Bush family gathers to rescue Jeb

[UCmeNdc]

But as George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush draw supporters together under gray skies and unrelenting rains, the gathering has become a rescue operation for a candidate who looks unable to meet the expectations of the family brand.


“The patient is either in intensive care and in need of some good doctors who can save him or being put into hospice and we’re going to see a slow death," said one K street lobbyist supporting Bush.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/bush-family-jeb-george-barbara-215151#ixzz3pgyLRTVn

[cpompilo]

1. My bet is Battleship Barbara told Jeb to hang it up.

[Bucky]

2. "Heh-heh... who's the smart one now, Jebby--heh-heh-heh. Looks like I is!"

family of knuckleheads

[callous taoboy]

3. Of all of the brilliant Americans, how did we end up with this losing trifecta?

[Octafish]

4. Well, it's complicated.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10023668975#post37

[Bucky]

7. And to be fair, I don't think they're gonna hit Trifecta in this generation

Maybe it'll take President Pierce Bush a couple of terms in the 2040s to really muck up the country.

[Octafish]

9. Hope so, Bucky. Seems that Prescott Bush and Allen Dulles never left.

Historian and political science guru Larry J. Sabato, author of "The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy," in April 1969, Prescott Bush wrote Clover Dulles:

I recall in the summer of 1961, after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs affair, you were away and we called Allen to come for supper, and he accepted. That afternoon he called and asked if he could bring a friend, and we said "surely." So he brought John McCone, whom we had known well, but had not thought of as a particular friend of Allen's. But Allen broke the ice promptly, and said, in good spirit, that he wanted us to meet his successor. The announcement came (the) next day. We tried to make a pleasant evening of it, but I was rather sick at heart, and angry too, for it was the Kennedys that brought about the fiasco. And here they were making Allen seem to be the goat, which he wasn't and did not deserve. I have never forgiven them. (Misspellings corrected here.)

SOURCE p. 368 online:

Clearly shows how the players, like the aspens, look like a forest of individual trees above ground, but really are connected by their roots underground.

[napkinz]

10. ...

[napkinz]

5. listen to mom

[retread]

6. I knew he was going to lose when he didn't buy a ranch a year before he declared.

[Bucky]

8. :O)