BLOTUS Trump's Voting Fraud "Investigation" Shows He Belongs In a Strait Jacket

"Hmmmmm...if I believe it, it has to be real! Else I am insane and need a straight jacket!"

"The rehabilitation of reason is urgent because it is only through the proper use of reason that we can find our way out of the quagmires in which many big issues of our time have become stuck. Without a clear sense of what it means for one point of view to be more reasonable than another the position one adopts is ultimately based on nothing more than personal opinion or preference.

When we give up on reason, the only tool we have left is coercion."

- Julian Baggini, 'The Edge Of Reason', p. 3.

Let us concede that reason is an indispensable tool for arriving at truth. Many, such as Philosopher Julian Baggini - quoted above, would agree it's the best method we humans have for arriving at the facts, the objective reality of a situation. By the same token, those who would scorn reason in favor of pure opinion, random tweets or regurgitating fantasy travel outside the foundations of truth and make a unified governance all but impossible. The situation we have arrived at now in this country is that at least one third of Trump supporters - according to a PPP poll - have no use for reason or facts. See e.g.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/25/poll-shows-americans-support-womens-marchers-donald-trump.html


Consider the claim of Trump then that there has been massive voter fraud that cost him the popular vote, including that "three to five million more voted illegally for Hillary Clinton".  Consider this is coming from the guy who actually WON the electoral vote - the only one that counts- and yet his ego is still too traumatized to accept that fewer citizens voted for him than his opponent.

Consider also that there is not one scintilla of evidence to support his fantastic claim - which btw-  is negated by 50 Secretaries of State (including from  37 Republican- governed states) that the integrity of their election processes were never compromised  Consider then that, also, the singular evidence is that Russian hacking played the dominant role in the 2016 election which actually helped catapult HIM to power. Anyone see anything backwards here? Inverted from reality?

ALL the intelligence agencies agree that Russian hacking at various levels, including of the RNC, was established to their satisfaction, and that is where the REAL voter fraud has occurred. Yet Trump, in his own bubble of flatus continues to pound the conspiracy theory he lost the popular vote because of a "rigged election"  when all the data show otherwise - except for the role of Russian hackers to bring HIM to power.

What's wrong with this picture?

Well, the absence of reality and reason in Trump's assorted ruminations. Even Jacob Chaffetz, head of the House Oversight Committee averred "I see no evidence for it", referencing Trump's voter fraud delusions. He asserted his committee would not be taking it up. Remember, this is the guy who went full bore on Benghazi.  Clearly, if anything of substance was really there, Chaffetz wouldn't dodge it.

Voter fraud itself, in the sense of being committed on a mass scale by "illegals", is especially an irksome and stupid claim which flies in the face of all evidence accepted by sane people.  So is the lamo Trump claim that being registered in more than one state is illegal or dead people being on voter rolls. As exposed regarding the first, there is Exhibit A - his own daughter Tiffany, registered in 2 states, NY and Pennsylvania, as well as his consigliere, Steve Bannon registered in 2 states(FL and NY) and son-in-law Jared Kushner(NJ and NY) . All a big storm in a teacup.

As for dead people on voter rolls, of course! Like a voter can't die (like my mom did) days before a vote (mid-term in 2014)  and then be left there until removed by the state (FL). At the time, the last thing on my mind when I learned mom died was contacting FL to have her name removed from the voter registry. Good god, are Trump and his minions totally tone deaf or mentally incapable of processing the vagaries of life - as well as death? And figuring out why a person's name may be on a vote registry long after their demise? WTF is wrong with these fools?

 Then take the case of alleged Colorado voter fraud and assorted "witch hunts" for it.  Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been on the hunt for  voter fraud in the state since he took the office in 2011, claiming non-citizens were illegally voting in Colorado elections. But a  report from The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel shows that, to date, there have been zero prosecutions of Gessler’s suspects.

After originally claiming more than 16,000 non-citizens registered to vote in Colorado in 2011 and that as many as 5,000 of them had actually voted in 2010,, Gessler’s office finally released the names of only 155 people who they thought of as suspects. ....

Many of those people whose citizenship and right to vote were called into question by Gessler were found to be verifiable U.S. citizens, The Associated Press reported. In some counties, like Boulder, of those questioned, only legal U.S. citizens were found."

As Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett put it, quoted in The Boulder Daily Camera :

“Local governments and county clerks do a really good job regulating the integrity of elections, and I’ll stand by that record any day of the week. We don’t need state officials sending us on wild goose chases for political reasons.”

So Gessler, like another scare monger - Michelle Malkin- were mostly into "wild goose chasing" and stirring up voting fraud hysteria to reinforce the bogus Trump campaign claim that this past election was "rigged".  A claim now revived by Trump - aka BLOTUS ("Biggest Liar of The U.S") since he took office, the total irony of his wackjob blurtations being lost on him. But then we know irony can't be processed by the insane, any more than they can reason.

The actual voter fraud, however, has been voter suppression and the most classic case occurred in Florida in 2000 with that general election.  Greg Palast, author of 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy',  documented how 90,000 and probably more like 150,000 legal black voters were removed from voter lists in Florida, using the ruse that they were convicted felons,  not permitted to vote in that state. Jeb Bush awarded the contract to the firm that submitted the higher bid, Choicepoint.  It then scrubbed from the voter rolls all names that were clearly black (first name Jamail or Kinesha, for instance), that bore an arguable resemblance to a felon’s name.   This remains, along with the electronic scrubbing of D-votes in Ohio in 2004 (using electronic machines),  the two most massive cases of vote fraud.

But BLOTUS and his febrile followers can't be bothered with facts, or reason. And in this case of reason, they ought to be asking themselves why the person who actually WON and is now in the White House, is making such a big stink over it as opposed to getting the fuck over his little wounded ego.  Jeezus, hasn't he bigger fish to fry?

Oh, here's another chestnut one finds on some Trumpie blogs, in the form of the daft question:

"Why would any serious person object to an investigation into this issue of voter fraud?"

Well, a number of reasons! First, it's a waste of time. As in the election is over and the winner decided - by electoral vote not popular vote. SO where the fuck is the injury that merits the investigation? Trump is already in the Oval office so what exactly  is the investigation going to  settle?  It shouldn't take a genius to conclude the whole purpose is to soothe his widdo ego, that's all. In other words, it's a big McGuffin created to salve a wounded ego because the little bastard didn't win both the electoral AND popular votes! (Apart from trying to settle a score with the 3 million more Hillary voters!)

Second, as I noted above, there is NO genuine evidence for any voter fraud of the type the Trumpies are pissing and whining about. All the Secretaries of State have certified so, and that includes 37 Republicans.  This "voter fraud" the BLOTUS insists happened  has been proven to occur only roughly 0.00000013 % of the time see e.g.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/story?id=17213376

Third, such an investigation will cost money - paid for by Mr. And Mrs. U.S. Taxpayer. I for one don't want to see any more money squandered on fulsome bogus "investigations" by Repuke assholes who use them as the only way to get hard-ons. It's bad enough Trump is going to try to make us cough up the tax money to build his dumb ass wall - another case of detachment from reality.

Here's another choice canard compliments of the pro-Trump bloggers: The images of the Trump inaugural crowds were "artificially reduced" by the use of border frames! Hence, Obama's stills looked as though they had bigger crowds because of being unframed.  This is total madness, of course, because one need only go to the actual videos spanning the different events - produced by PBS- to show Trump's crowd was significantly less. But, of course, the Trumpies likely believe these videos are also faked. Such is the way of unreason and insanity.

Chris Hayes this evening on 'All In' brought up another point, ostensibly in Trump's defense, i.e. that he wasn't really a liar. That is, he truly believed  in his mind there was actual  voter fraud that denied him the popular vote, despite all the stats and evidence showed there wasn't any.

Okay but in this case, he may not be a liar, but he would be certifiably insane, given he is no longer able to separate fact from fantasy. The sort of condition that gets a lot of psychos admitted to Bellevue for ECT and long term therapy.

So ok, he's not a "liar" but then he must be insane. If he is insane he has no business being in the White House or near any nuclear football. He ought to be tied up in a strait jacket in a mental institution some place until they can bring him out of it, say with electric shocks, or lithium therapy or whatever the newest treatments are.

