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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen Jeb! finally bows out, what will the punditry say was the reason for his campaign failing?
Whether you personally agree with their conclusion or not, what will become the conventional wisdom for his flop?
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Bush fatigue-- even repubs are sick of the bunch of them | |
6 (32%) |
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Jeb!'s lack of charisma, message, desire, vitality, inspiration, positivity, or pretty much any reason to exist let alone run | |
8 (42%) |
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General rejection of 'dynasties,' Bush or otherwise | |
0 (0%) |
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Anti-establishment feeling among the electorate finally overwhelms anti-electorate feeling among the establishment | |
2 (11%) |
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People afraid if he wins we'll never see the damned end of Ana Navarro | |
0 (0%) |
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W jumping in to "help" made Jeb! seem less like the 'smarter one' | |
0 (0%) |
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Barbara jumping in to "help" made Jeb! look like a pathetic mama's boy | |
1 (5%) |
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Voters were actually hoping for Neil, Marvin, Tito or Jermaine to run | |
0 (0%) |
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Pundits will step out of shower and tell us the past year of his campaign must have just been a bad dream | |
0 (0%) |
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Other | |
2 (11%) |
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When Jeb! finally bows out, what will the punditry say was the reason for his campaign failing? (Original Post)
Gidney N Cloyd
Feb 2016
OP
Too many candidates for him to get traction early on? (Plus the craziness of Trump mania.)
GreenPartyVoter
Feb 2016
#2
What can we say about Rubio that he hasn't said himself-- over and over and over.
Gidney N Cloyd
Feb 2016
#4
That's an interesting theory. Cleansing America's political palate between servings of Bush.
Gidney N Cloyd
Feb 2016
#11
Apt analogy, cleansing the palate, because the Jeb personality is like water
FlatBaroque
Feb 2016
#12
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. All of the above nt
annabanana
(52,791 posts)5. +1 . . . . . n/t
GreenPartyVoter
(72,382 posts)2. Too many candidates for him to get traction early on? (Plus the craziness of Trump mania.)
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)3. you left out - empty shell Rubio more appealing than full of shit JEB!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)4. What can we say about Rubio that he hasn't said himself-- over and over and over.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)6. Something unmanly about him. Isn't W afraid of horses?
Yeah, only the Bush women (Lara & Barbara) have actually bloodshed on their hands. Trump was 100% right, his mother should have run instead of Jedediah.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)7. Today Jeb Bush officially suspended his campaign, because, Duh!
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)8. JEB! has only one purpose to serve in this run
and that is to cleanse the Bush name, and prepare the path for the next generation of the Bush Family war profiteers.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)11. That's an interesting theory. Cleansing America's political palate between servings of Bush.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)12. Apt analogy, cleansing the palate, because the Jeb personality is like water
tasteless. Cleansing the palate.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)9. The Dems sabotaged his campaign somehow.
They let the air out of the tires of his campaign bus or something.
JI7
(89,279 posts)10. the low energy thing is kind of true
oberliner
(58,724 posts)13. Donald Trump
He allowed Donald to define him as low energy and it stuck.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)14. Please clap. And vote in the poll.