Jeb! hanging by a thread

[swampy]

Jeb was the darling of the establishment GOP and made they mistake of not paying attention to the electorate. Now that the people have rejected him the party is peeing their collective pants trying to put humpy dumpy back together again. Their panic comes from knowing they do not control the front runners. Looks like the "people" are having a ball shoving Trump down the throats of the king makers. I'm loving it.

[hal]

swampy wrote:
Jeb was the darling of the establishment GOP and made they mistake of not paying attention to the electorate. Now that the people have rejected him the party is peeing their collective pants trying to put humpy dumpy back together again. Their panic comes from knowing they do not control the front runners. Looks like the "people" are having a ball shoving Trump down the throats of the king makers. I'm loving it.

me too - the greatest implosion of a party since the Whigs

[pdq]

Here's a nice interactive graphical representation of average polling data from RealClearPolitics that I hadn't personally discovered until today:



This is nationwide data, I guess. You can nicely see Carson's rise and fall, Cruz taking off in November, and Trumpy's bumpy path ever upward. And you can see the sad green line of Bush, inexorably drifting ever closer to the oblivion of "other".

Wow, has presidential politics changed.

[Speedy]

I fear Mr. Trump and Sen. Rubio. They could beat any Democratic candidate. Gov. Bush's campaign is based on being the 'smarter brother' and that isn't impressing many voters, although he is in the pocket of the plutocrats and that means he'll be in it to the end. It will be very, very interesting.

[sekker]

I am amazed. The last two Repub candidates - Romney and McCain - at least had credentials.

Christie is the only one from this list IMHO that has the chops to do the job.

[RgrF]

Wouldn't it be interesting if both major parties were to end up nominating "unelectable" candidates? A Bernie vs. Donald final could actually produce enough panic to bring the capitalist/corporatist elements in both parties together an "anybody but Sanders or Trump" coalition.

The professional pols, let's dub them - the governmentists, would be a natural ally as would most elected officials nationwide, add to this the media moguls and virtually everyone else with a vested interest in the status quo and you have a third viable political party.

Think of the entertainment value.

[hal]

Bernie vs. Donald would be a laugh riot! I think the dollar would lose half its value before november, but it would make a great reality tv show.

[Ombligo]

The adage is that the candidates get worse with every cycle.. Imagine 2020

(assuming there is anything left to have an election)

[pdq]

The latest whisperings out of Politico:

POLITICO talked to nearly two dozen major donors, and most say they are waiting for what one veteran Republican and former Bush 43 administration appointee described as the "family hall pass" to jump to another campaign after the New Hampshire primary.

"Hey, I need you to throw away money on Jeb — out of loyalty," a Bush fundraiser has told donors recently.

"Donors I've talked to are desperate not to abandon Jeb because of their long bonds and loyalty with the family, but they are also recognizing there is no ROI [return on investment] on this campaign," said Rick Wilson, a veteran Florida political operative who is backing Rubio. "The sense of these folks is it is so sad. They whisper to each other, 'When will Jeb go?'"

...Much of Bush’s Wall Street support network will shift to Rubio.

Cute. "I need you to waste money on Jeb - out of loyalty".

But where is the profit in it?


(Bush donor meeting)