But this is a guy that should not be sitting behind that big desk signing executive orders and shooting his yap off about building giant Walls, torture, violating the Posse Comitatus Act to send troops to Chicago, or going after sanctuary cities.

No, this is a person bereft of reason as well as reality, who needs to be admitted into the nearest  mental facility as soon as possible. And if his followers are unable to see that, they merit the same therapy.  We cannot afford to have a nation where one third of its citizens are no longer grounded in reality, but tall tales and "alternative facts".

To quote Charles Blow of the NY Times:

"Trump does not simply have “a running war with the media,” as he so indecorously and disrespectfully spouted off while standing on the hallowed ground before the C.I.A. Memorial Wall. He is in fact having a running war with the truth itself.  ...Donald Trump is a proven liar. He lies often and effortlessly. He lies about the profound and the trivial. He lies to avoid guilt and invite glory. He lies when his pride is injured and when his pomposity is challenged.  Indeed, one of the greatest threats Trump poses is that he corrupts and corrodes the absoluteness of truth, facts and science".

Trump - Empowered Vote Challengers At The Polls ? Bring 'Em On!

According to the Brennan Center for Justice "forty six states have laws that allow private citizens to challenge the eligibility of prospective voters on or before election day."

In effect, as you are ready to enter a polling station, any cockeyed nimrod who somehow doubts your voter bona fides can stop you cold, and demand you produce proof of who you are. When Janice saw the segment on CBS Early Show yesterday morning she was livid: "What kind of nonsense is that? I have to show ID to a bunch of creeps?"

Well, technically, yeah. Of course, it is irrelevant for both of us anyway as we will be filling out our Colorado mail ballots at home. This will be after they arrive in the next week to ten days. (They are to be mailed out by October 17).

Much of the angst about "voter fraud" and especially non-citizens casting ballots in critical states - like Colorado- is fed by lying creeps like Michelle Malkin. She wrote in a recent column (Colorado Springs Gazette, 'It Could All Come Down To Colorado'):  

"Former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler identified nearly 5,000 citizens in Colorado who voted in the 2010 election".

But strangely, although Gessler could  apparently enumerate these " non-citizens" he  appeared unable to have pressed charges. According to the Huffington Post:

"Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been on the hunt for voter fraud in the state since he took the office in 2011, claiming non-citizens were illegally voting in Colorado elections. But a new report from The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel shows that, to date, there have been zero prosecutions of Gessler’s suspects.

After originally claiming more than 16,000 non-citizens registered to vote in Colorado in 2011 and that as many as 5,000 of them had actually voted in 2010,, Gessler’s office finally released the names of only 155 people who they thought of as suspects. ....

Many of those people whose citizenship and right to vote were called into question by Gessler were found to be verifiable U.S. citizens, The Associated Press reported. In some counties, like Boulder, of those questioned, only legal U.S. citizens were found."

As Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett put it, quoted in The Boulder Daily Camera :

“Local governments and county clerks do a really good job regulating the integrity of elections, and I’ll stand by that record any day of the week. We don’t need state officials sending us on wild goose chases for political reasons.”

So Gessler, like Malkin, is mostly into "wild goose chasing" and stirring up voting fraud hysteria to reinforce the bogus Trump claim that this election is "rigged". This also lends false support to Trumpies just itching to police the polls using voter challenge laws. We saw an earlier iteration of this shtick back in 2012 with the 'True the Vote" nonsense.

Now this is not to say there has NEVER been voter fraud. But the Reeptard Bozos are indicting the wrong side. It is THEIR side that has perpetrated the most infamous incident, in Florida back in 2000.  Greg Palast, author of 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy',  documented how 90,000 and probably more like 150,000 legal black voters were removed from voter lists in Florida, using the ruse that they were convicted felons,  not permitted to vote in that state. Jeb Bush awarded the contract to the firm that submitted the higher bid, Choicepoint.  It then scrubbed from the voter rolls all names that were clearly black (first name Jamail or Kinesha, for instance), that bore an arguable resemblance to a felon’s name.   This remains, along with the electronic scrubbing of D-votes in Ohio in 2004 (using electronic machines),  the two most massive cases of vote fraud.

