Vic Berger's touching tribute to Jeb Bush

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JebBush.com redirects to Donald Trump's official website

By Mona Goldwater, Errors & Omissions Ed.

At some point along the road to the White House, Jeb Bush's team forgot to renew the domain jebbush.com.  While their official site is JebBush2016.com, clicking on jebbush.com now takes you to Donald Trump's page. . .which Trump recently and gleefully announced. This typifies the sad arc and ending of a bumbling campaign. 

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Hilarious, slightly edited version of Jeb Bush's recent debate performance by filmmaker Hot Tolerance

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All This Is That live Tweets from the November 10, 2015 Republican Debate

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

13 hours ago
Ding ding. Closing statements. 

14 hours ago
Kasich: "no more criticizing Israel in public." Worth the hand waving & interruptions? Interesting new debate dynamics. 

14 hours ago
Trump: why does she keep interrupting everyone? 

14 hours ago
Carly Fiorina got a second double ding.  wouldn't speak to Putin because we'd be coming in in a position of weakness.  Ca-ca. 


14 hours ago
Jeb. Yeah.  He came in looking for a home run.  He'll be lucky to survive with a walk. 

RT David Corn @DavidCornDC
RIght now, Bush aides are drawing straws to see who has to go out into the spin room?

14 hours ago
Carson: Our goals is not to contain them, but destroy them. 
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14 hours ago
Trump: China is the #1 abuser of this country. 

Kasich comes off like an insufferable ass. Why does he keep interrupting?

14 hours ago
Ding ding. 

14 hours ago
Did they have a secret meeting to take a pledge not to act like clowns this time?  It couldn't have just happened, could it? 

14 hours ago
Cruz:  there are more words in the tax code than in the Bible.  And none of them are as good

I forgot to mention that Senator Rubio mentioned Candy Crush in an answer.  #He'sHip?

15 hours ago
Kasich just launched the first attack on someone on stage.  He attacked Trump over mass deportations. Now Bush, Trump jump in/start slugging away. 

15 hours ago
Carson giving a mini-lecture about lies seems a little disingenuous this week....

15 hours ago
Round one over. No one has said anything crazy yet. . .or taken on any of the other candidates.
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15 hours ago
Fiorina softened last debate's helmet cut. Sounding very hoarse.  

15 hours ago
Bush:  "it may be the best Hillary can do,  but it's not the best America can do."  Looking very serious.

15 hours ago
Rubio:  we need more welders and less philosophers. 

15 hours ago
Carson speaking now.  After the past week, you expect some enormous whopper.  He, too, would not raise the minimum wage. 

15 hours ago
Donald Trump's first answer sounded sane (other than the content).

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Drawing: Faces #1270 - At the "Jeb Can Fix It" rally/rollout

By Jack Brummet

Detail:

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"Jeb Can Fix it" ish

By Jack Brummet, Election 2016 Ed.

After a week of spin, deflection, reflection, defections, and donors drying up, Team Jeb came up with their new slogan. "Jeb Can Fix it."

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Jeb's meltdown: is this the end of the line?

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.



I wonder if Jeb Bush's bizarre statement this weekend isn't on a par with, say, Muskie's '72 meltdown, Nixon's '62 concession speech, or Howard Dean's howl?

“If this election is about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, then I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives. That is not my motivation. I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that,” he said. 

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Blame Jeb Bush himself. . .not the Two Georges

By Jack Brummet, Republican/Tea Party Ed.

A piece on Jeb Bush recently appeared on an NPR program, and on their website: 

Can Jeb Bush Get Out From Behind His Family's Legacy?

Sure, he loses a few points because of the Two Georges, but his pathetic/disastrous showing (after long being the presumptive nominee) rests squarely on his own shoulders.

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Ex-Governor Jeb Bush registered to vote as an "Hispanic"

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

The New York Times yesterday carried a story that Jeb Bush identified himself as "Hispanic" on his 2009 voter registration form.  Interesting.  He owned up to it in a tweet yesterday: "My mistake." 

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Ex-Governor Jeb Bush: Running for President?

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

From Time Magazine, May 1, 2014: "Former President George W. Bush gave his younger brother Jeb his endorsement Thursday should he decide to run for the White House in 2016.

"'I hope Jeb runs,' Bush told CNN. 'I think he would be a great president. I have no clue what’s on his mind and we will talk when he’s ready. I noticed he’s moving around the country quite a bit.' 

“'Hey Jeb, if you need some advice, give me a call,' Bush said."

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Jeb Bush may have just cashed his check

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

Ex-Governor Jeb Bush has become so unpopular with conservatives that he is no longer considered a viable 2016 Presidential candidate. Marco Rubio is pulling far ahead of his former mentor and seems to be the front runner for 2016.

At the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C. this morning, Mr. Bush urged social conservatives in the audience to support comprehensive immigration reform because, “Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population.” Without immigrants, he said, the country’s population will decline and the economy will suffer.“Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans,” Bush told the gathering.  "Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”

The comments immediately rocketed throughout the web, drawing massive blowback fire from  Republican leaders. 

As Alex Seitz-Wald wrote in Salon this afternoon,  "If you're already inclined to distrust Bush, and you’re already worried about immigrants taking over the country and displacing the native native-born Americans, then Bush is basically confirming all your worst fears by telling you that he thinks immigrants are better than you: They’re better at business, they’re better a having families, they’re more valuable to the economy — they’re even younger."

The most baffling part of all this is why a fairly astute politician like Jeb Bush thought this would fly.  He was already being relentlessly hammered on several fronts for his stand on immigration reform.  It will be interesting to see how, and if, he can dig himself out of this new hole.

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