Bush. Jeb Bush

The United States media is more and more intensively discussing the Presidential Racer-2016 personalities. This is manifested in the fact that, according to most significant events, the opinions of candidates who declared their participation are collected and interpreted. Their performances, judgments and track records are also carefully monitored. One of the most popular figures for such a discussion is the Republican candidate Jeb Bush, the brother of George Bush Jr..

In mid-June,The Atlantic issued the “cheat sheet” on the 2016 election campaign, which gives brief characteristics to candidates. The following is written about Jeb Bush:

“ Who is he? The brother and son of the presidents, for two terms, stayed by the governor of Florida (from 1999 to 2007).

Who wants him to participate in the race? Republicans from the establishment; George Bush Jr.; The largest sponsors from Wall Street.

Can he win the nomination? No one really knows. From the moment he joined the race, he continued to occupy good positions in surveys and attract a lot of money. He will probably tighten the support of the most prominent Republicans. But the forecasts that he would quickly become a favorite among the Republicans did not materialize, and although some analysts predicted that his moderate track record can damage him in the state of Iowa, as well as not to like civilian activists, the problem is now deeper than before. The level of its popularity in polls, most likely, is largely due to its name, which works as a double -edged sword.

What else do we know? Since Bush suddenly made an official statement about his participation, he mainly behaves very quietly: he pronounces from time to time long speeches to attract funds, but does not constantly go to Aiova or New Hampshire. ”

The main difference between Jeb Bush and his Republican rivals, as noted in the blog under Ny Times, is that he supports the legalization (albeit without issuing citizenship) of the current illegal immigrants living in the United States. Most of the Republicans are guided by voters who are against legalization. In this regard, candidates, even previously expressed for the incorporating policy, like Marco Rubio, begin to reject this. It will be interesting to see, the author notes how long Jeb Bush will be able to adhere to the Mammigent rhetoric.

Jeb Bush. Photo: Council of Philadelphia/Flickr.com

In any case, the main problem of Bush is not this, but in the fact that his track record in the eyes of voters spoils his religious activity in the past. In 2003, the author recalls, he, being a Catholic, tried to intervene illegally and inextricably in the affairs of the family, which decided to disable an artificial life support from the apparatus of an artificial life support for more than ten years in a coma. The only thing he did is that he was a two -year trial, a media scandal and a wary attitude of voters.

The Atlantic notes that one of the notable features of the campaign at the current stage is the “mononymicity” of candidates. The three most prominent of them in their election slogans chose to appear without a surname: Hillary (Clinton), Rand (Paul) and Jeb! (Bush). Clinton has been leading his election campaigns without a surname since 2000, when she fought for the position of the senator from New York.

This can be partially interpreted as a tribute to the modern decrease in the formal strap, commented on The Atlantic, but many people do not like such informality, which is already quite acceptable in the field of pop culture, when it comes to politicians. This is especially true for a conservative audience sympathizing with the Republicans. The fact that all three names are relatively rare are working in favor of such a PR. “Jeb”, for example, is not a name at all, but the initial abbreviation from John Ellis Bush ( John Ellis Bush ). Say, Candidate Scott Waker would be called only the first name would be inconvenient because it is too common.

“The use of the first name,” the author argues, “can be a useful tool only for candidates from dynasties. This helps to emphasize the individuality of the candidates and allows them to at least a little distance from their predecessors. All three candidates have reason to distance themselves . In principle , this is reasonable . But there is another side of the coin. In the world there are places where leaders in their political life use only the first names. And, which is characteristic, the power there is usually inherited. This is a monarchy. It is risky to remind voters of the monarchies, because this can provoke rejection due to the instinctive disgust of the Americans to monarchism. (Although it is ambiguous: at least the Americans were imbued with amazing sympathy for the overseas "Wills and Kate" - the unsafamile future monarchs). "

The Economist reacted to Jeb Bush's first performance after he became an official participant in the race. The author approvingly responds to the reaction of Bush to the incident, which occurred during the performance. In the middle of his speech, which he made quite lively, although a little uncertainly, several activists fighting for the legalization of immigrants, removed shirts and remained in bright T -shirts with calls for reform. By and large, it was a provocative test for professional acceptance. The author believes that this test was successful, because he immediately switched from a pre -prepared speech to actual reality and said that the next president, if the congress, will inevitably carry out a significant reform of the status of immigrants, so this issue will be resolved.

George Bush Sr., George Bush Jr. and Jeb Bush. Photo: Newsnyork.com

“At first,” the author summarizes, “Mr. Bush is a curious hybrid: he risks, but carefully; He tries to give his party attractiveness in the eyes of new and motley America, while emphasizing his experience and a decent track record for the conservative. ” It is difficult to predict how his further campaign will unfold, but so far he has every chance to enter the three Republican Favorites along with Marco Rubio and Scott Walker.

Historian Joseph Palemo A. Palermo ) on the blog at Huffington Post spoke about the candidacy of Jeba Bush is very ill -desidive. His appearance among the candidates, he noted, is based on "amnesia of the American people: he hopes that we have already forgotten the catastrophic rule of his brother." Now, before the election of nominees, candidates will have to conduct a discussion among themselves about what needs to be done to improve the life of the Americans. The problem is, Palermo comments that the Republicans, in essence, have nothing to discuss about, because they are all in key points of public polemic unanimous.

All of them (including Bush) strive to reduce budget expenditures by privatizing a significant part of public services (for example, public security and education services). They all love “free trade” and want to bomb countries in which they see “threats”. None of them believe in global warming and does not consider it necessary to take any measures on this. They all do not complain to the reproductive rights of women and object to public health policy. At the same time, none of them have a positive program to improve the healthcare system. As for the immigration position of Jeb Bush, this, according to the author, is a props. All Bush pretended that they were worried about the position of immigrants, but in fact they were engaged only in the fact that they destroyed federal mechanisms that could slightly improve their immigrants.

Starting from the 2008 elections, it concludes Palermo, the Republicans mostly tried to use a variety of tricks to attract voting sympathies, but practice quickly showed the lack of hold of these tricks. In 2008, for example, the Republican Favorite of the Presidential John McCain spoke in tandem with Sarah Palilin, who was needed in order to show citizens that the Republicans were not at all the same femininates as everyone thinks. However, everyone had the opportunity to make sure that in the case of Sarah Palin the horizon of her political ambitions with this mission was limited. The main trick of the current election campaign can be rightly assumed by the fact that Jeb Bush entered it.