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Gidney N Cloyd

(19,846 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 01:42 PM Feb 2016

When Jeb! finally bows out, what will the punditry say was the reason for his campaign failing?

Whether you personally agree with their conclusion or not, what will become the conventional wisdom for his flop?


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Bush fatigue-- even repubs are sick of the bunch of them
6 (32%)
Jeb!'s lack of charisma, message, desire, vitality, inspiration, positivity, or pretty much any reason to exist let alone run
8 (42%)
General rejection of 'dynasties,' Bush or otherwise
0 (0%)
Anti-establishment feeling among the electorate finally overwhelms anti-electorate feeling among the establishment
2 (11%)
People afraid if he wins we'll never see the damned end of Ana Navarro
0 (0%)
W jumping in to "help" made Jeb! seem less like the 'smarter one'
0 (0%)
Barbara jumping in to "help" made Jeb! look like a pathetic mama's boy
1 (5%)
Voters were actually hoping for Neil, Marvin, Tito or Jermaine to run
0 (0%)
Pundits will step out of shower and tell us the past year of his campaign must have just been a bad dream
0 (0%)
Other
2 (11%)
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GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
6. Something unmanly about him. Isn't W afraid of horses?
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:56 PM
Feb 2016

Yeah, only the Bush women (Lara & Barbara) have actually bloodshed on their hands. Trump was 100% right, his mother should have run instead of Jedediah.

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
8. JEB! has only one purpose to serve in this run
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:01 PM
Feb 2016

and that is to cleanse the Bush name, and prepare the path for the next generation of the Bush Family war profiteers.

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
12. Apt analogy, cleansing the palate, because the Jeb personality is like water
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 05:39 PM
Feb 2016

tasteless. Cleansing the palate.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
9. The Dems sabotaged his campaign somehow.
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:02 PM
Feb 2016



They let the air out of the tires of his campaign bus or something.


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