Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:How low can he go before all the money dries up?
Cog wrote:Tanada wrote:How low can he go before all the money dries up?
I wouldn't count out Jeb just yet. He has a super-pac backing him to pay for political ads which he will probably start running full time in January and February. If that doesn't change the poll numbers or unless the Trump campaign implodes, then Jeb is probably finished.
The End of Jeb Bush As We Know Him
The once and never again Republican presumptive presidential standard bearer, Jeb Bush, lost big as well. As has been the hallmark of his doomed and sputtering campaign almost from the outset, Bush’s debate performance died not with a bang, but with a whimper.
It is just a matter of time before Jeb himself declares a merciful end to what has become a painful and futile quest. How could a candidate, backed by the party’s traditional kingmakers and with more than $100 million in his campaign war chest, suffer such an ignominious end?
The answer says as much about America in 2015 as it does about Jeb Bush. From a public relations standpoint, here’s why Jeb — by all measures an intelligent, competent, and decent individual — saw his campaign veer so horribly off the rails.
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No Venom
Anyone observing the CNBC debate debacle could clearly see that Donald Trump had it right: Jeb lacked the intensity of his rivals.
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Too Detached
Of all the candidates on the CNBC stage, Jeb seemed the most out of place, like a reluctant adult forced to scrum with over-eager adolescents. He appeared timid when he tried to interrupt a Trump rant, wistful when asked to recite his economic priorities, and wounded when the devious Rubio sucker punched him right back.
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Tired Name
Finally, Jeb has his last name to contend with. The baggage of being yet another Bush running for president
http://www.forbes.com/sites/fraserseitel/2015/10/31/the-end-of-jeb-bush-as-we-know-him/3/
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Cog wrote:Pataki is a northeastern liberal. I don't know what part of the Republican party you think he is part of but it sure ain't the same one I am part of. He wouldn't get a single Republican vote from sea to shining sea. So no, he wouldn't win the general election much less the Republican nomination.
Pataki: Republicans are afraid of science
"One of the things that troubles me about the Republican Party is too often we question the science that everyone accepts," he said, when asked about his position on climate change. He said Republicans often question the science on vaccines and climate, despite nearly incontrovertible proof. And he said they do it because they're scared acknowledging climate change will lead to more government regulation.
"I want Republicans to embrace innovation and technology," he said.
Though earlier in the debate he said he would largely do away with tax loopholes, He suggested he would implement R&D tax credits to let the private sector address climate change.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/live-from-boulder/2015/10/george-pataki-gop-debate-republican-party-frustration-215287
GEORGE PATAKI THROWS DOWN GAUNTLET TO HILLARY
Presidential candidate gives unexpected forceful response to email scandal
In response to a question from Jim Cramer about cyberwarfare, Pataki thundered, "Hillary Clinton put a server, an unsecure sever, in her home as secretary of state. We have no doubt that that was hacked and that state secrets are out there to the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese and others. That alone should qualify her from being president of the United States."
His response drew the first spontaneous applause of the evening.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/george-pataki-throws-down-gauntlet-to-hillary/
Tanada wrote:The problem is Bush is not Presidential in any way that is obvious,
Who gets all the votes in the straw polls? Neither of the establishment picks has any voter appeal and they are both angry and a bit scared by that fact. They are still pushing for dear ole Jeb, but the guy has no traction with the voters.
Fall of the House of Bush
JEB, dragging his wilted exclamation point around, is so boring that it’s hard to focus on the epic nature of his battle.
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Some of Jeb’s disillusioned donors are hanging on just because they can’t bear to shatter the old man’s illusions. How can America be rewarding the wrong dynasty — Little Rock over Kennebunkport?
As Jonathan Martin and Matt Flegenheimer recently wrote in The Times, Poppy and Bush retainers like John Sununu are bewildered by a conservative electorate that rejects Republican primogeniture, prefers snark to substance and embraces an extremely weird brain surgeon and an extravagantly wild reality show star.
When the Bushes had to stick a shiv in the ribs of their foes, they behaved like gentlemen and outsourced it to henchmen. They can’t fathom a world where that vulgarian Trump is doing his own dirty work.
Trump has gotten into Jeb’s head, making Jeb so petulant he declared he had “a lot of really cool things” he could be doing instead, when we all know he doesn’t.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/fall-of-the-house-of-bush.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
Not only did W. shock his family by making it to the Oval Office before Jeb. In the tie election, Jeb had to be prodded into helping his brother snatch Florida away from Al Gore.
This was going to be the year that settled sibling scores. Jeb would get what his parents considered his birthright.