As to actual voter impersonation fraud, it doesn't even make the "radar".  Specifically, it has been proven to occur only roughly 0.00000013 % of the time see e.g.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/story?id=17213376

The other bogus meme making the rounds is that in places like Colorado, "you have an all mail ballot system that makes it easy to misuse and commit voter fraud". Again, nonsense. Each mail ballot such as we use must be signed and the enabling for such balloting was already validated via use of Colorado ID cards from past elections (before the mail balloting law was passed).  Also, according to state precinct stats, barely 40 percent of ballots are cast by mail. Most people still prefer to show up in person - even braving longish lines - because it makes them feel more like "real voters".

Of course this is hogwash and malarkey. Anyone is a real voter who actually takes the time to complete a ballot. In our state the ballots are typically complex,  laden with special district issues and state referenda. This year the ballots include a raft of local tax issues, local district election spots, school boards etc. as well as assorted amendments,  e.g. Amendment 69 for single payer health care, Amendment 70 to increase the state minimum wage, Amendment 72 to raise cigarette taxes to $2.94 a pack and Proposition 106, the medical aid in dying initiative. Oh, and Amendment 71 to do away with further amendments.

Given the ballot complexity we have opted to fill them out at home then mail them in.

The saddest part of the "voter fraud" and "rigged election" bollocks is how it can erode democracy over time, creating more polarization and animosity toward the process. One woman calling herself "Rhonda", actually stood up at a Mike Pence rally two days ago and declared to the gathered peanut gallery:

"I'm on social media every day, all day. Nonstop, since last June. One of the biggest things I can tell you a lot of us are scared of is this voter fraud. There's a lot of us here saying when we go to vote we're gonna wear red. Our lives depend on this election. Our kids' futures depend on this election. I will tell you just for me, and I don't want this to happen, personally. but if Hillary Clinton gets in, I myself ...I am ready for a revolution. Because we can't have her in!"

Pence, give him credit, did respond in a low voice, 'Oh, don't say that'.

Pence at least had more insight than his running mate and this Reeptard woman. So let her try to summon all her disaffected yahoos to revolution. Within a few heartbeats they will all be brought down with RF radiation "barf guns" that I referenced some 5 years ago, and which are now ready to fire, e.g.


The device, according to The Economist (Oct. 15, 2011,  p. 89, 'Electromagnetic Weapons: Frying Tonight') emits RF radiation that "directly affects the human digestive and nervous system" to trigger violent projectile vomiting. It is estimated that one brief "spray" by such an RF device - say from a helicopter- can subdue  99% of a violently agitating crowd.

This lot - say angered Trumpkins at the election results - can be  reduced to paroxysms of non-stop vomiting within seconds. Unable to raise a whisper, far less a shout, they will have no choice other than to run back home....and away from the radio frequency-blasted  area. The good part is that instead of having to clean blood from the streets the authorities will just have to wash away the vomit.

Hell, the feds won't even have to bring out the Army or special Humvees outfitted with heavy artillery.

The best thing the Trumpies can do if the election doesn't go their way,  is to suck it up, take it like adults and move on. And don't even think of trying to delegitimize HRC via "impeachment" - like for the currently Wikileaks email releases. These merely show that Hillary and crew are the politicians we knew they were. But at least they're not the 'shit for brains' nutso whackjobs that mark Trump and his campaign.

See also:

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/eric-boehlert/69339/wounded-trump-retreats-into-the-fringe-media-bunker

Election Fraud - Voter Disenfranchisement: Even On The Left

Two nights before leaving Barbados we watched the spellbinding  RT Today TV special  'Redacted Tonight',  hosted by Lee Camp and showing the extent of the election fraud in Chicago and how a subsequent meeting of  "officials" basically swept it under the rug.  See e.g.

http://leecamp.net/election-fraud-special-report/

Camp also covered the results of the primary elections. Exit polls,  which are an indicator of functioning democratic elections,  essentially gave the United States a failing rating. Elections’ boards are desperately struggling to explain themselves as voters' ballots go uncounted and the voting machines don’t seem to be working. Much of this echoed the findings in the documentary about the 2004 election fraud in Ohio, 'As Ohio Goes So Goes the Nation.'

