Discussion: A Guide To Jeb Bush's Most Awkward, Self-Deprecating Moments

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Thnx, Katherine. John Ellis Bush needs to be memorialized and your comprehensive yet poignant paean to the man that is Jeb. is the best kind of journalism. I kinda feel sorry for him, in a way - $3,000. a vote, Iā€™m just saying, he would have done better to slip a grand a piece into the pocket for every swing voter he may embrace and do far better.

I know I would have said I would vote for him if he gave me a thousand bucks~and let my conscious live with me as I pay another monthā€™s rent.

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Will Mom clap for him tonight? (and if she doesnā€™t, will he give up?)

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Someone, a confident or close family friend needs to take Jeb aside and give him the hard truth, Too soon Jeb, too soon. I almost feel sorry for the guy, his big brother so ruined the Bush brand Jeb would be lucky to get a job in the Florida statehouse.

But then we wouldnā€™t have seen Jeb declare heā€™s his own man, only to watch every failed foreign policy hack his brother Shrub hired standing behind Jebā€¦ Even republicans must have passed a gallstone over that moment of facepalm.

Pack your bags Jeb, go home, it ainā€™t happening.

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It was when he spit shined his brothers boots.

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Two things

Slight though

If JEB was running the campaign that he had envisioned, then Trump would be complaining over reports that he has a Mexican love child.

Second

Itā€™s somewhat amazing that the Supergirl moment didnā€™t make this list.

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Forgot

How come the Lego movie slogan moment didnā€™t make the list?

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Jeb Bush = puh - thet - ick. And cannot escape it.

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John Ellis Bush = The sound of one hand clapping.

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ā€œPlease, if you believe in fairies (err, fairy tales), clap!ā€

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This is clicheā€™ but honestly, when you look up Derp in the dictionary, there is a picture of Jeb! the idiot alongside the definition.

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Some of these clips are almost Romney-awkward.

Jeb!

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He was sunk from the moment Trump called him ā€œlow energyā€ and he had no sharp reply. And with all his money and consultants, he still canā€™t change his personality. Heā€™s just a mellow, entitled, country club Republican who just canā€™t break with his entitled family and who has no real reason to run for president.

I suggest he turn this weakness into a strength with a career change and go into stand up comedy. Kind of the entitled Republican Rodney Dangerfield.

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Thing is, leaders make you hope. We can survive, they tell you, we can thrive, we can even live our lives with a bit of dignity and meaning. Jeb takes all that away. His entire public life is a testament to his conviction that you have to crawl, that there is no dignity possible. Heā€™s like a noir film where everyone dies and sordidness triumphs except heā€™s trying to be all jolly and preppie-upbeat too on top of it. Itā€™s grotesque and repellent.

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One canā€™t help wondering if Jeb the Single Guy ever got laidā€¦

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Haha! Poor Jeb!!!

On Rachel Maddow last night, she showed more scenes from the ā€œPlease clapā€ event. Twice the lights inexplicably dimmed down to darkness, and the second time he was all, ā€œGee wizz. Again? Someone is playing with the lights? Come on now.ā€ Haha.

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Jeb!'s nosedive is just amazing - he got the entire Bush Famiglia karma dumped on him. They should have stopped him before he started and I do wish he would stop - itā€™s downright painful.

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They say people donā€™t vote for candidates who they donā€™t want to see on tv constantly for four years. I think Jebā€™s doofusness fits that category. Itā€™s interesting in small doses, but you really donā€™t want to see your President act that way on the world stage.

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ā€œ[Jeb!?] is now campaigning like a man with nothing left to lose.ā€

Columba (answering the front door): ā€œItā€™s a ā€˜Mr. Deathā€™, dear. Heā€™s here about the ā€˜reapingā€™?ā€

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his mama already told him, and us, that America had had enough of the Bush family

perhaps Jeb! should have listened to the old goatā€¦

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