The Wheels Come off Jeb’s Victory Wagon

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/06/29/the-wheels-come-off-jebs-victory-wagon/

As the campaign entered the month of June, the supposedly seasoned politico was looking incompetent. He badly bungled an easy question about his brother’s disastrous invasion of Iraq, fell behind in key states, and watched as his campaign staff fell into disarray.

As one close ally put it, the Bush operation will now be like “Pickett’s Charge” to win the nomination. Now, a mere six months before the 2016 primaries begin, Jeb is hitting the reset button. He’s shifting his strategy and style from cruise-control to overdrive, including getting a new campaign manager notorious for full-throttle and nasty attacks on opponents.

But wait — George Pickett was the Confederate general who led 12,500 men in a suicidal infantry assault on Union troops at Gettysburg in 1863. Marching in formation over an open field for nearly a mile, the attack was a horrendous folly that produced a humiliating defeat for the Confederacy and left more than 6,000 of Pickett’s men dead.

That’s an unusual model for a presidential campaign. But Jeb’s got a strategic weapon that poor George Pickett didn’t have: a $100 million war chest. Double the amount raised by all the other Republican candidates combined, it surely can cover up a lot of Bush’s incompetence.

[Skittles]

1. he is an entitled little fuckwit

gawd

[madokie]

7. We have two of those running this time

you can be the judge as who the other one is.

[delrem]

2. So Jeb can't even sell Iraq to Republicans.

Nevertheless I call them ALL on it, all of the politicians who greased the wheels to "Shock and Awe".

The war criminals deserve no mercy.

[nxylas]

3. "Now, a mere six months before the 2016 primaries begin...."

I'm in hell!

[Betty Karlson]

4. America doesn't do coronations

No matter how much the 1 % would like to see the establishment of a permanent nobility.

[Scuba]

5. JEB. Just Elect Bernie.

[DeeDeeNY]

8. Exactly

[LWolf]

12. Yep.

[dreamnightwind]

6. this is good news!

I have long feared the return of the Bush family (and, more importantly, the neocon team that would come to town with them) to the White House. I had Jeb figured as the smart one who could look highly competent and acceptable but who would lead tragic policy choices.

Surprised how little he has shown, he has no passion and doesn't seem that bright either, more like a dull middle-manager company man type.

[PRB]

9. If his monkey brother got elected,

then nobody should be surprised. Nobody will care and this asswipe will be their path of least resistance.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. His brother was (s)elected

With help from his brother.

[PRB]

11. I don't know where these people get off.

Ronald Reagan is still the biggest acting joke all the presidency. Donald Trump is now spouting. Guess no publicity is bad publicity for him.