The humiliation of Jeb and the family Bush

[cali]

is a highly enjoyable spectacle. I really believe that he and his family thought he'd stroll to the nomination and the White House. Watching him sink and flail is deeply satisfying.

[virtualobserver]

1. what pisses me off is that it is so sad and pathetic that I have to catch myself feeling sympathy...

for him....for the guy that stole the 2000 election for his brother.

[lame54]

19. snap out of it

[Helen Borg]

27. I feel no sympathy...

[Hortensis]

66. Yes. Suspect Bush egos are tremendously underestimated.

They see this bizarre election behavior as the electorate's shame.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. I had a slightly different reaction... Jeb is SUCH a lame candidate, I'm disappointed he won't be the Rethug nominee...

not that Bernie won't wipe the floor with whomever those creeps nominate.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[virtualobserver]

34. Bernie can handle anyone

Democrats have been playing footsie with Republicans for too long. They have given Republicans a free pass on a whole range of issues, partially because some of them were participants in some of what has occurred.

Bernie is going to play Hardball.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

64. No doubt!

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. Jeb - I defunded Planned Parenthood in Florida; do same federally.

Think of that when u feel sympathy for the jerk

[Liberal_in_LA]

48. Jeb -Abortion ok when LIFE of mother at risk, not just her HEALTH. (Nov 2015)

[virtualobserver]

50. The reasons are endless

My point is that watching him embarrass himself this badly, when so much money came in behind him and with father and brother as ex-Presidents, his humiliation is so complete that just as a human being I can imagine his pain.

One thing for sure.....and I don't know if his son George Prescott Bush knows it yet, but the dynasty is over.

[lastlib]

59. personally, I hope the "die-nasty" starts soon!

I want to piss on a couple of graves. Like a racehorse.

[truebluegreen]

2. Had someone tell me last spring

that of course Bush would be the nominee--he had all the money and the name (oddly, she didn't think the name might be a minus as opposed to a plus).

I looked at her a little cross-eyed I guess (social function, and we'd never met) and she offered that people were just "tired" of Obama...I asked if that was because he was a Kenyan Muslim Socialist and she vehemently agreed. Exposure accomplished, I rolled my eyes and dropped it.

[yeoman6987]

5. The primary hasn't started yet.

I don't put anything past the bush's. The RW crazy Repugs didn't want Romney but they got him anyway.

[NJCher]

9. People are starting to come around to the idea that the bush days are over

I was listening to a pollster on our public radio, and the truth is that the demographics have done him in.

It's just the facts of the matter. Now we have to worry about people like Ted Cruz.


Cher

[Hulk]

13. Cruz is one caniving, under handed piece of snake-oil slime.

I still say, beware of pAul rYan. He's the "silent hero"...and unless there is something that prohibits him from taking the nomination, I think he could upset the apple cart.

[mercuryblues]

57. Apparently

there is...His Muslim beard. I kid you not.

http://www.ibtimes.com/does-paul-ryan-have-muslim-beard-amid-spending-bill-criticism-republican-house-2243220

Does Paul Ryan Have A 'Muslim Beard'? Amid Spending Bill Criticism, Republican House Speaker Fields Personal Attacks

[truebluegreen]

25. The mission I accomplished

was to "out" a RWNJ as such.

[bulloney]

41. What's amazing is that people like the person you're referring to act like W's presidency--

and all of the incompetence, lying and corruption that led to the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression and two totally f***ed up wars--never happened. In fact, some of these goobers would argue that they're all Obama's fault.

This is what 25+ years of lies and distortions from Faux Snooze, RW talk shows and the rest of the lazy-ass news media have done to this country.

