Who Would Have Ever Expected That People Would Know That Jeb! Has a Last Name?
Remember when Dubya choked on popcorn? Jeb! choked on fundraising.
Jeb Bush is shaking up his struggling presidential campaign, ordering across-the-board pay cuts, downsizing his headquarters staff, cutting ties with some consultants and refocusing his efforts on retail campaigning and on-the-ground organizing in the early voting states.
Here’s what I think. Every time this happens, Mitt Romney puts on his dancing shoes. There’s no way that party bosses are going to let Donald Trump or Ben Carson be the nominee. Mark Rubio isn’t even ready to be vice president. Carly Fiorina? Sober up, dude.
So I am pretty sure that Mitt is having daydreams of the GOP coming to him and begging him to run. They’ll even promise to give him the weekends off to be with his family.
Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.
Heck, they’ll promise to give him seven days a week to be with his family. They’ll just pick a Rovian VP to actually run the country. (They might just pick Rove.)
1Lyin’ Ryan has agreed to be both Speaker of the House and President, if he can be guaranteed nights and weekends off with a continuation of his 93 day work year.
As for Mitt waiting in the wings, he’s too much the RINO for the rabid base. Plus, he has about as much a chance of people forgetting his 47% remarks as Jeb(?) has of people forgetting he’s a Bush.
The rest of that “deep bench” is either certifiably insane or awaiting indictment.
2Can’t imagine a better scenario for the democrats than running against any of these losers. They only appeal to stupid white men and a small number of self-loathing white women. There just aren’t enough of these to elect a republican president. Oh, and Mittens can forget about his dancing shoes, though it would be loads of fun to see him lose again. God, watching these clowns, it’s becoming obvious that GOPers really cannot learn. They are that dense.
3Wow, in that picture Dubya looks like the sober one.
4Jeb! isn’t the smart one, the articulate one, or the handsome one. He’s just another Bush.
5PKM, the “deep bench” is looking pathetic in addition to “certifiably insane or awaiting indictment”. Your description couldn’t be more succinct.
6Hate to burst your bubble,but dumbass dubya fought and lost (on a chokehold) to a super bowl pretzel which the Secret Service captured and made their new mascot.
7Last time, I sortof figured that was what Sarah Palin was expecting too–that if not approved in first round, she would be floor-nominated and in by a land-slide at the convention. Reality has NOTHING to do with how some of these people think. You can tell by how they believe that “everyone” thinks/believes/practices…same as them.
8Is any of this surprising anybody? Did anyone think there would be 15 Republican nominees for Prez on the ballot? This is process of elimination: Who’s the craziest of all?
Trump is trending down. Carson is trending up. When people realize he’s just as looney as Trump, he’ll start trending down. After that it’s anybody’s guess. It’s like watching a merry-go-round; it keeps going round and round with the horses going up then down. Who knows what klown will get the brass ring.
9Awa
10Imagine all the money a rebublicans would save themselves if the election cycle was 4 months, rather then 18.
11@Coprolite, the Canadians were a little upset because their election season ran 11 weeks, 4 longer than usual.
Another reason to move to Canada. I can’t believe we’ve been stuck with these fools for what feels like years already, and a year from now the election will STILL not be over.
12Running short of money? Maybe his wife is his campaign finance manager.
13Nope, not Romney, for at least three reasons:
I don’t think they would have ever gone for Trump, but Carson might have been the choice if he had less baggage. I’d, instead, been seeing Huckabee and the Earl of Slime from your state, but then Huckabee started going all out secessionist — not just claiming that Kim Davis and anyone else could ignore the SCOTUS if they had religious objections to SSM, but now expanding that to gun dealers.
14Between that and his suggestion that selling debtors into slavery was a wise and ‘Biblical’ solution, I think he’s put himself outside the pale even for Republicans.
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So just think how satisfying it will be, particularly for Texans, to simultaneously vote FOR President Hillary and AGAINST the Teddy Bore.
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And if you saw Hillary’s interview on Rachel, she has *whew* understood that what matters is not just her own election, but all the down-ballot ones. Now if we can only find a few Texans who are willing to spend the time and money at least challenging the Gohmerts, Sessions and the rest.
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(I dream of an openly gay challenger to Louie. The publicity alone would bring in all sorts of support, and while Gohmert would still, probably win (this time) it would shine such a light on Republican homophobia that it might bring out even more gays to vote against generalized, not specifically homophobic, Republican candidates.)
Mitt, a re-run? Y’all have just given me something more to chuckle about! Love ya!
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