Remember that this is the man who coined the term “voodoo economics” then rode its coattails to two terms as vice president. Have politics become any easier to understand in the 35 years since?
“Read my lips! No nude Texans!” His advice went unheeded.
They can’t cut wages for entry level staff below the legal minimum wage. I think most people would be surprised at how little campaign workers are paid, unless the worker is a consultant with ties to the candidate. Then most people would be surprised at how much they make.
When someone who started life rounding third and heading for home lets loose with this sort of petulant whine, it isn’t exactly gonna help him:
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If this is an election about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people are literally in decline in their lives. That is not my motivation. I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.
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Poor guy, finding out the nomination isn’t going to get handed to him, despite the $100M his Super-PAC pulled in. Time to tune up the nanoviolin.
Oooh, Norquist’s gonna get him for that. Drown the government in the bathtub, remember? A completely do-nothing government is the Doctrinaire Republican’s moral duty! It’s been an axiom since Reagan that government can’t possibly help anything at any time.
Something else in the article caught my eye:
Old mill. Fire. Villagers with pitchforks. It’s like nobody studies history anymore!
Jeb does not come across as joyful, that’s for sure. More like a big baby being denied what daddy and big brother both had.
I hope he keeps talking. He reveals himself with every whiny word out of his mouth.
Does anyone else remember hearing about how Pappy Bush was reportedly disappointed that the wrong Bush baby was elected in 2000, and that he thought it should have been Jeb who succeeded him? Related, of course, is the oft-repeated idea that Jeb’s the smart one (now in doubt, of course, but how many of his errors are his and how many of them are his staff’s and his party’s is for a future tell-all book to unravel) and the serious one compared to the party animal Dubya. (Here’s something on the topic, anyway.)
My point is, it makes sense from a family dynamics standpoint to be jealous of your brother, who was (from your perspective) kind of a loser but who was nevertheless back-slapped and groomed all the way up to the top, while your campaign just never seems to go anywhere, despite the fact that, on paper, you’re this year’s model, the new establishment candidate, who should be getting all of the resources and all the advantages, instead of advisers who publicly state they no longer know what the Hell’s going on.
Eh. I’m not asking anyone to feel sympathy for the Bushie, but it does make sense in a bull session psychology kind of way.
Well, if we envision an alternative future where John McCain is elected President in 2000, then Jeb Bush would probably be the clear frontrunner today. GWB ruined it for the family.
W2! is fucking up on his own quite nicely, thank you.
They haven’t tried Neil Bush yet. There are some rough patches in his permanent record, sure, but nothing that can’t be explained away.
Jeb is unexciting, I wouldn’t exactly call that a fuckup. There’s nothing particularly awful or dishonorable about his campaign. His name and his connections to the K Street wing of the party are just dragging him down.
Not for his name and K Street connections, wouldn’t be there in the first place.
Funny enough I think all of the above is true.
The latter would outweigh the former in most cycles and boring but least unelectable, winner of the invisible primary, would usually be sucking up a major share of the oxygen by now, but the character being played by Trump has a big sugar daddy in Trump, a bigger sugar daddy than Jeb’s war chest SuperPAC inclusive, and it throws it off.
It’s not like his brother or father were any more exciting. Jeb actually sounds a hell of a lot better than both of them, IMO.
Hmm, Jeb!'s big plan is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts? In the name of ‘economic growth’, despite the fact that a huge percentage of economic growth goes to the top? The bottom 50% aren’t going to have anything to put in these health savings accounts, so they just lay down and die, or what?
It is a crazy insensitive position, besides being unfathomably out-of-touch.
I don’t. I think he looks like an idiot. At least W waited to get elected before looking like an idiot.
He’s been “not-fucking-up” down into single digits, you know. Getting into the *low *single digits. Free fall, you might call it. 
Adelson and the Kochs have got to be considering reopening the GOP Invisible Primary.
No, I assure you, he was quite idiotic during the 2000 campaign. His best moment was trying to explain how he’d spend the surplus and then realizing he was still $1 trillion over and forgetting what his plan was. Very Rick Perry moment.
In order to free fall he would have first had to rise. Jeb’s best performance in the polls was 23%. It’s more like he stepped off a curb.
So let’s see … losing three fourths of your support is *not *free fall if you’re a Republican, but effectively clinching the nomination *is *if you’re a Democrat. Is that how it works?
I thought the Kochs were holding their pursestrings until the general but had favored Walker. Invited to their grovel session had also been Rubio, Bush, Fiorina, and Cruz.
And I thought that the word was that Rubio was going to more likely be the beneficiary of Adelson’s largesse … or maybe Cruz.