The bumbling scion of the House of Bush, John Ellis "J.E.B.!" Bush, has been clinging desperately to 5th or 6th place in the Rethuglican Presidential poll, so he's been cranking up the crazy of late, including the despicable "stuff happens" comment on the Roseburg, OR mass shooting. Desperately upping the delusional, rage-fueled rhetoric that appeals to the Republican base voter is to be expected. But when we read that J.E.B.! is contemplating inviting his brother, failed President and bathtub portraitist George "Dumbya" Bush to campaign with him in South Carolina, we wonder whether he's suicidal.
Dumbya may poll well among dead-ender Rethugs who long for more wars in the Middle East, but he left office with a catastrophic 22% approval rating. While that's far higher than J.E.B.!'s current poll numbers, does he think that reminding the public of his brother's disastrous Presidency will help him, even in secessionist South Carolina? Will he laud his brother's running up the debt with two wars and a national prescription drug program unpaid for, and his handling of the cratering economy that saw 800,000 jobs lost just in Dumbya's last month in office? It's hard to see the upside for a candidate who has been very shy about playing up his family name, but then we're not the "smarter Bush."
BONUS: Andy Borowitz on the same topic. LOL.
