Jeb Bush says brother George may join campaign to help save candidacy: ‘He is very popular’
Source: Raw Story
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Tuesday that his brother, George W. Bush, is still very popular and could join his struggling campaign.
During Fox News interview, host Brian Kilmeade asserted that George W. Bush would be a good addition to the candidates list of surrogates because he is embraced by conservatives in the same way that Democrats are fond of former President Bill Clinton.
Is that something that you think, if he could tell your story as well as you can if not better, is that something youre considering? Kilmeade wondered.
Yeah, Bush replied. It is something to consider because he is very popular. And I also know I need to go earn this.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/jeb-bush-says-brother-george-may-join-campaign-to-help-save-candidacy-he-is-very-popular/
Well, if he wasn't one before, this should really put him into the One Percenter bracket.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)Glamrock
(11,781 posts)I'd prefer a swollen asshole to a talking one...
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Yes, bring in brother George, Heir Jebber. That's the ticket!
Assclown!
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)He said he wasn't fit to live with pigs and I said he was.
I think I won!
Quasimodem
(441 posts)Pigs don't go out of their way to be dirty and smelly, it all depends upon how they are kept.
George the Lesser was kept at the White House, and yet everything he did was both dirty and smelled.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)Maybe there were instances of inspiration and clarity that I somehow didn't pick up over those 8 years.
Uh, no. I don't think so. They were as hopeless and bleak and humiliating and despairing as I remember them. The Bush brothers are by all counts incredibly stupid. And delusional, too.
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)It is a forced approval by the right-wingers when comparing him to Obama. They know he was a disaster - broke the economy and the Mideast.
But, the worst of them will swear that Obama screwed up the Iraq situation and that he was in office when the banking crisis destroyed the economy.
Bush is popular in the states that are inevitably going republican anyway, like Utah, Wyoming and the deep south. He wouldn't help in any of the swing states.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)anything to move the dial on his own popularity.
I'd be delighted if his numbers tanked even further after hauling out his idiot brother.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,029 posts)That is just too funny.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Day-um....prayers work.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Jeb! is an idiot.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)my sides!
comedy gold, truly!
BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Are you familiar with the phrase "pushing up daisies"? Well, your campaign is.
thesquanderer
(11,953 posts)Popular with a big chunk of the base, high unfavorability outside the base. Just as I think Hillary will win the Dem nomination because her popularity within the base, I could see GWB being a big help to Jeb on their side.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)Most conservatives nowadays try to pretend that his presidency never happened.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)NO ONE likes George. They like his even dumber brother even less.
Jeb's ONLY chance is to bleach his hair, grow a mustache, rename himself Marvin Melfman, and pretend that he's never heard of this Bush family that you all speak of.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He's done just about everything he can possibly do to torpedo his own campaign without making it LOOK like he's trying to torpedo it.
"Sorry, Daddy. I really tried," shrugs Jeb, just before putting a pillow over the old man's face.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)I want George to come out and campaign for Jeb. The hilarity would be great.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)realize it was a President that was saying them. Some of them were really entertaining if you blocked the fact they may be impacting your life.
elmac
(4,642 posts)lives in such a delusional world.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)I guess I've been wrong all this time. He's downright stupid.
edit: If he had any smarts at all, he'd send him to campaign for Trump.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Your campaign was on route to the cemetery anyway. Bringing your brother one would be like using one finger to push the campaign into its grave.
Mira
(22,378 posts)I will go back to church in gratitude for all that will happen, including my being royally entertained.
Jeb Bush is delusional. Why in the hell did he leave off his last name and replaced it with an exclamation mark just to now call attention to it.
He is about as desperate as he can get, and I do not feel sorry for him even a little bit.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)My brother's an asshole, but he's my asshole?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)Peace House...
BTW George, what was the noble cause those 20 soldiers from that one county in Ohio died for in Iraq.
You never answered Cindy's question.
What was the noble cause?
Oil?
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)We were volunteers. I drove van from Peace House to camp.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)I drove taxi (my rent a car from Dallas) from the Peace House to the camp, and was the Ice Man.
I went to McGregor, and filled up my trunk with ice 3 days for Ann. Filled everyone's coolers. Did you ever visit the drive through feed store / beer market there? What a trip. Throw bags of chicken feed in one side of the truck, and beer in the other. All indoors!
I was on the Ed Show a few times, and helped Ed set up his visit there. Even gave his producer a ride from Temple to the camp.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Jeb.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Heck of a job, Georgie!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Yes...please...bring out the FUCKING War Criminal.
Do not ever let America forget him...his cell at GITMO is waiting.
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)heritage of idiots in the Republican party, and the legacy in the Middle East that Georgie and his band of War Criminals left us.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)Vote for JEB! Now watch this putt!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Oh, that's the reason why no Republican has brought up his name since he was voted out of office? Because he's really popular with the GOP? Because McCain totally won against Obama because he was a Bush-surrogate?
GWB IS SO POPULAR WITH THE GOP THAT THEY HAVE TO GO BACK TO REAGAN WHEN THEY HAVE TO NAME A GREAT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT?
Elmergantry
(884 posts)Ohh, thats rich..
Funtatlaguy
(10,855 posts)Have you seen his crayon drawings, etch a sketch, oils, pastels, even stick figures.
