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Jeb Bush is really bad at running for president: An examination
Salon ^ | 9/2/15 | JACK MIRKINSON

Posted on 09/02/2015 2:38:10 PM PDT by jimbo123

There’s been a startling development in the 2016 campaign over the last day or so: Jeb Bush is trying to display what you and I might call “an emotion.”

The former governor of Florida had clearly planned to do without the pesky things during his run for the presidency, but that was before Donald Trump came in and messed everything up. Trump saw a big target on Bush’s back and has been shooting arrows into it remorselessly, so Bush has decided to lead an angry, forceful counterattack.

Never mind that “Jeb Bush on the attack” does not exactly bring to mind Henry V at Agincourt. The man is trying. His main method is to point out that Trump has been all over the map ideologically. He’s released a video full of clips where Trump says he’s from (gasp!) New York and praises Hillary Clinton. He’s put a “quiz” on his website where he asks you if you’d rather have a super-cool dude who hates Iran and stuff as president or someone who loves abortions and “is a germophobe when it comes to shaking hands.” (If you couldn’t guess, Trump hates shaking hands. Jeb Bush wants you to know that he will shake your hand so much that it detaches from your wrist if you ask him to.) And Jeb’s got yet another video of himself telling Sean Hannity—subtle, Jeb, real subtle—how right-wing he is.

But Bush isn’t just going after Trump on the digital front. He’s also having something of a raging public breakdown about his rival. Take this jaw-dropper of a kicker from a story in Wednesday’s New York Times:

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deportjebbush; designatedloser
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Bad news for Jeb. Liberals are mocking him now, not just Conservatives.
1 posted on 09/02/2015 2:38:10 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Maybe if he would campaign in English?


2 posted on 09/02/2015 2:39:30 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: jimbo123

Maybe if he would campaign in English?


3 posted on 09/02/2015 2:39:30 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Campaigning in English is too hard for Jeb.


4 posted on 09/02/2015 2:40:24 PM PDT by jimbo123
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He seems to be pretty bad at everything he does...


5 posted on 09/02/2015 2:40:48 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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Jeb Bushleague would be really bad at BEING President.


6 posted on 09/02/2015 2:40:56 PM PDT by GunsareOK
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To: jimbo123

True, he is low energy.


7 posted on 09/02/2015 2:41:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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That also applied to McCain and Romney.

I see a pattern developing...


8 posted on 09/02/2015 2:43:35 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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Fredo Bush has been exposed.


9 posted on 09/02/2015 2:44:14 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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The little secret no one remembers is he was bad at running for governor, too. He just benefited from the Bush brand riding high at the time. Now, he has to fight against a brand that has tanked and he doesn’t have the chops.


10 posted on 09/02/2015 2:45:00 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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oh my a quote - Donald Trump shuffles out there like a fascist, Vegas-era Frank Sinatra and runs rings around him.
Then suggests jebbie take a therapist with him. Lolol.. The left can be so much badder than the right.......


11 posted on 09/02/2015 2:48:01 PM PDT by libbylu
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recommend NYT link, warms my heart.


12 posted on 09/02/2015 2:48:41 PM PDT by libbylu
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Hebbie should just take Columba and move back to Meh-Hee-Co where he won’t have to worry about American citizens who want a president who will enforce our laws.


13 posted on 09/02/2015 2:49:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: jimbo123; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ...

I don’t think he’d do all that good a job of being President.


14 posted on 09/02/2015 2:53:14 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Iron Munro

jebBlue!


15 posted on 09/02/2015 3:00:28 PM PDT by RightGuy
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To: LongWayHome

That’s an apt simile. He *IS* FRedo.


16 posted on 09/02/2015 3:02:25 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Spañol será la lengua oficial.

17 posted on 09/02/2015 3:02:51 PM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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Don’t you just love the way Trump gives these people enough rope and they hang themselves???

I have been doing a lot of watching not only with the candidates but with the talking heads and msm’s and people on here, and there is one thing that stands out:

Donald.Trump.Is.Driving.Idiots.Crazy!!!

Jebby is going to have a serious break down in a few weeks, he’s not made for these type of politics, and neither are the others (excluding Cruz and Carson)...

Politics are to be run differently, the talking heads, msm’s and the GOPee says this is who we are to elect and by damn that’s who you vote for, and here comes Trump and upends the whole apple cart....

Saturday when he was in North Carolina, he hasn’t been really heard of, bits and pieces, but he hasn’t been full face like he was, and everybody is going insane...

Then he puts out a tid bit here and a tid bit there and everybody goes 180 over it...

I can’t get enough of this, I just sit back and laugh and read some more....I hope the rest of you are enjoying this as much as I am....


18 posted on 09/02/2015 3:03:21 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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Jeb’s biggest mistake is hiring incompetent staff. The most important job of a president is hiring staff. So we see the incompetence of his staff who seem to be in it for the quick money and conclude Jeb would make an incompetent president.


19 posted on 09/02/2015 3:03:47 PM PDT by spintreebob
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there's an emotion for ya, FUD!!!

20 posted on 09/02/2015 3:05:26 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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