Kansas City, KA - It was once, a long time ago when Twitter had not been invented and America had not yet been blessed by importing pizza to its shores that men (no women even ran in those days) who wanted to be President of the United States didn’t run for that office.
Things were different back then, with what was called “front
porch campaigns,” where candidates, while, apparently, sitting on their front porches, let it be known among a few that they wanted
to run for president, and those people went out and campaigned. It was seen as
undignified, in the first few years of American Presidential Politics, to
actually run a campaign yourself, because anyone who did that must be “greedy”
for power. You just sat on their porch, and sat hard, kept your fingers crossed, and hoped your people could pull it off.
Of course that ended a long time ago, and now candidates are
in a desperate run for the White House in which they often can’t afford more
than a couple of days away from the campaign trail, where five to ten speeches
a day can be a norm, where there is constant attempts to make the headlines and
get interviews to remind Americans why they are such a great person and why you
should vote for them, and everyone is in a mad dash-and-grab food fight.
So it would seem ridiculous if a candidate, especially one
who many claim is a name from the past, such as Jeb Bush, were to try a
strategy from the past, and give his campaign over to someone else, someone who
legally, once he declares his actual candidacy, Jeb can exercise no control
over.
But that seems to be exactly what former Governor of Florida;
the sixty-two year old Jeb Bush seems to be planning. Announcing just recently
that his Super PAC, (Political Action Committee) will be taking over many of
the things traditionally done by campaigns, such as, like, actually campaign.
For a man who wants to be nominee for the Republican Party,
and thus by proxy be Hillary-basher-in-chief, and keep up our party line about “how
dare she have a financial scandal” although she didn’t technically break the
law, Bush doing what he is doing is laughable indeed.
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Of course there is no question why Jeb is planning on handing
over control of his campaign to his “Super PAC,” it is because of campaign finance
laws. A candidate’s campaign, as the law
now stands, would not be able to collect more than 2,700 dollars from each
individual donor. But a PAC can take unlimited amounts of contributions. So, it
is a win-win for Bush, he can remain running-but-not-legally-running hide and
go seek operation for as long as possible, thus allowing him to continue to
organize “Right to Rise” and fundraise for it as he is already doing, and place
a very trusted man at the helm as he has already done, and then when he feels
that his “non-campaign” is ready for primetime, this group that he founded,
that he fundraised for, and whose sole purpose is make Jeb Bush president of
the United States, will supposedly have no contact whatever with him. Right.
Of course, nobody really believed in the early days of “dignified”
politics, that those candidates were not running their campaigns, and it’s hard
to believe Bush wouldn’t be running his. Impossible, in fact. Even the New York Times said this morning in an editorial the laws are nearly impossible to enforce. And of course, while Bush
would not be sitting in the headquarters of the PAC, he would only need to give
speeches, in which he could, perfectly legally say this is what he would do if he were in charge of it, and of
course, you can bet the next morning that will happen.
Hillary Clinton has money scandals and scandals in just about
everything else. She has as many holes in her armor as a sinking battleship, and
for Jeb Bush, the man who wants to be the “good guys” nominee to start doing
end runs around laws like he is a football carrier is not illegal, but smacks
of a sort of elitism that we already know he possesses. The office of the presidency
is the most sacred trust ever invented in Western Civilization, outside perhaps
that of the pontiff, and the man who holds it must be above reproach in all. In
this thing, Bush is not.
However, in all of Jeb’s convoluted handling of his “non-campaign,”
in all of his gaffes, in all of his weak stances on issues, there is one
glimmer of hope. He is in fourth place for the GOP nomination. The hope is that
he stays there.
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