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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush, worst candidate ever: Does this man even want to be president?
A string of dumb mistakes and "walk backs" is making the former frontrunner look like this cycles Rick PerryJOAN WALSH
Oops, he did it again. Jeb Bush had to walk back another dumb comment Tuesday night, after he told the Southern Baptist Convention, Im not sure we need a half a billion dollars for womens health issues.
What he meant to say, Bush now claims, was that Planned Parenthood shouldnt get that much federal funding even though the context of the remark made clear that he was talking about futile GOP plans to transfer that funding from Planned Parenthood to other health agencies. Thats when he mused that it might be a tad too much cash to spend on the ladies, anyway. His walk back made so little sense he might have to walk it back.
So far in this campaign cycle, Bush has made Rick Perry look positively presidential.
Look at all the statements Bush has either had to walk back, claim he misspoke or contend were the result of misunderstanding a question, in the six months since he began to explore a presidential run. He opened his campaign with a foreign policy speech in which he inflated the size of ISIS by 10 and confused Iran and Iraq. He then told Foxs Megyn Kelly that hed have invaded Iraq even knowing what we know now, then claimed he misunderstood her question, and then changed his answer several more times.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/jeb_bush_worst_candidate_ever_does_this_man_even_want_to_be_president/
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Jeb Bush, worst candidate ever: Does this man even want to be president? (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2015
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,815 posts)1. "The smarter brother." LOL
He wants to be President about as much as Fred Thompson did, and is about as qualified.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)2. Mama and Papa Bush want him to save the family legacy ...
but so far he's proving it true; they're corrupt idiots.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)3. He wants to eliminate health care coverage and make us all work longer hours
What's not to love?
Gothmog
(145,487 posts)4. Jeb is making a ton of unforced errors
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)5. It's like I said on FB:
"Even his war criminal brother's campaign team wasn't this kindergarten."
The guy pretty much expects the same canned audiences his brother had, and when someone challenges him, his handlers brush them off as "liberal activists" or some such shit.
Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)6. He might just be in it for the money
Get lots of donations, run a crap campaign, lose a primary, take all the money home.
Not a new idea people mentioned how lucrative just running was in 2012.