Monday, November 2, 2015

Matalin and Dowd on Jeb

"Former Bush family advisor Mary Matalin says she was “flummoxed” by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s performance at Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate.
 
The veteran GOP strategist said Bush’s decision to go after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for missing votes in the Senate was an example of “political malfeasance.”
 
...“It’s a violation of debate 101: Never ask an opponent or never address to an opponent something you know he’s prepared for, which clearly Rubio was,” she said, adding: “It cuts against his message of ‘I’m a happy warrior.’ ”
 
...“My money right now is on Ted Cruz,” she said. “Again, I’m unaligned, but I think he speaks to the myriad factions of conservatism: Constitutionalists, Libertarians, the social conservatives.”
 
“I think he’s whip-smart, as evidenced by his debate appearances, and he’s a true, true, true constitutionalist, and everything’s lining up for him,” she added."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/258764-ex-bush-family-advisor-flummoxed-by-jebs-debate-performance

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When I think of Jeb's expression and demeanor after Rubio's slap down, I can't help thinking there may actually be something mentally wrong with him. He looked like a whipped dog. He recently said he loved his father so much he would commit murder and go to prison for him. That's not too swift.

MoDo covered the Bushes at the time Jeb was running for governor of Florida, and W. jumped in and decided to run for governor of Texas. The upshot of the article is that Jeb was the one expected to be the golden boy by his parents.

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"I covered the Jeb and Junior sibling smashdown from the start. In 1993, I went on the road to watch Jeb run for governor in Florida and W. run for governor in Texas.
 
Barbara had blurted out to W. that he shouldn’t run because he couldn’t win. And when I talked to Jeb, he seemed annoyed that his older brother had jumped into the race in Texas because it turned it into “a People magazine story.”
 
...When Jeb came up with a line on the trail in Florida that worked, W. just swiped it. When Jeb said, “I am running for governor not because I am George and Barbara Bush’s son; I am running because I am George P. and Noelle and Jeb’s father,” W. began saying: “I am not running for governor because I am George Bush’s son. I am running because I am Jenna and Barbara’s father.” Karl Rove laughed about the shoplifting.
 
...On election night, W. was steamed that his father seemed more upset by Jeb’s loss than excited by his oldest son’s win. Not only did W. shock his family by making it to the Oval Office before Jeb. In the tie election, Jeb had to be prodded into helping his brother snatch Florida away from Al Gore."
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/fall-of-the-house-of-bush.html?_r=1

9 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Again, Cruz handed the hack leftwing moderators their asses - and it was glorious perfection.

Methadras said...

Jeb Bush is the younger brother trying and failing to step out of the shadow of his older brother. You can see it in his demeanor, you can see it on his face. He may not realize he's doing it, but I can see it from a mile away. He's his own man to be sure, but these things are ingrained in the formative years between siblings that run deep. If he's that easily manipulable that he would go after Rubio like this, then he is clearly a man desperate and looking for some anchor in his adrift campaign. He should just get out now.

Methadras said...

AprilApple said...

Again, Cruz handed the hack leftwing moderators their asses - and it was glorious perfection.


April, while Cruz did tell it like it is, there is one glaring thing that is being missed here and that was an opportunity by Cruz to pretty much tell every liberal and leftist in the country that they are wrong, their ideology is wrong, that their beliefs have little to no merit, that they've believed these lies for so long that they accept them as orthodoxy without question and that history has shown and proven this to be the truth. That they are regular church goers to the governments official religion, Leftism. And that he, Ted, Cruz, will bring down that house of cards post haste when elected.

That would have been and should have been his grand slam moment. I would have done it easily and without equivocation.

bagoh20 said...

" snatch Florida away from Al Gore."

There was no snatching. If it went the other way for Gore, then that would have been stolen. Gore simply got fewer votes even counting the dead ones, and if he had prevailed in court and got to decide who's votes to recount, he would have even lost by more. Multiple media outlets including left leaning ones have confirmed this.

These third person stories of personal relationships and private feelings have to be considered as pretty much bullshit. People love to gossip and the juicy stories have a life of their own on a separate track from the truth.

Trooper York said...

Everybody feels sorry for Fredo but he still deserved two in the back of the head.

Chip Ahoy said...

Threadjack. I want to talk about something else.

I was looking for the word "punk"

Found two ways for the word not in dictionaries. Kids had to make up the signs, and they work.

Along the way discovered the French group, Daft Punk, has songs that young students find perfect for practice.

I did not realize how popular this song, nor how many people used it for practice, nor just how viral one of them went, the first one I saw and judged harshly by extreme critical merits, so dismissively, so eager to find fault even to points of production, lighting, wig, choice of eyewear, ridiculous dance moves that do not interpret sound, goofy movements, wildly exaggerated signs.

I'm just an asshole sometimes.

And the music itself is autotuned to extreme to sound mechanical so the lyrics are unclear as sung. That's actually a good thing for students who then struggle to piece it together by signs.

Then on to the sixth video. A guy this time. He's a goofball I determine right off. I'm such an asshole. He says he's going to try to keep up with the first video. He saw it online and used it to practice. He is not using the song for inspiration, rather, he is using the first video as inspiration. He is trying to keep up with the first video he has as inset to his own video so you can follow both as they go, and he is brilliant. He copies her goofy dance moves too. He nails his imitation of her. And it's fast.

Three more videos of the same song translated by kids into ASL, including a group that meets in an open mall restaurant, half the group is deaf teaching the other half that is hearing this same song. Poor quality video extremely difficult to follow, exceedingly poor lighting, but interesting nonetheless, interesting to me that there is that much interest, and it's recorded. All just people having fun.

Another girl inspired by the fist video that I dismissed. Puts on a wig to copy the first, adds exaggerated eyewear to imitate the first. Kids having a blast through YouTube and parodying each other as they learn the language. Goofy as they are, I must say they sure are fun to see.

All the same song. These kids are teaching me to stop being so dismissive. I had a great time this morning seeing these videos.

/ threadjack

Trump fan said...

Lost it

ricpic said...

It boggles the mind that we're supposed to care about the family dynamics of the Bush dynasty. Like it's up to us to make it alright for Jeb after years of being hurt that the crown that was rightfully his was snatched away by doofus W, it's up to us to hand him the crown? It's the same crap as handing the reins to that other dynasty because Hillary is "owed." Worst of all we all know that it is a crown, not a temporary hire.

Punk was something I was called well into middle age. Mainly because I'm round-faced and always looked at least five years younger than my actual age. Mister is what they call me now because I'm old enough to be out of it and don't pose a threat. Ergo the respect. Quite a shock to go from punk to mister I can tellya.

deborah said...

Meth at three thirteen: Agree that we are formed in the crucible of our birth family. I don't think Jeb is toast quite yet. There is a lot of money behind him and he is primed for a come-back kid narrative.