Posted on 02/21/2016 12:59:37 AM PST by Rummyfan
Following his fourth- (or possibly fifth-) place finish in South Carolina, Jeb Bush has ended his campaign to be president. I said pretty much everything I had to say about him two years ago:
There are over 300 million people in this country, and, granted that 57 per cent or whatever it's up to by now are fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community, what is it about the Bush family that makes them so indispensable to the Republic as to supply three presidential candidates within a quarter-century?
Jeb never had a good answer to that question, and his lackluster performance on the stump suggested that there isn't one
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
2015: Mark Steyn & Steve Deace: The GOP base wants Donald Trump to suicide bomb the Establishment GOP
Jeb! spent $150 million for a grand total of zero delegates. Trump was right, this guy is a total loser.
If Jeb Bush is the answer, the question has to be, ‘who’s the last person you’d expect to run for president?’
Then again, it just might be, ‘who’s that guy with the guacamole bowl on his head?’
Bye Jeb! Don’t let the door hit you in the A$$ on the way out! LMAO.
Hyenas might turn on a wounded member of the pack, don't see why conservatives have to do the same. This campaign building a huge wellspring of bitterness - and to whose benefit? Not the cause. There's not enough of us on the Right to flaunt our prejudices the way Steyn has here.
Just pointing out that I am not a girl. LOL
Who’s the last person who could possibly win the Presidency?
Jeb Bush!!
This clueless clown is probably still confused as to why nobody wants an open-borders, amnesty-pimping, America-worker-backstabbing, NWO goon.
You can be he’s quite perplexed.
Conservatism will not only survive, but will adopt Steyn’s ‘prejudice’ against the Donor-Industrial complex.
Jeb and Mike Murphy thought all they needed to win was wealthy donors with gargantuan bank accounts.
They overlooked voters.
Who sent their brand of elitist moneybag politics sacking.
Jeb’s humiliating defeat said a lot more about our governing class than it did the voters.
You can have a lot of money but money doesn’t guarantee success if no one likes what you’re selling.
And no one liked what Jeb was selling.
I think Jeb was born perplexed. He’s always got a look that says, “What just happened?”
He couldn’t believe no enthusiasm manifested itself for a third Bush presidency.
an example of what just happened?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCXXs47OxM
Graham: Who here is a Republican?
Audience raised hand
Graham: Who here is a Democrat?
Bush raised his hand
yeb? was NEVER a member of this pack. He was a rich, spoiled kid, that should have taken his mother's advice when she first said, "NO MORE BUSHES".
Vote totals, polls and demographic parsing are all well and good but the reality is that the GOP nominee has to defeat his rivals, the consultant class and the media.
While it’s satisfying to see Bush go away, the larger victory is banishing the smug Murphy amd Schmidt types. They still have their houses in politically incestuous DC suburbs where they live blissfully next to Lois Lerners and Loretta Lynches...which may be one reason they don’t view leftists as dangerous enemies. But their ‘brand’ has been greatly diminished. It’s ironic that as much as the voters rejected Bush, his handlers are the ones terminating his run because they fear exposure and a loss of future suckers.
The real question is why did the GOPe think Bush was the ideal candidate?
There are people who get excited about ball bearings. There are people who get excited about strawberries. There are people, who in another thread, get excited about decapitated plush bears. Then there are.people who get excited about Jeb Bush.
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