Jeb Bush, worst candidate ever: Does this man even want to be president?

[DonViejo]

A string of dumb mistakes and "walk backs" is making the former frontrunner look like this cycle’s Rick Perry

JOAN WALSH

Oops, he did it again. Jeb Bush had to walk back another dumb comment Tuesday night, after he told the Southern Baptist Convention, “I’m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.”

What he meant to say, Bush now claims, was that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get that much federal funding – even though the context of the remark made clear that he was talking about futile GOP plans to transfer that funding from Planned Parenthood to other health agencies. That’s when he mused that it might be a tad too much cash to spend on the ladies, anyway. His walk back made so little sense he might have to walk it back.

So far in this campaign cycle, Bush has made Rick Perry look positively presidential.

Look at all the statements Bush has either had to walk back, claim he “misspoke” or contend were the result of misunderstanding a question, in the six months since he began to “explore” a presidential run. He opened his campaign with a foreign policy speech in which he inflated the size of ISIS by 10 and confused Iran and Iraq. He then told Fox’s Megyn Kelly that he’d have invaded Iraq even knowing what we know now, then claimed he misunderstood her question, and then changed his answer several more times.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/jeb_bush_worst_candidate_ever_does_this_man_even_want_to_be_president/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "The smarter brother." LOL

He wants to be President about as much as Fred Thompson did, and is about as qualified.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Mama and Papa Bush want him to save the family legacy ...

but so far he's proving it true; they're corrupt idiots.

[deutsey]

3. He wants to eliminate health care coverage and make us all work longer hours

What's not to love?

[Gothmog]

4. Jeb is making a ton of unforced errors

[HughBeaumont]

5. It's like I said on FB:

"Even his war criminal brother's campaign team wasn't this kindergarten."

The guy pretty much expects the same canned audiences his brother had, and when someone challenges him, his handlers brush them off as "liberal activists" or some such shit.

[Buzz cook]

6. He might just be in it for the money

Get lots of donations, run a crap campaign, lose a primary, take all the money home.

Not a new idea people mentioned how lucrative just running was in 2012.