Jeb Bush campaign for POTUS thread

Great news if true.

the advert on that page that I’m getting is:

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Agreed. The sooner the “establishment lane” thins the herd the better. Both for the Rs and for the nation. Doesn’t much matter how the thinning happens as long as it’s soon.

Although I for one am about ready to retire the term “establishment lane” and replace it with “establishment sidewalk”. Meantime the “radical lane” is being upgraded to a “radical highway”. :slight_smile:

There is some value in a full clown car pulling into the parking lot at the RNC. :smiley:

Why? It’s like Friends losing Joey and … uh, that other guy. Imagine Cheers without Cliffy, or Rhoda without Carlton the Doorman.

This race losing Jebya would be more like MASH losing “Spearchucker” Jones: A character that was grandfathered in from a previous iteration which was quickly removed for being too unbelievable, until people later realized he was one of the more believable parts about the whole thing.

Anyway, given that the two front-runners are now Frank Burns and Three O’Clock Charlie, we’ll have to see if any of the lesser insanities can come from behind to make the general election something closer to competitive.

I get janky results every.time I try to post from my phone. I blame Obama :wink:

I may have been wrong, but I took the comment I was responding to as hoping for more than the removal of only Jeb! One dead elephant hardly thins the herd.

The Jeb! campaign has remarkable parallels to the Schiavo case, doesn’t it? There are signs of life but not of brain activity…

Mother Karma is not to be trifled with; she bites hard.

One of Jeb’s major problems is that his own staff doesn’t believe him: Jeb says he is in for the long haul–but a number of members of his staff are sending out resumes since they believe he will soon be gone (after South Carolina):

Thread winner. Top 5 All-Time Elections Forum Nominee.

I do think it’s ironic that despite his billions Trump’s twitter handle is @realDonaldTrump and not @DonaldTrump. Whoever owns @DonaldTrump is just sitting on it, he’s never tweeted but has almost 4000 followers. If I was one of the other GOP candidates I’d buy that twitter account and use it as an anonymous parody account.

Wait, that would require a brain and some understanding of social media. Never mind.

Jeb! just announced he’s suspending his campaign.

Bush is out, according to CNN. Not something anyone would have predicted to happen so soon in the cycle.

Wow! Oddly enough it was CNBC that first alerted me to this.

I’m really shocked Bush has dropped out. As soon as Graham started talking, it was obvious, but damn.

Florida is very different from DC and not all shrub transplants are successful…

Jeb was tired of Trump giving him swirlies.

I wonder if Bush dropping out will affect how wealthy political investors in the future spend money on politics. They invested at least $100 million in Bush and have nothing to show for it.

Then again, in the general wealthy investors will probably put a billion in and at least one side will lose.