Discussion for article #242112
“We expect to win.”
So does ____________.
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We didn’t see this coming, said nobody.
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The flagging GOP presidential campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is cutting staff at its Miami headquarters to save more than $1 million per month and slash payroll by 40 percent this week, according to a Friday report from Bloomberg Politics.
“This is about winning the race,” an anonymous campaign adviser told Bloomberg on Friday. “We’re doing it now and making the shifts with confidence. We expect to win."
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…sotto voce --------‘but not with Jebba’
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Jeb!: Unlike my brother, I want to balance the budget and ensure that we live with what we have; hence the layoffs. I will win because conservatives like fiscally responsible republicans.
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Bye Jeb!!
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Feel the Jeb!Mentum!
But remember when John McCain’s campaign was breathing exhaust fumes a couple of months before Iowa?
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While recent tangles with Donald Trump have energized the campaign, Bush’s senior team recognized a more fundamental set of changes was required that didn’t involve dealing directly with the party’s surprising—and surprisingly durable—front-runner.
and in a race wherein the GOP’s insane homogeneity is the order of the day, that would require him (or anybody else trailing Trump) to be the Anti-Trump.
Good luck breaking away from that ‘orbit’.
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Well, such actions are the sign of a successful, thriving business, and everything is like business.
If he cuts staff again, he’s a sure winner.
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Classic “We’ll make it up in volume.” strategy.
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When’s Jeb! going to bite the bullet and hire Karl Rove?
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Do these cuts mean that it’s just “Jeb.” now?
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to save more than $1 million per month and slash payroll by 40 percent
If we extrapolate from those numbers it means they were spending $2.5 million per month on… staff?
You gotta move a lotta bumper stickers and lawn signs to be worth that.
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Shades of Rick Perry. A low energy version of course.
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Jeb! Meet fork.
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If I were a donor, that would send me through the roof.
He seems to be spending like a drunken whore.
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I was hunting around for a Titanic gif so I could post it and make a nasty crack about the orchestra still playing on the deck. It was going to be awesomely funny, I thought.
But then it suddenly hit me that, unless he pulls a McCain, the idea that his campaign is going down now, this early, because he’s in the low single digits behind hate spewing demogogues like Donald effing Trump and Ben Carson is actually quite terrifying and not at all funny. Because it’s not about him and what a terrible candidate he’s turned out to be (though good god, he’s been terrible). Instead, his terribleness is almost irrelevant to what’s happening here.
Instead, it could be seen as yet another indicator that the descent into unreason and nihilistic extremism on the right has reached the point that our ability to sustain ourselves as democracy has been lost beyond hope of recall.
So, yeah, that’s kind of a downer.
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is this a better example of a Bush donor?
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