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Jeb has a long way to go, but there's still time
Tampa Tribune ^ | 12/26/15 | Joe Henderson

Posted on 12/26/2015 2:19:51 PM PST by jimbo123

Jeb! Bush spent about n hour recently with the editorial board of The Tampa Tribune, responding in depth to questions about a wide range of policies he would push if he is elected president of the United States.

He showed a clear command of the things he would face as commander in chief, speaking confidently and sounding much like a candidate who expects to sit in the Oval Office a little more than a year from now.

He even said at one point, “I want a guy (in office) who understands the issues.”

That was a clear slap at Donald Trump, who has reduced political engagement to a sound bite that roughly translates, “Trust me, I’ll be great on (insert issue here).”

So, while I was curious what Bush said that day, I was at least as interested in how he said it.

That’s when it struck me. Voters can swing today over one issue, and sometimes a minor one at that. Being president is a lot more complicated than one thing, though, and it’s not all that important to me that I agree with every position someone has.

There were things Bush did during two terms as Florida’s governor that I believed, and still believe, were wrong. He shouldn’t have intervened in the Terri Schiavo case.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnestypimp; bush; delusional; deportjebbush; designatedloser; elections; fail; gope; loser; rinobush; runtofthebushes; terrischiavo; uselessbush
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1 posted on 12/26/2015 2:19:51 PM PST by jimbo123
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GO Jeb! Keep burning up all of that GOPe cash!


2 posted on 12/26/2015 2:21:36 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: jimbo123

Jib, Jab, Jeb. It sounds as if it is a verb conjugation.


3 posted on 12/26/2015 2:23:09 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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4 posted on 12/26/2015 2:25:03 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: jimbo123

Yeah, at age 62 he’s got his whole life ahead of him.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 2:25:25 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: jimbo123

Yup, those tired old low-IQ liberal newspapers want Jeb.

Does that say somethin’?


6 posted on 12/26/2015 2:26:07 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jimbo123

Yeb must have paid off this paper to write this article.
No sane person thinks Yeb will win more primary votes.


7 posted on 12/26/2015 2:26:44 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Rockitz

He is such a freakin loser....and his defiance to quitting the race despite his horrid numbers, and the fact that his campaign is wasting money, should be all the voters need, to see that an idiot that thinks like that, is NOT what we need in the white hut! The country is tired of stupid!


8 posted on 12/26/2015 2:26:48 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: jimbo123

More Jebberwocky.

Jeb, We know what your positions are and we do not like them.


9 posted on 12/26/2015 2:27:19 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: jimbo123

Meat puppet says what?


10 posted on 12/26/2015 2:31:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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King Sisyphus was made to endlessly roll a huge boulder up a steep hill, only to see it roll back down to the bottom, which ended up consigning Sisyphus to an eternity of useless efforts and unending frustration.

Jeb has been given just such a labor.


11 posted on 12/26/2015 2:31:56 PM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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Jeb: I Tippy Tippy Toe through my garden
Where all the pretty flowers dwell
There's a rare perfume in my garden
And I just love to stand there and...smell.
And as I Tippy Tippy Toe along,
All the pretty flowers seem to sing this song:

Rubio: Derry down pip pip
Fiorina: Dilly dilly day; A nani nani
Trump: Rippity pippity A

Trump: Derry down ding dong
Fiorina: Dilly dilly do; A nani nani
Rubio: Rippity pippity poo...that's all, brotha, I've had it.

Tippy Toes song

12 posted on 12/26/2015 2:32:04 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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Dear Yebbie: Please...you are disgracing the political process.


13 posted on 12/26/2015 2:33:24 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Aside from Tippy Toes making a fool of himself, that has got to be the coolest backdrop for a debate I’ve ever seen.


14 posted on 12/26/2015 2:34:37 PM PST by digger48
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To: jimbo123
Bush also represents the political establishment

No, really?

15 posted on 12/26/2015 2:36:58 PM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
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To: joshua c

Jeb just doesn’t have it in him—No fire in the belly. Mitt Romney must be giving him advise or something. I have never see someone do so poorly—even his adds are awful—they make him seem weak and “low energy” one showed a town hall with eldrly people asleep. Who did he hire to make them? Ivanka Trump?


16 posted on 12/26/2015 2:41:19 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

No, if Ivanka was around, even old codgers like me would be awake...just saying....


17 posted on 12/26/2015 3:00:40 PM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: jimbo123

The GOPe will select Jeb as the one who would write the best concession speech in the tradition of Dole, McCain, and Romney.


18 posted on 12/26/2015 3:25:17 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: jimbo123
Jeb has a long way to go, but there's still time

In what universe?

19 posted on 12/26/2015 3:29:03 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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Oh let's all be optimistic about Jeb!!

Eehyaaaackk!

 

20 posted on 12/26/2015 3:36:22 PM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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