Here’s What I Think
Here’s the deal the way I see it.
Jeb! Bush had a plan. He was going to be the “sunny disposition” candidate, all smiles and Reaganesque charm. Then, in the general election, he was going to paint Hillary Clinton as a hard hearted, grumpy bitch, while he’s Mr. Cool.
That plan isn’t working out too well, thanks to Donald Trump.
He said last year that he would run for president only if he could do so with a sunny spirit, but Mr. Trump, the surprise leader in the polls, has turned this summer into a miserable one for Mr. Bush, gleefully ignoring the traditional rules of political engagement.
There is the personal ridicule — continually questioning Mr. Bush’s vigor, invoking a since-retracted statement by his mother, Barbara Bush, that “we’ve had enough Bushes” in the White House, and on Wednesday suggesting that Mr. Bush should stop speaking Spanish.
Bush has responded by attacking back, but he’s not very good at it. He spends most of his time answering Trump’s ridicule. Jeb! has as much chance of surviving his sunny spirit as a steer in a meat packing plant.
So Jeb! ends up chasing grasshoppers while the pigs eat the corn, chasing after pests instead of protecting the ideas of this election.
I suspect Jeb! is feeling mighty temporary when Mitt Romney starts talking about entering the race.
The sunny spirit candidate is getting sand kicked in his face and he has no idea what to do about it. Watching him try to defend being bilingual and not having enough energy is pathetic, but entertaining.
Remember how Rick Perry’s smart glasses didn’t work? Neither is Jeb!’s exclamation point.
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
The Republicans needed predators to cull the herd. Ergo Trump.
1P.A.T.H.E.T.I.C.
2I have no sympathy for candidates who enter a race and cannot successfully deliver and sell the message they themselves have authored.
Republican or Democrat, during the season, the cream SHOULD rise to the top. Within the Go Party, there’s so much scum, there may be no cream.
3Jeb!??? once said that Republicans must become an inclusive, big-hearted party that appeals to people’s hopes rather than their resentments.
I don’t see that happening in my lifetime or Jeb’s. The GOP has spent 30 years stirring up hate and fear in their base. They are continuing to do so as we write.
Micr, it isn’t just cream that rises to the top. And the GOP is finding that Trump, with his appeal to the most hateful part of the base, is exceedingly hard to flush away.
4ROFL at an image of Mittens $Robmoney as the “comeback kid” à la Bill Clinton. Bill is known as “The Big Dog,” while Mittens is better known for abusing his dog with a roof top car ride.
As for Jeb? – he should have listened to his Mama. “No more Bushes.”
If ever there was a time for a secret recording device, I for one would sure love to hear from that initial secret meeting between Mittens and Jeb?, when Mittens stepped aside to allow Jeb? to be the establishment GOP candidate.
Meanwhile, does Alfredo have any inside information on RNC expenditures? Namely the cost of antacids for Reince, as he checks his daily “outreach” data. T-Rump becoming synonymous with, “ouch! That’s gotta hurt.”
5The big chunks rise to the top in a septic tank too. Trump is proving that.
And as LynnN says, the GOP is based on stirring up fear and hatred. Trump is proving that too.
I don’t know what Carson is proving. That just baffles me.
6Carson seems to be doing way less surgery than anything else. I think he is doing some sort of transitioning. However, I have noticed that 9 times out of 10 doctors make very poor elected officials. Frist never seemed to get the memo and Coburn was just plain crazy homophobic. Carson is not really beloved by the African American voters as he often seems to be dissing them to the max.
7After hearing him speak, it seems Dr. Carson is the soft, sweet, hypnotic voice of the GOP insanity. He has the soothing tone, while his rhetoric is equally hateful as the other riders in the Klown Kar. In simpler terms, Uncle Ruckus without the ruckus.
8Really interesting that the GOPer base seems to be avoiding professional life-time politicians in favor of political upstarts (Carson, Fiorina, Trump). Looking here at my crystal ball it appears that the next “debate” is when the doo-doo gets real. The oxygen is literally being sucked up by Trump. These guys are going to be clawing for their political lives in the next round. Then, the bottom-dwelling scum suckers begin heading for the exit doors. Perry’s out, of course (like he ever had a frigging chance to start with), Krispy Kream and Snotty Walker will be close behind. Good riddance to bad crap, I say.
9President Obama must be laughing his a$$ off watching these
10clowns gagging on their own rhetoric while trying to get the electorate take them seriously. Trump’s ridiculous statements have set the bar so extremely low and the rest of them are trying to crawl under it, rather than taking the high road. Poetic justice for all the bigoted, ignorant and offensive behavior the President had to endure.
Maryelle is so right–the clowns all prefer the limbo route. Who CAN go the lowest? I doubt taking the high road is even considered a viable option with that crowd. And they will never feel an ounce of shame or remorse for the utter disrespect they have showered on President Obama. Serves those mendacious morons right when they have to fold up their tents and slink away–and a little pRick shall lead them…
11I think I’ll begin referring to the Dem nominee as “President-elect” even before the confetti quits falling in Philly. Unless the earth opens up and swallows every f’ing Dem voter the day before the election it looks like the only chance the Rethugs have of getting a candidate into the WH on January 20th 2017 is an invitation from the staff to a tour.
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