JebExclamationPoint announces 2020 bid

[Adam Griffin]

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[LLR]

I'd honestly support that

[Mike Thick]

I'd honestly support that

[Ebsy]

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

[Vosem]

Hard to say if I'd be for him, just because that might be an even bigger repudiation of Trump than a Cruz nomination, or if I'd be against him because his sh**tty campaign is the reason we're in this mess.

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

Er, yeah, they pretty clearly were.

[Ebsy]

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

Er, yeah, they pretty clearly were.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/eliot-weinberger/they-could-have-picked

[Maxwell]

Jeb's campaign was so bad that I actually ended up liking him at the end, if a little bit out of pity. Also, because his campaign was genuinely HILARIOUS.

[Young Conservative]

Cruz 2020, regardless of who wins. Ive already accepted 2020 as a loss for conservatives so we might as well minimize the loss with trump...

[Vosem]

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

Er, yeah, they pretty clearly were.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/eliot-weinberger/they-could-have-picked

Meh, very little of that stuff is all that bad and a decent chunk of it should be encouraged. It's mostly the author trying to whip himself up with his own tone and forgetting to insert paragraph breaks.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Jeb! 2020: Because what's another $130 million?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Infestations (Jeb!), show excitement (Yeb!), or emotion (Jebra!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the energy's not strong.

Jeb, 2020

Jeb's campaign was so bad that I actually ended up liking him at the end, if a little bit out of pity. Also, because his campaign was genuinely HILARIOUS.

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

Jeb! 2020: Because what's another $130 million?

[OwlRhetoric]

No more Bush. Ever.

[Ljube]

No more Bush. Ever.

George P. Bush?

[Averroës Nix]

Just because we ended up with Trump does not mean that the other options were better.

^^^

(And that's eaving aside the debate about whether Jeb Bush has more to do with Trump's success than any other person. If a widely disliked (among voters) candidate with outdated and unpopular (again, among Republican voters) policies hadn't leveraged his powerful family network to build a virtual monopoly on consultants, donors, and other campaign infrastructure within the traditional Republican mainstream, maybe things wouldn't have turned out this way. Maybe...)

Also, an entitled millionaire from one of the country's most powerful political families does not deserve anyone's sympathy or pity. It shouldn't surprise us that this is what passes for humor on late-night television, I guess, but none of us ought to be laughing along. Virtually everyone here has much more in common with the $12 per hour Uber driver who this couple of rich celebrities are mocking than we do with either the failed political scion or the cloying, sycophantic former comedian who earns millions for telling jokes written by someone else that make no one uncomfortable except for those with too little power to matter.

[NHI]

I'd honestly support that

[Fight for Trump]

I have my share of disagreements with Jeb, but I respect him utterly and I would vote for him if he ran in 2020. He was the most qualified person to run for president in years.