Falling in Line: Mark Levin Lashes Out at Donald Trump: ‘Might as Well Vote for Jeb Bush’

We now know how Mark Levin will spin his support for eventual GOP nominee JEB! Bush:

(The Blaze) - Conservative talk show host Mark Levin said that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was similar to an establishment Republican compromiser after the real estate mogul pledged earlier to work closely with Democratic leader in Congress.

"You might as well vote for JEB! Bush," Levin said. "I bet he would get along with Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.  Lindsey Graham gets along with them great. Marco Rubio got along with them great."

The Plot to Destroy Marco Rubio

(New Yorker) -  
As conservatives watch Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party, their reactions often mirror the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. You can find conservatives in each of the five stages. David Brooks proudly proclaimed that he would remain in the denial stage even if Trump raised his hand and took the oath of office next January. Many more conservatives remain in the anger stage. National Review recently collected twenty-two conservative writers to condemn Trump, whom the magazine called “a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”Meanwhile, as conservatives shift between the stages, there’s an effort to figure out how things could have gone so wrong. This usually takes the form of blaming Trump’s rise on someone else. For a while, the main villain on the right was Barack Obama, whose failures, it has been argued, gave Trump his opening. You can read pundit versions of this case here, here, here, here, here, and here. But the most prominent member of the blame-Trump-on-Obama faction is undoubtedly Jeb Bush, who made the case recently in an interview with NPR...Read more.

Everyone hates JEB! Bush. Right-wing media now blaming him for Donald Trump

LOOK! It's my TURN! Fall in line fools.

(Salon) - The Republican presidential race has been as bewildering and unpredictable as any in recent memory. It’s nearly impossible to say with certainty what will or won’t happen. However, it’s not too soon to say that Jeb Bush is done. An early frontrunner, Jeb’s campaign has imploded in slow motion over the last few months. He’slanguishing in fifth place now, sandwhiched between a younger Marco Rubio and a louder Chris Christie.

It’s hard to imagine Jeb turning things around at this point. Republican primary voters just don’t like him, and his entire approach to politics is ill-suited to this kind of climate. As this becomes more and more clear, Jeb faces a difficult decision: How does he want to be remembered?

As is stands, Jeb is likely to be remembered as the entitled candidate who thought he could buy his way to the White House, but instead was emasculated by a raging clown whose campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” doubles as his platform. Even worse, Jeb is beginning to agitate Republican establishmentarians, who believe he’s responsible for clearing a path for Trump. Read more.

COMEBACK UPDATE! New poll of New Hampshire has … JEB! Bush in second with 18%

I'm gonna destroy that Judas Marco, and buy off the rest.

(Hot Air) - Do I dare post a poll with a glaring outlier result, conducted by a pollster with a C+ rating for accuracy by FiveThirtyEight, simply because I know the result will scare the pants off my readers?

You should know me well enough by now to know the answer to that question.

A new statewide New Hampshire poll reveals Donald Trump holding a significant lead over his Republican opponents with 35% of the vote. Jeb Bush surprisingly takes second with 18%, and John Kasich finishes third with 14%. The rest of the field included Marco Rubio at 9%, Ted Cruz at 8%, and Chris Christie getting 5%, despite a last minute endorsement from the Boston Herald. Among Democratic primary voters, Sanders holds a steady lead over Clinton of 52% to 44%.

That’s from Emerson College, which RCP doesn’t even bother to track. HuffPo does track it, but you have to go back to late September in their poll digest to find Jeb Bush above 10 percent in any New Hampshire survey. Read more.

Speaking of NFL Quarterbacks with Low Political IQs: Peyton (and Eli) Manning Make Contribution To JEB! Bush’s Campaign:

....AND YOU ALSO THINK JEB! BUSH WOULD MAKE A GREAT PRESIDENT!

Peyton Manning, arch-nemesis of Trump fanboy Tom Brady, believes JEB! Can Fix It!

Manning, reeling from a recent Al Jazeera hit piece alleging past steroid doping, has spent 17 years in the NFL racking up a colossal record book of career stats during the regular season while flaming out during most of his post season matchups with the NFL's most famous male model. Not this year. He beat Brady this past Sunday in Denver, but don't expect Peyton's choice for president to best Tom's. Both men should probably stick to football, though, and leave politics to others.

(CBS Denver) - Peyton Manning is showing his support for one of the Republican presidential candidates. The latest campaign filings show Manning contributed $2,700 to Jeb Bush’s campaign. That amount is the maximum an individual can donate to any campaign committee. Manning’s brother Eli already donated the same total to the Bush campaign earlier this year.

Justin Bieber beats JEB! Bush in presidential poll (but JEB! tops Tom Brady!)

(Sun Times Network) - In yet another sign of Jeb Bush’s struggling presidential campaign, he came in behind Justin Bieber in a new presidential poll released Tuesday morning. Bush did manage to beat out New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, a good friend of Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

While the poll from Morning Consult and Vox may sound as nutty as some Public Policy Polling surveys looking at fake candidates such as Deez Nuts, it is quite serious and takes a look at facial recognition of candidates. Standard polls show how much support a candidate has, but this one can be used to gauge how successful campaigns have been at exposing their message — and their candidates — to the public.

It also sheds some light on how little attention some people are paying to the race just a week before the first voters officially weigh in.

Four celebrities were used in the poll to establish a baseline: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Justin Bieber and Tom Brady. Both Hillary Clinton (97 percent) and Donald Trump (96 percent) beat out Clooney, who was correctly identified by 91 percent of those polled.

Bush, who once was considered the GOP favorite but now is adistant fifth in the Real Clear Politics national polling average, came in sixth in the facial recognition poll with 77 percent of those surveyed being able to identify him. Both Bill Murray (87 percent) and Justin Bieber (85 percent) beat him.

Tom Brady — who was shown out of uniform — was beat by every top-tier presidential candidate except for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Fifty-six percent of respondents were able to identify Brady, but only 54 percent knew who Rubio was, despite Rubio polling third in the GOP field. Read more.

Terri Schiavo appears in JEB! Bush ad, and her husband calls JEB! 'disgusting'

(Tampa Bay Times) - The Right to [Rule] super PAC helping Jeb Bush is airing an ad in South Carolina that features a photo of Terri Schiavo, the brain dead Pinellas County woman, who died 10 years ago despite Bush's efforts to halt the removal of her feeding tubes. The ad features a picture of Mrs. Schiavo as well as an image of what appears to be someone at the vigil outside her hospice holding a Jeb! campaign sign. Watch it HERE.

Says the narrator: "He's a man of deep faith who fought time and again for the right to life."

"It is simply disgusting that Jeb Bush and his super Pac would exploit my wife’s tragedy for his crude political gain.  Shame on Jeb Bush," said Michael Schiavo, Terri's husband, who said she did not want to be kept alive in that state and was repeatedly challenged by Bush and Schiavo's parents and siblings.

"Using his disgraceful intervention in our family’s private trauma to advance his political career shows that he has learned nothing. He’s proud of the fact that he used the machinery of government to keep a person alive through extraordinary artificial means -- contrary to the orders of the court that were based on the courts determination, made over 6 years of litigation, that doing so would be against her wishes," he said. "What the campaign video shows is that if he ever got his hands on the power of government again, he would do the same thing again, maybe next time to your family." Read more.