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Sticking to the script is not a bug in Republican candidates, it’s a feature. The eventual GOP nominee will get his or her bark scraped very well by the eventual Democrat nominee 
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Jeb!: I want Clinton to “Scrape the Bark off” of me and not Rubio. I am just helping Rubio/Trump/Canadian.
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Can I watch?
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"To beat Hillary Clinton, we need someone that has a proven record,”
But the GOP base doesn’t want someone with a proven record. The Dem base doesn’t want any record from a Bush, so I guess that leaves you out in the cold.
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First correct thing Jeb! has said in a week or two.
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Puh-lease. Bush has a proven record of leaving actual voters cold. If he got the nomination it’s doubtful whether Hillary would even have to campaign.
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Is he saying that Marco’s bark is worse than his bite?
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To beat Hillary Clinton, we need someone that has a proven record.
But all of the G.O.P. contenders have proven records. Their records are appalling - displays of mean-spirited, vindictive incompetence that make all the blood drain from your head - but none of these candidates is a mystery.
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Apropos of anything BUT politics:
A phrase like “scrape the bark off” of somebody is delightful. Anachronistic, perhaps, but wonderfully descriptive.
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Scrape the Bark off? Is that a term I’ve just never heard or a couple mixed together. Sounds like something Palin would say in one of her rants throwing random phrases together.
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Security is still reporting that Rubio refuses to admit he took the desk pens and Scotch tape dispenser from the RNC offices. Closed circuit tapes show a suspicious acting Rubio on the way to his car.
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He also said last week that the incredibly odious Babs Bush was his mom. So there’s that.
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I believe he’s right about what she would do to Rubio.
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Super Mario has leaves?
“Like a broken clock, Jeb Bush is right once a day.” - Rick Perry
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Barbara Bush addressing the question of how much television news she’d recently been watching, in light of the enormous media attention given to likely outcomes in a U.S. war with Iraq. The interview took place two days prior to the start of the Iraq War, Good Morning America, March 18, 2003:
“But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?”
Well, Marco Rubio is the Fredo Corleone of the Republican party, for sure, but Jeb Bush is the Barney Fife.
To Rick’s credit he’s used to clocks with a pm indicator light.
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Well, would she scrape the bark off his boots, too?