Trump has had lots o zingers of Jeb but that to me is gold and maybe should become the theme of Jeb's campaign.
Remember when Trump used Jeb's mom's comments against him?
Donald Trump delivered another well-placed jab at Jeb Bush on Monday with a video quoting the former Florida governor’s mother, Barbara saying “We’ve had enough Bushes” run for president.
The video, which the campaign posted on the real estate mogul’s Instagram account, quotes a 2013 clip of the former First Lady responding to a question from NBC asking whether she “would like to see her son run for president.”
“No,” Barbara Bush answers in the clip. “I really don’t. I think its a great country. There are a lot of great families. There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we’ve had enough Bushes.”
“Mother knows best, Jeb!” the text in Trump’s video says tauntingly over footage of the former first lady saying her son should not run for president.
http://time.com/4008474/donald-trump-jeb-bush-troll-mom/
So Josh Marshall has had an interesting disucssion about Trump the last few days. Sure he's a doofus but a very successful doofus warrior during this campaign.
"Yesterday we looked at how a doofus and blowhard, awash in derp, can nonetheless have a tactical genius that allows him to defeat all enemies again and again. I focused on an analogy I'm familiar with: increased mobility as a key to victory for Northern Civil War generals. But something funny happened in response to this post. Over almost 15 years of doing this, all of my best ideas and insights and certainly most of our best news tips have come from email exchanges with readers. But in all that time I'm not sure a post has struck the same chord - and a quite specific and technical one at that - with so many readers at once. A number of readers wrote in and said they agreed with the Sherman analogy but that a much tighter conceptual framework comes from a highly influential American military theorist who died almost 20 years ago, Colonel John Richard Boyd."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-way-of-the-doofus-warrior
Well whether Trump is more like Colonel Boyd or General William T. Sherman, he is unquestionably light years ahead of the rest of the GOP field who all look like Elmer Fudd.
Here Trump plays the classic 'Your strength becomes your weakness' by mocking Jeb for getting endorsed by Eric Cantor.
Remember when Trump used Jeb's mom's comments against him?
Donald Trump delivered another well-placed jab at Jeb Bush on Monday with a video quoting the former Florida governor’s mother, Barbara saying “We’ve had enough Bushes” run for president.
The video, which the campaign posted on the real estate mogul’s Instagram account, quotes a 2013 clip of the former First Lady responding to a question from NBC asking whether she “would like to see her son run for president.”
“No,” Barbara Bush answers in the clip. “I really don’t. I think its a great country. There are a lot of great families. There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we’ve had enough Bushes.”
“Mother knows best, Jeb!” the text in Trump’s video says tauntingly over footage of the former first lady saying her son should not run for president.
http://time.com/4008474/donald-trump-jeb-bush-troll-mom/
So Josh Marshall has had an interesting disucssion about Trump the last few days. Sure he's a doofus but a very successful doofus warrior during this campaign.
"Yesterday we looked at how a doofus and blowhard, awash in derp, can nonetheless have a tactical genius that allows him to defeat all enemies again and again. I focused on an analogy I'm familiar with: increased mobility as a key to victory for Northern Civil War generals. But something funny happened in response to this post. Over almost 15 years of doing this, all of my best ideas and insights and certainly most of our best news tips have come from email exchanges with readers. But in all that time I'm not sure a post has struck the same chord - and a quite specific and technical one at that - with so many readers at once. A number of readers wrote in and said they agreed with the Sherman analogy but that a much tighter conceptual framework comes from a highly influential American military theorist who died almost 20 years ago, Colonel John Richard Boyd."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-way-of-the-doofus-warrior
Well whether Trump is more like Colonel Boyd or General William T. Sherman, he is unquestionably light years ahead of the rest of the GOP field who all look like Elmer Fudd.
Here Trump plays the classic 'Your strength becomes your weakness' by mocking Jeb for getting endorsed by Eric Cantor.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-eric-cantor-loser
Again, I can't deny I agree with Trump on one thing: the Hippocratic Oath says First do no Harm but for this election lets first agree not to elect another Bush.
Trump can be ccompared to many more mobile military campaigns. The danger is in always fighting the last war. In GOP primaries the rules of engagment are long settled.
Trump is coming in and seemingly breaking all the rules of physics and rather than falling to his deaht, is floating above everything like Birdman.
You can think of the American Revolutionary War where the British fought in their standard rows and columns in their elegant red coats while the Americans hid behind rocks and trees and totally frustrated British expectations.
You have the French fighting the last war with their disastrous Maginot Line.
"As some of you know, I've long been fascinated by the innovation of more mobile forms of warfare during the American Civil War. Out in the West, Grant and Sherman began streamlining and eventually even abandoning conventional supply lines to allow themselves figuratively and in some cases almost literally to run circles around their enemies. The Civil War fielded huge armies which needed constant replenishment of vast amounts of stuff - food, clothes, weapons, ammunition and more - which in turn required well organized supply lines, all of which limited mobility. More mobility is better than less of course. But in warfare, increased mobility reaches a point where it ceases to be an incremental or quantitative advantage and becomes a qualitative and transformational difference."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-william-t-sherman-of-crazy
There's just no question that Trump has a transformational advantage over the other GOPers.
Again, I can't deny I agree with Trump on one thing: the Hippocratic Oath says First do no Harm but for this election lets first agree not to elect another Bush.
Trump can be ccompared to many more mobile military campaigns. The danger is in always fighting the last war. In GOP primaries the rules of engagment are long settled.
Trump is coming in and seemingly breaking all the rules of physics and rather than falling to his deaht, is floating above everything like Birdman.
You can think of the American Revolutionary War where the British fought in their standard rows and columns in their elegant red coats while the Americans hid behind rocks and trees and totally frustrated British expectations.
You have the French fighting the last war with their disastrous Maginot Line.
"As some of you know, I've long been fascinated by the innovation of more mobile forms of warfare during the American Civil War. Out in the West, Grant and Sherman began streamlining and eventually even abandoning conventional supply lines to allow themselves figuratively and in some cases almost literally to run circles around their enemies. The Civil War fielded huge armies which needed constant replenishment of vast amounts of stuff - food, clothes, weapons, ammunition and more - which in turn required well organized supply lines, all of which limited mobility. More mobility is better than less of course. But in warfare, increased mobility reaches a point where it ceases to be an incremental or quantitative advantage and becomes a qualitative and transformational difference."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-william-t-sherman-of-crazy
There's just no question that Trump has a transformational advantage over the other GOPers.
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