[PyaarRevolution]

62. What's worse(Franklin Pearce).

Their great grandfather Franklin Pearce(?) was a screw up too. He was a drunk but people can be functioning alcoholics. More than anything he was a hot mess. Nathaniel Hawthorne's piece may have got him elected but his conduct in office the first time saw the Republicans nominating someone else for a second term.
So I ask you, why did George W. Bush get the nom. for the second term given the epic failure he was for the first, lying about Iraq and the "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" et al. That embarrassment alone should've seen him barred from a second nomination. Instead the establishment Republicans say "Screw the good of the nation, we'll hold ranks and cover behind party". That conduct alone is disgusting and unconscionable.

[madaboutharry]

3. No sympathy here.

Jeb has no self awareness. He is entitled and spoiled. He should have listened to his mother. She probably saw this coming.

[DonCoquixote]

4. beware

as long as Jeb has money, he will be a threat. Even if Trump or Cruz picks him as a VP, he will be a threat.

Let me be blunt, whoever picks him as VP better have a medieval style food taster.

[NJCher]

10. Jeb's purpose in life

as long as Jeb has money, he will be a threat.

Don't know if I agree with that. Jeb made a great sink hole for republican campaign donations to go nowhere.


Cher

[philly_bob]

6. George Bush took 'cuts' in the presidential line, screwed his brother.

Jeb was the one the family wanted to be president.

W's incredible screw-ups eliminated his brother's chances.

I suspect that is the family dynamics of the situation. Remember, the father cried when discussing W's performance as president.

[Blanks]

11. Those in control of such things...

National elections, that is. Figured when they made the two of them (Dubya and Jeb) governors, they could get one of them to be president and really do some damage, but not both.

Jeb has to be operating without the machine that supported Dubya. His success certainly seems to support that theory.

[3catwoman3]

51. Remember, the father cried when discussing W's performance as president.

As well he should have.

One of the receptionists at the peds office where I work is a Republican. Not a RWNJ, and actually a very sweet person. Her family recently took a vacation, and I heard her telling someone that they had gone to the Bush library and it was "very inspirational." I had to bite my tongue not to say that the only thing the Bush presidency inspires in me is the need to puke.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

7. American's will do the right thing when...

they have tried everything else

[Hekate]

8. I think he's hanging on for the brokered convention. Bush and Cruz: both dangerous that way.

But yeah, I agree with you: my heart just bleeds for the Bush Crime Family troubles.

[keithbvadu2]

14. troubles?

My mind wanted to read that as Bush Crime Family Chronicles.

[LongTomH]

35. Yeah, I'm still fearful about what may come out of a brokered convention..............

..............which will be a forecast of more dirty tricks in the general!

[oldandhappy]

12. whole family is not 'aware'

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. The arrogance of that family is limitless. I really don't think they can feel humiliation.

As much as I'm enjoying watching Jeb! fail, I'd enjoy it more if I thought he and his family were beginning to realize just how bad an idea it was.

[roguevalley]

29. I'm still barfing over the spew that Babs was

"America's Grandmother'. Remember?

Hurl

[Major Hogwash]

16. Fuck Jeb Bush!

Him, his brother George, and his father!

[arely staircase]

17. Yeppers

[NBachers]

18. One of the rare gifts of this election season, so far.

[JI7]

20. based on the way he comes across I'm thinking even without trump

He still would not be doing well.

He always comes across as not wanting to actually be there.

[Helen Borg]

28. Come on! Give him a break!

[NCjack]

40. Poor JEB! He needs some puppy kisses. I think that in the next

GOP debate, Trump will disembowel him. Maybe Trump will accuse him of stealing the 2000 election for his brother and then point out what a disaster two terms of "W" was.

[Gmak]

21. How crazy is it that a democracy would even contemplate having a dynasty in charge?

I have been mildly horrified since their announcements, that a Bush AND a Clinton were vying for our highest office. Talk about 'power corrupting and absolute power'... If this were the case in UK, France, Sweden etc. can you imagine the scorn of our pundits and talking heads? Thank goodness, Bernie is openly talking about oligarchy. It's scary to think we no longer have a democracy - ask Jimmy Carter - but the way back is not by nominating, much less electing, a member of that oligarchy! That's why I will devote the last ounce of my ancient, feeble energy to promoting and working for Bernie.

