Posted on 09/08/2015 6:14:06 AM PDT by jimbo123
From the get-go, we have thought that Jeb Bush is a weak candidate for the Republican nomination. We don’t know any conservatives or Republicans who support his candidacy. Not one. In a strong field he struggles to make an impression.
Even with my limited expectations, I question his adroitness. He made his inclination to sell out the Republican base clear even before he’d won a vote. Conventional wisdom has it that you’re not supposed to make that move until you secure the nomination. Jeb must have thought he had the thing in the bag. His appeal has remained limited to the Republican donor class and that has to be subject to expiration some time in the not too distant future.
In her most recent Wall Street Journal column Peggy Noonan puts it this way:
Six and nine months ago at various events people would cross the room and ask me, with some urgency, “Can Jeb win the nomination?” They were so hopeful. And they were all Democrats. They wanted an alternative to Hillary. I realized Jeb is a Democrat’s idea of what a Republican contender should be. Among Republicans of course he has some supporters, but the only really rabid pro-Jebbers I’ve met the past few months are former Bush 41 and 43 ambassadors who want back in the game. Of more immediate possible import, talks with Jeb donors suggest theirs was not passion money but canny financial bets placed when he was inevitable.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Jeb is a turd. Even the middle of the GOP is now seeing that.
¿Yeb? lost Noonan? Man, that is like LBJ’s Cronkite moment.
A year ago, Jeb famously said he didn’t need or want conservatives to win.
He thought he had the nomination all wrapped up.
A year later, he finds out he overestimated the extent to which he could win the GOP nomination without the support of the conservative base.
People remember how much he didn’t want to even court them and they’ve repaid his contempt for them in kind.
For Jeb’s current travails, he has no one to blame for his plight but himself. It was entirely self-inflicted.
NOTE: July 4 1986- The USS Iowa Carried President Ronald
Reagan for Liberty Weekend's International Naval Review in
the Hudson River.
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(BTW, not to be outdone, Jebbie will perform foreign "acts of love" at Chipotle's takeout counter.)
That’s what Yeb gets for listening to Karl Rove
I think Jeb looked around the country club, the board rooms where he was a director, the Chamber of Commerce fellow honorees and thought, “this is the Republican Party”, we can ignore the religious folks, the libertarians, the military vets, the cultural conservatives, the rural population, the small business men and women, the middle class. Not only ignore them but publicly disdain them which his father often did, except at election time in 1988; when he tried to recover with the base in 1992 after ignoring us for four years, it was too late and many of us went with Perot. What Jeb now finds he can’t ignore is that we are about 85 percent of the Party. Not one person I know who is a Republican views Jeb Bush favorably. But then again, I am not a pal of Thomas Donohue and the Chamber types.
She makes a good point — Millions of salary and consulting dollars flow to many of the same people who are the subject of half the posts on FR...never forget this is their source of income and they are anything but objective.
This tells you more about Noonan than Jeb. She still travels in Inside-the-Beltway Republicrat circles where they all talk about nonsense like this. She needs to retire.
I never followed Jeb’s political career. And so I only had a perception via the RINO media. He was supposed to be articulate, bright, and thoughtful. Yet he’s turned out to be a total doofus. The guy has zero political instincts, and is a horrid public speaker.
W had charisma and swagger. HW was a war hero. Jeb has nothing to fall back on.
Turn out the lights.
“he’s turned out to be a total doofus. The guy has zero political instincts, and is a horrid public speaker.”
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Jeb! reminds me a lot of John Kerry.
But it’s his turn!
Jeb is about as appealing as opening your front door to find a burning bag of dog crap, and his ideas emit a similar odor.
Accurate paragraph.
Peggy NoBrain has finally reached the right conclusion.
She will now start backing another GOP-e looser.
He was, after all, a member in good standing of the ruling class...
Do any conservatives support Peggy Noonan?
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