{"id":129895,"date":"2016-02-22T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T05:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak.html"},"modified":"2016-02-22T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T05:36:25","slug":"the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak.html","title":{"rendered":"The end of a GOP dynastic streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Rachel Maddow last night, she pointed out something &#8230; kind of weird: the last GOP presidential ticket to win an election that didn&#39;t have either a Bush family member or Richard Nixon in the #1 or #2 slot &#8230; was Herbert Hoover in 1928.<\/p>\n<p>That seems weird to me. Does that seem weird to you?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, even that streak couldn&#39;t help Jeb! against the current anti-establishment wave (one that even Clinton is struggling against).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/the-epic-nature-jeb-bushs-failure'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/BArrbLUObdeoA7DdgBw3eMLTGjKy5o5Exsgg4kjZH17KCqX_RKUItYdIOSlsGlmR31-7C87AV-3DtjhM6OnRDzs8wQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/the-epic-nature-jeb-bushs-failure'>The epic nature of Jeb Bush&#8217;s failure<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve seen former frontrunners stumble, but we&#8217;ve never seen anything quite like Jeb Bush&#8217;s rise and fall. As failures go, this one is nothing short of epic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/W8EYrgPkxao'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Rachel Maddow last night, she pointed out something &#8230; kind of weird: the last GOP presidential ticket to win an election that didn&#39;t have either a Bush family member or Richard Nixon in the #1 or #2 slot &#8230; was Herbert Hoover in 1928. That seems weird to me. Does that seem weird to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of a GOP dynastic streak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[124,164],"class_list":["post-129895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-124","tag-164"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/jeb-jeb-jeb.html","url_meta":{"origin":129895,"position":0},"title":"Jeb! 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