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Jeb had been out of politics for eight years and he strolled back, mistakenly assuming that the vassals were waiting eagerly to hail him.
With Trump belittling him for being low energy and running to Mommy and Daddy for help, Jeb realized he was in a new world.
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Jeb is trapped in a nightmarish déjà vu. Once he was cast as the wonky one while his brother, the sparky one, slipped ahead. Now Jeb is cast as the wonky one while Marco, the sparky one, slips ahead.
Jeb got confused. He thought he was still in an era when people had to pay their dues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/fall-of-the-house-of-bush.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
Jeb Bush's nightmare week continues as key donor plumps for Marco Rubio
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/11967664/Jeb-Bushs-nightmare-week-continues-as-key-donor-plumps-for-Marco-Rubio.html
Chief Operating Officer Leaves Jeb Bush Campaign
Ms. Ciccone was paid roughly $12,000 a month, the equivalent of a $144,000 annual salary, according to the campaign’s most recent Federal Election Commission filling. Reached by phone Friday, Ms. Ciccone said “I’ve got no comment. I’ve just got to go.”
Ms. Ciccone came to the campaign with political roots in the Bush family. She worked in President George W. Bush’s White House, serving as a legislative liaison to the Senate. Before working for the Jeb Bush campaign, she worked as a lobbyist at Sphere, a top Washington consulting firm.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/10/30/chief-operating-officer-leaves-jeb-bush-campaign/
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Even before Jeb Bush's uninspiring debate performance Wednesday night, his sputtering presidential campaign was working to prevent defections.
Bush's top lieutenants convened with donors in sopping wet Houston on Monday to calm their fears and retrench for the unforgiving haul ahead.
Former Governor Jeb Bush answers questions from journalists after a town-hall meeting at the Historical Society in Keene, New Hampshire on Thursday, August 20, 2015.
After the confab, Bush's team distributed a 45-page PowerPoint presentation to select reporters, summarizing an optimistic view of the race, touting the Republican candidate's cash and organization, and assuring supporters that early polls are rarely indicative of ultimate success.
But in that leak to select media, the campaign purposely left out more than half of what was furnished behind closed doors.
The full presentation, obtained exclusively by U.S. News, spans 112 pages and includes a trove of new details, including Bush's internal polling, his vote goal in Iowa and his advertising plan for January.
Additionally, while the slides released to the media outlined Bush's overarching argument against Florida Sen. Marco Rubio – that he's the GOP's Barack Obama – the complete offering contains more biting, detailed slights, pointedly questioning the character and ethics of Bush's home state rival.
The document provides a rare behind-the-curtain look at the gritty details of a campaign at a crucial inflection point. Here's a breakdown of the most illuminating pieces of intelligence contained in Bush's 2016 blueprint.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Cog wrote:I would rather have Hillary than Jeb. At least that way I can see the knife blade coming at me.
Bush on downed jet: Russia invaded Turkish airspace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUIFi5Tnh3Q
Following his father’s footsteps: the path of Jeb Bush
Author Jon Meacham’s latest book is a deeply reported, intimate look at the legacy of George H.W. Bush.
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/following-his-fathers-footsteps-the-path-of-jeb-bush/
The key to a Jeb Bush comeback: Embrace the boring
There is a certain nostalgia afoot for the quiet decency, pragmatism and consensus-building that Bush Sr. represents, suggests Jon Meachem, author of a new biography of the elder Bush, “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush." The book is the No. 1 New York Times bestseller right now, and a person can’t help but wonder if Jeb might tap into some of that newfound Bush love.
Meachem, in describing Bush 41, has essentially written a daring stump speech for Jeb.
"Americans tend to prefer their presidents on horseback: heroes who dream big and sound the trumpets," Meachem writes. [Ed. note: See Trump, Donald.] "There is, however, another kind of leader – quieter and less glamorous but no less significant – whose virtues repay our attention. There is greatness in political lives dedicated more to steadiness than to boldness, more to reform than to revolution, more to the management of complexity than to the making of mass movements. “
Meachem makes a strong case that the qualities many people in 1992 found to be Bush 41's vices are now seen as virtues -- “his public reticence; his old-fashioned dignity; his tendency to find a middle course between extremes.”
All those qualities are ones that describe Jeb just as well
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/24/the-key-to-a-jeb-bush-comeback-embrace-being-boring/
Ready | Jeb Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StZMg8S9wrA
I've Got Your Back | Jeb Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVC4ul4CE0
Jeb Can Fix It | Jeb Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upER_inRqrg
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