jeb had less than a 0% chance in 2008. the bush name was toxic. bush left as an incredibly unpopular president, even among republicans. part of the reason they went with mccain is that he was basically perceived as a democrat at that point. he has been publicly standing against nearly everything bush was for. dude was the definition of a rino. when obama would hit w's piss poor record mccain's only real response was "i'm not w. i don't support that." but it didn't work for him. we needed 8 years of the democrats being even worse before he even had a ghost of a chance. unfortunately for him by then enough people had woken up to the monoparty and wanted to disrupt the system way more that he could propose to.
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