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Are Jeb’s charges obnoxious – but true?   Is Marco a “Republican Obama”,  – running as a centrist with plans lurking in his heart to govern as a Progressive?

No doubt that a year ago Jeb envisioned himself riding high and cruising to easy early primary victories.  He must be stunned and very bitter to have amassed a war chest only to be clinging to single digit poll numbers, – while upstart Rubio is ahead of him.

Wednesday night that bitterness came pouring out on stage – in front of CNBC’s record 14,000,000 debate viewers.  Egged on by a snarky question to Rubio by Carl Quintanilla,  Jeb pounced.

That backfired,  making Jeb look surly, pouty, and desperate;  – while Marco’s comeback was crisp, measured, showing a proper mixture of personal offense and executive aloofness.

For the rest of the night, Jeb never quite recovered,  – while Marco scored several more direct hits.

ANALYSIS:   Jeb is beyond desperate at this point – with a lot of BIG DOLLAR BACKERS asking him “WTF Jeb? Where are your results?”

You know Jeb’s skin must crawl every time that phone rings….

BUT, – does he have a point?  Which of us know the ‘inner Marco’ better than Jeb?

And Marco has changed his pro-amnesty position,…unconvincingly….

Since Jeb is openly pro-amnesty [his wife was born in Mexico], – is this a case of ‘it takes one to know one’?

There ~ may ~ be life left in Marco’s campaign,  – but with that public display of desperation and non-presidential demeanor,  Jeb is going to have a hard time convincing voters he’s any better than the single-digits he’s polling at today.

BUT JEB DOUBLED DOWN!

Prior to Wednesday night’s debate he had a 112-page power-point press handout prepared by his staff.  

It was full of wonky charts, graphs and projections – and it seemed more focused on Marco than on the Democrats….

One slide was a clear-cut attack.   Why was it necessary?

We might ask:  If Jeb is so focused on destroying Marco Rubio, – is there something more going on between these two men?  Why isn’t Jeb attacking the front-runners?

From my perspective,  with either Bush or Rubio at the top of our ticket next November would pretty much cinch a Hillary presidency.  We might even lose the Senate again…

Neither is any better than a John McCain or a Mitt Romney,  – neither will excite elderly Republicans or Conservatives to venture forth in the cold and the rain to vote,  – and we will likely see another very low Republican voter turnout come November 2016.

By contrast, Trump, Carson, and Cruz each bring a group of enthusiastic conservatives and TEA Party people into the game, – and Trump brings in people who were never even registered to vote.

I think it will come down to which group of voters is bigger:

– the mindless MoonBats who ‘want a woman’… 
       – no matter how many lies she’s told…

vs

– the Americans who want the Wall built and our borders secured!

In the months to come, – you’ll hear Hillary hint at the same exact kind of blanket amnesty and ‘path to citizenship’ that both Jeb and Rubio have spoken about.

FYI: that ‘path to citizenship’ is political code for “Elect me in 2016, and you’ll be able to VOTE for my re-election in 2020!”

So Jeb,…what kind of “Executive Decision-Maker” has his staff put together a 112 page press handout…?