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Could Jeb-mentum be real? The GOP's "low-energy" candidate veers left - and New Hampshire loves it
Salon ^ | 2/9/16 | ANDREW O'HEHIR

Posted on 02/09/2016 7:40:10 AM PST by jimbo123

Jeb Bush goes "Hot Tub Time Machine" Republican - soft on climate, immigration and Obama - and draws big crowds.

During four days in New Hampshire, I have attended only two events that did not feel as if they were primarily constructed as media spectacles, and as if they were using actual citizens or prospective voters mostly as props or design elements. One of those was the big Bernie Sanders rally on Sunday afternoon in Portsmouth, where a boisterous crowd of more than 1,200 crammed into a community college gym to bask in the Bern. The other was a Jeb Bush town-hall meeting, held in this outer Boston suburb at 10 o'clock in the morning. I'm not remotely kidding.

As much as this sounds like the kind of campaign-trail wishcasting you've read over and over in the New York Times, Jeb has Jeb-mentum. There is a Jeb-aissance happening on the ground in the Granite State. Jeb! Is! Surging!

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


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KEYWORDS: brokeredconvention; deportjebbush; designatedloser
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1 posted on 02/09/2016 7:40:10 AM PST by jimbo123
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God help us ...


2 posted on 02/09/2016 7:41:05 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: jimbo123

I see liberal Salon is “helpfully” trying to pick our candidate for us again.


3 posted on 02/09/2016 7:43:46 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: bassmaner

They want to run against Jeb so badly they can taste it.


4 posted on 02/09/2016 7:43:54 AM PST by trad_anglican
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To: jimbo123
Loser Jeb and his guac bowl. Stumped by the Trump.
5 posted on 02/09/2016 7:45:01 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: jimbo123

A liberal Republican?

Jeb should be running in the Democratic primary.


6 posted on 02/09/2016 7:45:05 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

They have their talking points, propaganda down.

Jeb-mentum is supposed to be the new comeback kid. These people are so used to ruling with the right focus-group-tested phrases that they’re getting lazy.

Might take more than Jeb-mentum this time.


7 posted on 02/09/2016 7:46:21 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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Vote for Yeb! Hillary for Vice President! You won’t notice the difference!


8 posted on 02/09/2016 7:46:33 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: jimbo123

Don’t forget - Our fellow citizens elected, and then re-elected, Barack Hussein Obama. Anything is possible.


9 posted on 02/09/2016 7:47:52 AM PST by TTFlyer
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We can sit here and fight Trump vs Cruz all day long, but it won’t surprise one bit if they don’t get this sorry carcass Jeb back in the game. Many powerful people are expecting something from him.


10 posted on 02/09/2016 7:48:22 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Cruz is nasty)
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To: PIF
Vote for Yeb! Hillary for Vice President! You won’t notice the difference!


11 posted on 02/09/2016 7:49:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: goldstategop
A liberal Republican?

It's not liberalism, it's "compassionate conservatism!"

12 posted on 02/09/2016 7:51:28 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Salon.com

hee hee hee....


13 posted on 02/09/2016 7:53:37 AM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: ek_hornbeck

“Compassionate Conservative”, how I despise that term.


14 posted on 02/09/2016 7:56:09 AM PST by surrey
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God help us ...

For reasons that go far beyond Jeb or New Hampshire.
We now live in a country where veering left is a winning strategy. Be very afraid.


15 posted on 02/09/2016 7:56:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: surrey
“Compassionate Conservative”, how I despise that term.

It is neither.

16 posted on 02/09/2016 7:58:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: bassmaner

Liberal fantasy courtesy of Salon.


17 posted on 02/09/2016 7:59:19 AM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: jimbo123

Cue the “Rocky” music.


18 posted on 02/09/2016 7:59:54 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: surrey
Compassionate Conservatism = Liberalism Lite.

We got a good picture of what a "compassionate conservative" government is like under Jeb's brother, whose administration spent like a drunken sailor both at home and abroad and tried to give us amnesty for illegals.

19 posted on 02/09/2016 8:01:44 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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Yeb! is supposed to be The Designated Loser.
The Cheap Labor Express has already paid the RNC/GOP for an amnesty candidate to block us from stopping them.


20 posted on 02/09/2016 8:03:38 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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