Posted on 09/04/2015 9:35:11 AM PDT by jimbo123
How much longer can Jeb Bush maintain that strained smile?
He promised to wage a "joyful" campaign for president, but anybody can see these are not joyous days on the campaign trail for Florida's former governor. Bush's taught smile-smirk looked positively painful Thursday on Good Morning America.
"He's also called you 'low energy.' A 'stiff.' Says you're 'a joke on immigration.' 'The last thing we need is another Bush.' Why do you think he's out to get you?," George Stephanopoulos asked the no-longer presumed Republican frontrunner about Donald Trump.
Bush has started punching back — "Trump is trying to insult his way into the presidency," he told Stephanopoulos — but this is not the role he expected to play in the primary. It's not one he is accustomed to, and, so far, not one he's especially good at.
People who have closely watched Jeb Bush's political career can't help but see the parallel to Bush's only other tough campaign: 1994, when he lost to Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles.
"It's been 20 years since Jeb Bush has been punched in the nose, and that was by Lawton Chiles," said former legislator Dan Gelber, a Miami Democrat.
"I think he looks so uncomfortable because he's not used to this. He's not used to being on the business end of a bully. When you're the son and brother of a president, when your grandfather was a U.S. senator, nobody is bullying you in grade school. Nobody was bullying him at Andover. He's never had a boss pick on him," Gelber said. "The first guy to pick on him was Lawton Chiles, and now it's Donald Trump."
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Poor itto baby being picked on. Boo Hoo.
St. Pete Times is THE most liberal/progressive newspaper in Florida. So, defending Jeb is right in their wheel house!
I have been saying it from the start that the media knows that Trump is a liberal and they will do their best to make this a Trump vs Jeb race.
It’s a lose-lose for everyone else who isn’t liberal.
Jebito needed to stop speaking Spanish over English at every opportunity. He’s toast.
Jeb should just step down, and go back into retirement.
He should have never came out. America, left and right, are tired of the Bush’s, Clinton’s and Obama.
Many do not care if Trump is a liberal. He “said” he is going to build a wall and that’s all they needed to hear to ignore his long list of liberal positions.
This Adam C Smith is only the latest one to have his strawberries stolen
Every other day Trump gives Jebbie a wedgie and takes his lunch money. LOL!
Is the “machine” gonna be able to keep this guy in the race and not look the fool or will they bail on him when the finally understand he was even over his head in Florida?
I don’t want to elect a President that will give Hillary a liberty medal and no illegal immigration is NOT an act of “love”. Trump with all his flaws at least isn’t a submissive male.
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'Taught' (who taught him?). Or is it 'taut' as in tense? Dumb editors?
Not A Submissive Male? Neither was Joseph Atalin nor Mao Tse Dung
What a great campaign slogan!!!
Not A Submissive Male!!!
Jeb Bush IS fighting back with all he’s got... (that’s telling...)
And Adam C Smith? He wouldn’t vote for Jeb if Jeb was the only person on the ballot. Committed democrat elites don’t vote for Republicans... Maybe he wants a food fight ... who knows. But I know this - his ‘concern’ is NOT for our party.
Awwww..... Big meanie gives El Hebb-ay a sadz.
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