BYE BYE MISTER NEOCON BUSH - THE DAY THE DYNASTY DIED !!!!

The Crown Prince John Ellis Bush Pulls the Plug on JEB! 2016, and Abdicates His Entitlement In Favor of Prince George ("Jorge") Prescott Bush.

JEB! Bush is the name, and he "served" in the Bush Restoration game, 'till Donald's sideshow came and tore up the scam again.  In the winter of '16, Bush was hungry for a win, his hope barely alive. By February the 20th South Carolina had fell, it's a time we all will remember....OH SO WELL....

The day they drove old JEBBIE! down, and bells were ringing
The day they drove old JEBBIE! down, and the people were singin' they went
YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! YAHOOOOO!

To mix musical metaphors.

The Crown Prince John Ellis Bush abdicated his entitlement to the Bush Restoration immediately after being humiliated in the South Carolina primary, where he finished forth and in single digits behind Marco Rubio.  JEB! did not wait even a day to call it quits, but rather did it the evening of the primary, announcing his departure to a small group of supporters while holding back tears .

"Jesuchristo es mi filosofo favorito"

Meet the new Bush Crown Prince,

George Prescott Bush

The ill timed and ill conceived run of JEB! which began with a massive effort by the donor class to bankroll him to a prohibitive purchase of the nomination was derailed by the postmodern candidacy of Donald Trump, whose ongoing lounge act roast of the Bush Crown Prince all but made him a laughing stock, and undercut his carefully prepared big money operation, which had all the adaptive ability of a Soviet Five Year Plan.

Whether of not JEB!'s candidacy would have been as stillborn had not Trump aborted it is debatable. Given JEB!'s toxic family legacy, he likely would not have been able to secure the nomination. His real problem was Marco Rubio's decision to enter the race, which provided an alternative for his likely voting base.  Had Rubio not run, JEB! probably could have gotten a fairly consistent 20-30 percent in a fractured race, and perhaps even more, and might have been successful at a convention brokered to help him.

The fate of any future Bush Restoration will lie with JEB!'s eldest son, Prince George Prescott Bush, who now inherites the title of Crown Prince.  The new Crown Prince successfully purchased the Texas Land Commissionership in 2014, and controls the award of public oil and gas leases in Texas and the state education budget (and the awarding of crony for profit curriculum contracts).

Crown Prince P.'s route to a 2024 Republican nomination will follow a different path from his father's doomed 2016 effort.  P. has already positioned himself as a "movement" conservative in line with the tea party, while also discreetly continuing the Bush family tradition of cronyism. P.'s route will most likely run through the Senate, given Greg Abbot's likely lock on the Texas state house for the foreseeable future.  P. could either challenge Ted Cruz in 2018, and try to knock him off, or wait until 2020 and try to force three term incumbent John Cornyn to retire and take his seat.

The end to JEB! 2016 could come as early as Sunday, but probably at least by Monday

JEB! is going to do very poorly tomorrow in SC.  Most certainly he will finish well behind Marco Rubio, and there is a chance he might even finish behind John Kasich.  Everyone, voters and donors, have given up on JEB! and it appears even JEB! now realizes it.

W's public appearance this week served as an ironic eulogy for JEB! 2016 from the man whose presidency strangled his brother's presidential aspirations in the cradle. JEB's presidential run was doomed from the start.  He didn't raise too little money.  He could have raised 150 billion dollors instead of 150 million, but it would not have helped him buy one single vote from anyone not already sold on the idea of a third Bush president.

America will not be ready for a third Bush president for many years, if ever.  George P. Bush may try again for the family in eight years, but don't count on him having much better luck than his father. One of W's daughter might get the idea if P. flames out that a female Bush could run as a "liberal" Democratic and restore the family to national prominence. Don't bet on it.

But one thing the younger Bush women do have going for them. They are much better looking than the Bush men. If you are going to get screwed by a Bush, either of W's daughters would be preferable over any other family member.

Kid Marco is the new golden boy of neoconservatism, and you can expect him to do very well tomorrow in SC

Trump is slipping in the polls in SC. Two recent polls have him under 30 percent.  Whether or not he wins, you can expect him and Cruz and Rubio to be bunched up pretty close together tomorrow. While it is unlikely Rubio will outright win SC (if he does the race is over), you can expect him to be, at worst, a close third, or even perhaps second.

The implosion of JEB! should not give anyone the idea that the donor class no longer controls the GOP.  They control it as closely as they always have, but you just can't sell sh*t as shinola, and the Bush scam won't work anymore, no matter how much money is thrown trying to sell it.

The Rubio scam will work, to perhaps devastating effect. The plutos know it, and they are definitely with that program now.

Shocking News: Oil industry bet big on Jeb Bush for president, Reuters review shows. Now what? (On to JEB! lite)

Pass the collection plate to the next generation!

(Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas executives bet big on 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush - they donated more to his White House run than to all of his rivals combined, according to a Reuters review of campaign disclosures.

