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Can Jeb Bush Make a Comeback?
Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/1/16 | Joseph Rago

Posted on 01/02/2016 6:48:50 AM PST by jimbo123

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As for Mr. Trump, Mr. Bush unloads. "The people following and covering the campaigns? The cable shows? They're obsessed with Trump, and all they care about is what effect this disparaging remark will have on the campaign-it's all about nothing. It changes with each week. He's Pavlov and they're the dog, basically. I've never seen anything quite like it.

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Mr. Rago is a member of the Journal editorial board.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chamberofamnesty; chamberofcommerce; cheaplaborlobby; deportjebbush; designatedloser; gope; jeb; jebbush; rnc
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Mr. Rago is a member of the Journal editorial board.
1 posted on 01/02/2016 6:48:50 AM PST by jimbo123
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Comeback implies he actually was somewhere


2 posted on 01/02/2016 6:49:53 AM PST by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: jimbo123

The fact that they are even talking about this shows that the GOPe and ‘rats haven’t given up on their boy - yet. Sigh...


3 posted on 01/02/2016 6:51:28 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: csmusaret

:0) I had to laugh about that!


4 posted on 01/02/2016 6:52:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: jimbo123

In a word, NO.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 6:52:44 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: jimbo123

Come back from where? Zilchville?


6 posted on 01/02/2016 6:53:09 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: jimbo123

How much is Jeb paying to keep his name in the news?


7 posted on 01/02/2016 6:53:45 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: jimbo123

no


8 posted on 01/02/2016 6:55:11 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: ThunderSleeps

The GOPe haven’t given up on awarding Jeb the nomination at a Rove-Priebus-Chamber of Commerce brokered-convention.

Both the NY Times and Wall Street Journal were pimping “Jeb’s comeback” in yesterday’s editions so the marching orders are still in force.


9 posted on 01/02/2016 6:56:15 AM PST by jimbo123
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‘Mommy, Donald is bein’ mean to me again. He’s more popular. Make him stop, Mommy. Make him play nice.’

from Jeb {without ! }


10 posted on 01/02/2016 6:56:56 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: jimbo123

His handlers have spent a lot of time/effort/money - I predict they are suffering buyers’ remorse and hope they see the error of their ways....perhaps 4 years of Cruz or Trump will help them see the light.


11 posted on 01/02/2016 6:57:05 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: jimbo123

Jeb thinks he’s a ball team?


12 posted on 01/02/2016 6:57:24 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Cowboy Bob

Right to Rise paid Fox News $6 million in advertising to keep Jeb in the news and prop him up.

Pro-Jeb Bush super PAC drops $6 million on Fox News ads

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/11/09/pro-jeb-bush-super-pac-drops-6-million-on-fox-news-ads/


13 posted on 01/02/2016 6:57:59 AM PST by jimbo123
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The truth is Jeb was never a good campaigner. His runs for FL governor were as lackluster and awkward as what we see now. The difference is that then he was buoyed up as the son of a President and the brother of another both of whom were still popular. The Bush brand has tarnished substantially since then and Jeb’s always weak campaign skills, formerly helped by the Bush brand, are now fatally handicapped by it. No one wants what poor salesman Jeb is selling.


14 posted on 01/02/2016 6:58:56 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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The Cheap Labor Express still expects the RNC to produce an amnesty candidate.

They’ve paid millions to prevent us from electing anyone who would stop them.

Yeb! seems confident that “something” is going to stop a guy who has 4-5 times the numbers in polls that he does

He’s either delusonal or he knows something we don’t


15 posted on 01/02/2016 7:00:07 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jimbo123

Maybe Jebbie and Barbara can go to Cleveland at the convention and announce a “hostile takeover” of the party to return it to its “moderate” roots, and the delegates will simply meekly comply. George F. Will can demand to be heard and make the case for Jebbie.


16 posted on 01/02/2016 7:00:51 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Excellent analysis.


17 posted on 01/02/2016 7:01:22 AM PST by usafa92 (Conservative in Jersey)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Right now, Bill Cosby stands a better chance of making a comeback.

Jeb Bush has not become merely damaged goods, he is condemned to wander over scorched earth and probably radioactivity, less ready for prime time than even Richard Nixon in 1962.

At his “last” press conference in November of 1962, Nixon declared (”You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more.”)

History, of course, proved different.


18 posted on 01/02/2016 7:05:23 AM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: jimbo123

A manufactured illusion of a ‘comeback’, choreographed by the media, Yes.
A real ‘comeback’ ignited and fueled by actual GOP voter passion? No.
The whispering Dr. Ben would make a comeback before Jeb! did.
Neither is going to happen on it’s own.


19 posted on 01/02/2016 7:06:45 AM PST by lee martell
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To: jimbo123

from a New York Times article about steps Jeb! will take to re-ignite (?) his campaign:

One is to

“WOO LINDSEY GRAHAM”

And that is a winning strategy how?

He may as well just pick his nose.


20 posted on 01/02/2016 7:12:53 AM PST by odawg
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