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Jeb Bush says brother George may join campaign to help save candidacy: He is very popular http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/jeb-bush-says-brother-george-may-join-campaign-to-help-save-candidacy-he-is-very-popular/#.VoxI7AqbW6c.twitter ..LMAO
found this just now:
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I hate him for making me think, "Who'd have thought GWB was the smart one?"
Nay
(12,051 posts)he jumped into the race, I was sure that the 2016 election was going to be Clinton/Bush. After hearing him talk twice, I went "Nope. This guy doesn't want the job. And he's too stupid to act like he wants the job."
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)was he that stupid when he was governor?
If not, then yeah, he's blowing it on purpose. Or it is the beginning of something along the lines of a Reagan-esque story. Without the actual 'being president' part.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)a few years ago we never would have thought a Bush family member would be too moderate to even be in the running for the republican nomination
onecent
(6,096 posts)Gothmog
(145,558 posts)slumcamper
(1,606 posts)Trot out a former president/relative to throw some pitches and offer a new look.
A "hail Mary"? Not so sure, but definitely going deep into the playbook.
brush
(53,864 posts)W is despised.
djean111
(14,255 posts)It is pretty much a mirror. The GOP despises the Clintons.
brush
(53,864 posts)by the party? No candidates, except Jeb, now acknowledged as the "dumb one", want W anywhere near their campaign?
Bill Clinton is still called on to help campaigns. He was wonderful in 2012 in helping Obama's campaign.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Democrats think W is the dumb one, but W was great for the big money on the GOP side. Also, that "lesser evil" and "nostalgia" stuff will be used by both sides. We are not the audience for "W". I believe my liberal, Bernie-supporting sister's conservative Air Force Vietnam veteran husband would vote for W again. I think he would be swayed by W to vote for Jeb!, while Bill could appear in my sister's and my front yards, daily, and we would still vote for Bernie. It is all a crap shoot.
I do not think the GOP electorate really thinks W was a disaster. I really don't.
brush
(53,864 posts)IMO bringing him back will only remind everyone but the dimmest of the repug base of two lost wars, the housing crisis and the economy teetering on the cliff of oblivion.
I hope they do bring him back, though because if they do, we we dems will win going away.
djean111
(14,255 posts)They have successfully blamed all of that on Democrats. The Kochs got their money's worth on propaganda, like it or not. And other GOP voters, I believe would sit the election out, rather than vote for Hillary.
brush
(53,864 posts)Who cares if they don't vote for Hillary. They are never going to vote for Hillary anyway.
That's what the "get out the vote" drive is all about.
Democrats outnumber repugs and Dems turn out big in presidential election cycles.
They can vote for Trump, Cruz, Jeb, or whoever, just as they did for Romney and Mccain and we know what happened there.
We certainly don't depend on repug votes to win elections.
djean111
(14,255 posts)is a woman - no they will not - and that some GOP voters would vote for Hillary because Trump is so awful. No they will not. They will just stay home. IMO and all that.
onecent
(6,096 posts)Bill is going to LIVE IN THE WHITEHOUSE IF Hiliary wins..ha ha but W won't.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)brush
(53,864 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)Compared to a severe stomach flu or a migraine, his brother is very popular.
..cholera, syphilis and the black plague GWB is very popular.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)was dead, I guess he had no other comparable choice.
tavernier
(12,401 posts)Nice to know that I am quite intuitive!
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)2naSalit
(86,779 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That photo is priceless!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Gods Slayer
(52 posts)Now that more and more people realize how stupid the Iraq war was, I don't think so..
brush
(53,864 posts)I mean, c'mon, Jeb, how stupid can you be.
"George is very popular"? What the fu_k are you talking about?
God! You need to get out more.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Their only problem with Bush the younger was that he's too damned liberal.
H2O Man
(73,605 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Of those who responded to Jeb's poll at the family Christmas dinner, nearly three out of four Bush clan members said W could sit at the big boy table. That is, if you count Barb Sr. snarling, "Shut up, Jeb!" as a positive comment in favor of W, and Jeb surely does.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Imagining that scene so makes me wish we had something like the U.K.'s renowned former puppet satire show, The Spitting Image, here in the U.S. today.
Then again something like that would step on too many big, big toes - and that, to paraphrase Poppy Bush, wouldn't be prudent.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Jeb is just. . .words fail me.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)That ought to remind voters including vets about the stupjd, corrupt and criminal bfee.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Is this the same Gee Dubya I remember? Are you talking about the same loser?
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LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)be to not realize that your name is a huge liability when your brother drove the economy into the ground and presided over a clusterfuck of a war based on lies? What Democrat would vote for any member of the Bush family in the general? And the kicker is he isn't extreme enough for the Repuke base.
The only thing less popular than one Bush is two Bushes. Jeb is an idiot.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)W's popularity never waned in the ivory tower of neo-conservative echo-chambers.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Someone is making him do this, but his heart is not in it.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)He'll be in stiff competition with Carly Fiorina, of course.
Who could blame "The Smart One" for thinking The Failure Fuhrer's popular? After all, a handful of pundits are practically tripping over themselves to put lipstick on that nuclear explosion.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)We are in the primary season and if Jeb can't win some primaries he is finished. So if his brother can help with the Republican base then that might be a smart move.
Of course the general election is another matter. I don't see GWB doing any campaigning during the general election campaign. And would his campaigning during the primary season turn off some general election voters? Yes it might but Jeb has to take that chance since he needs to get nominated first before he can even run in the general election campaign.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-06/george-w-bush-could-be-key-to-stopping-donald-trump-republican-says
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)...two Bushes are better than .... Two Bushes walk into a bar .... damn. The point is you can't get fooled again.
I hope.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)But then again, they don't get a voice in this election, do they?
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)and praying Trump gets hit by a bus.