Bush campaign ridicules story that it's out of cash

[seafan]

The Hill, February 18, 2016


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Jeb Bush campaign officials and a top fundraiser are pushing back aggressively against a story by conservative talk show host Erick Erickson in which he claims that the Bush campaign will stop paying staff on Saturday due to lack of funds.
Citing "sources close to the Bush campaign," Erickson wrote that there was a phone call on Wednesday night in which the news leaked out that the Bush campaign was out of cash.

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Another senior source familiar with the Bush fundraising and campaign machinery described the story as "complete bullshit."

"F------ Marco Rubio got a third place in Iowa and a fifth place in New Hampshire, and he's trying to drive us out of the campaign. It's ludicrous," the source said.

"It's a f------ civil war (with Rubio), that's what it is ... Jeb Bush is a proud dude. ... We are not going to announce to the world that the campaign will finish on Saturday."

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Emily Benavides, a Bush spokeswoman, said, "Erick Erickson's a great guy. Clearly the report is 100 percent inaccurate, and it's something that is being pushed around by a desperate competitor."

Rubio is currently in third place in the RealClearPolitics average of polls, 6 points ahead of fourth-place Bush.

Fer cryin' out loud, that's an absurd insinuation! ---say the Bushies

Jeb Bush, "a proud dude", is also a viciously vindictive dude.


The milquetoast act is just that.

[PoliticAverse]

1. There is a lot of money behind Bush so I'd be skeptical of any story that has him out of cash. n/t

[Octafish]

2. Fer cryin' out loud, where'd you ever hear such a notion?

BRRRRRR-WHIRRR-GZUP! DING!



BRRRRRR-WHIRRR-GZUP! DING!

Fer cryin' out loud, where'd you ever hear such a notion?

BRRRRRR-WHIRRR-GZUP! DING!

[KentuckyWoman]

3. He looks like he's been working on the side as Mike Tyson's punch bag.

The campaign is near the beginning and already he looks like shit. The rigors of the White House would kill him in a month.

[brooklynite]

4. UPDATE: Politico confirms the story...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027624406

[Botany]

5. He'll be out by Sunday

Although I might be wrong I bet if JEB! comes in 3rd or below he will
be gone ASAP. And although JEB! had a shit load of money his donors
will stop funding him.

[seafan]

7. Toy turtles, the "!", the contact lenses, 'Jeb can fix it' slogans, Ma, W.,---all for naught

The Atlantic, February 18, 2016

.....After news of the Haley endorsement leaked, (Jeb Bush) lashed out during a trail stop.

“It’s all decided, apparently. The pundits have already figured it out. We don’t have to go vote. I should stop campaigning maybe, huh? It’s all done,” he sniped, then recovered, adding: “That's not how democracy works.”

That recovery was a little late: In reaching for pugnacious underdog, Bush had instead come across as a peevish and petulant. Besides, he’s not just fighting off questions from pundits, but also from supporters.

“During the question and answer period following an unusually hot-tempered 30-minute rendition of his stump speech, Bush received unsolicited advice from three audience members in succession, each encouraging him to be tougher,” Politico’s Eli Stokols reports. “It did not improve his mood, which was noticeably tense from the get-go.”

As Saturday’s crucial South Carolina primary draws near, Bush is pulling out every remaining trick he’s got. There’s the “hot-tempered” speech, a somewhat more fiery version of his low-key, wonky presentation throughout the campaign, the one that earned him the nearly fatal “low-energy” label from Donald Trump. After months of keeping George W. Bush in mothballs, worried his still-toxic reputation would be a drag on Jeb’s chances, the campaign finally brought the former president out for an event on Monday in North Charleston. The candidate even dropped his trademark rimless glasses in favor of contact lenses, a move that he insisted wasn’t about campaign optics—so to speak—even as he admitted that he’d never worn contacts before. (Members of the Bush family have long struggled with “the vision thing.”)

How much benefit did George W.’s appearance do for his brother? As I reported at the event, it mostly served to show just how much better a politician the former president is.....

....the takeaway was clear: Thanks—truly, sincerely, thanks!—but no thanks.

I really hope you're right, Botany, that Jeb quits by Sunday.

Imho, Jeb still has lots of havoc to wreak in Florida through his right wing proxies in the state legislature. Lots more attacks on our water supplies and quality; more Everglades pollution by his Big Sugar buddies; more years robbed from climate change planning; more years lost before we ever achieve high-speed rail; lots more money to siphon off from public education and funnel it to charter school operators, online education for schoolkids; more private school vouchers to force into the state constitution; more teachers to berate and unions to sully; more NRA-friendly laws to push through the legislature; more interference into private end-of-life decisions; more offshore drilling; more voting rights to steal from minorities; more unpunished election fraud.


An embarrassing spectacle of himself might signify a permanent power loss for him in Florida.. I am thinking that these are his lines of thought right now:

What are my chances of running the table at the convention, without torches and pitchforks along Pennsylvania Avenue like W. had?

and

Do I want to stay the big cheese in Tallahassee, so I can continue my quest for obscene wealth?


A humiliating campaign wouldn't help the second one. Florida will be a hill to die on. Imho, if he drops out, it will be just prior to the Florida primary on March 15. But your idea is lovely to contemplate, Botany!


So, what's it gonna be, Jeb?

[Botany]

8. “That's not how democracy works.” JEB!

Please tell me more about how democracy works JEB! because after all DBT, Florida 2000,
and bush v Gore are such good examples of a working democracy.

[IDemo]

6. Any brokered convention talk for Jeb is codswallop at this point

The concept of a room full of cigar smoking Brylcreemers selecting the Establishment One despite his languishing in single digit polling is simply not realistic.