Posted on 01/08/2016 2:39:35 PM PST by jimbo123
He's not just losing. He is loathed.
It is not difficult to see why Jeb Bush is losing this presidential election. He is the wrong man in the wrong cycle. Republican primary voters are rewarding passionate, fiery, outsider, "anti-establishment" candidates who paint their visions in broad strokes rather than pesky details. Bush is the very picture of a Republican establishment and his donors the very image of donor-class Republicanism. Though he claims not to be "an expert on the ways of Washington," he is vying to be the third consecutive Republican president named Bush. He is a conservative technocrat animated less by angst and more by, say, education funding models. Anti-immigration sentiment is dominating this primary, and immigration has long been Bush's chief weakness in the primary. He's a bad fit for the 2016 Republican Party, and barring some deus ex machina that switches every current coursing through the Republican primary electorate, he will soon have little rationale for continuing his run.
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Prescott is another slice off of the same loaf. The little carpetbagger has filled his department with cronies, has a weak work ethic, and has taken on the old line Texans (He's trying to take the library of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Maybe MexiMama wants him to send it home.)
We be done with Bush’s.
Esta una pendejo grande!
I always thought that was odd, saying he could do it without the base. For goodness sake, it’s not called the base for nothing.
Why aren’t they asking the same question about Marco Rubio?
Try these:
1. Describing llegal immigration is an act of love.
2. Repeatedly claiming that “aspirational youth” from south of the border is necessary to rebuild America.
3. Campaigns for the presidency in Spanish.
4. Demands amnesty
5. Low energy
The campaigning in Spanish to illegals as well as his and his campaign’s overall contempt for the conservative base.
And campaigns in Spanish.
For many of the same reasons Republicans don't rely on Slate for information...misplaced values
Body language and facial expressions. Trump learned to act.
Could it be - just maybe - that we know that socialism-lite is still socialism?
In a different time and place !Yeb may very well have been the nominee. And, may in fact have made a fine president.
!Yeb’s problem is he’s here, now.
The public does not want another Bush, period. We had his father who was nominally OK, and his older brother who was a decent man. We are not interested in giving that office to a third Bush as a trophy to a family.
There has been precedent for a father and son, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, H.W, and W.
But the idea of a father and BOTH is sons. NO!
I dunno.. maybe the base’s attitude is a result of Bush telling them he planned to win without paying even lip service to their issues.
Does anyone honestly believe that Slate understands what motivates conservative and Republican voters. Jim Newell skimmed National Review and the Weekly Standard and summarized several of their articles to create some Republican content for his liberal echo chamber readers.
And eats it in private.
Let me count the ways.
I dearly hope that the Bush brand is spoilt enough now that Geo Pee's ascension through the TX government crashes and burns.
Exactly. Slate doesn’t understand. Neither does Jeb. Nor does Karl Rove. Or the rest of the GOPe.
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