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, I’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 month’s rent.

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Will Mom clap for him tonight? (and if she doesn’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 wouldn’t have seen Jeb declare he’s his own man, only to watch every failed foreign policy hack his brother Shrub hired standing behind Jeb… Even republicans must have passed a gallstone over that moment of facepalm.

Pack your bags Jeb, go home, it ain’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

It’s somewhat amazing that the Supergirl moment didn’t make this list.

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Forgot

How come the Lego movie slogan moment didn’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 cliche’ 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 can’t change his personality. He’s just a mellow, entitled, country club Republican who just can’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. He’s like a noir film where everyone dies and sordidness triumphs except he’s trying to be all jolly and preppie-upbeat too on top of it. It’s grotesque and repellent.

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One can’t help wondering if Jeb the Single Guy ever got laid…

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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 - it’s downright painful.

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They say people don’t vote for candidates who they don’t want to see on tv constantly for four years. I think Jeb’s doofusness fits that category. It’s interesting in small doses, but you really don’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€œIt’s a ā€˜Mr. Death’, dear. He’s here about the ā€˜reaping’?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 goat…

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