Things Keep Getting Worse For Jeb

The problem Jeb has, is that one, he doesn’t believe in anything Conservative, and even worse, he is a piss poor actor, so he can’t even fake it. Two, he is a Beta male, eager to please and avoid confrontation, right to his core.

Jeb Bush went to the border town of McAllen, Tex., on Monday to raise money and to talk about immigration, in English and fluent Spanish. Because the Republican presidential campaign has been so fixated on border security and the immigrant peril — thank you, Donald Trump — it was a chance to see how the supposed expert on this fraught subject handled it.

Short version: He was awful.

In less than 15 minutes, Mr. Bush managed to step on his message, to give Mr. Trump a boost and to offend Asian-Americans, a growing population that is every bit as important as Latinos in winning presidential elections. And he failed to give Latino voters any persuasive evidence that he had anything better to offer them than his opponents in a revoltingly xenophobic Republican campaign.

The rest of the article is a repeat of the old Christopher Walken Saturday Night Live bit, only instead of demanding more cowbell from Jeb, they are demanding more Cuckservatism as the solution to all his problems. Typical for an SJW article, it is full of unintentionally hilarious gems, from the ridiculous advice:

He should never let himself say the words “anchor babies” ever again.

To the accidental mentions of how liberalism demands you ignore reality:

He tried to explain that he had been talking about “Asian people” who arrive on tourist visas through organized schemes to give birth to American babies on American soil.

Though the phenomenon is real, Mr. Bush was blasted by Asian-American groups for repeating the slur.

As in, “Yes they are doing it, but mentioning that verifiable fact is racist, so we are all going to live under a delusion.”

The article even offered advice which doubled as a sad commentary on the reality of our professional political class:

When he does choose to tell the truth, he should find a more persuasive way to do it.

The few times he said something truthful, it didn’t seem believable. As opposed to all the times he lied and was perfectly believable.

Jeb’s train-wreck campaign gets worse:

And now Bush is apparently having trouble raising money and, incredibly, paying staffers:

A prominent Florida donor backing Bush said the former Sunshine State governor and his supporting super PAC are having to work even harder to keep up the pace, as hard-money contributions have been harder to come by in recent weeks.

“The debate performance scared a few people,” said Brian Ballard, a Tallahassee lobbyist backing Bush.

When Trump says repeatedly that Bush is too “low-energy” to be president, he may have a point.

“He seems a little frustrated with the Trump thing,” the donor said.

People are beginning to realize he has the smell of a loser about him. (That and you really don’t want to get on President Trump’s bad side by supporting his enemies.)

What is amazing about this all, is how avoidable it all was. Jeb had name recognition, the network, the donors, and the support of the machine. He was running under a party which espouses an ideology that is beautifully simple, truthful, practical, and logical. He could have been the guy to save the country and protect freedom. But every element of his body is so revolted by the simple beauty of nationalistic libertarian conservatism that he will sacrifice his entire political career, and maybe even destroy the future candidacies of untold Bushes yet to come.

What do all these professional political assholes have against loyalty to their nation and its people before strangers, and the aggressive support for liberty that is inherent to small government?

With leaders like this, no wonder the Apocalypse cometh™.