Jeb Bush Will ‘Never Forget’ That Astronaut Who Died That One Time

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Jeb Bush Will ‘Never Forget’ That Astronaut Who Died That One Time

former Florida Governor and future Republican presidential primary concession speech-deliverer Jeb Bush‘s prosciutto-handed penchant for exploiting tragedy was on brilliant display this week in a pair of unrelated yet telling moments.

First, there was his odd decision to bring up a space program disaster without knowing even the most basic details surrounding it. At a Concord, N.H. town hall meeting, Jeb! had just finished praising the idea of Moonbase Gingrich, and probably felt it was time to remind the crowd that he used to be a “Gubner” and knows how to be “Very Serious,” so he completely went off on a tangent about that time he spoke a memorial service for some shuttle, whose name he couldn’t retrieve, that blew up in some year beginning with two-thousand.

The audience tried to help him out, but he couldn’t quite get there:

I was thinking, you were going to bring up the tragedy that took place, I will never forget that, when I went as governor of Florida, to the tarmac for a tribute to the astronauts, that died. I think it was 2005, maybe — um , yeah. [audience: Christa McAuliffe?] No, the other one, 2002. In the 2000s. It was horrible. It’s a reminder that this is a dangerous endeavor, but it is worth us, for all sorts of reasons, to be engaged in it.

The audience was also no help, suggesting that maybe Jeb was governor during the 1986 Challenger disaster, and I swear one of them said “You mean Porkins?'” But the date they were all looking for was 2003. Yes, I had to Google it, but I’m not the one bringing it up at a campaign event, then spinning my tires trying to remember the year it occurred instead of saying “the astronauts who died in that tragic accident.”

[IDemo]

1. "It was stuff. And it happened."

[ryan_cats]

2. Making

Making GWB look to be a genius.

I remember Challenger like it happened yesterday.

I remember Columbia like it was yesterday.

I remember Apollo 1 vaguely from 1967.

[BootinUp]

3. Who does he remind me of...someone we used to call uh

Shrub! thats it.

[2naSalit]

4. Yeah...

except this one is so dumb and lowly I think he can only be referred to as "sprout".

[stage left]

6. Sprout.

[2naSalit]

7. And perhaps

easier to squish... and quick before it has a chance to take root and spread! Then again, he did admit to smoking pot so maybe "weed" is just as appropriate... not that I have anything against smoking weed but he takes it into the realm of hypocrisy.

[left on green only]

9. Musta Been The Round Up.

It does some nasty stuff to ya.

[MisterP]

5. I think he used to be a major, the astronaut

[3catwoman3]

8. He really is...

...astonishingly inept.

[marew]

26. That's an understatement! n/t

[left-of-center2012]

10. Isn't JEB! supposed to be "the smart Bush"?

He still might be,
considering how dumb "W" is.

[Fast Walker 52]

18. indeed-- they seem to be having a "dumb-off"

Both seem kind of brain-damaged actually.

[left-of-center2012]

19. They've got competition

That guy US HOUSE Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) can't seem to string ten words together coherently.

[Fast Walker 52]

21. yeah, he seems brain-damaged too

for that matter, Ben Carson and at least half of the GOP pres. field seems to be suffering from severe cognitive issues.

[left-of-center2012]

24. I don't know about Ben Carson

He puts me to sleep before I know what he's saying.
{Extremely slow monotone in a low voice zzzzzzzzzzzzzz}

[marew]

27. Exactly!

I listened to McCarthy for 5 minutes once and I thought I'd suddenly developed a language comprehension deficit. Boy, was I relieved when others "heard" the same thing! I guess the GOP put McCarthy where he is because, compared to the rest of them, they see him as actually articulate!

[hatrack]

11. "Columbia", Heb! It's kind of like "Columba", but with an extra syllable . . .

It burned up over Texas, in fact, about a month before your CRIMINALLY STUPID FUCKING BROTHER decided to start Operation Surpass Daddy.

I don't normally buy into the idea of warnings from the Gods, but if there ever were one, this was it - Columbia going down in flames, after launching in the face of known problems, and doing so over a state that exemplifies much of what is SO FUCKED UP about this country.

Remember now, Heb!?

[kairos12]

12. Jeb is the wrong stuff.

[MasonDreams]

13. Jeb does not have the right stuff. He been smokin' jebweed?

Maybe jeb is a verb. Yea, he started out ok, then he just Jebbed off into the weeds.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. I was thinking this had to be satire

And then...

[enough]

15. That still looks like satire. (nt)

[Vinca]

16. You'd think in Concord, NH he might mention Christa McAuliffe, but Jeb is such a loooooser

he had to change his logo from "JEB!" to "Jeb " . . . time for him to go.

[Doctor_J]

17. dumber than his brother

[EndElectoral]

20. If Perry had said it he would be hammered by the press, but Jeb will squeak out of it.

[Mendocino]

22. You know

the thing with the guy in the place.

[napkinz]

23. just saw the clip on Melissa Harris-Perry

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. And he was portrayed as this great, highly skilled politician. The sure thing. Lol

[book_worm]

28. And they kept saying this is the smart Bush boy

I guess he and W have more in common than I thought.