He’s right. Hillary would scrape the bark off Rubio. People are finding out just how green he is. He shows how little he knows in every debate.
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Shorter white-haired woman: “It’s all about me. It always has been and always will be all about me.” I think that’s working out quite well for her.
It’s increasingly working out quite well for roughly 1% of the population. I think regardless the winner in November that will continue to be so.
It sounds like something you’d hear from Matlock.
Actually, I believe Jeb picked up this colorful usage from Bush family legbreaker Lee Atwater, who said he would “strip the bark off the little bastard,” referring to Mike Dukakis. Naturally, Jeb can’t even quote his own family’s goon accurately.
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First thing I thought as well. There isn’t a Republican running except Kasich that could hold his own in a debate with either Clinton of Sanders and then only in terms of behaving in a manner befitting the job they are running for.
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Bush excels at stating the obvious.
Yeah…I found it a rather odd choice of words,too.
But then, its not surprising that when Bush actually gets something right, he uses a bizarre phrase that nobody else uses to say it.
It would interesting to see Hillary work a draw knife —
Silly Jeb! Rubio isn’t a tree, he’s a robot.
HRC will short circuit him.
At this point, I’m back to where I was a few months ago: I think Bush is the nominee. Rubio doesn’t have the chops, Cruz doesn’t have the political support, and Trump is—what’s a more buffoonish word than Trump?
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If this election is going to be a referendum on the last 16 years it would be poetic if the nominees were Bush and Clinton.
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cincypix: The eventual GOP nominee will get his or her bark scraped very well by the eventual Democrat nominee.
jebro needs to add himself to the list of non sentient trees that would be barked. it’s a long list.
Just like Trump scraped the bark of Jebya, during the primaries…
K_in_VA: A phrase like “scrape the bark off” of somebody is delightful. Anachronistic, perhaps, but wonderfully descriptive.
is it just me, or do these guys just talk funny? carson sicking a gun wielding robber on the register clerk when he was visiting a popeyes’ organization? wtf?
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“Scrape the bark off” Tuff guy…
Los vatos locos in the barrio are already low-riding to Jeb’s place to powwow.
Jeffrey: There isn’t a Republican running except Kasich that could hold his own in a debate with either Clinton of Sanders, then only in terms of behaving in a manner befitting the job they are running for.
true. kasich can come across as “normal” as opposed to totally fucking whack. when you get into his policies it is a another ballgame. plenty of fodder and bark to be scraped.
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There’s just something about this family that when they talk like tough guys you just want to cringe. Some people can radiate a sense of poise, a willingness to defend themselves if challenged, but not the Bush boys. Dubya just sounded callow. And even their dad, who’d flown combat air for Christ’s sake, couldn’t do it convincingly. But Jeb’s the absolute worst.
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Remember the movie “Shaft” with Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Bale as a spoiled (but very violently harmful to others) rich kid as one of the villains.
THAT is Jeb! 's Avatar.
Didn’t see it, but I can see what you’re saying. Kind of fits with what Amy Davidson said, comparing Trump and Bush as different sorts of bullies:
Jeb Bush is a more refined bully, who simply expects everyone to share his amazement that a person who doesn’t fit in would dare show up for a party or for a debate—the sort whose go-to insult is “weirdo.”
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