Yebito might have done better had he ever bothered to learn English.
Jeb was always a mess waiting to be discovered. Trump did the commendable service of shining a light so the mess could be seen by all.
Trump is very skilled at flipping the script.
Low energy.
Trump is very efficient, the writer, not so much.
Two words.
The column writer wasted his time.
Is Yeb! out of the race yet?
In all honesty, Rubio killed Bush. That exchange during the second debate put the final nail in Bush’s coffin. Trump has been blaming Bush but he was already dead due to Rubio.
What’s a jeb bush?
Trump didn’t break Jebby. The vast majority of voters just don’t want Jeb. The voters are breaking Jebby.
Even though I disagree with Ruben Navarrette on some things, including this particular column he is in my opinion a good guy.
I wonder how or where he came up with the idea that JEB was the most friendly to Hispanics of the Republican candidates. Did he somehow miss Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio? Or does he think they are just not as appreciative of their heritage as JEB is to his wife’s heritage?
Definitely not Ruben Navarrette’s best column.
I’ve said it before: in the movies, in the news media, every where they could say it, everyone has stated that George W. was a eff-up and the family really didn’t want him to run for President, because it would be an embarrassment. In those stories, Jeb was supposed to be the “Presidential” one.
After seeing his performance so far, I’m wondering how this idiot won in Florida! Jeb is a complete dweeb and at times, he makes Carter look “Presidential”! And we KNOW that Carter was anything BUT!!!
The article gives Trump too much credit, IMHO.
Most People are fed up with the Bushes. Most of the GOP primary electorate either agree, or are smart enough to see it and know that Jeb would be a terrible candidate.
Trump isn’t pulling support from Bush. He’s pulling support from voters who would have otherwise supported Walker or Perry or Jindal, keeping them in contention. So the Trump effect is really the rapid winnowing of the GOP field down to four top contenders. Of which Jeb isn’t, and wouldn’t have been, one.
So he could win the Hispanics because he would be for amnesty? What about the white vote? How many will sit home when the superdelegates give the nomination to Jeb? I don’t trust the elites one minute.
Excellent analysis. Usually politicians never sit down and analyze what works, what doesn't and how to modify their campaigns to take advantage. Trump's not a politician, but a businessman who understands every advantage is important. Most real politicians aren't bright enough to grasp that type of strategy.
I've finally arrived at a plausible explanation for the GOPe obsession with "winning Hispanics".
And it goes beyond the wish for imported cheap labor and offshoring high-wage jobs, although that's part of it.
It's straight-up class warfare, patriotism be damned.
The GOPe is made up of globalists, "citizens of the world", if you will.
They will not survive the emergence of a patriot coalition that cuts across current party lines. So, they have targeted white working class and lower middle class Democrats for extinction (politically). They've made these people's issues (unions, labor standards, health care) anathema to the "conservative base", but, like any good 3-card monte dealer, while we are watching THAT hand they are busy collaborating with the anti-patriot faction in the Democratic Party, dealing away American sovereignty in exchange for access to Asian labor markets while agreeing in principle with ethnic replacement that the anti-white Democrats want.
Along comes Trump.
He's pulling 25% of the American black vote, and doing well among American white production and transportation workers.
Do you know what 25% of the black vote means in this context? Do you realize what going from 55% of the white vote to 60% or 65% means?
It means the Trump Party will never lose another election.
No one in what used to be the GOP has any need of "Hispanic votes" (except in local elections in certain areas). What the GOP needs, #1, is MORE WHITE VOTES. To crush the Democrats for good, they need 20%-25% of the American black vote, which will move on the low-wage job issue (their jobs being given to aliens).
However, the GOPe is not at all aligned with this as a concept. It is MORE IMPORTANT to the GOPe to destroy the white working class than it is to win their votes.
The issue for 2016 is not "Hispanics". The issue is whites.
And big, white Donald Trump is on the case.
Jeb is gone and soon baby Bush in Texas will be out.....both earned the right to be ridiculed.
Actually, Trump has been easy on him, he COULD be showing that Gif of Jebbie doing that ‘tip toe’ thing during the photo op in his ( Trump) campaign ads.
“Read my lips” did more damage to Bush than anything.
Add to that the fact that he did not actively campaign until about 2 weeks before the election. When asked about his late campaigning in an interview after his defeat, he said he was the incumbent so he didn’t feel he needed to campaign — until the polling numbers in mid October showed him losing.
The race was his to lose — and he did.
“Read my lips, no new taxes” had some impact
How does one break someone that has no spine?