Theory behind Jeb Bush's run

[C r a b c a k e]

He was actually running to help W's legacy on Google search, and he played us for chumps.

Now if you type 'Bush gua" into Google you get "Bush Guacamole" rather than the more incriminating "Bush Guantanamo".

[Fuzzy Bear]

He was actually running to help W's legacy on Google search, and he played us for chumps.

Now if you type 'Bush gua" into Google you get "Bush Guacamole" rather than the more incriminating "Bush Guantanamo".

This was a sound strategy at certain levels.  The GOP needed to improve the public perception of Bush 43 if they were going to be competitive in the Presidential race. 

Ironically, the campaign brought out just how much constituencies within the GOP disliked Bush 43, and the Bushes in general.  Bush 43's standing appears to have gone up in the eyes of moderates and independents, but down in the eyes of Republicans, who blame him for their woes much in the manner 1970s Democrats blamed LBJ for their party's problems.

[NOT gonna be banned soon]

i got brush guard as my first result and bush Guantanamo as my third result

[DINGO Joe]

He was actually running to help W's legacy on Google search, and he played us for chumps.

Now if you type 'Bush gua" into Google you get "Bush Guacamole" rather than the more incriminating "Bush Guantanamo".

And Ted Cruz hates avocados.  Think about it and it all fits together.

[wolfsblood07]

He was actually running to help W's legacy on Google search, and he played us for chumps.

Now if you type 'Bush gua" into Google you get "Bush Guacamole" rather than the more incriminating "Bush Guantanamo".

This was a sound strategy at certain levels.  The GOP needed to improve the public perception of Bush 43 if they were going to be competitive in the Presidential race. 

Ironically, the campaign brought out just how much constituencies within the GOP disliked Bush 43, and the Bushes in general.  Bush 43's standing appears to have gone up in the eyes of moderates and independents, but down in the eyes of Republicans, who blame him for their woes much in the manner 1970s Democrats blamed LBJ for their party's problems.

It is amazing the amount of damage the 2nd Bush/Cheney term inflicted upon the GOP.  Even before the devastating 2008 housing and market crash.  I remember Cheney saying we don't need huge support for what we do, we just need 50% plus 1.  And Bush, right after the 2004 election saying I have political capital, just like after the 2000 election, and I intend to use it to get things done.  Acting like they did not care at all for the future of the GOP.  Like they had their mandate, and that was all that mattered.  I knew they were being too cocky.  And God, are we now paying the price!

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

There was a Weekly Standard piece on one of the people from Jeb!'s team (I don't make a habit of reading the Weekly Standard but in this case I was on their website because I was thinking of citing something they said about Rubio's religious beliefs in a paper) where he basically said that Jeb! wasn't really running to win but just wanted to file a minority report, as it were, or create a basis for growth in future elections, of a 'politics of optimism' to counteract the nihilistic anger that he saw brewing in the GOP. Allegedly his main strategic error was assigning Cruz to the role that Trump ended up filling. He also apparently really dislikes and feels betrayed by Rubio because Rubio 'cut in line' and horned in on Jeb!'s turf by running in the same cycle--this is the sort of thing that supposedly matters a lot in the Florida GOP. I took the article with a grain of salt on Jeb!'s overall strategy, because there are any number of reasons why his people would have wanted to spin things after the fact to make the campaign look like less of a disaster, but I'm inclined to believe the stuff about his relationship with Rubio.

[Lyin' Steve]

Why would they give Right To Rise $100MM just to repair the Bush legacy?  Jeb's ads didn't do anything.