It's truly amazing how impressively he is spending his time now.
trillion
(1,859 posts)went something like he couldn't stand all the bad talk about gw bush, he liked gw bush and wished he was president right now and their audience clapped. The wing nuts are anti-gov enough to turn against their own now but a whole lot of ones that aren't internet users will still think GW is up there with Raygun.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)groundloop
(11,487 posts)And at this point I'm convinced that wouldn't be enough.
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)If Shrub is out there on the campaign trail making an ass of himself on TV again, then it won't just hurt Jeb -- it will be very bad for the GOP in general.
So PLEASE make this happen.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)He's running for the nomination not for the presidency, yet.
On that side of the aisle, Silverspoon I probably does have high approval and high popularity.
But, even if it works and he captures the nomination, in the GE, Silverspoon II will wish Silverspoon I was on vacation on the moon.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)thing to do to bring your campaign center stage!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)This is good everyone, this is good. Jeb! and his big brother W along with Poppy and Babs, oh and don't forget Laura, the twins and...... Oh yes his kid heading the Railroad Commission in TX, oh this is gong to be great!!
Fuck us all!! But he/they are better than Trump, Inc., right??
I forgot his wife, what's her name? Pampered daughter of some rich person in Mexico. They've got the Latino vote nailed!
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)I met George Bush Sr. many times in my time in Washington.
I didn't agree with him much, but he was VERY smart, very engaged, tried (in his way) to be reasonable, was arguably a war hero, and dedicated his life to service of his country from W
A good egg, in other words, even if we disagreed on policy.
We were trying to pull in the same direction, but just disagreed what direction to go.
Anyway, I am confused how someone so smart can have at least two decidedly stupid children.
I blame Barbara.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)demand a DNA test on both of the progeny?
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)It's really amazing how utterly without clue this guy is.
-- Mal
madokie
(51,076 posts)as dog shit on the bottom of your shoe
These people, bushes, are about as tone deaf as they come. IMO
Javaman
(62,439 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)do these people live on?
chapdrum
(930 posts)Jeb! and the rest of his seditious family should be the first to inspect the neighborhood (likely for its exploitation potential).
Brother Marvin was on the board of the company providing security to the WTC.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Clueless as ever. Both JEB! and Fux Noise.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Cheney is trying to distract someone
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Oh, wait- I don't think even they would say something this silly
Tab
(11,093 posts)And spare us the horrors of going through this on top of Trump and Carson. Those two + G. W. Bush = Three Stooges and Comedy Central.
(apologies to the Three Stooges and Comedy Central)
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Yes, the Fox News crowd longs for the days of Bush, simply because he is not Obama. Some of them like his phony war foreign policy, too. He is popular in certain circles. If he coud restrict himself to particular audiences, he might help Jeb.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)2naSalit
(86,048 posts)shanti
(21,670 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)<a href="http://photobucket.com/images/gwbush" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="gwbush photo: GWBush San Diego Bush43offSanDiego.jpg"/></a>
I'm ready ,I've been tried and tested and I know how to handle this. Somebody has to whip the party back into shape.
To my party I say you are either with us or you are against us. And if you know what a bird in hand is truely worth, you may stand assured we are all in .
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Actually, on what planet is George Bush popular? I remember the Bush II years. He didn't campaign for McCain or Romney. Republicans tried to avoid talking about him when they were trying to convert me to vote for Romney or McCain. Sorry Jeb but you are done.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Since that's about the reading level of your average Jeb supporter.
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)GW Bush Quotes:
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
They misunderestimated me.
LW1977
(1,227 posts)EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Pjmask
(18 posts)Worst president ever.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)and fascist dictators!
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)At least, fewer people remember Idi Amin.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Steve, or am I thinking someone else?
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Only it was the bagpipe, not the vocal, version. See, that's another reason why people look upon Idi Amin more fondly than they do George W. Bush.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)BadGimp
(4,009 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)effort.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)where they operate in a different reality than the rest of the planet.
polynomial
(750 posts)Yet when the Bush family makes their way through politics we see evil the media will not address.
At the next Jeb Bush rally bring a bag of old shoes to fling up in the air as Jeb or George make their speech.
Don't fling old shoes at Jeb or George just bobble them in the air slightly over head in the air. call it Popping for Poppy leaping shoes up and down in a wave that makes a statement. Sort of like popping a ball slightly beyond your head, in a political rally such a peaceful bobble is not an arrestable offence yet it makes a point.
It would be a magnificent political picture with a sea of a thousand points of old shoes bouncing in a air quietly just over head not really hurting anyone yet a really great media picture that solidifies the mess George W. Bush and family with complicity with the Arabs held the door open to 911, and sacked the treasury, and introduced the new age of torture with ISIS, or CRISIS.
If anyone is Mr. Chaos, Jeb is it.
gembaby1
(251 posts)Oh dear, thanks for the laugh
Well, I guess even negative popularity is good. Ultimately he should just drop out, I mean, how much more embarrassment can anyone handle? Give up Jeb, give the fuck up...
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)Businesses connected with W. went bankrupt once. Businesses connected with Trumpty Trump went bankrupt four, that's FOUR, times. W. could run a lemonade stand, tho' not much more.
Wolf