His early poll numbers slipping — and Donald Trump’s rising — Bush veered from the happy talk Tuesday. He took the Republican frontrunner head on, in sharper terms than he has before, and tried to position himself as the un-Trump — the candidate who will outlast the feverish summer-of-Trump phenomenon.
“El hombre no es conservador” — the man is not conservative, Bush told reporters after a Miami campaign stop.
Because we all want a President who continues to divide the country into people who speak only Spanish and people who speak only “ingles.” I am not sure what is more interesting – how good Donald is, or how bad Jeb is. You would think that Jeb has to see he alienates more rock-ribbed conservatives with that line than he will ever get back in latinos. And yet…
Bush noted his wife, Columba, was born in Mexico — and that one of his daughters-in-law (nuera, one of the few words he stumbled on in Spanish) is Iraqi-Canadian. His young granddaughters, he said, are “Texan-Mexican-Canadian-Iraqi Americans.”
That is much better than being just American. The guy spent enough time in Mexico studying the culture to be able to pronounce whether a taco joint is authentic. Yet he literally has no idea of the culture or philosophy within the Republican party. He might actually have won the Presidency, if he ran as Democrat and Donald didn’t run. Yet he has no chance as a Republican.
In a strikingly personal attack, the quiz asks voters whether they would prefer a candidate who “is a germophobe when it comes to shaking hands,” a reference to Trump’s documented phobia, Bush, meanwhile is cast as a candidate who “strives to shake every hand everywhere.”
The irony is, due to increased amygdala development, more conservatives will take Donald’s side. It is only liberals and homos who go around licking door knobs. It is very interesting that Yeb can’t see that. In every respect, he is a man on the outside peering in the window, examining a culture and philosophy he literally knows nothing of.
Other Romney-ites, watching this cycle’s candidates falling short, feel a sense of vindication after all the attacks they endured after Romney’s failed 2012 bid… Another former Romney adviser complained about Bush’s decision not to go all-in on New Hampshire, a state a moderate must win. “Romney did 100 town halls in New Hampshire from announcement to the primary. It’s madness. Bush has done only 23.”
You know it is bad when Romney’s guys, deflated and humiliated in the corner, perk up at the sight of your candidacy, and begin using it to show that they really weren’t all that bad.
The funny thing is, if Donald wasn’t in, the chances are that Jeb would have walked away with the nomination, and the Republicans would have had to watch another slow-motion car crash as Jeb handed the Presidency to Hillary.
Who says God has given up on America?
Apocalypse cometh™