb won’t get any more of the Hispanic vote than any other Republican. They may appreciate him speaking Spanish and all, that doesn’t mean they’ll pick him over the Rat candidate.

[apocalypto]

I agree. Are Jeb B’s followers now switching to B. Carson? They both love illegal aliens and are low energy.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If all Trump does is eliminate ¡Yeb!, he will have done a tremendous service to this country.

We cannot have any more Presidents unwilling to stand for the rule of law.

We desperately need a Presdient willing to stand for American sovereignty and the citizens.

¡Yeb! has shown his loyalty is to Mexico and Mexicans.

[biggredd1]

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/12/sowell-taking-in-refugees-fits-with-obamas-desire-to-redistribute-us-wealth-and-power/

[Catsrus]

I guess I’m a little tired of this meme - if all Trump does is take out Bush, destroy the GOPE, etc., etc, etc. If he doesn’t win - then who does that leave us with? I wish I had high hopes that Ted Cruz could fill that gap, but, I’m not sure. So, I ask - who does that leave us with? Another GOPE RINO is who. We need Trump to win this thing!

[samtheman]

I agree with you.

[Jane Long]

BTTT!

[RIghtwardHo]

And THAT is the one thing I like about Trump. But oh boy do I like it a lot.

[freedomfiter2]

Leftists hate Jeb because he belongs to a competing leftist criminal organization.

[RIghtwardHo]

Meh. They hate ‘em all. It’s what they do.

[broken_arrow1]

No doubt a good thing! To bad the rest of the GOPe isn’t getting the message. Squeeky bitch mitch or boner are confident doing nothing is the right strategy...

[Dr. Sivana]

And Jeb won’t get any more of the Hispanic vote than any other Republican.

Actually, he might. So might Rubio, for that matter. The Hispanic vote is NOT monolithic. For instance, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans often are quite different in their attitude and in their culture. This goes more for Cubans. There is also the under surface tension based on how much European blood is present (similar to the "High Yellow" tension among black people).

Trump will lose a lot of Latino votes because he makes broad, sweeping statements that are insulting, no matter how many asterisks and footnotes are placed at the end. So, he'll get 20% of the Hispanic vote instead of as much as 35%.

On the other hand, I think the polling showing 25% of the black vote is legit. In a strange way I think a lot of black people identify with Donald Trump. He lives like they picture themselves living with that kind of money. He lives large, loves being wealthy, "don't take no flack from nobody". This more than compensates for the loss of Hispanic votes.

Trump messes with all the numbers and makes it very hard for the numbers guys on both sides to figure out how to deal with him. He's cutting the apple from a different angle, one that there collective polling cannot yet account for, and won't be able to in time for the election.

I have been predicting a major party realignment for the last two decades now. The hippies have been over-represented for forty years now, with Obama representing the summit if that over-representation. Trump appears to be the catalyst that will cause a major reshuffling that will continue to play out over the next twenty years as the players get used to the new furniture arrangement.

No guarantees that the new arrangement will be any better than the old one. As of right now, smaller government does not seem to be in play . . . yet.

[uncitizen]

All progressives need to hear is “republican”. That word repells them. They really are the brain dead among us.

[chris37]

It looks to me like the GOP killed itself dead, and is so dumb it doesn’t even know it.

[Ge0ffrey]

Trump is Jeb Bush on steroids. Brother RINOs.

[ConservativeMind]

It most fits with 0bama’s desire to seed America with as many bad elements of the Middle East and Latin America as possible.

He wants to see chaos reign in the US, forever.

[mkjessup]

Give your head a shake pal. You have no idea of what you’re talking about.