Can Jeb fix it?
I never saw Bush as a viable candidate. Despite his establishment support, he just doesn’t have a constituency to speak of. I started saying so a year and a half ago, and there’s no reason to change my mind.
Other recent poll results, for what they’re worth:
In general election matchups, Carson beat Clinton 50 percent to 40 percent, outdrawing the former secretary of state in the share of both men (55 percent to 35 percent) and of women (45 percent to 44 percent). Clinton also came up on the short end of hypothetical head-to-heads against Rubio (41 percent to 46 percent), Cruz (43 percent to 46 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (43 percent to 46 percent), who drew less than Bush among Republican voters. Quinnipiac did not test a Bush-Clinton matchup.
Matched up against Trump, however, Clinton held a lead of 46 percent to 43 percent.
The Bush campaign has gotten to the point where I feel sorry for him. It is really embarrassing to see someone who thinks they are presidential-caliber material be so soundly ignored by the voters being polled. And it has reached a point where I cannot see him making the case to voters that he will be able to run a winning campaign against other Republican candidates, much less against Hillary. I wish he would do himself and his family a favor and drop out of the race. Oh, and while he’s at it, I would not be sorry to see him take Trump with him.
Jeb doesn;t even know the parameters of the problem(s).
This extends some of the ideas that people have expressed in comments here. Fun read.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/11/why-serious-people-support-an-unserious-presidential-candidate
What Jeb wants to do about immigration and Common Core is not a “fix.”
No amount of disparaging people with claims that open borders = “love” or implementing a sub-standard, Lefty brain-washing national curriculum is necessary will shine that, uh, turd.
JuliB, 3:45 pm — “Jeb doesn;t even know the parameters of the problem(s).”
I quite agree, despite my not getting to peek inside his head.
The man deserves better. My disagreements with him notwithstanding, he is in fact an honorable man, and I’m sorry to see him come off as he now does. I guess it’s what can happen when one lives in a blue-blood establishment bubble.
Jeb! is a sad sack candidate. He makes me feel embarrassed for his pathetic campaign efforts. Go home Jeb! and enjoy life with your family and friends.
Trump is drawing so much Democrat support that when polled Minnesotans preferred Trump over Clinton — substantially.
This reality was pulled down and edited very quickly.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/03/minnesota-media-poll-shows-donald-trump-on-top-and-defeating-hillary-outlet-promptly-deletes-their-own-findings/
Cruz is dying because he’s being whited out by the MSM.
They are mortally afraid of him.
They refuse to even include him in polling.
We now have a media colossus that believes it has the right and DUTY to run the nation — and select the national leadership.
It really is that simple.
Jeb is living in a time warp he thinks it s 1988.
It matters not that Jeb is a decent and/or honorable man. What matters are the positions he has taken, doofus positions, e.g. on Common Core and immigration. Jeb! will now fix things?
W made his mistakes, a lot of them, but Jeb is nowheres near as able as W.
The Jeb story should tell us something about the donors to his campaign. What was the one-time cash total? Something like $100 million? The donors are either 1) stupid, or 2) know what they’re buying, in the expectation they will lead Jeb if the stupid voters are sucked in yet again, that Jeb will be pushed around easily by them. And they know the voters are stupid.
And didn t his pampered dad get ridiculed for his utter amazement when a clerk demonstrated how a *bar code* worked at a check out ????
As out of touch as the other loser Hillary.
That baloney she gave about carrying/not carrying multiple devices, we re supposed to pick the appropriate answer, the one that makes her look best (her suggestion).
Frog, 7:11 pm — “It matters not that Jeb is a decent and/or honorable man. What matters are the positions he has taken, doofus positions, e.g. on Common Core and immigration.”
To me, it matters not politically, but personally (no, I am not personally acquainted with him). As JuliB (3:45 pm) implies, he has no idea what’s happening to him. In my post, I cited “my disagreements with him”; in fact, what I had in mind there were “doofus positions, [specifically including] on Common Core and immigration.”
We’re on the same page, Frog. A hearty RIBID to you!
Molly NH:
His father did get ridiculed for that, but you know what? It was a fabrication; didn’t happen that way.
Thanks, Neo, for correcting that bar code reader false meme. This is ultimately how the MSM poisons to candidates. Palin seeing Russia from her front porch is another example.
GHWB was an okay manager of the oval office. Thank the gods GWB was POTUS on 9/11/01. I found much of his presidency a wasted effort, but he answered the call and for that I am grateful. Jeb! strikes me as a very decent person, but I think he lacks the calm wisdom of GHWB and the fortitude of GWB and would make a medicore POTUS at best. We need a resolute, firm hand on the tiller after 8 years of the mannish boy. Jeb! ain’t the one… along with Kaisch, Pataki, Graham, and Huckabee. Fiorina has larger cojones than those losers.
the fabrication was news to me Neo, pitiful just another example of MSM lies ( & that is worse than not knowing how a bar code works) but it s all
*good* to USA Pravda, ( I was snookered too)
Come to think of it, ???why??? did they go after Romney regarding that hi way stop place WaWa
was it that he did not know they sold sandwiches or some such utter nonsense, 57 states though that’s a pass. A president who cannot speak extemporaneously, that’s a pass ! (Personally I feel a candidate who cannot express his *thoughts* off the cuff is a huge red flag, should never be elected in my book.) One of several red flags !
Slightly OT. Saw Rubio at a NH town hall meeting on C-SPAN last night. Very impressive. Just like a conversation among people. The questions weren’t particularly tough, but this is a man who can sit down and chat with everyday people in a relaxed, open way.
He played high school football. He did a riff on what he had learned from playing the game that was pure gold.
Still not satisfied about his inner toughness, but his electability factor seems very high to me. Especially in contrast to JEB! or Trump.
The Bush dynasty comes from an older version of America that isn’t involved in an internecine civil war. If you want to win a civil war, you have 4 options. Lee, Lincoln, Sherman, or Grant.
Things Jeb can fix