Who does that remind you of?
Posted on 08/04/2015 5:27:46 AM PDT by jimbo123
Wonkish and mealy-mouthed, Jeb needs to start riling up his supporters—before Donald Trump wins them all over.
To hear Jeb Bush tell it, he’s right where he wants to be, the “joyful tortoise” in the race who doesn’t want to say “outrageous things that turns people off to the conservative message.” At the Koch Brothers’ GOP donor convocation in Dana Point, Calif., over the weekend, Bush waxed confident about the campaign strategy he’s following, including the $120 million war chest he’s spent six months amassing. “I mean, this is a long haul,” Bush said.
But many GOP voters don’t seem to care about the long haul. And they’re certainly not looking for a joyful tortoise. They want a fire-breathing dragon. They want, above all, passion. They want it now. And they’re not finding it in Jeb Bush.
Enter Donald Trump. Strategists in the Bush camp seem unconcerned about the vituperative magnate’s sudden rise in the polls, with one of them telling The New York Times that in the end the Trump surge will only create “panic” in the GOP and drive voters to Bush.
That seems wishful thinking at best. The ease with which Trump has stepped into the passion vacuum in the Republican race points up a bigger problem for Jeb: The only excitement generated by his Bush candidacy so far seems manufactured, much like the exclamation point at the end of his Jeb! logo. Given what a commanding lead he has built in money and organization, it’s striking how Bush’s poll numbers have been flat or declining. In New Hampshire, where Bush’s pragmatic and moderate conservatism was supposed to play well, he had 21 percent support in early June, but only 12 percent in a poll taken July 28. In Iowa, he is closer to the middle
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who could get along well with the turtle in the Senate. LOL.
Gosh darn it all, Poppy said it was my turn !
[That’s how utterly stupid the Bush advisers are.]
Jeb is,by far, more stupid than his advisers, at the close of the FORUM, he thanked the moderator for being invited to the DEBATE.
Uh Jebbie, just what other candidate did you debate because I must have missed that part.
Who does that remind you of?
[All Hail the Dauphin, Jeb the Inevitable!]
He claims to have lost forty pounds to get tuned up for his run, what he didn’t tell us was he lost that weight digging that hole he’s in.
Jeb vs. Hillary would be a third party candidate’s dream.
The idiot’s just like his father. His handlers tell him to appear joyful, and he announces to everyone that he’s going to appear joyful.
The “Little Jebbie” posters aren’t helping his cause. LOL
That’s hilarious. It’s the thought of another establishment nominee that’s created the Trump surge.
Jeb needs to buy a ranch next to his brother, and ride off into the sunset. Go live happily ever after, enjoy life, and don’t further embarrass his family.
Stay out da Booshies. The ‘Rat enablers can ESAD.
Bush was so bad in that NH forum last night. He’s unhinged.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3313069/posts?page=22#22
I’d sooner vote for Dukakis.
¡Yeb! is the worst Democrat in an R jersey yet foisted on GOP voters.
Hillary would be the lesser evil.
Who would have an easier time getting amnesty through Congress?
I do not want the USA turned into North Mexico.
Aggh, “stealing”!...
No. He’s not that masculine.
Why by the counterfeit when you can have the real thing?
And what about Linseed Graham?
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/08/03/lindsey-graham-invokes-bill-clinton-sex-scandal-in-nh-forum
“I’m fluent in Clinton-speak. You want me to translate that? When he says, Bill says, ‘I didn’t have sex with that woman,’ he did,” Graham said,”
That must be Linda’s Trump impression. What a rapier wit.
Baggy suits, mannequin-like poses. Frozen smiles. No one picking his nose though. Did these guys all arrive together on a short yellow bus? :^)
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