Today has brought more bad news for the floundering campaign of JEB! Bush. Right on the heels of the news that the campaign is undergoing a major cutback in staff and salaries, comes this rather humiliating piece of news from CBS News:
Jeb Bush will attend a finance meeting this weekend in Houston convened by former President George H. W. Bush and attended by Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, CBS News has learned.
Uh oh. Dad's calling his errant boy in for a talking to. And not just him.
The session, designed to assess where Bush's candidacy stands in the face of large-scale staff cutbacks and underwhelming poll numbers, will also be attended by Bush's mother, Barbara Bush. The governor's campaign confirmed the meeting will be held Sunday and Monday.
Given Barbara's much feared status as "The Enforcer" in the Bush clain, I can only imagine what she has to say to her bumbling son.
And it's not just the Bush clan themselves. Here come the retainers to save JEB!
CBS News has also learned George W. Bush will headline a fundraiser for Jeb Bush in Georgetown (Washington, DC) on Oct. 29. The fundraising email, which went out earlier this week, was sent by George W. Bush's two former chiefs of staff, Andy Card and Josh Bolten. Jeb Bush will not attend the fund-raiser.
The email, sent to Bush-Cheney alumni, praised Bush's "extraordinary record of accomplishment and conservative innovation" and said that George W. Bush "looks forward to seeing his old friends at this event and to sharing his enthusiasm for Jeb's candidacy." Bolten and Card suggested that for those who can't make the event, there would be "other opportunities around the country," and the email closed, "Your help today will help position Jeb for a successful outcome."
Yeah, just my opinion, but at the rate JEB!'s campaign is going, not even Jim Baker is skilled enough to save this sinking ship.
Oh, to be a fly on that wall at that family summitt. Methinks JEB!'s getting taken to the woodshed.