With yet another resounding defat under his belt, Jeb Bush has announced his decision to "suspend" his campaign for the Republican Presidentoal nomination.
- *JEB BUSH DROPS OUT OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE
As The New York Times reports,
Jeb Bush suspended his presidential campaign on Saturday, ending a quest for the White House that started with a war chest of $100 million, a famous name and a promise of political civility, but ended with a humbling recognition: in 2016, none of it mattered.
No single candidacy this year fell so monumentally short of its original expectations. It began with an aura of inevitability that masked deep problems, from Mr. Bush himself, a clunky candidate in a field of gifted performers, to the rightward drift of the Republican Party since Mr. Bush’s time as a consensus conservative in Florida.
Mr. Bush’s campaign had rested on a set of assumptions that, one by one, turned out to be flatly incorrect: that the Republican primaries would turn on a record of accomplishment in government; that Mr. Bush’s cerebral and reserved style would be an asset; and that a country wary of dynasties would evaluate this member of the Bush family on his own merits.
“We’ve had enough Bushes” his mother, Barbara Bush, observed, prophetically, before her son had announced his candidacy last summer.
We wonder if another Tweet to his mom is in order...
Sorry Mom
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) September 17, 2015
Having finished 6th in Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, 4th in Feb. 9 N.H. primary; and running in back of pack in early returns in today’s S.C. primary (under 10%), Bush says he’s proud of campaign he’s run...
“The people of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really respect their decision so tonight I am suspending my campaign,” Jeb Bush says in S.C.
“Despite what you might have heard, ideas matter, policy matters,” Bush says