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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb. Bush burned through $150 million in 250 days and lost three states badly.
Such a touching end to a political career.
Notice I now use a period instead of an exclamation point when I say "Jeb."
It gives finality.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Initech
(100,103 posts)Takket
(21,626 posts)not shedding too many tears over their money being wasted. am shedding tears thinking about what $150 million could do for people who actually need.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)compare. What did HRC spend to beat Sanders in NV.?
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Igel
(35,358 posts)We remember what fits our preconceptions.
We don't bother to recall what doesn't fit our preconceptions.
This doesn't fit our preconceptions. Next election cycle when it repeats, we'll again be saying, "Most years it would have worked" and be thinking, "It so worked in 2016."
It's like any advertising campaign. They can spend money on round-the-clock ads to get me to buy carob-coated noodles made out of squirrel droppings as an ice-cream topping and I'm just not going to yield.
But if you need something like this, as soon as you suspect maybe it exists you'll go out of your way to find out where you can get one.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Had to get along on his real one, which doesn't yet exist.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)May as well have torn it up and thrown it into the crapper.
Maybe he can get Whistle Ass to shove a bugle up his bum and fart "Taps" over the corpse of his barely noticeable campaign.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)dembotoz
(16,834 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)as once believed.