“But Jeb is the nicest, wisest, most caring, loyal, disciplined”, she said, adding, “Not by me!” when the audience laughed.
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“I don’t know how women can vote for someone who said what he said about Megyn Kelly”, Mrs. Bush said. To which I think Bush might say: Please clap?
“I think a lot of people are holding it against him even before they listen to him”, said Katelynn Freeman, 26, a nursing student from Derry. She’s also had to listen to Trump insult her son, who he’s called “dumb as a rock”. This response seems both uncharitable and unlikely to change the minds of people who might be unsettled by the prospect of a third President Bush.
“You helped design George W. Bush’s immigration policy”, Rubio said in a jab at Cruz. “We need to get back in the game to say, ‘We have your back”. Bush says Noelle has been drug-free for more than 10 years.
Bush used his mother’s appearance at the restaurant to needle Trump, noting on Twitter that while the NY businessman canceled a rally in New Hampshire due to the weather, that his mother was able to handle it. “I embrace that each and every day”, he said to applause.
What once stewed so much cynicism in my dying heart, now brings forth subtle empathy for the man I had vowed to oppose.
Or that time he told a first-time voter, “I want to be your first”.
On Wednesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper opened an interview by asking whether Bush’s campaign logo- Jeb!- may need to be modified to end with a question mark.
Conservative blogger Eric Erickson said Bush supporters became more convinced it was time to pick the protege over the mentor. For another example, Bush talked quite a bit at how effective he was at using Florida’s line-item veto.
Bush and New Jersey Gov. Christie had already ramped up their criticisms of Rubio on the campaign trail last week, with Christie calling him “the boy in the bubble” and Bush disparaging his accomplishments.
She lashed out at Trump openly as well, referencing his sexist comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly: “I mean, unbelievable”.
“We can’t build walls around to protect us from all the goings on around the world”, he continued. His New Hampshire audience – en masse – astral projected to another plane of existence rather than listen to the exhausted, hackneyed imbecilities of the GOP candidate who best represents the dying establishment wing of his party. Ridge was appointed by President George W. Bush.
“Politically, it’s a tough sell to tell a pro-life mother – had her daughter been raped – that she would just have to accept that as a sad fact”, he said.
Served up this gem, Bush talked about the outdated technology of the VA, then pivoted to talking about his book Reply All, and then went on to detail how went after deadbeat dads and reformed the child-support system in Florida.
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Jeb Bush did mention Russia’s “invasion of Ukraine” and the allowing of ISIS to create a caliphate as events that would have been dealt with “quietly” with a “big stick”, under his leadership, as opposed to with Obama’s “grandiose language” and then doing nothing.
