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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 06, 2015, 03:38:37 pm
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/gop-2016-debate-jeb-bush-donald-trump-121076.html#.VcNz-_mGMYs
How Jeb and the GOP Got Trumped
The establishment wanted a sweet ’16, not a 17-candidate pileup. Here’s what happened.
By GLENN THRUSH and ALEX ISENSTADT
August 06, 2015
Jeb Bush, the man who would be frontrunner, was as surprised as anybody when Donald Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential race in June. His instinctive first reaction was to hold his tongue, and his advisers agreed the best option was to keep his distance from an interloper who wanted to drag him into a reality-show shouting match.
Bush stayed strategically silent even when Trump delivered his infamous crack that some Mexican immigrants were “rapists.” It wasn’t easy, considering Bush speaks nearly flawless Spanish, backs comprehensive immigration reform and is married to the former Columba Garnica de Gallo of Leon, Mexico.
Like everyone else, Bush soon found Trump impossible to ignore. When Trump reposted a nasty tweet a couple of weeks after his contentious announcement speech— “Bush has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife”—the former Florida governor was forced to respond. “You can love your Mexican-American wife,” he told one interviewer before telling another that Trump was “preying on people’s fears.”
The half-dozen conservative senators and governors who had planned to run before Bush brought out his shock-and-awe fundraising campaign, had to laugh: They viewed Bush himself as an intruder, a political semi-retiree who sat on the sidelines for eight years while they fought Barack Obama. Now it was Bush’s turn to rage at an outsider.
“Seriously, what’s this guy’s problem?” he asked one party donor he ran into recently according to accounts provided by several sources close to Bush—and he went on to describe the publicity seeking real estate developer now surging in public polls far ahead of Bush and all the 15 others in the Republican field as “a buffoon,” “clown” and “bleep.”
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I am for Ted Cruz but getting a kick out of Trump! It is hilarious, the way Trump befuddles conservatives and liberals alike. They just don't get it - that we like Trump's demeanor; he's not a boring politician. Looking forward to the debate this evening. Cruz is the only one, I think, who has not lambasted Trump verbally. Cruz is the smartest hombre in the bunch by far!!!
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I am for Ted Cruz but getting a kick out of Trump! It is hilarious, the way Trump befuddles conservatives and liberals alike. They just don't get it - that we like Trump's demeanor; he's not a boring politician. Looking forward to the debate this evening. Cruz is the only one, I think, who has not lambasted Trump verbally. Cruz is the smartest hombre in the bunch by far!!!
No question about that IMHO!
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I am for Ted Cruz but getting a kick out of Trump! It is hilarious, the way Trump befuddles conservatives and liberals alike. They just don't get it - that we like Trump's demeanor; he's not a boring politician. Looking forward to the debate this evening. Cruz is the only one, I think, who has not lambasted Trump verbally. Cruz is the smartest hombre in the bunch by far!!!
Can't argue that point but watch your backside on here for stating anything positive about CRUZ or TRUMP even if you would not vote for him. Some want this to be a BUSHIE forum but they are real easy to get a rise out of. Don't take it seriously though they are just having a little fun with the keyboard. :silly: