New Hampshire can be the end of the campaign trail for more GOP hopes, just like Iowa for Rand Paul, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabe. All three led a huge extent positive campaigns and comported themselves with dignity and grace when they bowed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about some of those who hang through the thread in New Hampshire. In particular, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush decided that their best chance to stay in the race is to attack other candidates.
Chris Christie seems to be repeated as a guy with a malicious series, which he mainly avoided in debates. It is at its best when he manages anger against terrorists and the worst when he humiliated his other Republicans. His comments on this week about Marco Rubio make Christie, not Rubio, look bad. Naming Rubio “boy in a bubble” made me think about the episode of Bubble Boy from “Seinfeld”. But the bang on the television program, which shouted and was called from the inside of his bubble, seemed much more similar to Chris Christie than Marco Rubio. Christie was a decent republican governor in a democratic state, but his ego gains the best of him every time he doesn’t get what he wants.
However, Jeb Bush is a real disappointment for me in these elections. First, I will say that I think Bush would be a very good president. He is much more conservative than his father or older brother – and has been governed for eight years in Florida. He showed real courage in the office: he eliminated the introduction to races in this state; Undertook educational relationships and created a real model of change, introducing the first coupon program for children attending falling schools (although it was later closed by courts); And reduced taxes.
But despite his star album and success in collecting more money than any other Republican, Bush did not make contact with the electorate, and his results in the debates did not assist. Now Bush is following the advice to become negative, which does not suit him well.
Bush will not win New Hampshire and may not even put. It takes fifth place in the last three state surveys. He still has money to stay in the race for some time, but it is arduous to imagine a script in which he can be nominated. So the question arises, how does he want to end his political career? He is not a sitting governor, just like Christie and Kasich, or a senator, like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio (who retires), which means that there is no chance to redeem his political reputation when he has not won the nomination.
As someone who admires Jeba Bush – and who has a huge personal attachment to his whole family, who belong to the most decent people I’ve ever met in politics – I hope that he will listen to his conscience, and not those who advise attacks on others Republicans. I understand that Bush was hurt when Marco Rubio decided to throw the hat on the ring and not gather on his side. But reports of the New York Times this week that Bush is joining forces with Christie to try to eliminate Rubio in New Hampshire, make Bush seem to be a sore loser, not an honorary man he has always been.
And it’s not just Rubio, which Bush goes through his super pacs. (Yes, yes. I know that Bush and Super Pacs cannot coordinate. But this distinction without a difference.) Bush also followed by John Kasich when the governor of Ohio looked, as if he gained adhesion in New Hampshire. And he even tried to accept Trump (although I am not sure if he qualifies as a violation of the eleventh commandment of President Reagan: “You are not talking badly about another Republican”).
If Bush, Christie or Kasich barely cope with New Hampshire, I hope they will do it right. The same applies to Ben Carson and Carly Fiorin. Sticking on the hope that you can take another level candidate, the party is certainly not good.
