Posted on 08/06/2015 4:01:00 AM PDT by cotton1706
Jeb Bush, the man who would be frontrunner, was as surprised as anybody when Donald Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential race in June. His instinctive first reaction was to hold his tongue, and his advisers agreed the best option was to keep his distance from an interloper who wanted to drag him into a reality-show shouting match.
Bush stayed strategically silent even when Trump delivered his infamous crack that some Mexican immigrants were “rapists.” It wasn’t easy, considering Bush speaks nearly flawless Spanish, backs comprehensive immigration reform and is married to the former Columba Garnica de Gallo of Leon, Mexico.
Like everyone else, Bush soon found Trump impossible to ignore. When Trump reposted a nasty tweet a couple of weeks after his contentious announcement speech— “Bush has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife”—the former Florida governor was forced to respond. “You can love your Mexican-American wife,” he told one interviewer before telling another that Trump was “preying on people’s fears.”
The half-dozen conservative senators and governors who had planned to run before Bush brought out his shock-and-awe fundraising campaign, had to laugh: They viewed Bush himself as an intruder, a political semi-retiree who sat on the sidelines for eight years while they fought Barack Obama. Now it was Bush’s turn to rage at an outsider.
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The lesson from that map is: if you haven’t hosted a national TV show and established yourself as a household name among the politically disinterested, don’t even bother running for President.
Don’t forget, Jebbie also wants transgenders in the military. FOAD Jebbie.
Seesh, the gracious Mrs. Bush doesn’t even know how to hold a purse.
“(He does have a nice looking HISPANIC wife)”
If it comes down to who has the best looking wife, Trump has Bush beat by several miles. Actually, there’s no contest, the same with the men and their political contest. Trump is so far ahead of Bush in the polls it’s a combination of enjoyable and funny the establishment boy is a loser.
“Is Jeb running for President of the USA, or Mexico”
I’m not sure he recognizes the distinction.
Do you know anyone who says they will vote for Jeb, besides possibly yourself? Where are all these Bush voters, nobody can find them?
Beware the delegate fix!
Even without my glasses...wow!
Drudge just put this article up as the main article, quoting where Bush uses some pretty bad name-calling.
Using a cuss word is one thing if you hit your finger with a hammer, name-calling is very negative.
The writer who surmises Bush has a center right campaign message tells me these folks are clueless.
Exactly Right!!!!
Trump is the John Wayne in this election....he is everything a successful entrepreneur in business is supposed to be, ridding into town sans Political Correctness. Yet Ms. Clinton gets away with utter lawlessness; Planned Parenthood is waaaaaay out of bounds in civility but Cecil the Lion is all but canonized; Obama sells the country down the drain with his deal so Iranians can continue to blow the legs off our soldiers. Good Lord people......look how the establishment trashes those who do well, LOVE THIS COUNTRY, have integrity, live by the golden rule as Cruz, Trump and a few others do.
haha that picture...
He hasn’t been a terrible candidate—his capacity to speak fluent Spanish has been a huge asset, and his June 15 announcement speech earned high marks from almost all his opponents, including one Clinton operative who called it “the best announcement anyone did.”
You know that you're in trouble when your opponents are praising your announcement speech. If they're not threatened, angry, worried or upset you're just fine by them.
Key sentence.
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