You know I feel badly for Jeb, hear me out before you roast me.
He was better unscripted, on the fly and far more personal candidate and politician than his brother. His CNN town hall made me say out loud, George could never pull this off as well.
He wasn’t as gaffe prone, didn’t come up with more random Bushisms as his brother or his father.
He seemed to take a lot of the things dumped on him publicly, from the internet and likely in person far better than ANY of us could. I truly do mean that part.
Sadly, it was the family name that was hung like a millstone around his neck that did him in. It was the face palm notion from the party and the country of yet another Bush.
Frankly, he may have been very good at the job. Would he ever have been my primary candidate? No. Would I have voted for him in November? Unfortunately after Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney... ugh, glad I don’t have to admit that I would. But....
I never thought his heart was in this race. I never got a sense of excitement from him, a sense of passion or any kind of sincerity. It was like a bunch of people came to him, threw $150 mil in some bank somewhere and said “Hey, you wanna be President?” Ummm, okay, I don’t have anything else to do after 8 years of not being governor.
Truly, I think I could sit and have a beer, or in his case... well... a case (I mean he does have the time.) with him and have a good time doing so.
However it just seemed that no one told the dynasty that to the primary voters “NO MEANS NO!” when it comes to voting for another Bush.
It’s sad really but I cry only for the man, not the party and not the country.
“Sadly, it was the family name that was hung like a millstone around his neck that did him in.”
Jeb would be an unknown person, uninvolved in politics, were it not for the fact of his being born into the Bush clan. The name worked against him, but it was also his ticket into the ruling class.
What really killed Jeb’s campaign was his dull, milquetoast personality. He was always too much of a dullard to win.