{"id":129881,"date":"2016-02-21T04:57:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T04:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/jeb-jeb-jeb.html"},"modified":"2016-02-21T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T04:57:54","slug":"jeb-jeb-jeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/jeb-jeb-jeb.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeb! Jeb? Jeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I particularly longed for a Jeb Bush presidency, but, in a clown car field of zanies, he was, if not a great choice, at least not an insane one.<\/p>\n<p>And with what are we left? John &quot;I can take Ohio&quot; Kasich? Marco &quot;The Establishment Likes Me by Default, But I&#39;m Happy To Run to the Right Anyway&quot; Rubio? <\/p>\n<p>The though of either Cruz or Trump as the GOP candidate ought to fill me with partisan glee, but the dread of their actually becoming president fill me with horror. The nation could survive another Bush. I have my doubts about Rubio. Cruz or Trump will be our ruin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/jeb-bush-suspends-2016-campaign\/2016\/02\/20\/d3a7315a-d721-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bushdropout-850pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ufd49AUzc3cVQyoDMD19JZDOdzeWKXgOkBUd6jkEoGMK3kuGq__GrihKNg8f48-2bcU6bfnIPZ66yNomcYAnlUuf26rh9LNNKGFk-ZueYU4KEPKN_pxCxC1_mRCz3ANPUADSTWwazmWEKu1pPCseybBgoMobPcdKhy2FpuM67N-WMu6_xSnKFGTXpMp0KlM=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/jeb-bush-suspends-2016-campaign\/2016\/02\/20\/d3a7315a-d721-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bushdropout-850pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory'>Jeb Bush drops out of 2016 presidential campaign<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe son and brother of Republican presidents saw a rapid rise followed by a months-long decline.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NyGF5hqN32h'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I particularly longed for a Jeb Bush presidency, but, in a clown car field of zanies, he was, if not a great choice, at least not an insane one. And with what are we left? John &quot;I can take Ohio&quot; Kasich? Marco &quot;The Establishment Likes Me by Default, But I&#39;m Happy To Run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/jeb-jeb-jeb.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeb! Jeb? 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