Bush, seeking a much-needed revival in SC, calls in family

With the political demise of Jeb possibly imminent, the Bush family made a decision to send out its big guns: George W. Bush, Laura Bush and even Jeb’s mother, Barbara Bush.

The Bush-Rubio competition is layered with home-state drama: Bush, 63, is the elder statesman of Florida politics having served as governor.

In an interview with NBC’s Peter Alexander this week, Jeb Bush resisted the idea that Saturday’s SC primary is a do-or-die moment for his presidential hopes.

It’s a drastic shift from the approach he took at the start of his campaign hinting at how precarious his fortunes have become.

As we get closer to Saturday’s First in the South Primary, GOP Candidates are busy criss-crossing the state. Lindsey Graham, echoed that sentiment, stressing that Bush’s family is one of his biggest strengths and assets. George Bush the Younger once said that one job of the president was to “keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda”. “It appears that you do get knocked off center, as anyone would”.

For example, Bush recounted the days when he saw the “burden of leadership that my dad felt” in the weeks leading up to the 1991 Persian Gulf War. On Thurday, only 6 percent said they expected Bush to win Florida next month, though almost 8 percent predicted he would wind up the nominee. “You could just see the burden”. I am a Republican so there are different things that he plans to do and says that the Democratic side does either a different way or another way that I don’t agree with and Jeb’s policies make completely more sense.

One commentator suggested Bush should quit while it matters.

After receiving less than 3% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and placing fourth in New Hampshire, the candidate’s team has been hoping that he can repeat his brother’s 2000 success down south.

But the following day, Bush was ridiculed for posting a picture on Twitter of a handgun, inscribed with his name and given to him by a manufacturer in Columbia he visited.

The Jeb Bush campaign furiously pushed back on a report by blogger Eric Erickson yesterday that staffers will stop being paid after tomorrow. It seemed fitting that just as Bush began his remarks, reporters at the event were abuzz with news that South Carolina’s governor, Nikki Haley, whose support Jeb had desperately sought, is preparing to endorse Marco Rubio. Even Republicans don’t want another Bush. And in Myrtle Beach, Bush, who has recently abandoned glasses for contact lenses, complained to staff about the lighting as he left the hall rubbing his eyes.

“If he ends up fourth there (South Carolina), what justification will he have for continuing?”, wrote David A. Graham for The Atlantic. He said the other candidates, Texas Sen. This is after his campaign and Right to Rise, the super PAC that supports him, have raised more than $150 million – and spent a jaw-dropping $80 million. “With all due respect Senator Rubio, your four years or five years in the senate does not match up to my record of understanding how the world works”, said Bush. “And then we have to have the resources to stay in the game”.

Standing with the aid of a walker, 90-year-old former first lady Barbara Bush introduced “my boy, Jeb” during a rally at D.W. Daniel High School that about 300 of his supporters attended. “Go get ’em!” she told Bush as she squeezed his hand. At various points yesterday, Bush delved deeply into an issue, before realizing he’d gone too far, and dialed it back with a formulaic political cheap shot at President Obama.