He's running such a bad campaign it's comical. I can't believe the plutocrats coughed up $120 million for this.

There's a reason his brother ran before him... he was the best they had.

That's what I was thinking good thing trump has it in the bag

I think Jeb could have been a better candidate than his brother had his brother not run first. Most of Jeb's struggles are caused by his brother's presidency being an abject failure. It seems like the family network assumed that Jeb was going to be the first of the two to run for the White House but a national candidacy was delayed because he somehow pulled off the impossible: finding a way to lose a gubernatorial bid in 1994. If he had won that race then Jeb probably would have been the one to run in 2000 with George continuing to serve in Texas term after term as planned, but he was beaten by a superior politician in Lawton Chiles and it allowed his brother to jump in front of him and, as a result, lower his ceiling now.



The funny thing is that you actually believe this.

The ironic thing is you can't and won't accept this will be our new supreme leader to usher us into an era of greatness

Judging by this it would seem you don't know what the term "irony" means. Considering I have a strict adherence to data and evidence it doesn't leave much room (any, actually) for happy-feeling delusions. Anyone who thinks Donald Trump is going to win the election is delusional. He practically has the smallest chance for victory as any major-party candidate in modern history who has temporary held a polling lead in a year before an election; he might fare worse than Cain/Bachmann against Obama.

He might be able to steal the Republican nomination (if he buys it), but that would say more about the sad state of the modern Republican party than him or anything else.

My grandmother was a teacher in the early 1960s. Ought her opinion on education issues be taken seriously to a global audience? And besides, all of this is inappurtenant, Jeb has a relatively strong environmental record as governor and accepts climate change. He's on record recently as saying humans contribute to climate change.



What other big name Republican candidate has a legitimate chance of winning the 2016 election? I can't think of one. All the other ones are powder kegs waiting to explode, or too small to make an impact. Despite a poor campaign, Jeb still remains very much in the race. That means something.

This post was edited by Caedus on Sep 30 2015 07:08pm

Apparently means the nomination can pretty much be bought by plutocrats hahaha.

I don't know how broad your definition of "big name" is, but Rubio has just as much of a chance to win as Bush does. Cruz has a decent chance himself.

Again, like in the last thread where you said the exact same thing, I am not talking about the primaries. I am talking about the presidential election. Of which Cruz has no chance of winning, and Rubio little either due to his rather extremist tea party political views. A Libertarian with social conservative views isn't going to win the presidency.

Ummm that is any party. We're talking about the anti-democratic biases inherent to capitalism. The Democratic Party is a little less buy-able because its voters are more critical in thought than conservative voters, but millionaires working for billionaires is pretty much how our political system is accurately described.

This is why we can't trust the political system to solve our problems. Our leaders aren't working on solving our problems, they are working on administering them within the interest of capitalism.