But that was last year.

Now Bush faces what party strategists and donors view as a make or break moment on Saturday in South Carolina's Republican primary, or early nominating contest. Polls show him trailing in the single digits. If he fails to do well, there will be pressure on him to quit, strategists say, and the oil money will be looking for a new home.

The main beneficiaries in the Republican race would likely be Ted Cruz, a U.S. Senator from Texas, and Marco Rubio, a U.S. Senator from Florida. After Bush, the two candidates received the most contributions from the oil and gas industry, according to the Reuters review.

When Bush entered the White House race last year, the petroleum sector saw him as their natural choice: he was the son and brother of former presidents and he came from a West Texas family with historically close ties to the oil industry.

"Bush is part of a family that is a friendly face to the oil industry," said Sarah Emerson, director of Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Boston.

He drew more than $2 million from the chief executive officers of companies like Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), Halliburton (HAL.N), Kinder Morgan (KMI.N), and Chief Oil & Gas in 2015, making up about 56 percent of all the industry’s contributions to the race so far, according to the review.

The review covered contributions from 75 oil and gas companies, their employees, and their political action committees to presidential candidates' campaigns and allied Super PACs. When counting donations only to Republican candidates’ campaigns, employees favored Cruz among the Republicans, with Bush in second place and Rubio in third. Read more.

Indications of an inglorious end to JEB! 2016 next week: Pro-Jeb Super PAC cancels $3 million in Super Tuesday ads

Speed, bonnie dollars, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the donors cry;
Many's the Royalist fought on that day
When the night came, silently they lay
Dead on Carolina's field.
Carry the lad that was born to be King
Over the bay to Walker's Point.
Sing me a song of a dynasty that is gone,
Over the bay from Kennebunkport!

(wnd.com) - Right to [Rule], the “super PAC” supporting Jeb Bush that has dominated the ad-spending battle so far, has canceled up to a third of its ad reservations in March 1 primary states, according to media buying sources.

By early January, the group had reservations for about $10 million in the Super Tuesday states of Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma and Georgia, having booked them far in advance to ensure lower rates.

The cancellation has not, at this point, been accompanied by increased advertising in South Carolina, whose Republican primary voters cast their ballots on Saturday. Mr. Bush is depending on a strong showing there to capitalize on a his fourth-place finish in New Hampshire, which his campaign said had “reset the race.”

Read more.

Slipping on a Freudian Banana Peel: JEB! Makes Awkward Mistake at Campaign Stop, Tells Crowd He Should Drop Out

(Social News Daily) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush made an awkward gaffe on Wednesday when he joked about pulling out of the race. The comments came during a speech at a campaign stop, where the former Governor of Florida told his enthusiastic supporters something less than enthusiastic, stating: “It’s all decided, I mean we don’t have to go vote I guess, it’s all finished. I should stop campaigning maybe, huh? Let’s just—it’s all done!”

A video clip of the incident, which has already aired on MSNBC and other outlets, shows the governor pacing the stage and looking exhausted and frustrated while he spoke.

Yikes. This is bad news for Bush, who’s well-funded campaign has been struggling to gain traction. He’s currently polling at about 4 percent nationally.

At least Bush seemed to have caught himself, adding “That’s not how democracy works, right?” Even with the quick save, the audience can gasped and booed at the mention of leaving the race.

The gaffe will hardly be remembered as the moment that brought down the Jeb Bush campaign. Once expected to be the Republican favorite in the race, a tumultuous election season populated by political outsiders and fueled by widespread resentment toward the political establishment makes Bush look like a relic from a bygone era. Read more.

Will Jeb Bush Drop Out After South Carolina? We Might Just Have Seen His Last Hurrah

(bustle.com) - Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has doled out over $100 million on his presidential campaign — but according to the polls, it hasn't been paying off. The Republican candidate has raised more money and spent more of it than any other GOP candidate in the race. However, the financial support hasn't been matched by voters and these upcoming elections may be the last straw. If he doesn't win big in the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, Bush might choose to drop out of the presidential race.

One of the most telltale signs of the candidate's potential withdrawal is his recruitment of his older brother and former two-term president George W. Bush, who joined him on the campaign trail in South Carolina. Though the move initially came across as a confident rally call, it may represent Bush's last "hurrah" and his final attempt at garnering some much needed support. Before dropping out, candidates want to ensure that they are remembered for their valiant efforts. They want to exit the stage with a bow and go out with a bang. But, leading up to the primary, Bush is going to face some personal advantages and disadvantages in the "first in the south" state that will undeniably help determine whether or not he can pull through.

Nationally, according to RealClearPolitics, Bush is polling in last place at just four and a half percent support. Among South Carolina voters, he fares slightly better, coming in fourth place at 10 percent support. The polls suggest that his closest competitors in the state are Rubio, who has 16.8 percent support and Kasich, who polls a fraction of a point beneath Bush. Though the candidate is polling low, South Carolina certainly isn't hopeless. Read more.