{"id":5018,"date":"2015-10-29T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:40:10","slug":"the_epic_failure_of_jeb_s_campaign_illustrates_the_incompetence_of_republican_political_professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/29\/the_epic_failure_of_jeb_s_campaign_illustrates_the_incompetence_of_republican_political_professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epic Failure of Jeb\u2019s Campaign Illustrates the Incompetence of Republican Political Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Two of the most prominent media themes or narratives today: “Jeb Bush didn\u2019t pull it off.” Jeb Bush didn\u2019t pull it out. Jeb Bush walked right into Marco Rubio\u2019s trap. And the second primary narrative in the Drive-By Media today is: “Donald Trump? Man, is he fading! Oh, man, look at Trump! Why, he didn\u2019t insult anybody last night. He wasn\u2019t the most spoken candidate. He didn\u2019t have the most speaking time last night. We barely heard from him in long chunks.” So the two themes are “Jeb blew it royally” and “Trump is fading away.” <\/p>\n

And the Jeb Bush campaign, folks, and Jeb Bush himself illustrate — this is the real point — how bad the Republican professional election businesspeople have become, in my humble opinion. The Jeb Bush campaign, the advice that he\u2019s getting, the way they think that Jeb needs to act and things that they think he needs to do to rebound to me are great evidence that time has passed them by. I\u2019ll just give you one example here, and I\u2019m gonna expand on this in the next segment. But isn\u2019t it rather obvious now that the Republican primary electorate is fed up with politicians, fed up with establishment elected officials that they are considered the problem?<\/line><\/p>\n

Every time Jeb Bush — and if he did it once, he did it 20 times last night — started reciting his great effort as governor, “I\u2019ve worked every day; I\u2019ve cut taxes every year,” I ended up screaming at the TV, “Jeb, don\u2019t you…? Every time you cite your political resume, it\u2019s a negative! People are tired of politicians and people who talk this way and recite their resume. It\u2019s people of that ilk who are considered to be the problems,” and yet his consultants told him to just keep reciting the resume, what a great job you did as governor and how you worked with Democrats and how you crossed the aisle and how you did all these things.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s death. It was.<\/p>\n

To me, it was stunning avoidance of reality. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to this Jeb Bush business. Look, I got a lot to squeeze in here today, and I want to get your phone calls. We got a great board already lining up here and an audio sound bite roster that\u2019s to die for. But the Jeb Bush thing is really instructive. Once we have a nominee it\u2019s gonna be really important to find out, after we have a nominee, who\u2019s running the campaign because if it\u2019s anybody at all involved with the Jeb Bush campaign, it\u2019s problematic. People right now want nothing to do with politicians, professional politicians. The way they talk. The way they describe their resume, their enhancements, that\u2019s the biggest turn off in the country right now, on our side of the aisle, at least. <\/p>\n

In this Republican primary period the last thing people are going to be moved by is somebody\u2019s professional politician resume. And that\u2019s all Jeb Bush has offered throughout these debates, is to highlight what he did as governor of Florida, how many tax cuts here and how much he cut government here, or grew that or whatever. And last night I finally said, “Jeb, telling people how good a politician you are is not gonna work. In fact, it\u2019s gonna kill you. It\u2019s gonna hurt you badly.” Take a look at the effort that was made by the Bush campaign to save his campaign last night. <\/p>\n