So, Jeb! Bush will try to shake off his problems with a big campaign-hoopla thingy tomorrow? Maybe that's what he thinks he's doing — but today's story in The New York Times only made us laugh. Here are two reasons.
"By hiring [new campaign manager Danny] Diaz," the Times reported, "Mr. Bush wanted to send a clear signal that 'the culture of the Bush operation will now be a Pickett's Charge engagement campaign with his main opponents,' according to one Bush ally."
Pickett's Charge? The Bush campaign wants to emulate Pickett's Charge? Do they not know that Pickett's Charge was a dismal failure — the Gallipoli of the battle of Gettysburg, and a tactical error from which the South never recovered?
We cats say, fine. If the Bush campaign wants to get slaughtered the same way the Confederates did on that hot July day in 1863, we won't stand in their way. We just wish that, having heard such an inane remark from their anonymous Bush sources, the Times reporters had pointed that out — and asked for comment. Sigh.
The other "it is to laugh" moment in the article came at the end: "Advisers and allies of Mr. Bush believe that the race has only just begun and that Mr. Bush will have the money and a set of strong performances in the televised debates (or so they hope) to help him in the long fight for the nomination."
When has Jeb! Bush ever debated opponents in the past? Let's see: Lawton Chiles cleaned his clock in 1994, after which he prevailed over Buddy MacKay in 1998 and the incompetent Bill McBride in 2002. He hasn't debated in almost 14 years — and never against a cast of going-for-the-jugular teabagger clowns, with 12 other people on the stage. "Strong performances"? We cats won't hold our breath. Because we're too busy PURRing.
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