Discussion: Stephen Colbert Pays Tribute To Latest 2016 Casualty: Jeb Bush (VIDEO)

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Such biting satire! A pleasure to watch night after night. :slight_smile:

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Very funny. I don’t watch much TV now that my only regular shows–Stewart and Colbert–are gone. But Colbert is still very very good when he hits his mark, as he does so well here. Thanks for keeping me informed.

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Wasn’t Jeb supposed to be “the smart one?”

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JEB seemed to have fallen under some bizarre spell - even a real simpleton could not have appeared to be as much of a simpleton as JEB managed to appear - so much of the time.

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Here’s how the not smart one burned through $130 million, and didn’t win one state. It was the least successful spending binge in campaign history.

Positive advertising: $84 Million. Private clubs: $94,100 The Yale Club, Nantucket, Chicago and elsewhere. Valet parking $15,800. People (the cost of organizing on the ground): $8.3 Million. The consultants: $10 Million. Pizza: $4,827. Branding: $88,387. $48,544 in Las Vegas at hotels and casinos owned by Adelson. Travel and airfare $3.3 million.

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Colbert is truly one of the most brilliant satirists of our time.

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Dubya’s plan worked
 he dared Jeb to run and, by Jeb’s loss, made himself look positively not as dumb as a stump.

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Smart isn’t worth anything in GOP politics.

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Yes
 Which is why he had no chance at being the nominee

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Just out of curiosity, where is the other $26M? Is it still in the bank?

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Between the seat cushions in cars and planes or under hotel beds. When you’re spending other people’s money, you don’t have to keep track of it like regular people would do. Seriously, this is all that was reported that was on the bush ledger.

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Hmmmm. A 20% shortfall in the accounts paid ledger ought to interest the FEC. Of course, I’m sure their reporting to the FEC is more complete /snark.

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He was like doofus dad on 50’s sitcoms, Ozzie Nelson, Ward Cleaver, etc., He just showed up while the family was underway with their lives, got their attention, said a few things, and then returned to the newspaper on the sofa.

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RIP JEB!!!
He will be remembered for his JOB CREATION thru donations by BIG BUSINESS and they’re very ‘SPEICAL INTEREST’ in him as President. His Corporations-are-people-too, JOB CREATORS
lived up to their ENTITLEMENTS by supporting his run for the WH. kudo’s to George’s legacy, thank you for JEB!, HE WAS so entertaining the VERY short time he was with US.

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All the advantages of name recognition and unable to overcome name recognition – just like Hillary.

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“How do you say, ‘Hasta la vista’ in Español?” Colbert asked.

JEB? knows, unlike Cruz!

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Almost every time JEB? opened his mouth it made him seem dumber. Also funny that Jeb had the worst result after Dubya made an appearance.

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