Good day all. Yesterday South Carolina held it’s Republican primary, and to no one’s surprise, Donald Trump won big. The biggest loser? To no one’s surprise, (Although the GOP(e) had hoped for a miracle), Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush ran a classic Republican campaign. Hire a bunch of inside the beltway political consultants, raise a bunch-a-ton of money, and then blow it all on one missed opportunity after the other. His consultants, following the standard consultant script, spent huge sums of money on advertising in New Hampshire and South Carolina. The results? In New Hampshire, he came in third with 11% and in South Carolina he came in fourth with 7.8%.
Bush was in trouble from the moment he announced, It wasn’t the jabs by Donald Trump, calling Bush a “Low energy candidate,” (Although that didn’t help), it was out and out Bush fatigue. People are sick of how the Bush’s have screwed over people and basically shown themselves to be not as smart as they think they are.
With Bush 1, (George H.W. Bush), people saw him as Reagan’s third term. He won the first Gulf War, (But choked on the follow up), and then blew it when he gave America the largest tax hike, at that time, in U.S. History. This after saying “Read my lips, No New Taxes!” His moves to basically undue everything Reagan did didn’t help him much. He was voted out after one term.
This brought us to George W. Bush. “W” as he is known, brought us “Compassionate Conservatism” which came to mean “Liberal Big Government.” W was well on his way to being a one term president when Osama bin Laden did him a favor and destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.
This led to the United States invasion of Afghanistan with the goal of destroying Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The problem was that W really didn’t fight the war with the goal of winning. With his statement that continues to haunt him to this day, that Islam is the “Religion of Peace,” he blew one chance after the other to crush Radical Islam. Then he decided it would be a great idea to Invade Iraq.
While our military did everything asked of them, and did it well, W Bush and his minions had no idea how to handle Iraq after we conquered it. The “Neocons” believed it would be a simple matter to rebuild both Afghanistan and Iraq into Democracies, totally failing to understand the Islamic culture. Bush finally managed to drive out most of the RIF’s from Iraq, and when he left office, handed over to that SCoaMF, Barack Obama, a country that just needed a little mopping up and some tender loving care. We know how that went.
If it hadn’t been for Iraq and 9/11, George W. Bush would have been another single term Bush president. His policies were unpopular, (Excluding the Iraq War), and his Compassionate Conservatism and desire to centralize things in Washington really ticked the base off. His outright political cowardice eventually led to the Economic Recession in 2008. His administration saw the problems back in 2003, started working on ways to fix them and when the Democrats went after him, folded like a cheap suit.
This brings us to Jeb Bush. He came in last summer thinking that he would just sweep the primaries and be crowned as the Republican nominee. He had the entire GOP Establishment behind him and his two terms as Governor of Florida made it appear that he would be a top notch administrator. What the GOP(e) failed to understand was the fury of the Republican base. After the wrecking of the country by Barack Obama and the Democrats, ramming one unpopular thing after another down American’s throats, the base rose up and created the Tea Party movement.
The Tea party and other conservative groups decided that not only were they going to get rid of the Democrats, they were also going after the “Democrat Lite” Republicans. The Tea Party groups managed to blow out the Democrats in state elections and return the House of Representatives to the GOP. They eventually returned the Senate as well, with the understanding that they would stop Obama and reverse all the damage he and the Democrats did. As we’ve seen, instead of doing that, the GOP rolled over time and time again.
This was the problem with Jeb Bush. The base saw him as just another RINO, someone who would not actually keep any of the promises he made. The base, as well as a majority of the American people, want the borders secured, the regulatory state ended and the utter corruption of the Federal government cleaned out.
What they got from Jeb Bush was “Illegal immigration is an act of love,” Common Core is a great education system and the H1B visa program needs to be expanded. In other words, Jeb Bush’s tone deafness, along with the utter incompetence of his handlers, only promised more of the same policies people have rejected. So, this time they rejected Jeb Bush. Good bye and good riddance to him and his consultants and cronies.
As Jeb Bush sails off into the sunset, here is a little tune for him to listen to.
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Adios Juan. We aren’t going to miss you.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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