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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush lays into Rubio: 'He can make grown men cry'
Snivels emotional Jeb.....
LEESVILLE, S.C. - Jeb Bush offered perhaps his most pointed remarks about Marco Rubio, calling him a gifted speaker but an unaccomplished "back bench" Senator.
"He's a gifted speaker, man. He an light up a room. He's charismatic. He can make grown men cry," Bush told a full audience at Shealy's Bar-B-Que.
"But what in his life would suggest that he can make a tough decision? Is there something in his past that would give you confidence that he can do it? Look Barack Obama is a gifted speaker ... what was in his background that could give you a sense that he could make a tough decision?"
"We don't need a talker as president of the United States," Bush said.
"He's a gifted speaker, man. He an light up a room. He's charismatic. He can make grown men cry," Bush told a full audience at Shealy's Bar-B-Que.
"But what in his life would suggest that he can make a tough decision? Is there something in his past that would give you confidence that he can do it? Look Barack Obama is a gifted speaker ... what was in his background that could give you a sense that he could make a tough decision?"
"We don't need a talker as president of the United States," Bush said.
Uhh, big self-entitled dude, where have you been for the past 7 years?
Bush proceeded to give a litany of criticisms of the Obama administrations positions.
No more red lines with no backing it up. No more calling Russia a regional power. Howd that work out, Mr. President? Bush asked, adding, No more reset buttons with great grandiosity with nothing to show for it. No more pivoting to Asia, and Asian countries wondering where the pivot went, and the rest of the world wondering, Why have you pivoted away from us? No more trash-talking. In fact, what we need to have is someone who quietly goes about the business of rebuilding our military.
Given Bushs argument for quiet leadership, Yahoo News asked if he still feels his campaign logo Jeb! and its exclamation point is the best representation of his candidacy. He brushed off the question.
Take a hike, man, Bush said.
No more red lines with no backing it up. No more calling Russia a regional power. Howd that work out, Mr. President? Bush asked, adding, No more reset buttons with great grandiosity with nothing to show for it. No more pivoting to Asia, and Asian countries wondering where the pivot went, and the rest of the world wondering, Why have you pivoted away from us? No more trash-talking. In fact, what we need to have is someone who quietly goes about the business of rebuilding our military.
Given Bushs argument for quiet leadership, Yahoo News asked if he still feels his campaign logo Jeb! and its exclamation point is the best representation of his candidacy. He brushed off the question.
Take a hike, man, Bush said.
And after the GOP debate last Saturday night in South Carolina, The Rude Pundit laid it out like no other:
(warning: language)
.....Trump committed the greatest heresy of his increasingly heretical run for the Republican nomination. He not only spoke of George W. Bush, but he raked Bush over the coals rather than adhering to a milquetoast, generic "mistakes were made by everyone." Trump laid it all at W.'s motherfucking feet: "Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. All right?...The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives, we don't even have it. Iran has taken over Iraq with the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Obviously, it was a mistake...George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East."
.....Republicans have spent the last seven years trying to erase Bush from voters' memories. They've convinced their base that whatever anger they have about the state of the nation, President Obama should bear the blame (although that's like blaming the plumber for your leak that's flooding the house). Now, Trump wasn't trying to say that Obama shouldn't have Republicans' idiot anger directed at him. But he was bringing Bush back into the equation, ostensibly to discredit Jeb and the rest of the GOP establishment. When Jeb said that his brother built "a security apparatus to keep us safe," Trump wrecked him with "The World Trade Center came down during your brother's reign, remember that...That's not keeping us safe."
Marco Rubio tried to jump in and say that he was glad Al Gore wasn't president on 9/11/01, which should have been immediately followed up with the question, "Do you really think a President Gore would have invaded Iraq?" Instead, Trump went totally Godzilla on the whole proceeding, taking a giant shit on Tokyo while burning down everything around him with his nuclear breath: "How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center -- the World -- excuse me. I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe, Marco. That is not safe...And George Bush-- by the way, George Bush had the chance, also, and he didn't listen to the advice of his CIA."
