How Donald Trump Broke Jeb Bush

[Octafish]

How Donald Trump Broke Jeb Bush

Jeb was supposed to be the guy who could win the election because he could win Hispanics. And then Trump turned that asset into an albatross.

by Ruben Navarrette, Jr.
The Daily Beast, Nov. 30, 2015

EXCERPT...

That candidate was supposed to be Jeb Bush, who had all the ingredients of being the most Hispanic-friendly Republican candidate in history. Bush speaks fluent Spanish, has a Mexican-born wife, spouts moderate views on immigration, and won more than 50 percent of the Hispanic vote in each of his Florida gubernatorial races in 1998 and 2002.

Bush was supposed to be the peacemaker who mended fences with Hispanics, and reassured them that Romney’s cold shoulder notwithstanding, they were indeed welcome in the Republican Party. Mi casa es su casa.

But with a series of deft maneuvers, and a little political jujutsu, Trump managed to turn Bush’s asset into a liability that essentially took him out of the race.

When Bush described as “an act of love” the concept of a Mexican immigrant traveling north to the United States—even without proper documents—in order to reunite with family members or to support a family back home, or when Bush spoke to Hispanic crowds in Spanish and fielded questions from Spanish-language media in the same language, or when Bush told an audience in New Hampshire that he had a “grown up plan” to deal with immigration that combined border security with earned legal status for the undocumented, Trump pounced. And pounced. And pounced some more. In tweets, speeches, and jabs, Trump has learned to effectively use Bush’s own words against him.

On one occasion, the weapon wasn’t Bush’s choice of words but something much more personal: His choice of a life partner.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/30/how-donald-trump-broke-jeb-bush.html

PS: Seafan, did you write this?

[Gothmog]

1. Trump destroyed Jeb!

Jeb! is a bad candidate and Trump took advantage

[Octafish]

3. Trump did Democracy a favor.

Whether he knows it or not is another question.

Personally, he appears to be a frustrated NAZI.

[flamingdem]

2. However Jeb! might not be dead yet

"He's just sleeping" (John Cleese) and waiting for a brokered convention?

[Octafish]

5. That may be his strategery.

The guy's burned through $100 million, so he owes some bodies a major.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/election-2016-jeb-bush-spent-millions-dollars-planes-trolleys-consultants-2161240

[localroger]

7. Jeb is pining for the fjords! /nt

[ejbr]

13. Don't you mean Jeb!? N/t

[localroger]

14. I just put the ! at the end of the sentence /nt

[ejbr]

15. Oh...okay

[kairos12]

4. Trump is Biff and Bush is Mcfly.

[Octafish]

6. McFly was a good guy, though.

Maybe Trump is Biff and Bush is Biffwannabe.

[hibbing]

8. in your face racism

I'm still holding out and saying ! will get the nomination. The establishment and their preferred candidate must be struggling with the realization of just how racist many members of their party are. I find it rather laughable that they would be surprised though. Conservatives have been against every single proposal of Civil Rights legislation. Let alone all the racist crap President Obama has had to put up with.

I wonder what Trump supporters think of when they hear his most recent wife speak?

Peace

[Octafish]

9. That's what I think, too, hibbing.

Every word you said.



Jebthro ex machina.

[951-Riverside]

10. I don't think that's true at all

If it weren't for Trump people wouldn't even give "Jeb" the time of day or even remotely think about considering him, the Bush name is toxic.

[Octafish]

11. I hope so.

In fact, Poppy Bush is why there are no Special Prosecutors around when you need one.



From Project Censored 1993:

5. IRAQGATE AND THE SILENT DEATH OF THE WATERGATE LAW

EXCERPT...

As the year 1992 drew to a close, the media seemed unconcerned with the Bush administration's covert, as well as overt, attempts to kill the Iraggate investigation. These also involved the demise of the Watergate Law, which had assured independent investigations of criminal acts by top officials. The law, which provided for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate top level members of the administration, expired on December 15, 1992.

SOURCE: http://www.ringnebula.com/project-censored/1993/1993-story5.htm

How many people do you know who know what "Iraq-gate" is?

For DUers and the interested, the late William Safire detailed how: Poppy Bush helped arm Saddam's Iraq

Get it while you can. I've noticed a lot of this history is disappearing from the DU servers and the rest of the Web. Once those of us who know it are gone, do you think Corporate McPravda and LAckademia will cover it for future generations? Going by the past 52 years, I doubt it.

[Flatpicker]

12. I'm not so sure the narrative is correct

Calling Jeb a good man, when we know who his advisory board was going to include, may not be accurate.

Trump is a bad choice, but going back to the GWB era of policy would have been terrible.

[Octafish]

19. Upon re-reading the thing, I see you are absolutely correct.

Jebthro is unqualified to serve in any office, from the Oval Office to city park doggie-do picker-upper. How my brain failed to pick that up may be a sign of oncoming disease. Here's a bit on who and what I think Jeb from 2004:

JEB Bush - - BFEE Kingmaker & Big-Time Crook

[seafan]

16. Wow, that final paragraph in the article...

Mr. Navarrette hit a fly on that one!

[Octafish]

18. Please accept my apologies. I am very sorry as I know that you did not write any of that.

The rest of the piece made me think the writer did plagiarize your outstanding work.

[seafan]

21. Heh. I know when you're funnin' me. Not to worry!

No apology needed, friend.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

Thanks for this!

[Octafish]

20. The writer guy did a nice job putting it into a package.

Now comes the ACT II, in which the villain overcomes the obstacles by having his handlers reinvent the narrative to match that of a hard-working wonk who just happened to be in bed with the worst elements of the kleptocracy.



Cover art by Gary Trudeau, from Lies Of Our Times, published in the early 1990s to correct the record of the Paper of Record.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Thanks for the link.

For all of their flaws of the Bushes, of which there are too many to enumerate, nativism isn't one of them.