What was most galling is how these malicious voter officials (featured in the video) could simply deny the facts, as in the misuse of exit polling data. Meanwhile, true to form,  the MSM and ardent disinformationists discounted the value of the exit polls, Lee Camp reminded history-challenged folk how exit polling has been used consistently as a valid independent check on the integrity of elections - including by U.S. observers in monitoring foreign elections.

Then the following night, Larry King's 'Politicking'  featured guest Greg Palast, famous for his book 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy' detailing how 90,000 and probably more like 180,000 legal black voters were removed from voter lists in Florida, using the ruse that convicted felons can not vote in that state. Jeb Bush awarded the contract to the firm that submitted the higher bid, Choicepoint.  It then scrubbed from the voter rolls all names that were clearly black (first name Jamail or Kinesha for instance), that bore an arguable resemblance to a felon’s name.

Just use Palast’s low estimate. 90,000 black voters x 30% turnout x 90% propensity to vote Democrat = 24,300 Democrat votes scrubbed – the 2,700 10% that would have voted Republican = 21,600 net Democratic votes. By contrast, the disputed ballots were on the order of 2,000 to the low 3,000s.

It was a tailor made voter disenfranchisement operation conducted by Jeb! and his compadre, Secretary of state Katherine Harris. Both will now live in on infamy for making the election close enough to be determined by the Supreme Court, an insult well documented in Vince Bugliosi's best ever (2001) book, 'The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President'.

As opposed to his meandering, bloated book on the Kennedy assassination, this one was concise, argued rationally (not hysterically using ad hominem) and precise in its target:  the five conservative  justices who felt it their bounden duty to interfere in a presidential election. In essence, gutting the provisions of the Constitution, by rendering tens of millions of voters redundant.

Anyway, on Politicking,  Palast  showed  evidence of how cheating has even erupted in Democratic primaries, as illustrated by himself and Lee Camp (RT correspondent) earlier using exit polls. Palast referenced 4 percent as being the normal deviation from exit polls, and then disclosed no fewer than 12 Dem primaries yielded actual vote counts outside this limit. In the case of New York, where Hillary supposedly enjoyed a "blowout" it was a 16 percent difference.

Palast also wrote at his site about problems with the New York election:

Francesca Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of Writers’ Voice radio, did the civic thing by volunteering to work the polls in a town east of New York City. “I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter needed an affidavit ballot.”

That’s nearly one of four voters. Why? Their names had gone missing from the voter rolls.
An affidavit ballot (called a “provisional” ballot in most other states) is a kind of placebo ballot. You get to pretend to vote – but the chance it will actually be counted is …well, good luck. If your name is wrongly removed, kiss your vote – affidavit or not—goodbye.
Rheannon’s experience was hardly unique. In Brooklyn alone, over 125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five months leading up to the primary. 

To put it in prospective, the number of voters purged equals about half of the number who got to vote. Scott Stringer, the New York City Comptroller will now audit the Elections Board–now that the election is over. 

Neal Rosenstein, the lead voting rights attorney for the New York Public Interest Research Group, which plans legal action, notes that part of the problem is that partisan hacks sit on the Elections board in New York—hacks from both parties.

Brooklyn is under the control of the Kings County Democratic Party, one of the last of the big city machines. Would they attack their opponents’ voter registrations? I don’t have to guess: in my wasted younger days, I was in the Brooklyn County elections office with the hacks where we were assigned by the Party to challenge voters’ signatures en masse. (I wouldn’t and nearly lost my state job.)

Lastly, columnist Leonard Pitts in his most recent article wrote about the Sanders' campaign loss in New York:

"Granted, nobody likes to lose. But the loss was fair and square AND THOSE CITIZENS OF Bernie NATION WHO CAN'T DEAL WITH THAT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!"

Ah, but if the NY primary was basically stolen, they don't have to be ashamed at all, It is Hillary's contingent that is responsible - as Greg Palast's piece and RT segment points out. He may not be blaming Hillary herself, but he is blaming the Dem operation in NYC and people will take note of that when it comes time for the "unity" calls.

 See also:

http://www.ora.tv/politicking/2016/4/29/greg-palast-discusses-how-party-elites-purge-unwanted-voters-0_1uu312rq2ym6

Jeb Bush Has Shown He's Not Qualified To Be President

Megyn Kelly: Did us a favor by exposing Jeb Bush for the Neocon extremist he is.