.....
While Trump is still a frightening prospect who truly has no chance of winning on his platform of rank xenophobia and absolutely no concrete plans, his purpose in this race is clarifying. He is forcing the GOP into a reckoning with its most poisonous beliefs and with its suppressed past. It's about fucking time someone did, even if that someone is a gluttonous ogre who is the embodiment of the ugly depravity of capitalism.
Meanwhile, the ghostly figure of George W. Bush is campaigning for Jeb, and he looks for all the world like a man who is so lost that his soul is already damned and he's just waiting for his body to finally give out.
Marco Rubio tried to jump in and say that he was glad Al Gore wasn't president on 9/11/01, which should have been immediately followed up with the question, "Do you really think a President Gore would have invaded Iraq?" Instead, Trump went totally Godzilla on the whole proceeding, taking a giant shit on Tokyo while burning down everything around him with his nuclear breath: "How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center -- the World -- excuse me. I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe, Marco. That is not safe...And George Bush-- by the way, George Bush had the chance, also, and he didn't listen to the advice of his CIA."
.....
While Trump is still a frightening prospect who truly has no chance of winning on his platform of rank xenophobia and absolutely no concrete plans, his purpose in this race is clarifying. He is forcing the GOP into a reckoning with its most poisonous beliefs and with its suppressed past. It's about fucking time someone did, even if that someone is a gluttonous ogre who is the embodiment of the ugly depravity of capitalism.
Meanwhile, the ghostly figure of George W. Bush is campaigning for Jeb, and he looks for all the world like a man who is so lost that his soul is already damned and he's just waiting for his body to finally give out.
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters (via The Atlantic), February 16, 2016
Two Days in New Hampshire: A Condensed Timeline of Jeb Bushs Psychological Breakdown, February 3, 2016
'Weve gone from Sad Jeb to Existentially Depressed Jeb.'
This almost escaped attention 2 days ago:
Pro-Jeb Bush Group Cancels Some Advertising in Super Tuesday States, February 15, 2016
And just what was Jeb! thinking yesterday?? Now he's posted on his Twitter page, a picture of a gun with his name emblazoned on it----?
And, yet, he's always insisting that other people "need some therapy".
The Bush Dynasty, being stripped of its power, enfolds in front of our eyes.
And for some, that clawing death-grip is the last to decay.
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Jeb Bush lays into Rubio: 'He can make grown men cry' (Original Post)
seafan
Feb 2016
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"He's gifted speaker, man. He's charismatic. He can make grown men cry," Bush softly sobbed.
Katashi_itto
Feb 2016
#1
"But what in his life would suggest that he can make a tough decision?" I don't know
Guy Whitey Corngood
Feb 2016
#2
jeb indeed made the tough decision to remove legitiate voters from the florida voting records
MariaThinks
Feb 2016
#4
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)1. "He's gifted speaker, man. He's charismatic. He can make grown men cry," Bush softly sobbed.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)9. ROFL
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)2. "But what in his life would suggest that he can make a tough decision?" I don't know
motherfucker. You tell us. You made him.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. Ruboto made a lot of grown men groan at the Foam Parties.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a41413/marco-rubio-boots-foam-party/
F'r cryin' out loud.
F'r cryin' out loud.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)4. jeb indeed made the tough decision to remove legitiate voters from the florida voting records
jeb made the tough decision to undermine and destroy democracy.
JHB
(37,163 posts)5. "We don't need a talker as president of the United States," Bush said...
...because talking coherently has never been a strong suit for the Bush family.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)6. Well, of course he could make people cry . . . .
. . . that's usually what happens when you're doubled over laughing.
Like when Rube-io speaks. Or when someone says he's a serious presidential candidate.
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)7. Is this just hinting that Rubio is ...
... a "mean, mean machine"?
Oh, well, at least it's a good earworm.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)8. Please clap?
Clap please...anybody?