Discussion: Jeb Bush Makes 2016 Run Official With 'Optimistic' Message

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Sorry, Jeb, but as long as your war mongering brothers and his staff are your foreign policy advisors you are going to be a loser.

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What’s rather interesting is he is being treated as the front runner, defacto nominee by so much of the press…despite the fact that he is way back in the pack in nearly every poll. I have even seen several polls that have Carson ahead of him.

But you won’t be hearing that in the MSM.

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ÂżJeb? A Prince of an Hombre (but no Dolezal stuff going on)

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Minor point: His name is not Jeb Bush. It is JEB (John Ellis Bush). Calling him Jeb Bush is like saying ATM machine.

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"I will campaign as I would serve."

No doubt. You’ll court big money as you campaign, and then you’ll serve those who gave it to you.

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I can’t read this AP shit any more. Tell me, did it say how much the Hispanic crowd was wowed by him in Miami? All those Cubanos in the background couldn’t have been an accident. He’s just like his brother and all these GOP candidates…putting a few designated minority group members within camera shot, just like they do during those Republican conventions…I suspect that had he done his campaign announcement in North Florida, he would have never gotten the kind of audience the Republican party has been working very hard to eliminate from their ranks.

And don’t get me started on that sycophant who covers the Republican candidates for MSNBC, Casey Hunt. Gawd, she’s awful. Might as well consider her the very non-objective political operative working diligently for the GOP on MSNBC’s dime. She doesn’t dare say anything that goes against the people she’s covering, and she has no problem taking pot-shots at the Clinton campaign. That’s how you know she’s not an actual reporter or journalist. It all so fucking staged these days, with the excuse that ‘access’ means you have to be a toady for one side or the other.

Not impressed with any of these announcements so far…however it is siesta time!

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Nope. Once they get a phrase like “presumptive front-runner” stuck in their minds, they’ll cling to it like grim death in the face of any and all evidence things have changed. It’s almost eerie how plain facts in front of their faces don’t register.

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Not in South Florida. Or Central Florida. Cubans have been a reliable mainstay of the state GOP for decades now. JEB even prefaced one of his early runs at governor by getting someone the then republican attorney general described as an “unrepentant terrorist” out of prison…because he as Cuban and had blown up a Cuban airliner. That got him in good with the republican Cubans.

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What is he so optimistic about? That President Obama has just about fixed everything his brother broke? That he might fool some people into thinking he was adopted because he isn’t using his last name?

What does he have to worry about anyways? He’s rich not underemployed.

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“I will campaign as I would serve, going everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching – so long as I get at least 4 attempts to restate every one of my positions before being taken seriously”, Bush said to his supporters.

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I thought he was going for that JED as in Clampett vibe. All he needs is the hat and his rich banker friend. He already has Granny (Babs) in tow.

Milburn Drysdale: [dictating a letter to Miss Jane] … and furthermore, if you are late on your mortgage payment one more time you will be thrown out into the street…

Jane Hathaway: Chief, she’s eighty-five years old and in a wheelchair!

Milburn Drysdale: Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know… change that to read, you will be wheeled out into the street.

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Even with Jeb’s best shot…he won’t make it out of the primaries! If he’s serious about running, he probably should have ran under the “independent” label.

All of the downsides, he mentioned in his speech today, was initiated by his older brother, Georgie!

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Isn’t the latter what he calls his sugar daddies?

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While looking for non-existent WMDs in a soon-to-be-named country.

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Nah, he has that Hispanic flavor all over, after all, to them he is ÂĄJeb!

My question will he respond if they pronounce it h, not j, as in jefe Jeb?

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The drunken Sarah Palin as Mrs. Drysdale

Granny: “Who’s that?”
Jed: “That’s Miz Drysdale. Stewed to the gills.”

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He’s Jewish?

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We are not going to clean up the mess in Washington by electing the people who either helped create it or have proven incapable of fixing it,

So his entire political party. I’m down for that.

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“The party now in the White House is planning a no-suspense primary, for a no-change election,” Bush said. “The presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next.”

Exactly right. Instead, it should be passed down from father to son to other son.

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