Posted on 09/12/2015 6:56:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the few things Jeb Bush is right about is his obvious belief that Donald Trump is a menace. Fine. If Bush really believes that, and if he really wants to do a great service to our country, then the former Florida governor should take one bold step to suck the (hot) air from Trump’s balloon: Withdraw from the presidential race.
If Jeb Bush withdraws, a hy-u-uuge portion of the rationale for Trump’s candidacy will be withdrawn as well.
Trump is soaring in polls for four main reasons. First, because he talks tough, in plain language. Second, because he seems to represent big success (even though he’s nowhere near as successful as he claims). Third, because he tapped into honest popular anger against failure to enforce our laws against illegal immigration. And fourth, the most important reason of all, Trump seems to represent the single easiest way for voters to express disgust at the political “establishment” – a disgust driven by the sense that the same old people, the same old peddlers of influence, the same old viewpoints enjoy permanent power in national affairs, no matter what the public wants.
The fourth reason in many ways incorporates, and in other ways supersedes, the first three. Much of the public sees the Washington system of entrenched elites and says, in effect: “Burn it down. Burn it down now. Destroy the whole thing and start over.”
They see Trump as the carrier of their torch. And they see the dynastic possibilities of another Bush-Clinton presidential race as proof positive that the torch is needed.
Indeed, Jeb Bush is the very embodiment of insider privilege. Nobody else’s camp can raise more than $100 million in half a year, merely by trading on a last name and twisting arms. Nobody else sits on his throne and dismisses illegal immigration as “acts of love,” while intimating that those who object to it are less than loving. Nobody so frequently looks peevish when confronted with the actual necessities of campaigning among “ordinary” people.
The public wants a scalp from the ruling class. The public wants to see that its desire for a shake-up won’t be ignored. The public wants to know that business won’t be done as usual, by the usual suspects.
Yet if voters see the establishment’s boy laid low, and the ruling class bereft of a standard-bearer, their angry boil might be lanced. If they see that the boogeyman is gone, they won’t any longer need a wild-eyed warlock to slay him. You need no overdose of garlic to keep away a non-existent vampire.
With Bush gone, voters can focus less on what they are against – insider business as usual – than on what they are for. They can decide whether Trump’s self-absorbed bombast actually is what they want in the Oval Office for the next four years, or if there is another outsider in the field with more relevant accomplishments, more appropriate temperament, more consistency, and better judgment.
Jeb Bush already is flailing in the polls, wasting the $100 million his web of influence has secured for him. He’s not going to beat Trump by running at him. If Jeb Bush and his people are appalled by Donald Trump, they should take away his very reason for being. Bush should get out of the race – and take Trump with him.
There is some truth to the premise that some of Trump’s support is an anti-¡Yeb! protest.
What is more significant is that Trump is perceived as not for sale.
Most of the other candidates running owe something to The Cheap Labor Express.
If it's time to get rid of the dynasties, what about Hillary?
Eh?
What say, Quin?
Jeb’s only social asset is that he was sired by a very wealthy influential former president. He should not even be in this race, The only reason he got elected as governor and became a presidential candidate was merely a circumstance of nepotism.
It’s a good idea. But Jeb should make it conditional on the withdrawal of Trump.
The level of desperation is palpable. We are right over the target, obviously.
The “scalp” we want, if you want to put it that way, is the unholy alliance between the Democrats and the GOPe. Getting rid of Jeb is one piece of many; we want every leader gone, Boehner, McConnell, Obama, Hillary, Kerry, the whole lot. Put Cruz in the White house and Trump will be unnecessary; otherwise Trump is the only alternative.
LOLOLOLOL.
Quinn has a good idea, but Jeb is waiting for his GOPe cohorts to take Trump OUT.
Trump will ride higher and higher unless and until the entire DC establishment withdraws.
The failures of the Republican Party to rein in government or stop Obama and the leftist assault on America doesn't count?
Yeah, if Jeb withdraws from the race, our anger at the GOPe will immediately cease and we'll once again cheerfully hold our collective snotty noses and open up our wallets for whoever the next slimeball RINO the GOPe rams through the primaries.
Clearly, Quin is smoking gym socks.
The Bushes are leaches. They will never let go. They must be burned out.
All these pundits have it wrong. Trump is sitting at top of ALL polls not because John Ellis Bush is in the race.
I will posit the real reason for Trump winning EVERY poll in EVERY state and nationally is.......................
(read my post later to in this thread to find the answer).
Not, really. Just looking to kill two birds with one stone.
“His wife is already shopping for velvet bullfighting paintings for the oval office.”
They’ve also retained a company out of East LA to lower the presidential limo and install air shocks in it. To fit in with his homies ya know.
Jeb is just the tip of the iceberg. Its Congress and completely corrupted bureaucracy.
How can you say a billionaire is not that successful?
Jeb leaving the race will not suddenly derail Trump. What will happen is this: instead of the rest of the establishment candidates who are pulling anywhere from 1% - 7 or 8% getting many more votes, it will be perceived as a YUUUUGE Trump victory, and all but give him the nomination at that point. The money will completely dry up for everybody else except for perhaps Cruz and Carson. Trump at that point will begin really slamming Hillary or whomever else is in the catbird seat for the Demonrats.
BTW, Hillyer, the Republicans that are supporting Trump and the other anti-establishment candidates will not be satisfied with a single scalp. We want ALL of them. We want them out of any meaningful positions of power, because they have done nothing but ignore us and lie to us, while supporting Obama and the Demonrats behind the scenes. In fact, it is so bad that those bastards are not even making a secret of siding with the Demonrats any more.
Mr. Hillyer has an interesting thesis, If Boosh and Clintoon drop out, Trumps ratings will plummet.
It’s a good idea. But Jeb should make it conditional on the withdrawal of Trump.
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