Posted on 02/21/2016 8:28:36 PM PST by jimbo123
Jeb Bush launched his presidential campaign's exploratory committee on December 16, 2014, the presumptive Republican nominee. He ended his campaign on February 20, 2016, a broken man.
Bush's campaign (and the pro-Jeb super PAC Right to Rise) spent over $100 million on his campaign. He won no states. And for the last several months, he's been in the news mostly for all the wrong reasons: desperate donors, misspent money, jokes-that-aren't-really jokes. He's been a loser for almost as long as he was a presumptive winner.
The slow, torturous twilight of Jeb's campaign offers a couple of lessons. For one thing, it throws the political skills of his brother George W. Bush into sharp relief: W. might have gotten flak for being "dumb," but seeing what happens to someone with all the same advantages makes it clear how much of W.'s success was his own. For another thing, it's a reminder that (for all the problems associated with money in politics) it's extremely hard to buy a presidential campaign.
But if Jeb's campaign was born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it ended screaming in its high chair with strained peaches all over the floor. Yes, Jeb was bullied relentlessly by Donald Trump. But the consistent ineptitude of Jeb's own allies, and his own dogged, hopeful, pathetic awkwardness, were truly what did him in in his campaign. When he finally, mercifully dropped out Saturday night, you could almost hear the collective sigh: Poor Jeb.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
“Mommy Approved”, you really cannot get any sad-lower than that.
Please clap
That moment will live on in history as the saddest in any campaign
I’m just getting tired of rehashing the End of Jeb!
Like Trump says, “when they’re gone, they’re gone. Bye bye”.
Begging people to clap is as bad as you can get.
I wish he had suspended earlier, as did my Governor, Scott Walker, when the writing was on the wall.
But Jeb is a good man. Let’s let it go.
You got. That’s number 1. Actually it is number 2, 3, and 4 too.
Dragging 90 yrs old mom on snow is worse.
“I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do.”
‘Please send the money to my wife. She’s a little short.’
The walker had a Jeb! bumper sticker on it.
The photo looked like it had been taken through the window of a diner, and it was unposed and unscripted.
It made my heart ache. Literally.
That was heart-breaking.
No Mex dumpling 1st ladies plz
Please post the "guaca bowle" photo!
You know how much I love that one!
Talk about SAD. Pimping the campaign by selling dollar store guacamole bowls for $75.
I have no idea why that strikes me as funny. It must be the utter out-of-touch absurdity of the thing.
LMAO!
That was really bad optics, considering Jeb had just bashed Trump for skipping an appearance due to the snowstorm.
Jeb could have never won. The American people will never forgive the Bush family for its unholy involvement with the Saudis, not holding the Saudis accountable for 9/11, silly pronouncements about Islam being the religion of peace and for the disastrous invasion of Iraq. That resulted in three thousand dead young Americans, tens of thousands more physically and psychologically maimed, trillions of dollars squandered and the subsequent election of the vile Obama. It wasn’t Trump that destroyed Jeb, it was the weight of the Bush legacy.
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