Jeb! campaign consider recruiting older brother to the rescue.

[RandySF]

GREENVILLE, S.C. — With Jeb Bush struggling to connect with some Republican activists, his campaign has begun exploring whether to bring in the person it thinks may be best equipped to give him a boost with skeptical conservatives: his brother George W. Bush.

The 43rd president is a very popular figure among Republican voters and could deliver a needed jolt to his brother’s sluggish campaign.

Advisers to Jeb Bush in this crucial early primary state have asked national campaign officials in recent weeks to send in George Bush, 69, who so far has appeared only at private fund-raisers, to vouch for his younger brother on the campaign trail.

The request for reinforcement underlines the growing urgency that backers of Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, feel as other candidates vault ahead of him by stirring the passions of the party’s base.

But the question of how to use the candidate’s older brother is an agonizing one for the campaign. While dispatching George Bush to a state like South Carolina could shore up his brother’s standing with conservatives, and remind voters there of a political family they still admire, it could also underscore the impression that Jeb Bush is simply a legacy candidate at a time when voters are itching for change.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/us/politics/a-struggling-jeb-bush-may-lean-on-george-w-in-south-carolina.html?_r=0

[HooptieWagon]

1. I don't think reminding voters of Bush corruption and incompetence...

...will get the result Jeb is expecting, even among republicans.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That's not a very good idea.

But I kind of hope he does it...

[hatrack]

3. Oh, please, oh please, oh PLEASE!!!!

This will doubtless really HEB! win in key Democratic strongholds like Branson, Lubbock and Neshoba County.

[oldandhappy]

4. Ah yes, bring forth incompetence!

[Submariner]

5. Bring the incompetent alcoholic punk back on stage

I'm sure everyone has forgotten that AWOL boy with the largest most sophisticated military and intelligence apparatus on earth couldn't keep the country safe and proceeded to lose 2 wars and crash the nations economy. Sounds like a brilliant repub plan. Go for it!

[PatrickforO]

9. So what was the deal with this pic?

Was W smashed, or just losing his footing in the narrow aisle?

[Submariner]

10. Hammered at the Olympics

http://sportisall.blogspot.com/2008/09/george-bush-drunk-at-olympics.html

[PatrickforO]

11. Wow. We were assured he was sober. Seriously.

There were rumors he'd started drinking again, but...geez.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. One of the most remarkable things about that now famous pic

is how Laura is totally ignoring or oblivious to what is going on behind her, when even people around her are instinctively reacting.
There has to be increased noise coming from Bush and the guys around him.

[gratuitous]

6. Please proceed, governor

Yep, Jeb! is his own man for sure. You never saw another candidate looking for his big bruddah to help him out, didja? Thought not! Checkmate, libtards.

[PatrickforO]

7. Ah, the sweet smell of desperation.

What a joke! of course, Jeb! also said earlier that W is one of his foreign policy 'advisors.'

Seems like W should be tried for war crimes, though...

[geek tragedy]

8. Please let this happen. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Nice try. I know a Borrowitz piece when I see one....... Oh, New York

Times you say?

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. The very conservative types just dont want another bush

[cpompilo]

14. Oh THAT will work!

talk about clueless!