CNN reported today that the latest polls show Jeb Bush in “free-fall,” at 3% in the polls. Bush entered the GOP race with the biggest campaign chest and as the Establishment favorite.
He planned to use his success in “reforming” education in Florida as his major issue. By “reform,” he meant introducing vouchers and hundreds of charters, including for-profit charters. His calling card was privatization, not reform.
He still believes he will emerge victorious despite his current poll numbers.
Guess we won’t have to deal with the phony claims about the Florida miracle.
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Jeb is getting just what he deserves….Just desserts….What goes around comes around…My Ohio governor, John Kasich, is getting his just desserts too…..Maybe they needed the teachers’ support after all!
Jeb is looking so out of touch and lost. Maybe George is the smarter brother. Now there’s a scary thought!
George does seem like the smarter brother. How can that even be possible?
I hear that W.’s daughters and Jeb’s kids are quite bright.
Perhaps, in that family, intelligence is a recessive gene that skips a generation.
The arrogance that Jeb showed at the beginning of his campaign has now all disappeared. The country just cannot take on another Bush president. Sorry, Jeb…you were born too late.
People just don’t like establishment candidates. I get it.
Could be that the billionaire media and billionaire sponsors of the leading presidential candidates(all except for Bernie are billionaire-underwritten) no longer need Jeb Bush to be viable b/c Hillary is pulling ahead of Bernie thanks to crony endorsements from two teacher union chiefs and others now piling up from the Beltway insider crowd. Hillary is vulnerable and had to weather months of saying nothing, just smiling and mumbling, to reach December, so no other “mainstream” Wall St candidate is needed on the right, like the hapless Jeb requiring needing major rehab, opening the way for the Hun Trump to consolidate the Tea Party wing into an aggressive plurality, keeping Trump at the top of the GOP circus but a retrograde circus useful for Wall St b/c this freak show makes Hillary more “electable,” so exit “electable” Jeb Bush.
However, with crazed Trump, and with more crazed and frightening Cruz gaining in the polls, things are indeed very scary.
Exactly. This is what I fear. By comparison to Trump–and even Carson–Jeb Bush looks like the moderate.
Though I hesitate to mention… Deligate votes can be bought. Conventions are not to be ignored.. No more Bushes please.
I have no use for these idiots who ruined public ed with their thoughtless legislation. Kasich and J. Bush rightly deserve to be relegated to the bottom of the pack. Walker has already dropped out, and Christie’s poll numbers are sagging as well. When will these ninnies ever learn?
Even though Trump has no experience ruining education, I’m sure he would be just as bad. I can’t wait for him to nose dive in the polls.
The ESSA is being spun as the best thing going for republicans and deomcrats alike. However, I can’t imagine that a bill Jeb Bush is purporting himself as an author could be good for either side. Check out this video of Jeb on Fox News claiming he helped write the bill. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eMadxEnH55o?feature=player_embedded
Keep you data refuting the “Florida miracle” handy. Jeb will not go away quietly.
Green Bay QB Aaron Rogers turned down an offer to run his campaign………he said it too hopeless.
With ESSA about to pass with broad bi-partisan support I fear that public education wil not be a part of the national debate and the 35 Republican governors who think Jeb’s “reforms” are a good idea and VAM will work are now free to move forward.
Too bad, so sad. Do you think we want another Bush in the White House? Wasn’t it his brother who decided to reform education and passed it to Ted Kennedy who along with others came up with the brilliant idea NCLB who proved to be a disaster. We definitely do not need another Bush in the house.
Bush is waek, but the current Republican leaders are scary and have absolutely no regard for education…
Bush, Trump, Kasich, Rubio, Cruz, Carson: do any of them care about education? I don’t think so