America Declines Dinner Date With JEB! Bush

JEB! CAN FIX IT !!!

(The Daily Beast) - Nobody wants to have dinner with JEB! Bush.

At least, that’s the sense you’d get from reading the comments on his posts encouraging Facebook users to sign up for a chance to dine with him. The Bush campaign’s official page sponsors a post from time to time that encourages users to hand over their names and email addresses in exchange for a chance to eat dinner with the former Florida governor. Campaign spokesman Tim Miller said the post does well for Bush, and outperforms most of their other Facebook outreach efforts. But based on the comments, you might not know it. The responses on the most recent available version of the post are overwhelmingly negative—and trollishly so.

“Winner gets to have dinner with Jeb! Loser gets to have 2 dinners with Jeb!” read the top comment written by a user named MrNoam Zsnc, whose avatar features the weird kid [banjo boy] from Deliverance.  

“Does the loser get two dinners with Jeb!?” echoed user Volodya Shevchenko, whose avatar features a cat wearing a bright red pigtail wig.

Of the 100+ comments appending that post, only 15 were even remotely positive. The rest were a hodgepodge of mean-spirited memes, poorly spelled comments, eye-rolling references to polls, and general crabbiness. Read more.