[geek tragedy]

22. Jeb=Stannis Baratheon. nt

[SandersDem]

23. One name will take care of any sympathy

Terry Schiavo

[SCantiGOP]

24. I agree, but it's still not enough

Considering what his asshole brother did to this country and the world.

[caballojm]

26. I love the smell

of schadenfreude in the morning.

[Liberal_in_LA]

56. lol. yeah

[First Speaker]

30. How about sterilizing the Bush family...?

...I mean, I'm not in favor of abridging anyone's Constitutional rights or anything...but I'm not a fanatic about it, either...

[mountain grammy]

32. It's one of the few bright lights of the GOP campaign,

watching the foolish Bushes on display. This family has caused far too much grief and heartache for Americans.

Truly the Family of Secrets!

[valerief]

33. The PNACers need to just create personal Pearl Harbors for the other candidates.

That's how they get what they want.

[maindawg]

36. He just has no talent.

The truth is that to the Republican in today's America, facts do not matter. What actually happened does not matter. Issues do not exist other than scary Muslims or mexicans. All jeb has to do is say how he would like to bomb Iran, Syria, Isis, France and build a wall and all Mooslims are bad and drill baby drill ,we know what works. Jeb knows what to say. He won't get with the program I don't know why. He is a stiff. That's why.

[rhett o rick]

38. I agree. I think they were going to sell him as the lone sane candidate in the group

of nitwits, but poor Jeb can't play the part.

[Mira]

37. Watching this has been

one of my joys in 2015 - and I have sorely needed some joy.
I am looking forward to the utter and final destruction of anything that remains positive about the entitlement the Bushes seems to feel is theirs. It was actually a surprise to find out the "smart one" is socially graceless, not very articulate, and as inept as the rest of them and not hiding any mental ability because it's not there to be hidden.

[rhett o rick]

39. Don't count out the Bush Crime Family quite yet. They still have a lot of money behind

them and I don't believe that Karl Rove has been idle.

[Doctor_J]

54. agreed. he's not dead yet

[PeoViejo]

42. Throw him an Anvil

[Cyrano]

43. Jeb is the Fredo of the Bush family

I always thought it was George W., but it turns out to be Jeb.

Call him "Fredo" every chance you get. If it catches on, it will sink any hope he has left.

[Chakab]

45. From what I've read, the two younger Bush brothers, Neil and Marvin, are even worse.

There's a reason that they never even tried to run for public office.

[Chakab]

44. The people who should be embarrassed are the pundit class in Washington who've been telling us that

Jeb was "the smart one" for the past decade. He's just as inept as his brother when it comes to policy but much less likable and totally incapable of mounting an effective campaign.

Without his family name, Jeb couldn't get elected to his local school board.

[SmittynMo]

46. I can't wait for the day

he announces he's dropping out.

It will be such a happy day.

[Ivan Kaputski]

49. I guess it's back to the booze! Maybe for both of them.

[Doctor_J]

55. fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

No, but fat, drunk, stupid and rich isn't bad

[Babel_17]

52. His attempt to rewrite the history of the invasion of Iraq failed

And for that I'm glad.

[AZ Progressive]

53. The Bush Family reaps what they sow

[Fantastic Anarchist]

58. It definitely is satisfying, but I'm very weary about Trump. n/t

[jalan48]

60. I think it will be his turn in 2024.

[chapdrum]

61. Don't underestimate the Bush Syndicate

"Family of Secrets" by Russ Baker tells quite a bit about the quasi-seditious crew, especially Prescott Bush and GHW Bush.

Fun fact (p. 474): Brother Marvin was on the board of directors of Securacom, the company that provided security for WTC.

[tavernier]

63. But I know...

It's my own damn fault.

Woooo Hoooo!

Finally, a few Jimmy Buffett lyrics written in our state that you screwed over, will finally come back to haunt you.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

65. The Bush Crime Family isn't above a few bumps along the way.