But then, in fairness, none of the other Reepo clown cavalcade are either. But given Jebbie was "leading the clown pack", his faux pas regarding the Iraq War has to make even his staunchest backers sit up and take notice - and maybe reconsider.

For those living under a rock, Jeb was being interviewed  by Megyn Kelly - a sometime FOX gadfly for the truth (like Shepherd Smith). She asked him point blank:

"Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the (Iraq) invasion?"

He responded:

"I would have but so would have Hillary Clinton, to remind everybody."

Which is total codswallop. Since Hillary has already stated in her 2002 memoir:

"I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong, plain and simple"

With the clear implication that had she to do it over again she'd never have approved the Iraq War Resolution.

Bear in mind again, Kelly wasn't asking Jeb as a Senator but as a potential President. There is a world of difference, and Jeb essentially admitted he'd have started that ill-conceived invasion and occupation even with the intelligence revision since then.. Given this, it's most incomprehensible that  he never said the Iraq War was a mistake which would have at least mitigated some of the blowback.

The outcry even from his own party was immediate and vehement.  Right wing talk show host Laura Ingraham, for example, ripped Jeb a new one on her 'Laura Ingraham Show':

"We cannot stay in this relitigating the Bush years again. You just can/t do it! You have to have someone who says, 'Look, I'm a Republican, but I'm not an idiot. I'm not stupid. I am a conservative, and I learn from the past, and I improve myself. I also don't bring in people who made the same stupid decisions in the 2000s, to get us into the 21st century."

Ingraham's blistering diatribe must have really stung, especially as it insulted Bush's intelligence and judgment so no surprise he tried to walk it back the next day, actually blurting:

"I interpreted the question wrong, I guess. I was talking about given what people knew then, would you have done it, rather than knowing what we know now."

Which is total unmitigated bollocks and discloses the man to be even more of an idiot, not to mention taking his viewers to be total idiots. Thus, the answer discloses a lack of attention as well as jumbled neural processing - something we can't afford in a president. Besides, why would any interviewer take the reference point back to what we knew then when this guy is alleged to be a presidential candidate now? The only logical context would be what we know now as a basis to guide the decision then.

If Bush's misfire on this Iraq War authorization question was all there is, it would be bad enough. But as Laura Ingraham observed in her tirade, this bought and sold imbecile also wants to bring in the same gang of neocons that engineered it!

Then there is Jeb Bush's  earlier baggage, to remind readers who may have forgotten. As then  Governor of Florida, Jeb - along with State Secretary Katherine Harris – used Choicepoint voter rolls to disenfranchise tens of thousands of African American Florida voters so his brother Dumbya  could win Florida's electoral votes in 2000. For those who want all the documented, sordid details, get hold of Greg Palast’s book, ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy', and read Chapter One.

Then there was Bush's iinterference - again as Governor - in the Terry Schaivo case. She had directives for her husband to carry out if ever declared brain dead, and Bush prevented him from doing so. (Ms. Schaivo suffered from bulimia which led to a potassium deficiency that triggered her heart failure -  a lack of oxygen, followed by coma and brain death.)

Bush's unseemly interference finally was halted in October 2002, when Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal heard a week of testimony from five doctors who examined her, including two picked by husband Michael Schiavo, two by her parents and one picked by the court. Three doctors, including one appointed by the court, testified that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.

The two doctors selected by the Schindlers (Terry's parents) testified they thought  she could recover.The appellate court concurred with a lower court decision that Schiavo had no hope of recovery and that her feeding tube could be removed.

This travesty never should have occurred, far less been this prolonged, and Jeb Bush's aggressive government (and personal) intrusion was largely to blame.

This asshole has no business being anywhere near the White House any more than his dimwit brother. Hopefully, money cache or no, he will be weeded out early. Probably via making even more dumb ass comments on interviews - or in the debates.

See also ('Jeb Bush Isn't a Moderate: He's a Neocon Extremist')

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/62202/jeb-bush-isnt-a-moderate-hes-a-neocon-extremist

and:


http://www.salon.com/2015/05/13/jeb_bushs_worst_week_yet_how_his_iraq_debacle_could_doom_his_white_house_hopes/