Hey Jeb! Only Losers Use The Racist 'Free Stuff' Line to get elected

[UCmeNdc]

Where have we heard this before?

Speaking to South Carolina primary voters, Jeb! "Fifth Place" Bush said this:

"Our message is one of hope and aspiration," he said at the East Cooper Republican Women’s Club annual Shrimp Dinner. "It isn't one of division and get in line and we'll take care of you with free stuff. Our message is one that is uplifting -- that says you can achieve earned success."

Hmmmm, that line sounds familiar:

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/hey-jeb-only-losers-use-racist-free-stuff

[pampango]

1. He's going "Trump" -“hardworking” (white) Americans who are under siege by “parasites”, ie. the poor

Right-wing producerism.

Donald Trump has presented himself as an “everyman” who can speak for the “regular” people who feel alienated and frustrated by the Washington D.C. “insiders” who do not look out for the “little guy.” This is the crudest form of populist politics. Trump then aims his supporters’ anger towards an enemy: immigrants from Mexico who are coming to American to supposedly steal jobs while they rape and murder white women; or the Chinese he presents as a stereotypical devious and sneaky “yellow peril” Asian foe that only Trump can outmaneuver and conquer.

In this script, Donald Trump then promises to protect benefits like Social Security and health care, while creating a more fair tax code for “hardworking” (white) Americans who are under siege by “parasites”, i.e. the poor on one extreme, and the corporate monied classes on the other. Trump’s “makers and takers” language is then mated with hostility to some type of Other in order to excite and mobilize conservatives via right-wing populist zeal.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/24/8_reasons_white_america_falls_for_demagogues_like_donald_trump_partner/

The old 'free stuff' (producerism/racism) tactic works with the republican base.

[Gothmog]

2. Jeb is making the same dumb claims as Romney

Jeb is running to the right and will be unelectable if he is the GOP nominee