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  • The long unraveling of Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign

    02/21/2016 7:43:20 PM PST · by jimbo123 · 24 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | 2/21/16 | PATRICIA MAZZEI
    For Jeb Bush's loyalists, the first moment of palpable panic - and there would be more than they ever expected in the months to come - built over four days last May when their not-yet-presidential candidate struggled repeatedly to utter a one-word answer - No - to an utterly predictable question: Should the U.S. have invaded Iraq? -snip- From the start, the campaign hired extensively and paid handsomely. That money, though, couldn't come from Right to Rise, which had pulled off a record $103 million haul in six months. The campaign needed to raise the cash itself. It couldn't keep...