Posted on 02/08/2016 10:57:03 AM PST by jimbo123
Eight months ago, Jeb Bush announced his candidacy for president, expressing his appreciation for the American immigrant experience by delivering a passage in Spanish and declaring that "my message will be an optimistic one because I am certain that we can make the decades just ahead the greatest time ever to be alive in this world."
That candidacy, blessed by built-in advantages while cursed by high expectations and antiestablishment anger, faces in New Hampshire on Tuesday an existential moment, not just for the candidate but for the Republican Party's Bush dynasty. Will Jeb Bush do well enough to recharge his presidential effort and move on as a plausible contender, or will the remarkable Bush run in presidential politics begin to wind down? The situation in New Hampshire is sufficiently in flux that either is possible.
A man named Bush has run for either president or vice president in seven of the last 10 national elections, five times successfully so far. The Bushes often have been favorites, and occasionally they have been underdogs.
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Where all terrible campaigns rest in pieces...
The GOP Weekend Bernie is being propped up by the MSM.
They’re desperate to have their Designated Loser back.
They can’t wait til tomorrow to crown him as the Rightful Dauphin.
Nevermore quoth the raven...
may the Bush dynasty die a swift and gruesome death. :)
No more Bushes, no more Clintons and no more Kennedys for that matter. Kill off all the “political dynasties.”
Jeb still has work to do sucking votes from his greasy amnesty robot spawn Rubio. Let them both pull 9 percent from tomorrow through the Florida primary. Then they can both quit and retire to the ash heap of US political history.
Hey yeb,
Just go away.
Take your whole family with you, even mom.
Many years ago, I remember reading that Willie Clinton had similar fantasies.
Yes. The idea of any family in America being "royalty" and having a special claim to the WH, or any political office is repugnant.
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