Team Jeb adds Trump’s sister to the mix
Source: MSNBC (Maddow)
The Washington Posts Dave Weigel reports today, for example, on Team Jeb tackling a story about, of all things, Donald Trumps sister.
It started with a Bloomberg Politics interview in which Mark Halperin asked about the Supreme Court and brought up the fact that Trumps sister is an appeals-court judge. The candidate sang his sisters praises, but said hed rule her out for a high court nomination. Weigel picks it up from there:
Trumps quote ran on Aug. 26. One day later, National Review columnist Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out that Maryanne Trump Barry was reliably pro-choice, and once rejected a lawsuit to stop partial birth abortions for semantic machinations about when life began. Just 20 minutes after that article went up, Bushs spokesman and campaign manager tweeted it out, sexing it up a bit to say that Trump actually wanted to put his sister on the bench.
Jebs campaign manager actually pushed the story twice, paging all pro-lifers.
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Theres a legitimate question about whether Team Jeb, and in fact all campaigns, would be better off leaving candidates family members out of the debate altogether. Sure, Trump said nice things about his sister, and apparently conservatives have reason to disagree with her, but unless theres a substantive reason to connect the judges views with the candidates, its a questionable line of attack.
Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-jeb-adds-trumps-sister-the-mix
Can you smell the desperation?
Take note: when you have raised over $100,000,000 (the most money of any candidate) and have the most endorsements of any candidate in your party and -- despite being born on third base and getting every break -- you're nevertheless polling at single digits, this is what you resort to.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)If a candidate's sibling's record is fair game, then the records of Jeb's big brother and father are fair game.
lib87
(535 posts)Jeb is about to open the gates for the trump circus to go all in dragging his brother and father's presidential records out from the shadows.
And I will enjoy watching every moment.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Wow. Let 'r rip, Donald. Go after the Bushes.
lib87
(535 posts)So much material for Trump.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)Daddy Bush has plenty of dirt to drag into this. I'd like to see that--
even if it takes Trump to be the one to talk about it.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Something needs to be done.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)They seem to think he isn't going to fight back.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)This morning I heard chitchat on the a.m. shows about all the lawsuits that have been filed against Trump for various things, including his "university." The far right is going to interpret this as Trump being victimized by trial lawyers and love him even more.
Javaman
(62,497 posts)the last think he should be doing is opening up attacks on siblings.
I have a feeling he would lose in that match up.
moron.
RR2
(87 posts)Javaman
(62,497 posts)so your point is?
RR2
(87 posts)It was a supposed to be a tongue in cheek light hearted reply to your post about the word "moron". My apologies if you were offended, seems people are very defensive around here.
http://www.criminalizeconservatism.com/2013/11/who-was-that-famous-get-brain-morans-guy.html
"Get a Brain! Morans is an exploitable photograph of a man seen at a protest outside a Boeing plant in St Charles, Missouri in 2003. The infamously misspelled sign came to embody the 'proud to be ignorant' stereotype sometimes placed on midwestern or southern Americans.
Javaman
(62,497 posts)I just missed what you were driving at.
cheers.
RR2
(87 posts)Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)Not only does bringing his sister into the campaign smack of desperation, even if her record as a judge was relevant to Trump, from what I can tell, the conservative voters are not overly focused on social issues for this election. I've been surprised to find tremendous anti-Jeb sentiment. First, for his immigration stance. But, also because they see him for what he is - a crony for the 1%. I was, frankly, surprised by the latter. As far as I can tell, they're looking for a racist populist. Jeb doesn't fit the bill.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)If Jeb Bush is 'the smart one' then Dubya is even stupider than we thought.
Jeb has struck me as being really dumb with his constantly having to backtrack. Once or twice is understandable but every single time he opens his mouth? No wonder he's sinking in the polls again. People just aren't buying it anymore.
And as crass as Donald Trump is, he has a way of hitting the bull's eye pretty much all the time when he talks about the politicians. I have to agree with some of what he says about them. They are stupid. Jeb has no energy, Weiner is a sleazeball, our leaders are stupid, especially in the majority party in Congress.
But, other than that I think Trump is destructive to this country more than any politicians, but probably no more so than Ted Cruz or Dick Cheney.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)It's just that he's so incredibly, politically tone-deaf and gaffe-prone that it makes it harder to judge his intelligence.
He's a lousy politician.
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)Opening up a whole oil drum full of worms there Jebbie boy.