Discussion: Bush: No, I'm Not Quitting The 2016 GOP Race

system1 · November 3, 2015, 10:52pm

Discussion for article #242481

caltg · November 3, 2015, 11:05pm

Jeb sure doesn’t look like he’s having fun.

fargo116 · November 3, 2015, 11:07pm

“No. I’m not quitting,” Bush replied, just before announcing he was quitting.

daveyjones64 · November 3, 2015, 11:13pm

Yeah…its REALLY not good to have to keep answering questions about when you are going to drop out. And he is getting steamed with each and every one. Given that he isn’t really known for keeping a lid on his emotional outbursts, I see “a scene” on the horizon.

irasdad · November 3, 2015, 11:22pm

Clark: “We’re ten hours from the fcking funpark and you want to bail out??? Well, I’ll tell you something: This is no longer a vacation – it’s a quest! It’s a quest for fun! You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun, and we’re all gonna have so much fcking fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our g*ddamn smiles! You’ll be whistling ‘Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah’ out your a**holes!”

ichthus · November 3, 2015, 11:25pm

The question is whether he will pull out before or after Iowa.

zakimon · November 3, 2015, 11:25pm

I think he’s on to Plan B. I eat nails for lunch too!

ichthus · November 3, 2015, 11:31pm

And quickly headed for plan C.

imkmu3 · November 3, 2015, 11:40pm

And that was the pinnacle of his career.

Both Jeb and Chevy.

lestatdelc · November 3, 2015, 11:55pm

This is approaching “Is Abe Vigoda still alive” status.

littlegirlblue · November 4, 2015, 12:09am

Bush was asked on CNN whether he was fixing to quit the race.

geofu54 · November 4, 2015, 12:37am

“I’m running for President of the United States, and it’s a serious endeavor.”

I might have been a little more sympathetic if your policy proposal were truly a serious one appropriate for that serious endeavor. Not that yours is the only one that defies the law of arithmetic, sciences, and the lesson of history, but still…

azjude · November 4, 2015, 12:44am

Look at his face, yeah he’s having ball.

overreach_this · November 4, 2015, 12:45am

As he has reconstituted W’s “Iraq Victory Team’” he’s got Paul Wolfowitz on board, but he’s got to be shaken up by losing Ahmed Chalabi! No wonder the quitter is feeling blue!

professorpoopypants · November 4, 2015, 1:26am

buzz · November 4, 2015, 1:52am

Anything is Possible -

If we recall, McCain’s campaign also floundered and almost withered away but he was able to recoup and beat Romney (?)
and ultimately got flattened by Obama.

So Jeb is saying he can copy McCain and maybe beat Trump to become the Republican nominee.
but only till he gets crushed by Hillary.

ryokyo · November 4, 2015, 2:19am

It’s absolutely amazing how far hubris and family money can push someone. His brother, The Village Idiot, is, and ever shall be the rock that this self-centered blockhead has to push uphill. Let him go play Sisyphus with some piddling small third world Na–
Oh, he is…
Nevermind.

meta · November 4, 2015, 5:56am

Jeb Shrub in the mud says he doesn’t want to let his parents down. As I recall, momma said we’ve had enough shrubs. Poppy just wants to go skydiving.

Lacuna-Synecdoche · November 4, 2015, 8:58am

TPM:

Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday in an interview with CNN that no, he was not quitting the 2016 GOP race.

If you have to tell them you’re not quitting, Jeb, then you’re losing.

dickweed · November 4, 2015, 12:56pm

“No. I’m not quitting,” Bush replied…

…just losing so badly I should quit, but I won’t because then my brother and dad will call me a quitter. If I lose I can blame it of the voters and the fact that I didn’t have a brother to help me cheat in the election.