{"id":87461,"date":"2016-02-07T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T23:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87461"},"modified":"2016-02-07T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T23:31:18","slug":"wheres-columba-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87461","title":{"rendered":"Where’s Columba Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Again, why isn\u2019t Jeb! having Columba front and center on the campaign trail with him, by his side and making a few speeches before women\u2019s groups? That is a fair question especially since this is something that goes back to Grace Coolidge and Eleanor Roosevelt. It is expected that presidential candidates\u2019 spouses will indeed be front and center on the campaign trail. Unless there is an extenuating circumstance (e.g. Mammie Eisnenhower\u2019s alcoholism, etc) there simply isn\u2019t a compelling reason why she shouldn\u2019t be front and center on the campaign trail. Both Laura and Barbara were for their husbands\u2019 campaigns. And, with such a politically connected family as the Bushes, come on. Even Bill Clinton is doing that much for Hillary. He is publicly supporting her campaign, making speeches, etc.<\/p>\n

Of course, a practical issue is raised, perhaps it is the GOPs version of a Willie Horton moment or self-inflicted one. If Columba were to accompany her husband on the trail and she\u2019s asked numerous questions of which she has to give lengthy answers (in English) this will more than make Trump\u2019s point; namely, that illegal aliens are taking over this country and that we need to make America great again by building the wall, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

And yes, I do think that this would work with Melania. JFK had Jackie on the campaign trail and Jackie is considered to be the best looking First Lady in recent presidential history. A First Lady Melania might change that. And again, it is expected barring some compelling legitimate reason, that spouses assume a public role on the campaign trail. She\u2019s a woman, she can therefore reach some women voters or at reassure them that her husband is worth voting for. I give her credit for giving People magazine an extended interview. That shows she is willing to take a more public role to help her husband\u2019s candidacy, which nearly every spouse of a major candidate for nearly a century has done.<\/p>\n

In the case of Columba, the only compelling reason is that once she opens her mouth it will be obvious that she really can\u2019t speak passable competent English for any extended length of time. And she\u2019s been residing in the US for over 40yrs. That\u2019s not a benefit for a campaign.<\/p>\n

I also think that many women voters would tend to think \u201cGee, she can\u2019t speak English and she could be our First Lady? What\u2019s her name, Columbo or something? Doesn\u2019t sound American. How can she relate to me? What I\u2019m going through if she doesn\u2019t even speak the same language? What was she, a maid or something when she came her? Did Jeb! leave his US girlfriend for the hired help, the way Arnold was banging his maid? Couldn\u2019t Jeb! even get a decent American born woman?? No wonder he has to speak Spanish in his house, cause his wife who\u2019s been here for over 40yrs can\u2019t understand English, like the hired help. Maybe Trump\u2019s right, this \u201clow energy\u201d dude really isn\u2019t all that if his own frumpy dumpy wife can\u2019t speak English and she\u2019s lived her for over two generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s overall point regarding illegal immigration still stands and now there a few among the nominees, with Cruz\u2019s possibly questionable US citizenship status and Columba\u2019s as well (is she a US citizen? That\u2019s definitely a fair question to ask in the campaign, if it is phrased correctly).<\/p>\n

* News \u2018coordination\u2019 has become more widespread. It isn\u2019t just the nearly identical lineup of stories nightly on the network news, or the cover stories of so-called news magazines. The corruption and dissembling run much deeper, as seen in the prior Journolist scandal and now playing out among various disinformation outlets.<\/p>\n

Unz, Sailer et al do the thinking world a great service by researching and highlighting such topics.<\/p>\n

* I don\u2019t think Rubio helped himself by having his wife and kids front and center in the audience because he doesn\u2019t seem to realize the hazards of using your family to campaign if one of your kids is a modern teenage girl.
\nEvery time the camera switched to his family you could see the teenager slouched and sulking, clearly communicating how much she despised being there. She looked like she hated being forced to look clean cut and hang around her lame old Dad, when she would rather be anywhere else, maybe with purple hair and a nose stud. Forcing a modern kid to go that long without texting or network her clique is worse than waterboarding them.
\nYou often see Obama\u2019s girls on TV with that same please-beam-me-to-Patagonia look.<\/p>\n

* I hope some ad money goes into highlighting Rubio\u2019s meltdown in this debate. The media\u2019s reporting it now, but calling them unreliable would be overpraise. They\u2019re not going to play a highlight reel a hundred thousand times like they did the Dean Scream.<\/p>\n

* I was watching NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d this morning, and Chuck Todd had on as one of the panelists discussing last night\u2019s debate Hugh Hewitt, who was identified as a \u201cRubio supporter.\u201d Hewitt was strongly defending Rubio\u2019s debate performance last night. This was the same Hewitt who served as one of the moderators of the CNN debate in Las Vegas where he asked Donald Trump a question of sorts dealing with the \u201ctriad.\u201d After Trump answered in a way that revealed he didn\u2019t know what the \u201ctriad\u201d referred to, Hewitt next asked Rubio, who rattled off the definition of \u201ctriad.\u201d I wonder when Hewitt became a \u201cRubio supporter.\u201d That Las Vegas debate took place on December 15. I also wonder if Hewitt may have fed Rubio that question so he could have a prepared answer ready. The way he rattled off the correct answer made me suspect at the time that he was reading off a canned response. Last night\u2019s hilarious events involving Rubio mindlessly repeating the same canned attack on Obama over and over again merely stokes my suspicions about the Hewitt-Rubio relationship. BTW, even though Rubio correctly defined \u201ctriad,\u201d he never did answer Hewitt\u2019s question, which was somewhat unclear. Moreover, earlier in the same debate, Hewitt erroneously referred to Ben Carson as a \u201cpediatric neurologist surgeon,\u201d which is a scream coming from a man of supposed erudition.<\/p>\n

* I am a fan of New England and Bill Belichick, best coach of all time in my opinion, but Wade Philips\u2019 Defensive game plan was a gem. Even with his quick release Brady hardly had time to set and pass, only the quick slants were working. But, I think the Bronco -Pats game was lost during the last two regular season games. New England wins one of those and the playoff is at Foxborough. I don\u2019t think Denver beats Brady at home. Belichick electing to kick off to the Giants in overtime is the real head scratcher. Giants score a TD and overtime over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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