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Poor Little Jeb Bush..... (Original Post) kpete Feb 2016 OP
R#8 & K n/t UTUSN Feb 2016 #1
Never saw Bush crashing and burning as badly as he has. Ace Rothstein Feb 2016 #2
It's so bad I feel sorry for the guy. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2016 #3
I had to live with him as governor for 8 years. lark Feb 2016 #5
^^^^What lark said OriginalGeek Feb 2016 #12
LOL, I think of him as Voldemort. lark Feb 2016 #28
I don't. I am enjoying seeing the Bush name humiliated once again. madinmaryland Feb 2016 #18
I don't get how anyone thought he had a chance! OhZone Feb 2016 #19
Fantastic analogy, Oh. Thanks. nt. Mc Mike Feb 2016 #23
He keep us safe! NCjack Feb 2016 #24
I didn't think it would be this bad... Phentex Feb 2016 #27
One of the best stories Punx Feb 2016 #4
I read somewhere earlier today Contrary1 Feb 2016 #10
I read $30,000. a vote. I think it was in Latest Breaking News... nt TeamPooka Feb 2016 #16
I heard around $1,600 Punx Feb 2016 #17
Thank you for this! /nt MatthewStLouis Feb 2016 #6
I take it Miguel Recarrey couldn't be reached. forest444 Feb 2016 #7
I wouldn't count him out yet. Xolodno Feb 2016 #8
Agreed. If he can take second in New Hampshire they will portray it as a comeback for the ages. StevieM Feb 2016 #11
I think they're both finished but Maru Kitteh Feb 2016 #21
You mean Babs didn't show up? n/t Contrary1 Feb 2016 #9
Lol Liberal_in_LA Feb 2016 #13
what if you're dead and you don't know it...kinda like that movie "The Sixth Sense"... CTyankee Feb 2016 #14
With a bit of luck this is the final banishment hifiguy Feb 2016 #15
Jeb and "W" are urgently needed to run the family ranch in Central America. /nt NCjack Feb 2016 #25
Jeb?! brought us Dubya's disastrous presidency. He was in on PNAC. He's a Bush. Hekate Feb 2016 #20
I would imagine future generations will at some point soon change their last names. nt silvershadow Feb 2016 #22
He is as dumb as Chimpy but... Helen Borg Feb 2016 #26
I'd have put my hand up nxylas Feb 2016 #29

lark

(23,155 posts)
5. I had to live with him as governor for 8 years.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 01:57 PM
Feb 2016

No tears here and even a little hahahahaha is felt. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He deserves some bad results (karma) after that low down Terri Schiavo stunt he pulled. I'll never forget or forgive that indecency.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
12. ^^^^What lark said
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:54 PM
Feb 2016

and as bad as he was, I think gov. skeletor is worse. Pretty sure he's gonna let 'em frack us to the depths of R'lyeh.

lark

(23,155 posts)
28. LOL, I think of him as Voldemort.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 02:00 PM
Feb 2016

Yes, sad to say, he makes Jeb look sane. Don't know if FL can ever recover from all the harm he's caused.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
18. I don't. I am enjoying seeing the Bush name humiliated once again.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 07:19 PM
Feb 2016

Entitled asshole is getting what he deserves.

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
19. I don't get how anyone thought he had a chance!
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 09:27 PM
Feb 2016

I mean, who would have voted for Hoover's brother in the 30s?

Punx

(446 posts)
4. One of the best stories
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 01:24 PM
Feb 2016

From Iowa last night was the complete failure of Jebby after all the money he spent. He ended up with what, about 2% of the vote.

The BUSH family name can't sink low enough as far as I'm concerned.

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
10. I read somewhere earlier today
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:13 PM
Feb 2016

that each vote cost him about $3,000. Well done, Jeb!!!!!

I awarded him extra !!!'s for effort.

Punx

(446 posts)
17. I heard around $1,600
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 05:21 PM
Feb 2016

On Thom Hartmann's show this morning. But I'm rather inclined to believe your number. Would love to see the Oligarchs go broke and losing at the same time.

Extra !!!'s

Xolodno

(6,401 posts)
8. I wouldn't count him out yet.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:08 PM
Feb 2016

McCain was considered toast and came roaring back.

Plus there was no way he was going to win Iowa anyway. He is an "establishment" Repub and the "establishment" voters went with Rubio (which is less than 25% of the Iowa GOP, scary huh?)......and Rubio with his inexperience, better have an awesome team to keep getting lucky.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
11. Agreed. If he can take second in New Hampshire they will portray it as a comeback for the ages.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:49 PM
Feb 2016

The only one who is finished for sure is Chris Christie. He is no longer part of the so-called establishment lane out there. I think that voters finally saw him for who he is after he castigated that young girl who asked him why he didn't stay in New Jersey after the storm.

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
21. I think they're both finished but
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 04:51 AM
Feb 2016

I would give Christie a better chance of hanging on, He's certainly a more overt jerk, but that's an endearing quality in the republican primary voter base.

Jeb is just a craptastic candidate. Nobody cares.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
15. With a bit of luck this is the final banishment
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 05:18 PM
Feb 2016

of that horrifying family of vampiric criminals from the national political stage.

Hekate

(90,793 posts)
20. Jeb?! brought us Dubya's disastrous presidency. He was in on PNAC. He's a Bush.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 04:30 AM
Feb 2016

I laugh at him for acting like a dweeb's dweeb, but the real issue is his position in the Bush Crime Family. He has already indirectly brought this country untold harm by rigging the Florida election in 2000 and allowing his brother to be president. For that he should have been in prison, not running for president.

He's hanging on hoping for a brokered convention is my guess. I hope the entire family feels his humiliation.

People moan that the Clintons and Bushes are founding presidential dynasties but that is very wide of the mark. The Clintons are one power couple, husband and wife. The Bushes are an entire multigenerational extended family, politics and plutocracy on both sides going back to great grandparents iirc. Do you know they have at least one nephew being groomed for national office now? None of that brood ever gets assassinated, unlike the Kennedys who tried to do some good. (Not that there should ever be political assassinations in the country, gods forbid; I am just making an observation.)

I want Jeb!? crushed so badly this year that his sons and nephews and the rest of the coming generations completely rethink the idea of running for so much as County dog catcher.

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)
26. He is as dumb as Chimpy but...
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 12:03 PM
Feb 2016

I think he is more self-aware of sucking, somehow. That is why he cannot win, he knows he sucks at some level, even if he denies it on the outside. Chimpy didn't, or did not care.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
29. I'd have put my hand up
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:35 PM
Feb 2016

I'd love to be a surrogate speaker for Jeb! Provided I was allowed to improvise a little

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